Sentences with phrase «sodium fast reactor»

If plant cancellations were from the accidents, as is frequently claimed, then why did the backlash against nuclear not occur after the far more dangerous 1957 Windscale fire, which shot iodine - 131 across the English countryside, or after the 1966 Fermi - 1 sodium fast reactor fire?

By the time he was 40, Weinberg had co-invented the pressurized water reactor, the boiling water reactor, the sodium fast reactor, the homogeneous reactor, the molten salt reactor, the atomic bomb — and the American Nuclear Society.

«The ARC Nuclear team brings decades of sodium fast reactor experience to this collaboration and, by working together, we can accelerate commercialisation of this technology.»

«ARC Nuclear has a heritage of sodium fast reactor experience that includes key senior scientists and engineers from the EBR - II prototype program — technical leaders involved in developing and demonstrating the fast reactor foundational technology within the U.S. Department of Energy,» said Don Wolf, Chairman and CEO, ARC Nuclear.

«GEH has broad engineering experience, deep technical capability and significant investment in its sodium fast reactor technology program that builds on a 60 - year history as an original equipment manufacturer of more than 60 boiling water reactors worldwide,» said the company's president and CEO Jay Wileman.

«The ARC Nuclear team brings decades of sodium fast reactor experience to this collaboration and, by working together, we can accelerate commercialization of this technology.»

«GEH has broad engineering experience, deep technical capability and significant investment in its sodium fast reactor technology program that builds on a 60 - year history as an original equipment manufacturer of more than 60 boiling water reactors worldwide,» said Jay Wileman, President and CEO, GEH.

An application case representative of an assembly of the low void effect sodium fast reactor ASTRID is used to study the physics of this kind of system, illustrating the interesting capabilities provided by this approach and highlighting new possible calculation schemes.

The second paper is dedicated to a validation of this kinetic approach on sodium fast reactors.

While there are more than 90 advanced nuclear technology and small modular reactor designs under various stages of development, GEH and ARC Nuclear view sodium fast reactors as being the most mature advanced reactor technology with decades of real operating experience from more than 20 previous reactors.

Weinberg realized that the opposition was not specific to sodium fast reactors.

Not exact matches

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.

To compensate for this difficulty, INL researchers are developing computer simulations that model the way liquid sodium acts inside a fast reactor.

Their efforts focus on two new designs: the very - high - temperature reactor (VHTR) and the sodium - cooled fast reactor (SFR).

One sodium fire began in 1995 at the Monju fast reactor in Japan.

Superphenix the French fast - breeder reactor shut down in 1990 because air leaked into its liquid sodium coolant, can not start up again until a public inquiry has been held, Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy announced this week.

As a result of numerous fires from leaking systems, operating sodium - cooled fast reactors to date have been shut down more than they have run.

Plus, the U.K. has a poor record in the past with its own experimental fast reactor designs — the Dounreay Fast Reactor and the Prototype Fast Reactor — including multiple sodium lefast reactor designs — the Dounreay Fast Reactor and the Prototype Fast Reactor — including multiple sodium leFast Reactor and the Prototype Fast Reactor — including multiple sodium leFast Reactor — including multiple sodium leaks.

Novel design The trouble with fast reactors has largely been related to what's used to cool them — liquid sodium in the case of GE's PRISM and many others.

PRISM is a sodium - cooled, high - energy neutron (fast) reactor design that uses a series of proven, safe and mature technologies developed in the U.S. and abroad.

Prism is a sodium - cooled fast neutron reactor design built on more than 30 years of development work, benefitting from the operating experience of the EBR - II prototype integral fast reactor which operated at the USA's Idaho National Laboratory — formerly Argonne National Laboratory — from 1963 to 1994.

PRISM's coolant, liquid sodium, allows the neutrons in the reactor to remain at a higher energy (or speed, hence the common reference of «fast reactor»).

Thus, liquid sodium is the coolant of choice in fast reactors because it can effectively transfer heat away from the nuclear fuel, while at the same time maximizing the number of fast neutrons.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy have developed the sodium - cooled fast reactor PRISM to advanced conceptual design, and the design is ready to start undergoing the regulatory process.

Both GEH and ARC have developed reactor designs based on the Experimental Breeder Reactor - II (EBR - II) integral sodium - cooled fast reactor prototype at the Argonne National Laboratory.

GEH and ARC Nuclear have each developed advanced reactor designs based on the EBR - II, an integral sodium - cooled fast reactor prototype which was developed by Argonne National Laboratory and operated successfully for more than 30 years at Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Each company has so far been developing its own sodium - cooled fast reactor models.

Last, the ultimate inherently safe reactors the nuclear industry wants to build are the same liquid sodium fast breeder reactors that can explode or melt down.

The Xiapu reactor will be a demonstration of that sodium - cooled pool - type fast reactor design.

The TWR is a liquid sodium - cooled fast reactor that uses depleted or natural uranium as fuel.

Russian Sodium fast neutron reactors are in operation but they are not economicaly viable.

IFR was a sodium - cooled fast reactor with inherently - safe fuel rods made of «spent» fuel (article by Dr. Till).

I do tend to agree with your take on the nuclear option, particularly the new «fast» sodium reactors.

Fast reactor concepts are typically classified by their coolant — i.e., sodium - cooled fast reactor (SFR); lead - or lead - bismuth eutectic (LBE)- cooled fast reactor (LFT); and gas - cooled fast reactor (GFast reactor concepts are typically classified by their coolant — i.e., sodium - cooled fast reactor (SFR); lead - or lead - bismuth eutectic (LBE)- cooled fast reactor (LFT); and gas - cooled fast reactor (Gfast reactor (SFR); lead - or lead - bismuth eutectic (LBE)- cooled fast reactor (LFT); and gas - cooled fast reactor (Gfast reactor (LFT); and gas - cooled fast reactor (Gfast reactor (GFR).

DOE selected the Sodium - cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) as the GenIV reactor type to go forward.