Sentences with phrase «reactor technology as»

In April 2015, NuScale launched its NuScale Diverse Energy Platform (NuDEP) highlighting its small modular reactor technology as the nuclear «plug - n - play» solution for providing reliable power to diverse applications.

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BEIJING (AP)-- On a seaside field south of Shanghai, workers are constructing a nuclear reactor that is the flagship for Beijing's ambition to compete with the United States, France and Russia as an exporter of atomic power technology.

As contaminated pathogenic air is processed through a patented bio-conversion reactor bed, this green technology, integrated with Photocatalytic Oxidation (PCO), works in unison to destroy harmful airborne microbes and dismantle volatile organic compounds (VOC) while producing no by - products.

The chemistry of protactinium, which is very difficult to study due to it scarcity and complex chemistry, is important for understanding and controlling its behavior for application in nuclear reactors, as well as for comprehending the overall variable and complex chemistry of the actinide series and transition elements used in everyday technologies.

Ostara, the firm that makes the reactors and sells the pellets as Crystal Green, thinks that Durham is one of hundreds of facilities that could use the technology.

If the president's request is approved by Congress it will put a severe squeeze on the U.S. domestic fusion program and will force the closure of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Alcator C - Mod reactor, one of only three large machines, known as tokamaks, in the United States that are doing vital research in preparation for ITER.

The one possible turn in the otherwise rough road in the West could be a shift in technology toward small, modular reactors (SMRs), which U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Secretary Ernest Moniz said could be deployed as soon as 2022 with his agency's support.

An unlikely alliance between Japan and Russia is emerging as the last refuge of the fast reactor now that Western Europe and the US have effectively abandoned the technology.

In the spring 2017 issue, meet the people who work round the clock at Argonne's giant synchrotron, using X-rays to tease out the secrets of everything from volcanic glass to batteries to bacterial machinery — as well as engineers who travel the world to make reactors safer, physicists who collect model ships, and scientists inventing materials for the next technology breakthroughs.

«The technology with the potential to solve these problems (of climate change, future energy shortfalls and cleaning up nuclear waste) is the fast reactor, ideally the integral fast reactor (IFR)... IFRs, once loaded with nuclear waste, can, in principle, keep recycling it until only a small fraction remains, producing energy as they do so.»

«In addition, new technologies, such as small modular reactors (SMRs), are being researched and developed, and a number of large European - wide R&D programmes are being carried out».

As expected for a state - of - the - art reactor design, NuScale's maintains a relationship with a number of research entities that support the design and commercialization of its technology.

In addition, the report provides an in - depth discussion of the broader issues impacting SMRs, such as the keys to successful deployment for SMRs, comparisons with larger reactor technologies, specific applications for SMRs, and the broader issues facing potential customers for SMRs.

On December 12, 2013, NuScale Power was selected as the winner of the second round of DOE's competitively - bid, cost - sharing program to develop nuclear small modular reactor (SMR) technology.

«GEH has broad engineering experience, deep technical capability and significant investment in its sodium fast reactor technology program that builds on a 60 - year history as an original equipment manufacturer of more than 60 boiling water reactors worldwide,» said Jay Wileman, President and CEO, GEH.

While there are more than 90 advanced nuclear technology and small modular reactor designs under various stages of development, GEH and ARC Nuclear view sodium fast reactors as being the most mature advanced reactor technology with decades of real operating experience from more than 20 previous reactors.

«GEH has broad engineering experience, deep technical capability and significant investment in its sodium fast reactor technology program that builds on a 60 - year history as an original equipment manufacturer of more than 60 boiling water reactors worldwide,» said the company's president and CEO Jay Wileman.

But here, Stark doesn't go quite as dark — he just ratchets up his annoying / amusing egotistical façade to cover up the fact that the metal in his arc reactor is killing him, he's under pressure by the U.S. government to give up his technology, he still has severe daddy issues, and he has to keep the world safe for peace.

While several were built and the technology proven, the public never considered residential reactors as a acceptable concept.

I urge you to read the excerpts below, click to read the rest and return here to discuss the lessons he points to from France's program, China's push into new reactor designs and his argument that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission needs as much revision as our antiquated nuclear technology.

Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor — and it's one that might be realized in as little as a decade, they say.

«Of course, not only does China want to replace its old coal fleet with new nuclear reactors, it wants to become the leading exporter of nuclear technology as well, including heavy components in the supply chain where the real global bottleneck is.»

As far as cost is concerned — there are reasons why advanced nuclear technology will be half the cost of lumbering light water reactorAs far as cost is concerned — there are reasons why advanced nuclear technology will be half the cost of lumbering light water reactoras cost is concerned — there are reasons why advanced nuclear technology will be half the cost of lumbering light water reactors.

Yet demonstrating large - scale technologies — such as advanced modular nuclear reactors, floating deepwater wind turbines, or carbon capture and storage technologies — typically costs more than venture capitalists can finance alone, leaving a large «Valley of Death» that kills off many promising technologies before they can enter the marketplace.

Thinking of the here and now rather than flights of fancy, use gas fired power plants, modern technology coal fired power plants, invest in modular nuclear power plants research as for example Thorium reactors, and continue on the quest for power storage solutions.

Or we go down the low - carbon route and go to a mixture of renewables and nuclear technologies such as integral fast breed reactors and so on.

Increasingly, analysts describe current designs as «bridging technologies,» stepping stones toward more advanced clean energy, whether in the form of perovskite solar cells or modular nuclear reactors.

The company pointed out that its own mPower reactor is based on pressurized water reactor technology using standard enriched uranium as fuel, whereas TerraPower's TWR «is a larger reactor based on Generation IV technology and designed to use depleted uranium as fuel.»

Most of today's nuclear power plants have half - century - old technology with light - water reactors [243] utilizing less than 1 % of the energy in the nuclear fuel and leaving unused fuel as long - lived nuclear «waste» requiring sequestration for millennia.

Experimentally, solar reactors range from 1 meter to 5 meters to demonstrate the concept or as pilot projects, depending a little on the technology.

Here in the UK we are reaping the nuclear industry's harvest as our government plans a whole new fleet of nuclear reactors at the expense of technologies that have the capacity to support us in our fight against climate change.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-China-plans-for-nuclear-growth-2011144.html Fast reactors — make maximum use of uranium resources by generating a certain amount more fuel than they consume — are seen as the main technology for China's long - term use of nuclear energy.

While the basic technology is Canadian, R&D at Qinshan in China since 2008 has turned a simple concept into technology which can now be utilised, so that the used fuel from four conventional reactors can fully supply one AFCR unit (as well as providing recycled plutonium for MOX).