Sentences with phrase «reactors use»

These reactors use chemically - stable fluoride salts (similar to the sodium fluoride salt in your toothpaste) that are impervious to radiation damage.

Canadian reactors use water loaded with deuterium (called «heavy water»), while others are gas cooled.

Existing nuclear reactors use less than 1 % of the energy in uranium, leaving more than 99 % in long - lived nuclear waste.

Molten salt reactors use fuel dissolved in a molten fluoride or chloride salt which functions as both the fuel (producing the heat) and the coolant (transporting the heat away and ultimately to the power plant).

Fast reactors on a closed fuel cycle use nearly all the actinides fed into them, while low energy reactors use only around one percent of the fuel.

All other sodium reactors use oxide fuels, while PRISM uses a metal fuel, an alloy of zirconium, uranium, and plutonium, and the fuel rods sit in a bath of liquid sodium at atmospheric pressure.

Uranium metal enriched with Uranium - 235 is used in heavy water reactors while light water reactors use low enriched Uranium.

Bomb - grade uranium is enriched to above 90 percent and most power reactors use uranium that is enriched up to 5 percent.

Gas - cooled reactors Developed in the UK, these reactors use graphite to moderate neutrons and carbon dioxide to cool the core.

Light water - cooled graphite - moderated reactors Fuelled by low - enriched uranium oxide, these reactors use graphite as a moderator and water to cool the core.

(Typical reactors use a mix that is only about 5 percent energy - rich uranium - 235; the rest is more common uranium - 238.)

Most nuclear reactors use uranium fuel that has been «enriched» in uranium 235, an isotope of uranium that fissions readily.

But community groups are concerned about the potential for accidents, and environmentalists about the toll nuclear takes on water resources and the wildlife killed when reactors use river or lake water for cooling — particularly at Indian Point, less than 30 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River.

However, when asked to comment, one CEO said Canada is in a strong position because Candu reactors use heavy water instead of boiled or pressurized water, which allows the reactor to run on natural uranium instead of enriched uranium fuel.

The reactor uses uranium dioxide fuel particles that are also coated with graphite so they will not crack and release fission products even in extreme heat.

[28] She programmed the Aberdeen Proving Ground's ENIAC to solve criticality problems for a liquid metal cooled reactor using the Monte Carlo method.

German engineers from the Max Planck Institute successfully activated the experimental nuclear fusion reactor used in the research last December and successfully managed to suspend plasma for the first time.

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The reactor uses a simulated solar flux, enabling continuous operation, material durability testing, and accelerated aging protocols.

The Hyperion reactor uses uranium hydride for fuel, something that has not been used in commercial reactors.

The reactor they use is 93 million miles from here.

Every day, all over the world, tens of thousands of engineers design everything from blankets to nuclear reactors using the precise physics that greg house insists are impossible.

He also thought that any move to research or implement something new (like reactors using plentiful - in - the - US Thorium) would be virtually impossible.

Have you looked into what is involved in extracting material that is suitable for weapons from light water reactor used fuels?

But the technologies that we are using are mostly the old blue - collar ideas oxy - fuel limestone calcination, an aqueous pellet reactor used in water treatment, forced draft cooling tower technologies.

The Department of Defense already does this with the nuclear reactors it uses in submarines and aircraft carriers, and this approach helped make General Electric the global leader in turbine manufacturing.

Another version of Simon F is employed as a technician for a nuclear reactor used to generate power.

Not exact matches

It is a 4th generation reactor design that uses depleted uranium.

(All existing reactors operate using nuclear fission, rather than fusion, which is a very different process.)

Among the moon's vast riches: gold, cobalt, iron, palladium, platinum, tungsten and helium - 3, a gas that can be used in future fusion reactors to provide nuclear power without radioactive waste.

The team's design uses solar energy (captured with photovoltaic panels) to power an electrochemical reactor that converts water and human waste into fertilizer and hydrogen.

A number of coal - and oil - fired power plants will likely be retired, and while Virginia's four existing nuclear units will remain in use, plans for a fifth reactor remain shelved, for now.

To use MOX fuel rods, civilian power plants would have to modify their reactors, requiring lengthy relicensing by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The department controls the radioactive materials - plutonium, uranium and tritium - used in Americas nuclear weapons and in the reactors of nuclear - powered aircraft carriers and submarines.

Savannah River used to house a reactor.

No U.S. civilian reactor had ever used MOX as fuel.

Diamond Foundry uses plasma reactors to turn diamond «seeds,» or tiny shards of diamond, into gemstones.

NASA's prototype power system uses a uranium - 235 reactor core described as roughly the size of a paper towel roll.

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.

We are going to be sorry that we tolerated the Bushewhr reactor to be fueled when Iran uses one of their new toys on us.

For those of you that dispute the science, remember, we have fusion reactors (same principle as the sun) coming on line for regular use in the next year - a small piece of the puzzle.

Fermenter or bio reactor is the major equipment used in the fermentation that contains media and creates the environment fermentation at the large scale.

In general, these plastics can be manufactured using existing reactors and processed using existing equipment.

Closed anaerobic reactors generate large quantities of methane (CH4) from the organic materials in the wastewater that can diminish or even completely replace the use of fossil fuels in the production process.

• Enzymatic pre-treatment: A high temperature enzyme reactor is used for pre-treatment of certain cellulosic substrates, to solubilise the organic matter prior to fermentation, enhancing the fermentation speed.

Different reactor configurations can also be used.

It was alleged that the Indian test had been carried out using plutonium from the CIRUS reactor (Canada India Research and United States) where the reactor was supplied by Canada and the heavy water (for the reactor) was provided by the United States.

However, the power plant needs a permit from New York State to use Hudson River water to cool its reactor cores.

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.»

One ambitious young man tried to build his own reactor, using isotopes salvaged from smoke detectors, camping lanterns, and old clocks.