Sentences with phrase «researching a reactor design»

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.

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Research suggests the risks posed to the nation's nuclear reactors may have been underestimated and therefore could be worse than the power plants were designed to withstand

In its efforts to develop safer, cheaper, and more efficient nuclear reactors, the Idaho National Laboratory has researched half a dozen next - generation reactor designs; these two (the sodium - cooled fast reactor and the very - high - temperature reactor) are the most promising.

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.

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).

There is almost no work going on in the United Kingdom on future alternative reactor designs, such as Generation IV reactors and small modular reactors and their associated fuel cycles, so Beddington's ad hoc board says the government should actively foster research in these areas.

The research, a major step toward bridging the gap between laboratory studies and industrial catalysis, could help improve the design and environmental impact of catalytic reactors, including tiny «lab - on - a-chip» devices, which are used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and other chemical products.

Soon after, the German atomic effort turned from bomb making to nuclear - reactor design, leading some historians to believe that Heisenberg helped maneuver the research toward more peaceful purposes.

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.

The research will allow scientists to design reactors that control the plasma far more than other fusion power devices.

As expected for a state - of - the - art reactor design, NuScale's maintains a relationship with a number of research entities that support the design and commercialization of its technology.

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.

He was recognized for «groundbreaking research that ties fundamental kinetics studies of catalytic materials to the creative design and successful commercialization of novel microchannel reactors.»

In carrying on such operations, presumably those desiring to build such research reactors would submit their designs to the Authority both for approval and for advice as to improvements, and would obtain a license to build such a reactor and lease of the denatured fissionable material needed for it.

The new reactor is designed for basic research on fusion and also as a potential prototype power plant that could produce significant power.

Subtitle C: Next Generation Nuclear Plant Project -(Sec. 641) Instructs the Secretary to establish the Next Generation Nuclear Plant Project consisting of design, construction, and operation of a prototype plant, including a nuclear reactor: (1) based on Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems Initiative research and development; and (2) used to generate electricity or produce hydrogen, or do both.

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.

``... research on the next generation of nuclear energy systems that can be made available to the market by 2030 or earlier, and that can offer significant advances toward these challenging goals; in particular, six candidate reactor system designs have been identified.

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