Sentences with phrase «reactors with»

«R&D on advanced technologies, including thorium reactors with the potential to ameliorate remaining concerns about nuclear power, was stifled, seemingly because it was too promising.

The loss of nuclear capacity from retirements is expected to be offset by the construction of five nuclear reactors with a combined capacity of more than 5,600 MW.

Nuclear fission, as you all know better than I, as a long term alternative to fossil fuels, depends on development and wide use of nuclear breeder reactors with concomitant problems of proliferation of atomic weapons materials.

Replacement of the current thermal variety of nuclear fission reactors with nuclear fission fast reactors, which are 100 times more fuel efficient, can dramatically extend nuclear fuel reserves.

Fast reactors feature in Russia's long - term nuclear energy plans, which envisage a move to inherently safe nuclear plants using fast reactors with a closed fuel cycle and mixed - oxide (MOX) fuel.

Rather than creating new solutions, efforts to restart the U.S. nuclear industry have mostly focused on encouraging utilities to build the next generation of large, light - water reactors with loan guarantees and various other subsidies and regulatory fixes.

They clearly can not replace the electricity from their nuclear reactors with electricity from wind and solar, so they are building new coal - fired power plants and importing coal from the US: that's the «smutzig» part.

In April 2017, he attended the Korea Atomic Annual Power Annual Conference (KAP) 2017 as a member of the Expert Panel and discussed the safety of nuclear reactors with local residents in Gyeongju.

That qualification would apply almost exclusively to nuclear reactors with their always - on fuel, dams with big reservoirs and the leeway to control the flow of water, and coal plants with big enough piles of fuel to qualify.

Ohi 1 and 2 are the first reactors with capacities over 1000 MWe to be decommissioned in Japan following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is currently involved in pre-licensing vendor design reviews - an optional service to assess of a nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 300 MWe.

The reactor is unique being one of the world's research reactors with the highest flux, which provides for accumulating transplutonium elements and accelerated testing of materials to achieve high neutron fluence.

Poll proposes nuclear - powered airplanes using reactors with engines on the wings.

Some of the workers will be needed to maintain the system that cools damaged fuel rods in the reactors with thousands of tonnes (1 tonne = 1.102 metric tons) of water every day.

Fast reactors with an elegant ability to «breed» more fissile materials than they consumed in fuel, seemed destined to play a major part in helping the world to solve its energy needs.

The researchers fed two 15 - litre reactors with distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) under identical conditions for a total period of almost four months.

Japanese crews have been trying to flood reactors with seawater and restore outside power to the plant.

The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), responded by cooling the reactors with water, which continues today.

Last week, Ukraine agreed to shut Chernobyl and replace the remaining reactors with gas - fired plant — provided that the West finds $ 3 billion to pay for it.

China has 26 operational reactors with 24 large modern reactors under construction, nuclear output is expected to treble by 2020.

The new Ford class carriers will feature an improved nuclear reactor with three times the power - generation capacity as the Nimitz class.

«And they were talking glibly to their investors about selling a reactor with 600 mj (of energy) in a few years.

The reactor with the smallest overrun was Torness, where the excess was a confidence - sapping 35 per cent in real terms (after allowing for inflation).

The NRC reportedly ranked Indian Point as the reactor with the highest risk of earthquake damage in the United States, even higher than the twin reactors in California's quake zone, reports CBS 2's Marcia Kramer.

In the event of a breakdown of pumps that supply the reactor with fresh cooling water, the torus design is supposed to provide additional cooling.

«It helps that he's brilliant,» says Eric Rasmussen, a former Defense Department scientist and disaster expert collaborating with Stamets to decontaminate the zone around Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor with mushrooms.

This week, EDF Energy took offline three of its nuclear reactors at its Heysham 1 and Hartlepool plants in Britain for inspection which are both 31 years old, after a crack was discovered on a boiler spine of another Heysham 1 reactor with a similar boiler design, which had already been taken offline in June.

The annual waste output from a fast reactor with the same electrical capacity, in contrast, is a little more than a single ton of fission products, plus trace amounts of transuranics.

In addition to its unique fuel cycle, the TerraPower design employs a high - temperature, liquid metal core cooling technology suited to a breeder reactor with «fast» neutron activity, rather than today's predominant reactors whose water cooling systems slow neutrons.

Because many different types of cells are active in the liver, the researchers now want to populate the reactor with various combinations of cells.

In the case of the Olkiluoto 3 EPR, he notes that safety engineers designed a reactor with more pumps and valves to prevent the loss of any coolant, «but there wasn't as much effort into designing for construction,» which is driving the overruns.

Greenpeace wants any reactor with the cracks to be shut down immediately.

The researchers fed one reactor with DDGS every two hours.

After seeding each reactor with a previously studied microbiome, and opening the setup to the acid whey and its own rich assortment of bacteria (such as common gut microbiota from the Lactobacillus family), caproic acid, caprylic acid, and other minor products could be continually extracted over a period of several months.

The supervisory authority, the Senate Department for Health, Environment and Consumer Protection, regularly tests the safety of the research reactor with the assistance of independent experts.

It is a light water reactor with the reactor, steam generator, and spent fuel pool located inside the containment.

Researchers filled the aluminium reactor with sea water taken from Whitby Bay, and waste aluminium such as that found in kitchen foil or food wrappings.

NuScale Power has created a new kind of nuclear power plant - a smaller, scalable pressurized water reactor with passive safety features, allowing shutdown and self - cooling, with no operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external water.

SMR - 160 is a passive, intrinsically safe, supremely secure, and economically attractive small modular reactor with the flexibility to be used in remote locations, in areas with limited water supplies or land, and in unique industrial applications where traditional larger reactors are not practical.

The second, more detailed gameplay trailer shows key moments lifted directly from the original game's famous assault on a Shinra power reactor with Cloud, Barrett, and the collected members of Avalanche rendered in startling detail.

In the greeeeen corner, hailing from Insomniac games and weighing in at 8/10, Microsoft's rival offering packs even more sarcasm, a selection of silly hats, and a totally grounded and down to earth arsenal of pistols, assault rifles, and... a sword forged in a nuclear reactor with the power of fire, lightning, and soul leaching.

According to the SOLAR - JET Project Coordinator at Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Dr. Andreas Sizmann, a solar reactor with a 1 square kilometer heliostat field could generate 20,000 litres of kerosene a day.

IFR was a sodium - cooled fast reactor with inherently - safe fuel rods made of «spent» fuel (article by Dr. Till).

It becomes an integrated CCGT when the fuel is syngas from a coal or biomass gasification reactor with exchange of energy flows between the gasification and CCGT plants.

One design, by MIT professor Charles Forsberg, called the AHTR, combines a flouride - salt - cooled reactor with a gas turbine; one variation on it incorporates injecting gas to the turbine for high temperature turbine generation, so that the power plant can operate for both baseload and peak power.

Renewables are intermittent and take up a lot of space: generating a gigawatt of electricity with wind takes hundreds of square kilometres, whereas a nuclear reactor with the same capacity will fit into a large industrial building.

277, SecularAnimist: Otherwise, let's compare Hyperion's reactor with 100 percent efficient organic thin - film PV that costs one cent per watt installed.

Last time it was building a reactor with a positive temperature coefficient, using combustible moderator — now that won't happen again, count on it.

Otherwise, let's compare Hyperion's reactor with 100 percent efficient organic thin - film PV that costs one cent per watt installed.

Fly a plane into a nuclear reactor with a proper containment structure, and you just put a thin plating of aluminum on the outside.