Sentences with phrase «reactor system for»

He is currently Vice President of Reactor Technologies at Holtec International with the ultimate responsibility to develop and license SMR - 160, a unique and innovative passive light water reactor system for the emerging global power markets.

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For context, a submarine assigned to Britain's Royal Navy narrowly avoided a complete reactor meltdown in 2012 after the power sources for its coolant system failFor context, a submarine assigned to Britain's Royal Navy narrowly avoided a complete reactor meltdown in 2012 after the power sources for its coolant system failfor its coolant system failed.

In the attempt to put a stop to further reactor construction, the antinuclear movement may be tempted to constipate the system — to plug up the radwaste outlet for the nuclear industry — hoping thereby to force a shutdown of electrical power generation.

Flat - plate MBR technology ensures robust performance and minimal maintenance CST Wastewater Solutions» latest MBR (membrane biological reactor) wastewater treatment, the Smith and Loveless Titan MBR, is a robust and efficient low - maintenance system for municipal and -LSB-...]

GWE combine specialized know - how in generating biogas with our extensive range of anaerobic reactors, and in supply and installation of biogas re-use and handling systems for fossil fuel replacement or power generation.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

New developments include reaction systems for catalysis research, sampling from reactors, systems for high - throughput applications in synthesis, the handling of microorganisms or cell - culturing procedures, and more.

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.

For example, an aerial robot equipped with a radiation detector, 3D camera system, and temperature and humidity sensors could inspect something like the Fukushima nuclear reactors, where the radiation level is too high for humans, or fly into tight crawlspaces such as mines or collapsed buildinFor example, an aerial robot equipped with a radiation detector, 3D camera system, and temperature and humidity sensors could inspect something like the Fukushima nuclear reactors, where the radiation level is too high for humans, or fly into tight crawlspaces such as mines or collapsed buildinfor humans, or fly into tight crawlspaces such as mines or collapsed buildings.

NEI spokesman John Keeley said reactors are closing because «we've got an unquestioned free market for electricity» and a system that's «a combination of quotas for some other emission - free sources, and a price for electricity regardless of whether the supply is clean or dependable.»

Demand has been rising for such reactors in developing countries whose transmission systems can not handle large reactors.

Thermal fluids are used to alleviate wear on components and tools and for machining operations like stamping and drilling, medical therapy and diagnosis, biopharmaceuticals, air conditioning, fuel cells, power transmission systems, solar cells, micro - and nanoelectronic mechanical systems and cooling systems for everything from engines to nuclear reactors.

For this reason, nuclear reactors are designed with passive and active safeguards, and separate dedicated systems are used to identify and to neutralise possible faults which could lead to large - scale disasters.

Mavinic is now fine - tuning the system so that reactors can be sized to make a specific pellet grade for local industries.

Most often, chips with tiny fluidic channels, reactors and other components are used for this: lab - on - a-chip systems.

Development of neutral beam injection (NBI) heating system utilizing a hydrogen / deuterium (H / D) negative ion source, is significant for a fusion plasma reactor, which is one of the potential solutions to future energy - resource problems.

Arnulf Grubler, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, wrote in a 2010 paper published in the journal Energy Policy that France's success in nuclear energy stemmed from establishing a standard design for reactors, centralized decisionmaking and certainty that the government was committed to nuclear power.

American researchers have shown that prospective magnetic fusion power systems would pose a much lower risk of being used for the production of weapon — usable materials than nuclear fission reactors and their associated fuel cycle.

The last time NASA tested a fission reactor was during the 1960s» Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power, or SNAP, program, which developed two types of nuclear power sSystems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power, or SNAP, program, which developed two types of nuclear power systemssystems.

Deprived of electricity for emergency systems, the reactor cores for Units 1, 2 and 3 overheated and melted down.

In 1968 I watched the launch of a Polaris missile submarine in Birkenhead — it was powered by... a small modular nuclear reactor — all nuclear subs (missile or not) are powered by such systems — which have been around for + / - 60 years.

To the maximum extent practical, equipment rooms or vaults within the reactor building are partitioned to provide separation between primary and supporting systems for each NuScale Power Module.

The reactor building houses the systems and components required for plant operation and shutdown.

The NuScale Power Module ™ and power plant design enhances the intrinsic physical protection and security of the plant through the elegantly simple design, elimination of large break loss of coolant accidents, and full reliance on passive systems to cool the reactors and spent fuel for extended periods without the need for AC power, DC power or additional water following an upset condition.

