Sentences with phrase «reactors built over»

The average construction time of a new reactor in 2015 was 73 months, compared to an average 82.5 months for all civil nuclear reactors built over the past 60 years, according to the report.

Not exact matches

CB&I and Westinghouse were consortium partners building those reactors prior to their deal for Stone & Webster, which was meant to resolve disagreements over each contractor's responsibilities over the projects.

Progress was stalled during 2004 and early 2005 as the partners argued over where to build the reactor, but in June 2005, the parties agreed on Cadarache, France, 60 kilometers from Marseilles (ScienceNOW, 28 June 2005).

The first safety concern arose four years ago over the durability of the reactor's shield building.

A new proposal, detailed recently on the preprint server arXiv.org, describes how to build an antineutrino detector that could, over the course of a few months, determine if weapons - grade fuel is being used in a reactor.

Building on Holtec's vast experience of delivering cutting - edge technologies to the global nuclear energy industry over the past 25 years, SMR is committed to delivering to the world a safe, secure, reliable, clean and affordable small modular nuclear reactor — SMR - 160.

While right now wind power has overtaken nuclear in China, and wind should keep growing rapidly, it takes a lot longer to build a reactor than a wind turbine, so these number will likely look different over time.

Finishing the reactors would be more expensive than building new gas - fired power plants, but averaged over the 60 - year service life, the costs will be right in line with renewables, about $ 60 to $ 80 per MWh — except nuclear produces reliably, where wind energy is fundamentally unreliable and chaotic.

That conviction over the decades led us to successfully stop uneconomic coal, oilsands and nuclear plants (no new reactors have been built since we began our opposition).

Two major fusion research reactors are being built over the next decade — the international ITER magnetic confinement reactor (for $ 5 to 10 billion) and the US National Ignition Facility (NIF — $ 2 to 5 billion) to study «inertial confinement».

The few new reactors being built in Europe are far over their already big budgets.

Just a week ago, Obama announced that the first nuclear reactor to be built in the US in over 30 years was receiving an $ 8 billion loan guarantee.