Sentences with phrase «such fast reactors»

Even with a fleet of such fast reactors, nations would nonetheless require an ultimate home for radioactive waste, one reason that a 2010 M.I.T. report on spent nuclear fuel dismissed such fast reactors.

Such fast reactors are more expensive than even traditional reactors, such as Westinghouse's new AP - 1000 under construction in China and the U.S., which are estimated to cost roughly $ 7 billion apiece.

Not exact matches

The Tennessee Valley Authority hopes to catalyze development of such reactors by installing one at its Clinch River site in Tennessee, former home of the U.S.'s failed attempt to build its own commercial fast reactor.

And even with such fast - neutron reactors, the amount of potentially worrisome material for making nuclear weapons does not change.

Poneman said Monju came up in the discussions because of the possibility of using fast reactors to burn plutonium and the long - lived isotopes of elements such as neptunium and americium that account for much of the radiotoxicity of nuclear waste.

Or we go down the low - carbon route and go to a mixture of renewables and nuclear technologies such as integral fast breed reactors and so on.