Sentences with phrase «reactors built by»

If the UK manages to get about 16 new large reactors built by the end of the 2020's (which the Climate Change Committee described as «not challenging»), that combined with on and off shore wind may well see a genuinely low emission electricity supply by 2030.

Not exact matches

May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

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.

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.

Four reactors had been built by 1986 and two more were under construction.

The Government of Canada could build on this momentum to develop an expanded MoU on civilian nuclear technology co-operation that includes research in pressurized heavy water reactor technology, nuclear medicine and other areas discussed by the prime ministers.

Closing just one reactor today, before any more renewable resources are built, could worsen air pollution by almost 10 percent, a market analysis by the global investment firm UBS found.

By March 14, hydrogen gas explosions captured live on television had blown out the walls and roofs of the Unit 1 and 3 reactor buildings.

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.

China aims to quadruple nuclear capacity to 40,000 megawatts by 2020, and the U.S. may build as many as 30 new reactors in the next several decades.

In the past it was felt that you get an economy of scale by building a very big nuclear reactor because of permitting and other issues.

It also assumes that 45 new nuclear power plants could be built by 2030, using existing reactor sites, adding 64 gigawatts of new capacity.

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?

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 Tennessee Valley Authority hopes to catalyze development of such reactors by installing one at its Clinch River site in Tennessee, former home of the U.S.'s failed attempt to build its own commercial fast reactor.

After all, the first reactor built at Qinshan back in 1990 — the first reactor ever designed and constructed entirely by the Chinese — had to be torn down and rebuilt because of faults in the foundation as well as defects in the welding of the steel vessel that contained the reactor itself.

David Hahn, nicknamed Glow Boy by his high school friends, tried to build a nuclear reactor in a potting shed in his backyard — and came shockingly close to succeeding.

But this week, energy company Centrica announced it was leaving a consortium, led by EDF Energy, that plans to build four reactors.

But the greatest damage to the complex, and the greatest release of radiation, may have been caused by explosions of hydrogen gas that built up inside some of the reactors.

FIERCE criticism is being directed from all quarters at the proposal by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to finish building two Soviet - designed nuclear reactors in Slovakia.

The buildings housing reactors Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 have all suffered damage from hydrogen explosions, caused by the high - temperature, high - speed interaction of fuel rods and steam.

Three reactors — Units 1, 2, and 3 — sustained severe core damage, and three reactor buildings — Units 1, 3, and 4 — were damaged by hydrogen explosions.

Acting on two (of 12) spending bills under its jurisdiction, the panel agreed on Wednesday to increase the president's request for fusion research at the Department of Energy by a total of $ 76 million, including $ 48 million more for the domestic program and $ 28 million for the U.S. contribution to the ITER fusion reactor being built in France.

More exotic designs remain on the horizon, such as reactors powered by thorium fuel, but the AP1000 and other more conventional designs are important for one simple reason: they are being built.

Three years ago, the agency's Game Changing Development program backed Kilopower, with the goal of building and testing a small fission reactor by Sept. 30, 2017, the end of the current fiscal year.

A company formed by Electricite de France (EDF), France's state - owned generator, and its Slovak counterpart SEP has applied to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a loan to upgrade and operate two partly - built nuclear reactors at Mochovce in Slovakia.

First, by basing the NuScale design on light - water reactor technology, we are able to build on the vast global experience with this technology, including material performance, water chemistry, transient behaviors, etc..

The Australian artist scored permission and access by the Ukrainian government to paint a mural in reactor No. 5 — only 70 % built at the time of the accident — in tribute to Russian photographer Igor Kostin.

To my mind, the Fukushima failure also builds the case for the kind of push under way in China, which is moving forward with construction of the first two of a new generation of nuclear reactors — cooled by helium, not water, and designed in a way that can not produce a meltdown of the fuel.

As such, the closure is symbolic of the broader woes of the nuclear power industry in the United States, which has been unable to build new reactors and is seeing the current reactors being shuttered, one by one.

If all reactors being built are ultimately completed, total nuclear generating capacity will decline by at least 2,806 MW (three percent) by 2025, planned additions against planned retirements.

China is building more than a third of the world's nuclear reactors currently under construction, and has plans to triple its nuclear power capacity by 2020.

The analysis is of nuclear plants expected to be in commercial operation by 2030, and only counts reactors being built outside of the vendor nation.

For example, while Japanese companies are officially expected to build 18 percent of reactors globally, no Japanese projects were ranked as «highly or moderately likely to be completed by 2030.

LONDON (Reuters)- Nuclear reactors are not being built rapidly enough around the world to meet targets on curbing global warming, a report by the World Nuclear Association, an industry body, said on Tuesday.

* The MH - 1A Sturgis floating nuclear power plant, a 45 - MW pressurized water reactor, was the first floating nuclear plant to be built (and the last nuclear power plant built and operated by the U.S. Army).

There's some logic to hedging our bets by building new nuclear reactors now, he says.

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.

Now, a group of scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) supported by the Aerosol and Particle Technology Laboratory of CPERI / CERTH Greece have built and tested a new solar reactor design that includes storage so it can provide round - the - clock heat like the current fossil - fired method, but without the emissions.

A 2009 report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace concluded that nuclear power would not «make a big difference in reducing carbon emissions in the next two decades, when the biggest reductions will have the most impact,» because the industry could not build enough reactors during that time.

Although radiation leakage has been reported, the reactor core containment is said still to be intact, But if the cooling operation is not successful then there is a risk that, aside from the (hopefully low) possibility of a explosion as at Chernobyl, or a hydrogen explosion (as was feared at one time at Three Mile Island in the USA), melting fuel could burn through the core and the floor of the reactor building and enter the soil, a risk that would be heightened if the floor structure was cracked by the earthquake.

Instead of obsession with building a better solar mousetrap, for much lower cost and resource use the energy needs of now and far into the future could be met easily by Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR).

For example, a build rate of 61 new reactors per year could entirely replace current fossil fuel electricity generation by 2050.

Great Britain is planning to build several new nuclear reactors in Wales, which could be online by the mid-2020s.

«Transatomic's plan is to build a prototype reactor in 5 years, commercialize the technology in 15 years, and have reactors come online by around 2030.»

In the 1960s and 1970s, California's electric utilities had planned to build a string of new reactors and new plants that were ultimately killed by anti-nuclear leaders and groups, including Governor Jerry Brown, the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Fund (NRDC).

Friends of the Earth's nuclear campaign works to reduce risks for people and the environment by supporting efforts to close existing nuclear reactors and fighting proposals to design and build new reactors that use federal funds to underwrite such initiatives.

The country recently built and started operating a small 10 - megawatt helium - cooled reactor, and it is building a commercial version now that's scheduled to be ready by 2017.»

«On the other hand a practical reactor can be distinguished by the following characteristics: (1) It is being built now.

The fans of hydrogen are pushing electrolysis, which uses a lot of electricity, so it was often promoted by the nuclear industry as a justification for building more reactors.