Sentences with phrase «reactor sites for»

Fuel units must be stored initially in pools at reactor sites for about five years, until the decay heat drops enough to permit movement into dry cask containers.

Not exact matches

Promulgate an amendment to Part 54 and any other relevant regulations, which exclude seismicity analysis from the scope of safety review in relicensing proceedings, to specifically require the preparation of a public site - specific seismic analysis for the Indian Point and other reactors;

SCRIBA, N.Y. - If Entergy shuts down the FitzPatrick nuclear power plant as planned, the reactor could sit dormant for 50 years before its owner begins to tear it down and clean up the site.

Last year managers agreed to a road map for decommissioning the site over the next 30 to 40 years that calls for removing melted nuclear fuel masses and demolishing the plant's four reactor halls at a cost that could top $ 9 billion.

The agency says the Hanford site in southeastern Washington, which manufactured more than 20 million pieces of uranium metal fuel for nine nuclear reactors near the Columbia River, is its biggest cleanup challenge.

The evaluations must ensure that backup cooling systems for reactors and spent fuel pools can operate for a long time in «blackout» conditions, where on - site and off - site power is cut off.

Mariotte said utilities that want to build new reactors have known for 10 years that Barnwell would close but failed to include on - site storage or options for handling low - level radioactive waste in their license applications.

But is it necessary for every aspect of nuclear power to be re-examined by a cascade of public inquiries every time the nuclear industry proposes to build a reactor, especially when it is virtually identical to its predecessor and on a site which has already been licensed?

DeMeo's results were so successful that his nine - pound suits — which look a bit like Halloween - costume versions of space suits but are roomy enough to fit over my bulletproof vest and gas protector — have become the outfit of choice for workers helping clean up the post-tsunami Fukushima reactor - meltdown site in Japan.

But a spokesman for Dounreay, Ian Shepherd, stresses that comprehensive monitoring of the site started last autumn as part of a multimillion pound programme to decommission two fast reactors and their associated plants.

The problem of spent fuel storage Nuclear reactor operators must store spent fuel removed from reactor cores for several years at least, in large pools at reactor sites until the remaining heat from the uranium fuel cools sufficiently.

The NRC has begun discussions with Babcock & Wilcox Co. about its proposed mPower modular reactor design that is currently under consideration by the Tennessee Valley Authority for construction at TVA's Clinch River site in Tennessee.

ITER, which is poised to begin construction at the reactor site in southern France, has yet to gain final approval for its design, schedule, and cost, collectively known as the project's baseline.

To create another $ 111 million in savings, Motojima proposed to the council changes to the «in - kind» components that are being built and paid for by each member and then delivered to the reactor site at Cadarache in France for assembly.

The report proposes creating a new facility on the site of an existing spallation neutron source to test neutron - resistant materials for future reactors.

On June 18, Southern Co. accepted a $ 3.4 - billion conditional loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy for the twin Plant Vogtle reactors and continues early site construction.

SMR - 160's footprint is minuscule compared to operating nuclear reactors; occupying a mere 6 acres of land for a two unit site and 4.5 acres for a single unit installation.

An independent body, the Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurances Board, will look at the potential clean - up costs - including any impact on electricity bills - and a review of potential sites for new reactors will report next year.

The ORNL - site principal investigator for the project, physicist Alfredo Galindo - Uribarri, said reviewers determined HFIR was the best reactor for short - baseline physics.

CNL provides a full spectrum of technical expertise and R&D facilities at our secure and licensed site, where we have designed, licensed, and constructed prototype reactors for over 50 years.

After conversion of the university reactor at Texas A&M to Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) fuel, NAC provided one NAC - LWT cask for the transport of 84 irradiated High Enriched Uranium (HEU) TRIGA type fuel assemblies to the DOE site of Idaho National Laboratory (INL).

Terrestrial Energy has begun a feasibility study for the siting of the first commercial Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories» (CNL) Chalk River site, with a further vision of creating a technology hub at CNL to support the commercialisation of small modular reactors (SMR).

The reactor was later used to generate electricity for other site facilities.

Separately, the newer rules from the NRC on advanced reactors standardize the licensing, providing early site approval, certification of plant designs by rule (avoiding the lengthy public hearings for each plant), and simultaneous issuances of both a construction permit and an operating license (a «one - stop licensing called «combined licenses».)

Two nuclear reactors have been in operation at the site for over 40 years, with two more scheduled to be added, starting next year.

In it, he called for international intervention before the Tokyo Electric Power Company began to move fuel rods from the spent fuel pool for reactor unit 4 and urged the four climate scientists who recently called for a big push to advance safer nuclear power plant designs to go to the site.

Given the nuclear solution requires new reactor designs yet to be built even for demonstration and test purposes, and then the complexities of siting nuclear power plants near the calling water they need while defending them against flood waters makes construction of tested designs take a decade.

Energy Alberta Corporation (Energy Alberta) has filed an application for a site preparation license for two twin - unit ACR - 1000 CANDU nuclear reactors to provide power for the oil sands operations in Alberta.

The joint statement said engineering and site design for six AP1000 reactors would start «immediately» in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

LFTR reactors are not economically viable at this time due to requirement to have a chemical processing plant on site to remove reaction byproducts from the fuel which would otherwise quickly render the fuel non-fissionable and by lack of materials able to handle the fuel for the long term.

The Obama administration deserves credit for authorizing funding for two small modular reactors, which will be built at the Savannah River site in South Carolina.

The reactor is designed to never be opened on site and thus there is little opportunity for diversion of radioactive material from operating plants.

TEPCO was also criticized for keeping a large inventory of spent fuel rods in cooling ponds on the reactor site.

No permanent waste repository (thanks, Sen. Reid), no appetite for new reactor siting by the public, and no interest by the funding community.

-- as compared to a nuclear reactor which also has a «Life expectancy of 20 — 25 years and then costs $ 50,000,000,000.00 to refurbish for another 15 — 20 (refurbished reactors have a shorter life before they have to be refurbished again or de-commissioned at which time the site has become so contaminated that it's un-usable for up to 25,000 years because that's the 1/2 half - life for waste / spent uranium to break down, i.e. if you have 1 lb of spent uranium after 25,000 years you have 1/2 lb.

For example, in order for wind energy in Connecticut (assuming enough suitable sites could be located, and that transmission facilities would be available) to produce the same power produced by Connecticutís two nuclear reactors (located on less than 1 square mile) it is estimated that windmills would cover 700 to 1,600 square miles or approximately 13 to 31 % of the state of ConnecticFor example, in order for wind energy in Connecticut (assuming enough suitable sites could be located, and that transmission facilities would be available) to produce the same power produced by Connecticutís two nuclear reactors (located on less than 1 square mile) it is estimated that windmills would cover 700 to 1,600 square miles or approximately 13 to 31 % of the state of Connecticfor wind energy in Connecticut (assuming enough suitable sites could be located, and that transmission facilities would be available) to produce the same power produced by Connecticutís two nuclear reactors (located on less than 1 square mile) it is estimated that windmills would cover 700 to 1,600 square miles or approximately 13 to 31 % of the state of Connecticut.

And technological advances mean that new nuclear reactor components can increasingly be mass - manufactured in factories and shipped around the world for re-assembly on - site.