The US nuclear regulator is satisfied that NuScale Power's small modular reactor (SMR) design can operate safely without the need for safety - related electrical systems.

Also, recycling nuclear fuel (as is often but not always called for in fast reactor fuel cycles) brings up proliferation concerns that inspired the Jimmy Carter administration to cancel a large US effort to develop a fast - reactor system.

The low power output of each NuScale Power Module allows for significant design simplification and elimination of many systems susceptible to sabotage, including the reactor coolant loops, reactor coolant pumps, and active safety systems.

The «Integral and Separate Effects Test Program for the Investigation and Validation of Passive Safety System Performance of SMRs» project would yield a uniquely configurable set of testing platforms to demonstrate passive safety system performance, accelerate the SMR - 160 and other small modular reactor designs to market, and help license these designs with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and international regulSystem Performance of SMRs» project would yield a uniquely configurable set of testing platforms to demonstrate passive safety system performance, accelerate the SMR - 160 and other small modular reactor designs to market, and help license these designs with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and international regulsystem performance, accelerate the SMR - 160 and other small modular reactor designs to market, and help license these designs with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and international regulators.

Five smaller Japanese reactors - Genkai 1, Mihama 1 and 2, Shimane 1 and Tsuruga 1 - were declared for decommissioning in mid-March 2015 following the introduction of an accounting - related system earlier that month to determine which units should not be restarted.

The vacuum also enhanced steam condensation rates on the inside surface of the submerged containment in the case where steam is vented from the reactor vessel, which in turn provides for very effective heat removal from the primary system.

JAEA's plan aims to establish a system and organisation for safely decommissioning the reactor within 30 years using the latest Japanese and international technologies and expertise.

In particular, nuclear transmutation technology has been drawing significant attention after the accident.This publication is timely with the following highlights: 1) Development of accelerator - driven systems (ADSs), which is a brand - new reactor concept for transmutation of highly radioactive wastes; 2) Nuclear reactor systems from the point of view of the nuclear fuel cycle.

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I was trying to estimate the mining footprints of solar and nuclear, and came up with some very tentative rough estimates that ore input for solar energy might have an energy density (per unit mass) ~ 5 to 80 times coal, while nuclear (convential US fuel cycle) may be ~ 20 times coal — on the solar side, this doesn't include some balance of system components, and on the nuclear side, it only includes the U, but on the solar side, the actual energy density could get much higher with recycling of the same material into multiple successive generations of solar energy devices, and on the nuclear side, breeder reactors.

But the cooling system for both the reactor cores and the onsite - stored spent fuel rods was not designed to withstand a «once - in - a-millennium» tsunami.

The idea here is to take the discussion beyond pro-nuke and anti-nuke debates over the appropriate «dread - to - risk ratio» for radiation and reactors and toward a more fundamental exploration of what policies and systems make the most sense as humanity's growth spurt crests.

Emergency cooling systems are unnecessary and about as useful as an appendix, for reactors that don't have emergencies.

Wind energy is great for small scale low intense needs, but large wind farms are just plain ugly, and putting them to a grid system not the most efficient use and also not the best way to harness the energy delivered to Earth from our free and safe distant fusion reactor that has zero maintenance costs.

Hence, in the context of nuclear power reactors, there is a need for post-shutdown core cooling to remove residual decay energy (think Three Mile Island and the consequence of a cooling system failure).

For the thermochemical water - splitting reaction, some solar reactor systems have efficiencies of over 60 percent.

N - R HES systems are managed by a single entity that link a nuclear reactor that generates heat, a thermal power cycle for heat - to - electricity conversion, at least one renewable energy source, and an industrial process that uses thermal and / or electrical energy.

But since Diablo Canyon accounts for about 80 % of the total seawater sucked into California's coastal plant cooling systems, exempting the reactors would effectively negate the state's «Once Through Cooling» policy.

Three piping loops would cool the reactor: the primary loop (using molten sodium), an intermediate sodium loop between the radioactive primary system and the steam generators, and a water loop to generate steam for the turbine.

Designed new, optimized sized hopper for bulk solids addition to 4 reactor systems, reducing cycle time and manpower required.

Chemical engineers may need to take a look at the recent advancements in reactor technologies, programmers need to know about a critical update released for a bugged operating system etc..

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