Sentences with phrase «research reactor at»

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.

It can be used for electricity, generating 27 MWe, or as a research reactor at up to 100 MWt.

Not exact matches

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That legacy of nuclear energy development continues today at The University of Manchester in the form of research on new reactor technologies and related areas, says Denecke.

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.

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.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

A few days after the nuclear crisis began to unfold at the Fukushima power station in Japan, Singh, who also serves as minister in charge for atomic energy, ordered a safety review of all 20 nuclear power plants and a half dozen research reactors owned and operated by the government.

The rest of this special News & Analysis section examines what we have learned about radiation risks from previous exposures (p. 1504), improvements in safety since the boiling water designs at Fukushima (p. 1506), what to do with the wrecked reactors (p. 1507), and damage to research facilities from the earthquake (p. 1509).

Dozens of civilian research reactors have closed or converted from HEU — uranium enriched to at least 20 % of the fissile isotope U-235 — to safer low enriched uranium (LEU), including 28 since 2009.

On the other hand, in magnetic field confinement fusion plasma intended for a fusion reactor, which research is being conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science, development of high precision electron density measurements is becoming an important research topic.

The accelerating research programs supported by the Energy Department and the industry are aimed at identifying the potential longer - range issues, such as impairment in a reactor's concrete structures.

Conceived in the 1970s, Monju was once at the leading edge of research into fast fission reactors, which have always been controversial because they burn plutonium, an ingredient in bombs.

He said that the government had reviewed its position and concluded that the funding of research and development on the fast reactor at Dounreay was not a priority beyond March 1993, as there was agreement that commercial deployment of the fast reactor would not be justified until well into the next century.

«The answer that I got from them at the end of October,» said Eggar, «was that they felt, having examined all their priorities across all the R&D, that they could not give enough priority to fast breeder reactor research.

Acting on two (of 12) spending bills under its jurisdiction, the panel agreed on Wednesday to increase the president's request for fusion research at the Department of Energy by a total of $ 76 million, including $ 48 million more for the domestic program and $ 28 million for the U.S. contribution to the ITER fusion reactor being built in France.

Simulating nuclear reactors or the electrical grid, for example, are research efforts done at DOE's energy research offices.

The European fast reactor programme — led by Britain, France and Germany — had hoped to carry out important research at the fast reactor research centre at Dounreay in Scotland, which is operated by AEA Technology.

As the international ITER project to develop an experimental nuclear fusion reactor eats into research budgets around the world, an advisory panel to the US Department of Energy recommends mothballing at least one of three major experiments and focusing on research necessary to bring ITER online.

Colin Gregory, director of the fast reactor research programme at Dounreay, says that the EFR will inevitably take longer to construct and cost more without more time for research at Dounreay.

The report says the US should focus research initiatives on the biggest impediments to ITER's donut - like design, called a tokamak — how to control the writhing plasma at the reactor's core, and understanding how it interacts with surrounding material in order to engineer walls that can maintain the reaction.

It resides in membrane spaces that evade ready experimental detection, but in a new study, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have illuminated presenilin using a neutron beam produced by the world's most powerful research nuclear reactor.

The High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the highest flux reactor - based source of neutrons for research in the United States.

Researchers also use the reactor's neutron production for neutron scattering analysis, a technique pioneered at its predecessor ORNL reactors, the Graphite Reactor and the Oak Ridge Research Reactor.

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.

Research reactor fuel, transuranic waste and sterilization capsules such as the Cesium Chloride capsules stored at the Hanford site.

No fuel elements from the research reactor are stored at the ZRA (see also question 8).

The research reactor works at low temperature and at normal pressure.

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 school will be structured around lectures delivered by members of CNL's research team and external experts in the mornings, followed by demonstrations and practical sessions in the afternoons during which students will spend time at the Zero Energy Deuterium (ZED - 2) reactor, as well as several other nuclear facilities located on the campus.

This project was carried out in the group of Prof Böni at the research reactor Munich II (FRM II) at the TU Munich.

The high - flux research reactor SM - 3 is a vessel - type water - cooled reactor operated at intermediate neutrons.

«We have been working for over three years to ensure that the experiment is located at HFIR,» said Chris Bryan, who manages experiments at HFIR for ORNL's Research Reactors Division.

That instrument will be deployed at ORNL's famous research reactor before data collection begins next year.

In licensing power reactors which are somewhat less safe than research reactors, the Authority would send its representatives to inspect or visit these plants at frequent intervals.

This HEU is the result of nuclear fuel use at Chalk River Laboratories for CNL's research reactors, the NRX and NRU, and for the production of medical isotopes through the irradiation of HEU targets in the NRU.

The main hardware in the existing research infrastructure at IFE Hynor is found in a process room for testing and development of high temperature hydrogen production and solid oxide fuel cell technology (SOFC), including a Dual Bubbling Fluidized Bed reactor prototype (DBFB) for continuous hydrogen production by sorption - enhanced reforming (SER) of methane with an integrated process for CO2 - capture.

The core of the RBT - 3 reactor at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad, Russia.

The basic reactor concept and its associated elements are based on well - tested and proven principles developed over decades of research at MIT and around the world, the team says.

And there was an incident back in the 50's at an Army run research reactor in Idaho I believe.

Promote nuclear power as the climate - neutral and politically - bipartisan energy resource that it is, incentivize the U.S. nuclear industry to expand America's nuclear capacity, and stimulate U.S. research and development in advanced nuclear reactor designs for implementation at home and abroad 5.