Sentences with phrase «research reactors»

And German nuclear power began with research reactors in online in 1969.

He noted that every state that has developed nuclear weapons has done it with research reactors not power reactors.

Moreover, such research reactors would fulfill to a large extent the urgent requirements for further intensive scientific research in this field.

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.

But the closure of a Canadian research reactor for security and financial reasons last month puts at least some of these and similar procedures at risk.

Worse for nuclear technology development, the last research reactor was closed down in 1994.

Three dry transfer systems for enhanced loading / unloading of research reactor fuel.

Worldwide unique new process for the generation and storage of ultracold neutrons developed using the TRIGA research reactor at Mainz University

But the U.S. in 1991 bombed an operating research reactor in Iraq.

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.

The NRU is one of the largest and most versatile high - flux research reactors in the world, and an important supplier of medical isotopes.

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

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.

The United States is one of seven partners building ITER, an international fusion research reactor in France.

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.

Founded in 1839, the first state university west of the Mississippi, its landmarks include the largest nuclear research reactor on any campus, the original grave marker of Thomas Jefferson and the world's first school of journalism.

THE PROPOSED take over of ANSTO by the CSIRO has raised questions about the current public inquiry into a proposed new research reactor.

Most controversially, as an interim step the report calls for converting the eight U.S. research reactors from running on 93 % enriched weapons - grade uranium to 45 % enriched HEU.

Shuttering of Chalk River research reactor also ends Canada's national source of neutron beam time

The Authority would also license and lease in the same manner as described for research reactors the construction and operation of reactors for making radioactive materials.

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

The process to select the location of PROSPECT was competitive; HFIR and other U.S. research reactor sites were assessed.

Sometimes described as College Town USA, the nation's largest research reactor is located at the University.

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.

This reactor, a 5 MW light - water research reactor known as the Pakistan Atomic Research Reactor (PARR - 1), began operating in 1965 at Pinstech in Nilore.»

NFRI hosts a tokamak research reactor and South Korea's effort to support ITER, the experimental fusion reactor under construction near Cadarache in France.

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.

Standoff over refueling an aging research reactor paved way for key advance in Iran's uranium enrichment know - how.

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.

Experimental Breeder Reactor - II is a 20 - megawatt research reactor that has been operating since 1964.

The authority is hoping that the US will allow it to reprocess up to 9000 fuel rods from European research reactors.

Many civilian research reactors contain highly enriched uranium that terrorists could use to build nuclear bombs

Some of this activity already takes place at a much smaller research reactor, which is only 2 years younger than the NRU, maintained by McMaster University.

Government funding for this runs out in 1997, but AEA Technology has commercial contracts, chiefly from overseas research reactors, that will keep reprocessing going after that.

Joint projects with Russian nuclear scientists began to ebb soon after President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, and reached a nadir last October when Russia suspended an agreement with the United States on nuclear R&D cooperation and terminated another on retooling Russian research reactors to no longer run on weapons - grade uranium fuel.

CNL's ZED - 2 reactor is a versatile tank type, heavy water moderated low power research reactor that achieved first criticality in 1960.

Many of the technologies we use today were researched using neutrons, much of which over the decades has been performed at the Berlin research reactor because of its unique experimental conditions.

The NAC - LWT is the workhorse for U. S. commercial spent nuclear fuel transportation casks and is currently used for shipment of research reactor spent fuel, nuclear power plant spent fuel assemblies and fuel rods, and other irradiated materials.

«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.

Our research and development capabilities have contributed to two of the most successful reactor technologies in the world: the versatile CANDU ® power reactors and the ultra-safe SLOWPOKE research reactors.

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

To this end, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between General Electric and Hitachi, is researching a reactor design which would use recycled spent nuclear fuel instead of creating new fuel.

That's because the 59 - year - old NRU — the oldest of this type in operation — is one of only seven research reactors worldwide that produce 95 percent of molybdenum - 99 (Mo - 99).

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.