Sentences with phrase «small nuclear reactor»

Do small nuclear reactors have a brighter future here?

US spy satellites had identified only one small nuclear reactor in China capable of making the material for a bomb, and the report concluded that it could not produce enough until 1965.

There are many versions of small nuclear reactors operating around the world — starting with the US military in the 1950's.

Camera company Kodak maintained a small nuclear reactor and weapons - grade uranium in a basement at its headquarters in Rochester, New York, for over 30 years.

- Small nuclear reactors, which can provide localized carbon - free power, are so popular that they are on a three - year back order from their manufacturer, Hyperion Power Generation.

A major manufacturer of power - generation equipment announced plans today to build a small nuclear reactor that company officials touted as a «potential game changer for the global nuclear market.»

In the past three years, we have undertaken to design a small nuclear reactor that we hope will become the icon of American ingenuity in the nuclear power industry by virtue of its unconditional safety and security characteristics.

Patrick McClure and David Poston will discuss the small nuclear reactor developed at the Laboratory to power missions on Mars during three Frontiers in Science lectures.

Most of the story is set at a small nuclear reactor in California and centers on a free - wheeling cameraman, the chief engineer at the reactor, a man who truly believes that nuclear energy is a safe and efficient form of power, and a female reporter who is trying to prove that she is better suited to hard news than the never - ending stream of fluff pieces she is handed.

Tomorrow, it could be relying on concentrated solar for small factories, or small nuclear reactors, or some other generation and distribution model that has yet to emerge.

And just to visualise that, it's like one small nuclear reactor's worth of electricity being generated from the tides in the Bristol Channel.»

«It's like one small nuclear reactor's worth of electricity being generated from the tides in the Bristol Channel»

Small nuclear reactors have been developed to power submarines and some other large vessels like aircraft carriers.

From midnight to 8 in the morning, I was a «warm body» at a small nuclear reactor (which explains why I still glow a bit at night).