Sentences with phrase «while fast reactors»

While fast reactors are up to 200x more resource efficient, they require 3x or more fissile atoms to start up initially.

Not exact matches

Fast reactors can thus minimize the risk that spent fuel from energy production would be used for weapons production, while providing a unique ability to squeeze the maximum energy out of nuclear fuel.

More than 76 percent of French reactors were built in less than seven years, while less than 35 percent of American reactors were built that fast.

The idea remains that fast reactors, which get their name because the neutrons that initiate fission in the reactor are zipping about faster than those in a conventional reactor, could offer a speedy solution to cleaning some nasty nuclear waste, which fissions better with fast neutrons, while also providing electricity as a by - product.

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.

Fast reactors on a closed fuel cycle use nearly all the actinides fed into them, while low energy reactors use only around one percent of the fuel.

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.

Russia is planning to construct a larger BN - 1200 fast reactor power unit at Beloyarsk to start up by 2020, while cooperating with China to build two BN - 800 units there.