Sentences with phrase «reactor units at»

Recall that the second and third reactor units at Davis - Besse and Perry were killed by the Sierra Club and Ralph Nader.

Developed nations are — just barely — able to build and maintain these devices with an acceptable (assuming the complete destruction of reactor units at Three Mile Island and Chernoybl are ok) level of catastrophic accidents using the quality of human resources available in the U.S. and Russia, two relatively advanced nations.

Not exact matches

While all variations of the plan envision the relicensing of the company's four existing nuclear units at the Surry and North Anna stations, none calls for a third reactor at North Anna, which Dominion has been contemplating.

On Dec. 29, 2014, an alarm went off, indicating low pressure in the fire suppression system at the Unit 2 reactor, according to the report.

Fire protection piping at Indian Point's Unit 2 reactor broke and leaked and though it resulted in a loss of water pressure to the fire suppression system, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission determined it was of «very low safety significance,» according to the N.R.C. report.

Cuomo said the state learned yesterday that hundreds of faulty bolts were discovered within the reactor at the Indian Point Unit 2 Plant — «the latest in a long series of incidents that raise deep concerns about the management, maintenance and equipment standards» there.

Two reactors currently operate at Indian Point: Unit 2 and Unit 3.

The number of degraded bolts at the Indian Point unit 2 reactor was the largest seen to date at a reactor in the United States, so the NRC is closely monitoring the plant to return it to service in the near future, officials said.

At an event in Poughkeepsie on Monday, Cuomo was asked by a reporter about the return of the unit 2 reactor to service.

The NRC staff will meet with the public to discuss the NRC's assessment of safety performance at Indian Point Units 2 and 3 reactors for 2015.

And there is some somewhat alarming language that talks about, and I'll just quote «the IAEA tells us the earthquake triggered a power failure at the Fukushima Daiichi unit 2 nuclear power plant, and then when a backup generator also failed, the cooling system was unable to supply water to cool the reactor.

As NRC staff noted during the Fukushima emergency, when there was concern that the spent - fuel pool at Unit 4 may have lost its cooling water as well as been damaged by the reactor building explosion, adding cold water to already hot fuel can create a problem in its own right.

Put simply, because of fundamental design differences, U.S. reactors can not experience a sudden and drastic power surge, as happened at Chernobyl's Unit Number 4, causing it to explode and catch fire.

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.

Although the utility managed to safely remove all 1,533 fuel bundles from the plant's unit No. 4 reactor by December 2014, it still has to do the same for the hundreds of rods stored at the other three units.

Leaks of hydrogen from damaged reactors at units Nos. 1 and 3 is blamed for explosions at the tops of the outer, secondary containment structures, and an explosion within the No. 2 primary containment structure.

«Several technical and manufacturing innovations make this reactor a potential game changer for the global clean energy market,» said Christofer Mowry, president and CEO at Babcock & Wilcox Modular Nuclear Energy, LLC, the new unit in charge of the small reactor.

At about 4 A.M. local time, the main pumps feeding cooling water into Unit 2 failed and, due to confusion amidst the klaxon of alarms and flashing warning lights, the men operating the reactor made the situation worse when they mistakenly thought there was too much water in the core and shut off emergency pumps, thereby reducing further the amount of coolant reaching the reactor.

Construction work began in December 2007 on the 1650 MWe unit at the Flamanville site in Normandy - where two reactors have been operating since 1986 and 1987.

The unit is expected to become the fifth Japanese reactor to resume operation under new safety standards introduced following the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The basic premise of the game is great; you play a character called Unit 3 and are tasked with getting to the reactor core at the top of a multi-level ship which has been infested by a being called The Entropy.

The pressure vessel head has been installed at one of the two high - temperature gas - cooled reactor units that make up the demonstration HTR - PM plant under construction at Shidaowan in China's Shandong province.

In addition, at refueling all of the bolts will be inspected at both units and any bolts will be replaced to ensure the reactors» structural integrity through 2021.

The loan guarantees announced Tuesday would sharply lower borrowing costs to finance new reactors at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in eastern Georgia near the South Carolina border, where two units are being operated by the Atlanta - based Southern Co., a large utility.

Russia is planning to construct a larger BN - 1200 fast reactor power unit at Beloyarsk to start up by 2020, while cooperating with China to build two BN - 800 units there.

The industry is also seeing construction of an advanced nuclear reactor technology at the twin AP1000 Vogtle expansion units.

However, Exelon Nuclear, which operates 17 reactors, recently announced that uprates previously approved by NRC, at LaSalle units 1 and 2 as well as Limerick units 1 and 2, will be delayed.

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).

Canadian National Laboratory invites developers of small modular reactor (SMR) to develop demonstration FOAK units at the site