Sentences with phrase «research reactor»

Worse for nuclear technology development, the last research reactor was closed down in 1994.
As well as the BN series of reactors, Russia is also developing the lead - cooled BREST fast reactor, the lead - bismuth cooled SVBR and a multi-purpose fast neutron research reactor, the MBIR.
Wake me up when someone has a molten salt research reactor up and running.
And there was an incident back in the 50's at an Army run research reactor in Idaho I believe.
There have been a host of efforts to describe Japan's earthquake and nuclear emergency, ranging from volumes of helpful graphics generated by The Times and other media to freelance efforts, including the «sonification» of a month of earthquake activity surrounding the great quake off Japan by Paul May and a chart by Randall Munroe comparing human radiation exposure from an array of sources — ranging from a banana to a mammogram to a leaking nuclear plant and «A Layman's Intro to Radiation» by Ellen McManis, who operates a research reactor at Reed College.
ILL is a research reactor that produces intense beams of neutrons.
But the U.S. in 1991 bombed an operating research reactor in Iraq.
These efforts include installing a 30 - ton detector system (with shielding) in an operating research reactor building as close as 21 feet to the reactor core without affecting HFIR's primary missions of neutron scattering research, isotope production and testing of irradiated materials.
The process to select the location of PROSPECT was competitive; HFIR and other U.S. research reactor sites were assessed.
That instrument will be deployed at ORNL's famous research reactor before data collection begins next year.
NAC was responsible for the design, fabrication and delivery of specialized packaging containers and equipment to clean, canisterize, and stabilize (by vacuum drying and thermal conditioning) 8,000 spent fuel rods from the research reactor in Nyongbyon, North Korea.
The PNNL system runs continuously, processing about 1.5 liters of algae slurry in the research reactor per hour.
The high - flux research reactor SM - 3 is a vessel - type water - cooled reactor operated at intermediate neutrons.
RIAR has unique experimental base, including research labs to test materials, a Center of Excellence, and research reactor SM - 3.
This project was carried out in the group of Prof Böni at the research reactor Munich II (FRM II) at the TU Munich.
Operation of the research reactor results unavoidably in radioactive materials.
HZB distributes a pamphlet every five years informing the population around the research reactor about this disaster control plan.
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.
Scientists from many disciplines, such as biologists, chemists, physicists, medical physicists, materials scientists, and even art historians, use our research reactor BER II to find answers to their questions.
We have taken many measures to ensure these remain contained during every operating phase of the research reactor.
Such scenarios were considered for the research reactor BER II.
The research reactor is not used for developing or sampling nuclear power technology.
The 60 - year - old reactor — the world's oldest operating research reactor — is slated to shut down in March 2018, after which Canadian and other scientists will no longer be able to use the highly specialized equipment in their experiments.
The research reactor BER II delivers neutrons for scientific studies.
They achieved this with the help of neutron scattering at the BER II research reactor and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the USA.
The research reactor works at low temperature and at normal pressure.
The research reactor is built according to the prevailing safety regulations.
No fuel elements from the research reactor are stored at the ZRA (see also question 8).
Our research reactor BER II in Berlin - Wannsee can not be compared with a nuclear power plant.
The research reactor BER II can therefore only be visited by appointment.
However, on Open House Day, we allow interested visitors to take guided tours through the experimental halls around the research reactor.
The research reactor has automatic shutdown systems that will be triggered by any deviation from normal operating conditions.
Research reactor fuel, transuranic waste and sterilization capsules such as the Cesium Chloride capsules stored at the Hanford site.
Although this finding would, of course, need to be confirmed by more direct measurements of drug transport through the material, it was intriguing enough for BioModics to purchase additional beam time at the FRM - II research reactor in Garching, Germany.
The research reactor is a so - called «pool - type reactor» or «swimming pool reactor»: The core of the reactor is immersed in an open pool of water.
To compare, the power of our research reactor is 10 megawatts.
Because this is not the case, our research reactor does not have a reactor pressure vessel as nuclear power plants do.
By the end of 2019 the research reactor BER II will be operated in this mode, after which it will be switched off according to the decision of the Supervisory Board.
Aluminum is currently used in not only research reactor components but also nuclear batteries and spacecraft, and it has been proposed as material for storage containers for nuclear waste.
It can be used for electricity, generating 27 MWe, or as a research reactor at up to 100 MWt.
In Paris yesterday, researchers from the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK - CEN) in Mol, the French National Research Council (CNRS), and France's Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) reported that they had successfully operated a research reactor called Guinevere by boosting its nuclear reactions with an externally produced beam of neutrons.
The tubes were tested inside MIT's research reactor in special loops that replicate the coolant temperature and chemistry conditions in large power reactors.
Canadian scientists are upset about the imminent closure of the Chalk River research reactor and are lobbying the government for a CA$ 200 million ($ 162 million) commitment so they can continue to perform materials research using the neutron beams that research reactors provide.
Shuttering of Chalk River research reactor also ends Canada's national source of neutron beam time
THE PROPOSED take over of ANSTO by the CSIRO has raised questions about the current public inquiry into a proposed new research reactor.
Experimental Breeder Reactor - II is a 20 - megawatt research reactor that has been operating since 1964.
Standoff over refueling an aging research reactor paved way for key advance in Iran's uranium enrichment know - how.
Fusion energy research would get a 4 % increase, to $ 395 million, including $ 63 million for the ITER fusion research reactor now under construction in France.
Using neutron scattering experiments at the BER II research reactor, Manfred Reehuis and Michael Tovar were successful in determining the structural and magnetic properties for each of the mixed crystal specimens over quite a wide temperature range, from near the zero point of the Kelvin temperature scale to above 900 K.
India now relies on neutron beams in an aging 100 MW research reactor called Dhruva in Mumbai; scientists at BARC are hoping to construct two more modern neutron sources at Visakhapatnam in eastern India.
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