Sentences with phrase «reactors based»

While we dawdle, maybe the Chinese will develop a nice business selling us thorium reactors based on our old designs.

Taishan 1 and 2 are the first two reactors based on the EPR design to be built in China.

In collaboration with colleagues in Belgium, they have developed a more advanced reactor based on highly complex microfluidic structures.

Canned fusion, if it works, would need less power than NIF and shorter plasma - confinement times than ITER; as a result, a working reactor based on its principles might cost tens of millions of dollars rather than billions.

But a working fusion reactor based on Shiva Star would need to handle such currents once every 10 seconds.

This researcher has developed a reactor based on conical spouted beds which, by means of flash or rapid pyrolysis, produces fuels and raw materials using various types of waste.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has pledged to build a commercial fusion reactor based on new superconducting magnets.

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.»

A type of reactor based on a closed fuel cycle at the site.

Not exact matches

CB&I received no upfront payment for the sale of the nuclear construction business, but stood to receive earnouts based on the progress of the completion of two U.S. projects by Stone & Webster: a nuclear power plant in Georgia for Southern Co and two reactors in South Carolina for SCANA Corp (scu).

Thus mini-nuclear reactors, algae - based fuels, and various other exciting schemes are routinely trotted out as the «source of unlimited energy in the near future,» always with the implicit faith that the process can be scaled up from the laboratory to a global scale with only modest difficulties.

Our technology is based on a variant of chemical vapor deposition, which builds the diamond lattice atom by atom in a reactor that creates a plasma akin to the outer core of the sun.

The reactor, composed of 350 parts, is based on tens of thousands of simulations.

Based on previous research and work in the field of plasma physics, the two former Creo laser printing employees believe they can build a reactor to fuse hydrogen atoms together by pneumatically - driven pistons and produce enormous increases in energy.

General Atomics has received two awards from the U.S. Department of Energy totaling more than $ 3.26 million to continue the San Diego - based company's work on developing new types of fuel for advanced nuclear reactors.

Their piston - based reactor is designed to create energy bursts lasting thousandths of seconds, rather than a sustained plasma reaction.

As WAMC's Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Allison Dunne reports, this comes on the heels of a problem with baffle bolts at the Westchester County - based reactor.

Patrick McDaniel, a nuclear engineer and space expert based at the University of New Mexico, agrees, saying engineers have the technological capacity to build a 10 - megawatt nuclear reactor for space that's «reasonably light,» though the will to do so may be lacking.

The researchers expect that the new equations will be a basis for formulating more reliable and efficient predictions of the usable lifetime of materials in nuclear reactors and other environments with high levels of ionizing radiation.

Now NRG Energy, based in Princeton, New Jersey, is sticking its neck out with plans to build two new nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project facility near Bay City.

TEPCO modeling and analyses suggest that most, if not all, of the fuel in the Unit 1 reactor melted, burned through the reactor pressure vessel, dropped to the bottom of the containment vessel, and perhaps ate into the concrete base.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says that it considers the 104 U.S. nuclear plants to be secure, but the evidence from Japan's devastating reactor damage would be the basis for a new review

That however is based on the notion that vendors submit complete, high quality applications and address staff concerns more quickly than we have been able to do with some of the large [reactor] designs.»

The analysis also suggested that small reactors would be more expensive than large reactors on a per - megawatt basis until manufacturing in significant quantities has happened.

The Trump administration's arrival has forced the U.S. nuclear industry to revise its climate - based pitch for government assistance for at - risk reactors.

Lockheed Martin Corp said on Wednesday it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready in a decade.

This signaling pathway could be used to optimize the photosynthetic efficiency of plants subject to water and nutrient deficiencies, with potential applications in agriculture and reactor - based crop development for green chemistry and algae - based biofuel solutions.

Jaczko told the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee that measures to protect both U.S. reactor operations and the spent fuel pools have been taken on a case - by - case basis for each U.S. reactor since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Sam Bell, played by Sam Rockwell, toils alone in a stark - white base, working as a glorified handyman for Lunar Industries, an ominously glossy corporation that extracts helium - 3 from the lunar surface to fuel fusion reactors back on Earth.

«This brings not only lower installation base cost but also brings greater cost certainty» compared to the $ 6 billion to $ 8 billion large - reactor option, Fees said.

Finally, Bergeron summed up the events so far: «Based on what we understand, the reactor has been shut down, in the sense that all of the control rods have been inserted — which means there's no longer a nuclear reaction.

Cold War - era governments (including ours) backed uranium - based reactors because they produced plutonium — handy for making nuclear weapons.

Hyperion's 25 - megawatt prototype, which is based on technology developed at nearby Los Alamos National Laboratory and is similar to reactors long used on Russian submarines, gets by with more conventional levels of uranium enrichment but could still run 8 to 10 years without refueling.

With some modifications, today's commercial nuclear reactors could switch to thorium - based fuels, but at great cost.

«I believe there is a desire there [in China] to use fast reactor technology to extend their energy base and enhance their energy security position.

The mPower reactor is largely based on Generation III reactor technology that NRC is currently reviewing for certification, which should make the small reactor's licensing «conform to existing licensing protocol» and shorten the review time, Mowry said.

«I expect some major new finds and discoveries by 2010,» says George Bell, president and CEO of Toronto - based uranium exploration company, UNOR, Inc. «These would be shipping by 2017 and that's when you need it,» because that's when the planned new wave of reactors will begin to fire up.

He is mining helium - 3, fuel for Earth's fusion reactors, aided by Gerty, the base's robot, laconically voiced by Kevin Spacey.

However, four decades of analysis and experience have demonstrated that reactor core - damage risks are dominated by «beyond - design - basis events,» the report says.

Until now, U.S. safety regulations have been based on ensuring plants are designed to withstand certain specified failures or abnormal events, or «design - basis - events» — such as equipment failures, loss of power, and inability to cool the reactor core — that could impair critical safety functions.

The new reactor would be based on the 1350 - megawatt advanced boiling water reactor developed by General Electric, one of the world's largest builders of nuclear reactors.

Dramatically improved operating regimes have recently been discovered that may form the basis of a practical energy reactor.

Hamid Aït Abderrahim, deputy director of SCK - CEN, says that Guinevere, which is based around a 1 - kilowatt lead - cooled reactor, is a «reduced» model of a much larger ADS, called Myrrha, whose construction will start in 2015.

Based on the J - value, only ten to 20 per cent of the 335,000 people who moved away permanently after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident needed to leave their homes on grounds of radiological protection.

American builders could base their estimates on reactors built recently in Asia, but no one really knows how a project in Texas or Florida might compare with one in Japan or South Korea.

The High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the highest flux reactor - based source of neutrons for research in the United States.

«HFIR remains one of the world's most capable reactor - based neutron science, radioisotope production and materials irradiation facilities, and we expect that to continue for many years.»

Adjustments are periodically made based on how the newer and older fuel is distributed in the reactor core.

Most recently, Tom's efforts were focused on the development of NuScale Power, a Corvallis, Oregon - based reactor developer, as their VP of Engineering and COO.

That report recommended a 5 - year renewable term rather than a 6 - year term for the NASA Administrator based on how the Navy's nuclear reactor program is run, the «gold standard» for technical government programs, he said.