Sentences with phrase «water reactors like»

Not exact matches

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.

With no fresh, cold water flowing through the system, the reactors began to behave like enormous kettles, boiling the water that was no longer flowing out of the system.

Like mainstream reactors, it is a «light water» design: The reactor is pressurized and filled with plain water that flows past the core, where the radioactive decay of uranium - 235 generates intense heat.

Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to build, and each will add more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.

It proceeds through construction of more large light water reactors, like the four being built in Georgia and South Carolina,» she said.

Like all astronauts, he's also an advanced scientist, one who's figured out a way to make drinking water out of dirt, and whose spaceship is carrying a reactor that's essential not just to his trip but to the job he's going to do once he lands on the red planet.

[iii] Although some countries like Germany are worried about nuclear safety because of the nuclear accident in Japan due to the tsunami, plant safety enhancements (e.g. passive cooling features that do not rely on generators to keep water flowing to reactor cores) make future accidents like Fukushima unlikely.

That's one of the reason's I like the boiling water reactor design, yeah the reactor vessel is larger but you have no steam generators and no pressurizer, and all that extra water in the downcomers is useful in emergencies.