Sentences with phrase «reactors built in»

And Areva insists it is far safer and more economical than reactors built in the past century.

Eventually, the plant must be decommissioned, a process with which even the experts have little experience, as most nuclear reactors built in this country are still in operation.

Not exact matches

In a scientific community that is starting to talk about fusion in terms of pennies per kilowatt - hour, General Fusion aims to build a cheaper alternative to the multi-billion-dollar reactor designIn a scientific community that is starting to talk about fusion in terms of pennies per kilowatt - hour, General Fusion aims to build a cheaper alternative to the multi-billion-dollar reactor designin terms of pennies per kilowatt - hour, General Fusion aims to build a cheaper alternative to the multi-billion-dollar reactor designs.

As cheap natural gas squeezes the margins of nuclear generators, there's only one company currently building reactors in the country — Southern Co., at its Vogtle plant in Georgia.

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.

In 2007, Israeli airstrikes took out Syria's research reactor (which it had built with the aid of North Korea).

In a decade, they could build their first full - sized reactor.

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.

India's foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment on Russia's ties with Pakistan, but has previously said that its own relations with Moscow have stood the test of time, and that the two nations are building up defense and energy relations, including collaboration on nuclear reactors in India.

The former national - security adviser worked on, but allegedly failed to disclose, a plan to work with Russia to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East.

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.

A major signal for this view will be if the British / French agree to the building of the nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point in the U.K, Brexit be damned.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), an experimental reactor currently being built in the south of France, will house the world's largest ever tokamak — a doughnut - shaped reactor that uses a powerful magnetic field to confine plasma.

Essentially, these fusion reactors form energy just as stars do; we are, in that sense, building stars on earth.

Beginning in 2001, North Korea sold materials, designs, and expertise to Syria that helped it build a plutonium - producing nuclear reactor.

He warned that the Chinese could use their role in the programme (designing and constructing nuclear reactors) to build weaknesses into computer systems which allow them to shut down Britain's energy production at will and»... no amount of trade and investment should justify allowing a hostile state easy access to the country's critical national infrastructure.»

Not a single nuclear reactor in this country has ever been built on time or to budget.

When the Iraqis tried to build a nuclear reactor in 1981, the Israelis, perhaps out of fear that it could be used to develop nuclear weapons, bombed it.

Because they were built to withstand such earthquakes, while Indian Point and other reactors in the East were not:

SCRIBA, N.Y. - As recently as four years ago, nuclear power companies were planning to spend billions of dollars to build a new reactor in Oswego County, alongside three existing nuclear plants.

Nuclear reactor designers say that the reactors being built or planned today are quite different — and they say much safer — than those that are still smoldering in Japan.

In fact, throughout the first week of the Fukushima crisis, emergency workers tried to figure out a way to open up a larger hole in the Unit 2 reactor building, which had not suffered an explosion, to allow better access to inject cooling water without creating the kind of spark that might cause another hydrogen blasIn fact, throughout the first week of the Fukushima crisis, emergency workers tried to figure out a way to open up a larger hole in the Unit 2 reactor building, which had not suffered an explosion, to allow better access to inject cooling water without creating the kind of spark that might cause another hydrogen blasin the Unit 2 reactor building, which had not suffered an explosion, to allow better access to inject cooling water without creating the kind of spark that might cause another hydrogen blast.

In addition, it remains unclear how the hydrogen got from the sealed area containing the reactor vessel into the surrounding building — and then built up in sufficient quantities to explodIn addition, it remains unclear how the hydrogen got from the sealed area containing the reactor vessel into the surrounding building — and then built up in sufficient quantities to explodin sufficient quantities to explode.

But because of the location of such pools in older boiling - water reactor designs — specifically, in the upper levels of the reactor building — any water added would ultimately drain down through the building, inundating the emergency pumps in the basement.

The explosions tore open reactor buildings, damaging the 12 - meter - deep pools where used nuclear fuel is kept cool, potentially setting off another meltdown in the fuel there as the surrounding water drained away or boiled off.

From his years of building reactors and furnaces, he knew how to weld quartzwhich enabled him to quickly modify the conduits that conveyed the reactants in an MOCVD machine.

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.

ITER, an international effort to build a fusion reactor in France (shown above), is well under way.

Does anybody honestly think that whether Tehran or Pyongyang produces atomic bombs depends on how many reactors the United States decides to build in the next 10 to 20 years?

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.

Nuclear power has attracted new interests in the U.S.. Two reactors under construction near Waynesboro, Ga., will be the first built here in 30 years.

One of the biggest ongoing projects is ITER in France, an international effort to build the first magnetic fusion reactor that pumps out more energy than it consumes.

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.

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.

We are building our first two new nuclear reactors since the early 1970s at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant [in eastern Georgia], and that's a start.

China pauses its plans to build the most new nuclear reactors in the world in the wake of the accident at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan — but will not halt them

The Tennessee Valley Authority recently announced plans to build the nation's first small modular reactor in eastern Tennessee.

Their confidence rests on the fact that the reactors being built or planned today are quite different — and they say much safer — than those that are still smoldering in Japan.

A test facility near Lynchburg, Va. is up and running to ensure that what looks good on paper will also work in practice and B&W already has one potential customer in the U.S. — the TVA — expressing an interest in building as many as six of the small modular reactors at its Clinch River site, former home of a failed effort to build a fast breeder reactor in the 1970s.

But such reactors still require the same electricity - generating, safety, and waste disposal systems as the hulking light - water reactors presently being built as well as identical rigorous licensing requirements, at least in the U.S. — and that may cost them.

Firefighting equipment at the reactor staged to respond to severe fires or explosions was not stored in hardened buildings because a severe fire and an earthquake «were not assumed to occur coincidentally.»

THE massive ITER reactor currently being built in southern France is nuclear fusion's great hope — but it won't harness the power of the stars until 2026 at the earliest.

But no nuclear renaissance appears to be imminent, despite the go - ahead to build and operate two new reactors in Georgia

NRG initiated and abandoned plans to build at least two new large reactors in the last five years, thanks to falling natural gas prices and uncertainty surrounding U.S. government policy.

It could be 2030 before the reactor being built in France starts making more energy than it uses.

If the «nuclear renaissance» is not dead, it appeared in a coma for most of the country following the collapse of Constellation Energy's plan to build a third reactor on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay shore, energy officials said this weekend.

That element is produced in small amounts in nuclear reactors and has a half - life of less than a year, which means it takes years to build up enough for an experiment.

Mariotte said utilities that want to build new reactors have known for 10 years that Barnwell would close but failed to include on - site storage or options for handling low - level radioactive waste in their license applications.

At the same time, the budget would increase the U.S. contribution to ITER, a $ 23 billion fusion reactor being built in Cadarache, France, to $ 150 million, up from $ 105 million this year.