Sentences with phrase «small nuclear power plants»

Below I list some reasons why I advocate the USA should focus on developing small nuclear power plants that are suitable for use throughout the whole world.

Therefore, if we want to cut global CO2 emissions, we need to free up the development and roll - out of cheap, small nuclear power plants.

Starting in 2000, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funded research for the development of a small nuclear power plant that might be used in multiple applications.

As well every CO of every military base in the world would give his left nut to have his own electrical grid not reliant on diesel fueled generators with a defensible small nuclear power plant.

Not exact matches

Though the wastes from nuclear power plants are highly toxic, their physical quantity is surprisingly small — barely more than 2,000 tons a year in the United States.

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.

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It is a far cry from the standard nuclear plant — the size of a small town, cranking out enough electricity to power a major city — not to mention the even bigger plants going up in China and France.

The point was to prove that a nuclear power facility could be built as cheaply as a coal - fired power plant, and the key to that was a smaller safety system.

Such boreholes could not house most of the country's waste, like fuel rods from nuclear power plants, but could have potential for smaller, long - lived radioactive materials.

«We can now think about building other small detectors that can then be used, for example to monitor the neutrino flux in nuclear power plants.

Scott Burnell, public affairs officer at the NRC, said NuScale's application is the first to propose a nuclear power plant designed with several small reactors instead of one large one.

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 wPower 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 wpower 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 wpower, and no external water.

Response: SMR - 160 is a small modular pressurized water nuclear reactor power plant that does not rely on any pumps or motors to remove heat from the nuclear fuel, for all normal and accident scenarios.

The size of the reactor's nuclear core is a fraction of those of large conventional nuclear power plants, with an attendant small radioactive source term.

SMR - 160 is the only nuclear power plant in the world — operating or proposed — to both limit the spent fuel volume to such a small inventory and protect it with the containment, while assuring unlimited cooling.

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 - 3Nuclear 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 - 3nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 300 MWe.

Small modular reactors - which are approximately one - third the size of current nuclear power plants - have compact, scalable designs that are expected to offer a host of safety, construction and economic benefits.

I needed a research paper on a small company that makes vacuum cleaners and the writer said that vacuum cleaner company should diversify by «building nuclear power plants.»

Many dogs that eat small fish and sardine and herring oil appear to have elevated levels of strontium, a radioactive element that has been released in large quantities from the nuclear power plant involved in the Fukushima disaster, which is still going on.

McKibben wrote that this proves we have to turn off all our nuclear power plants and get small....

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

The nuclear power plant consumes U235 in such small quantities yearly that you could carry that much weight in a briefcase.

If USA could do that 70 years ago, the industrial countries could certainly produce small modular nuclear power plants at whatever rate the world needs them.

US can gain enormously by leading the world in developing new, small modular nuclear power plants; allowing and encouraging innovation and competition; thus unleashing the US's ability to innovate and compete to produce and supply the fit - for - purpose products the various world markets want.

To begin mitigation, we do a moon - shot effort to develop small nuclear plants that can be built on an assembly line and deploy them wherever possible, which would be just about anywhere power is needed.

The NRC is a massive constriction blocking progress on development and roll out of small modular nuclear power plants.

US can gain enormously by leading the world on developing new, small modular nuclear power plants.

Also, I've been convinced all along that the «Progressives will eventually see the light and stop blocking progress — i.e. preventing the development and roll out of low - cost low emissions electricity (i.e. small modular nuclear power plants).

Nuclear power plants occupy a small area relative to their electrical generation output, the smallest physical footprint of any major energy source.

Case in point: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers recently concluded that a small six - foot - high miniature tsunami that hit near a New Jersey nuclear power plant this summer was not the result of a seismic event (as tsunamis usually are).

Getting back to my main point, if USA could achieve that rate of production for aircraft carriers 70 years ago, surely it is reasonable to churn out small modular nuclear power plants in that time or less now.

Smaller, modular reactors can be built much faster and cheaper than traditional large - scale nuclear power plants.

And the space is already too small to accommodate even the lifetime output of this country's existing 104 nuclear power plants.

I am more in favour of the small modular nuclear power plants than the massive > 1 GW size plants.

In addition, a relatively small amount of uranium can produce a relatively large amount of energy, helping the overall energy cycle of an online nuclear plant to release no more carbon dioxide per kilowatt - hour than solar power, which must account for the manufacturing of photovoltaic cells.

I'd like to see small modular nuclear power plants of around the same size as the gas units — and comparable in cost of electricity.

Gas can make early gains, but we really need to maintain focus on developing cheap, small, nuclear power plants for the whole world if we want to replace fossil fuels globally.

The NRC is a massive thrombosis blocking progress on development and roll out of small modular nuclear power plants.

In reading the comments on nuclear versus other power sources and then some of the earlier comments on whther small scale chages per household versus larger scale power plants, made me think about a tangential issue.

And if the evolutionary approach does lower the risk of a given small modular reactor, who can say whether reduced risks in individual power plants are outweighed by an overall global risk of dispersing a much greater number of nuclear reactors across the planet?

We are exceptionally well - versed in the next generation of nuclear power plants, including Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).