Sentences with phrase «water reactors»

About 95 percent of the available energy remains in used fuel removed from light water reactors.

The reactor is a natural circulation boiling heavy water reactor.

And it won't happen so long as large and expensive light - water reactors remain our only option.

While there is a huge reduction in the volume of waste from a fast reactor, the activity of the waste is about the same as that produced by a light water reactor.

The nuclear plant has two three - loop pressurized water reactors designed by Westinghouse.

They also straddle the 3.7 p / kWh price that Nuclear Electric reckons it would have to charge for electricity from Sizewell C, its proposed pressurised water reactor in Suffolk.

«It further includes deployment of small modular light water reactors in the mid-2020s.

The Holtec SMR - 160 is a pressurized water reactor designed by Holtec's subsidiary SMR, LLC which employs gravity to cool the core under all operating and accident modes.

«We've been manufacturing boiling water reactor fuel at our Wilmington, North Carolina facility for nearly 50 years and we look forward to the possibility of making SMR - 160 fuel here too.»

The company pointed out that its own mPower reactor is based on pressurized water reactor technology using standard enriched uranium as fuel, whereas TerraPower's TWR «is a larger reactor based on Generation IV technology and designed to use depleted uranium as fuel.»

Two cooling towers and pressurized water reactors of the nuclear power plant of French supplier Electricite de France (EDF) are pictured in Cattenom, eastern France, January 27, 2016.

These plants include four small gas - graphite reactors at Bilibino, four RBMK gas - graphite reactors at St Petersburg and Kursk, and four VVER 440/230 pressurised water reactors at Kola and Novovoronezh (see Map).

It is a light water reactor with the reactor, steam generator, and spent fuel pool located inside the containment.

In a boiling water reactor like those at Fukushima, the same water that cools the reactor core also boils and drives the turbine to generate power.

In 2013, the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy and the NRC began working on how to apply «General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,» Appendix A to 10 CFR Part 50, to advanced non-light water reactor designs.

Babcock & Wilcox — one - time builder of large pressurized water reactors as well as smaller ones suitable for the submarines of the U.S. Navy — would like to shrink those down to just 180 megawatts.

Chief Nuclear Officer of SMR LLC, Vice President of Reactor Technologies Mr. Tom Marcille is Vice President of Reactor Technologies at Holtec International with the ultimate responsibility to develop and license SMR - 160, a unique and innovative passive light water reactor system for the emerging global power markets.

«We believe that our experience with boiling water reactor fuel lends itself quite well to the design features of the SMR - 160,» said Amir Vexler, CEO of GNF.

«The two [evolutionary pressurized - water reactors] under construction in China are going extremely well.

Therefore, either reprocessing or recycling spent nuclear fuel, as the French and Japanese do, is likely to be a waste of money better spent on improving the light - water reactors presently in use.

Most of today's nuclear power plants have half - century - old technology with light - water reactors [243] utilizing less than 1 % of the energy in the nuclear fuel and leaving unused fuel as long - lived nuclear «waste» requiring sequestration for millennia.

«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.

The prospects for a nuclear power revival are no better in the U.S.. Although the technology has never been cheap, cost overruns and delays are plaguing the handful of next - generation pressurized water reactors currently being built, the first since Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

In fact, nuclear power experts, computer models and other analyses have consistently shown for decades that a problem in the older boiling - water reactors employed at Fukushima Daiichi would become disastrous because of a flawed safety system that houses the nuclear fuel, known as the Mark I containment.

Unlike the TerraPower concept, the mPower reactor relies on an advanced light water reactor cooling technology that NRC staff have deeply examined for decades.

And China has not confined itself solely to the typical reactors that employ water and uranium fuel rods; it has built everything from heavy - water reactors originally designed in Canada to a small test fast - reactor.

Reactor No. 1 at Qinshan is China's inaugural effort at designing a nuclear reactor — a pressurized - water reactor known as the CNP - 300 and based on a design conceived by Westinghouse in the 1950s.

In fact, the NRC has shown that the stainless steel surrounding the reactor cores in boiling - water reactors degrades over time.

Flaws in the boiling - water reactor safety system at Fukushima Daiichi (as well as Oyster Creek and Vermont Yankee) had been known since 1972.

Of course, it's not just the old General Electric boiling - water reactors aging in place.

The new reactor would be based on the 1350 - megawatt advanced boiling water reactor developed by General Electric, one of the world's largest builders of nuclear reactors.

The 1268 MWe boiling water reactor entered a scheduled refuelling and maintenance outage on 9 March, which will include replacement of 280 of its 748 fuel assemblies using GNF2 fuel.

Methods: The researchers first evaluated corrosion and cracking in alloy 690 exposed to simulated pressurized water reactor primary water at temperatures from 325 to 360 degrees C.

All of Japan's 24 pressurized water reactor utilize MELCO's I&C technology.

At present, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission haslittle institutional knowledge of anything other than light - water reactors andvirtually no capability to review or regulate alternative designs.

Its single boiling water reactor produces 645 net megawatts (MW), enough electricity to power 600,000 average American homes.»

The plant — located in Oswego County on the southeast shore of Lake Ontario — is an 838 - MW boiling water reactor commissioned in July 1975.

Instead of conventional light - water reactors financed and constructed by large incumbent firms, the advanced nuclear industry will be characterized by innovative reactor and plant designs, new business models, and smaller entrepreneurial start - ups.

According to GNF's Vexler, for example, ATF offers «superior safety margin to address a beyond - design - basis event and the potential for more cost - effective operation of the existing boiling water reactor fleet,» he said.

The NRC and DOE have held Advanced Non-Light Water Reactors Workshops on issues related to developing and deploying advanced designs.

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The Government of Canada could build on this momentum to develop an expanded MoU on civilian nuclear technology co-operation that includes research in pressurized heavy water reactor technology, nuclear medicine and other areas discussed by the prime ministers.

For these reasons, only South Africa has an operating nuclear power plant, with 1800 MWe of capacity made up of two units of pressurised water reactors.

And on March 10, 2011, the NRC licensed the boiling - water reactor of similar design and vintage at Vermont Yankee to operate for another 20 years (pdf), just one day before the Fukushima crisis.

Not all nuclear power plants are light - water reactors like Seabrook, however, and Holdren and others have warned that their nuclear fuels and wastes do present a security risk, especially as they are handled in some foreign countries.

The NRC has issued a «Vision and Strategy» on preparing for non-light water reactor designs.