Sentences with phrase «with nuclear power reactors»

A good example is nuclear theory, which can be used to massively improve human healthcare through magnetic resonance imagery and power our societies with nuclear power reactors, or it can be used in a bomb to kill hundreds of thousands.

With its nuclear power reactors in the process of being shut down by government decree (done in a hysterical state of mind in the wake of Fukushima), Germany now needs to find an alternative supply for electricity, and real soon.

Not exact matches

The new Ford class carriers will feature an improved nuclear reactor with three times the power - generation capacity as the Nimitz class.

«But I believe nuclear power is a key technology with environmental considerations; there's no carbon dioxide emissions and [a nuclear reactor's plant] might last for 60 to 100 years.»

BEIJING (AP)-- On a seaside field south of Shanghai, workers are constructing a nuclear reactor that is the flagship for Beijing's ambition to compete with the United States, France and Russia as an exporter of atomic power technology.

Just weeks after taking power Theresa May has landed her first major diplomatic row — with the Chinese government going nuclear over plans to pause the new reactor at Hinkley Point.

No, the best argument is made by considering what we're doing currently with our programme to create 16gw of new nuclear power — about 10 reactors, on five or six sites — by 2025.

And German nuclear power began with research reactors in online in 1969.

Ultimately, the replacement of old, highly polluting coal - fired power plants by nuclear reactors is essentially no different from deciding, after putting sentimental considerations aside, to replace your inexpensive and reliable — but obsolete — 1983 Olds Omega with a 2007 Toyota Camry or BMW 3 Series sedan.

To answer the question of just how harmful leaching could be, the scientists estimated radiation exposure around the coal plants and compared it with exposure levels around boiling - water reactor and pressurized - water nuclear power plants.

The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

Next Steps The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is working with the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group, to revamp the licensing procedure for nuclear power plants to include new rules tailored to small modular reNuclear Regulatory Commission is working with the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group, to revamp the licensing procedure for nuclear power plants to include new rules tailored to small modular reNuclear Energy Institute, an industry group, to revamp the licensing procedure for nuclear power plants to include new rules tailored to small modular renuclear power plants to include new rules tailored to small modular reactors.

Toward that end, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited agreed to purchase from the French nuclear giant AREVA at least two 1650 MW European Pressurized Reactors, each priced at more than $ 3.5 billion, with an option for four moreNuclear Power Corporation of India Limited agreed to purchase from the French nuclear giant AREVA at least two 1650 MW European Pressurized Reactors, each priced at more than $ 3.5 billion, with an option for four morenuclear giant AREVA at least two 1650 MW European Pressurized Reactors, each priced at more than $ 3.5 billion, with an option for four more later.

Additional energy capacity will come from two new reactors at Plant Vogtle, a nuclear power plant in eastern Georgia, near the South Carolina border, that Georgia Power owns jointly with Oglethorpe Power Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton Utilipower plant in eastern Georgia, near the South Carolina border, that Georgia Power owns jointly with Oglethorpe Power Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton UtiliPower owns jointly with Oglethorpe Power Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton UtiliPower Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton Utilities.

Small modular reactors may help with two of the biggest challenges facing the nuclear industry: the growing stores of waste from existing reactors and residue from the mass production of nuclear weapons as well as the overall safety of nuclear power.

He also continued to work with Enrico Fermi on the reactor in Chicago, because he felt at that point that he'd rather work on nuclear power, which he believed had more of a future than just working on bombs.

Nuclear power provides about a third of the European Union's electricity generation, but the 28 - nation bloc's 131 reactors are well past their prime, with an average age of 30 years.

With 54 nuclear reactors generating 280 billion kilowatt - hours annually, Japan is the world's third - largest producer of nuclear power, after the U.S. and France, according to data from the International Atomic Energy Agency.

However, the push to extend lifelines to nuclear power has collided with the goals of other environmental activists who have spent decades railing against reactors as expensive and unsafe, creating cracks in the coalition that helped bring nations to an international agreement to fight climate change.

Moscow's intentions, announced this month by Armen Abagyan head of the All - Russia Institute for the Operation of Nuclear Power Stations, contrast starkly with Ukraine's decision this week to close its remaining reactors at Chernobyl and replace them with gas - fired plants.

Lithuania has a 2500 - megawatt nuclear power plant at Ignalina with RBMK graphite / water reactors of the type which exploded at Chernobyl and caused a scare last month at Sosnovy Bor, near St Petersburg (This Week, 28 March).

As with all nuclear power stations in Japan, the reactors are fitted with quake sensors that shut them down automatically at the first sign of potentially hazardous tremors.

After a 30 - year hiatus, there is a greater push for more nuclear power plants, with 22 new reactors under review.

While the industry was in deep freeze, they were pressing ahead with one of the most promising emerging technologies in energy: micro-size nuclear reactors, fully functional power plants a good deal closer to the size of the test reactor I'm standing near.

«Now in China we have 13 nuclear power reactors in operation,» said Zhang Guobao, former vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission — the government agency charged with setting energy and industrial policy — via a translator during a visit to NDRC headquarters in Beijing this past November.

Meanwhile, the country is preparing to resume operation at as many as 48 nuclear reactors over the coming years, but that process is slow and expensive, and there are no guarantees that Japan will be able to meet its future energy demand with nuclear power alone.

This transfer of energy between particles with different speed limits is called Cherenkov radiation, and it makes the reactor pools of nuclear power stations glow with a bluish light.

If you replace these power plants with modern, safe nuclear reactors you could do a lot of [pollution reduction] quickly.»

That hydrogen buildup was the result of hot steam coming into contact with overheated nuclear fuel rods covered by a cladding of zirconium alloy, or «zircaloy» — the material used as fuel - rod cladding in all water - cooled nuclear reactors, which constitute more than 90 percent of the world's power reactors.

The U.S. Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), in a report last November, related desperate actions by TEPCO crews to contain the reactor accident in the critical first week of the crisis, as they tried to operate crucial valves and instruments with truck batteries; hauled massive emergency power cables over flooded passageways where manhole covers had been dislodged; and faced a series of hydrogen explosions and sudden spikes in radiaPower Operations (INPO), in a report last November, related desperate actions by TEPCO crews to contain the reactor accident in the critical first week of the crisis, as they tried to operate crucial valves and instruments with truck batteries; hauled massive emergency power cables over flooded passageways where manhole covers had been dislodged; and faced a series of hydrogen explosions and sudden spikes in radiapower cables over flooded passageways where manhole covers had been dislodged; and faced a series of hydrogen explosions and sudden spikes in radiation.

In a bid to restart discussion of what to do with the nation's nuclear waste, four U.S. senators today unveiled a draft plan to create a federal agency that would oversee short - and long - term storage of the highly radioactive materials produced primarily by commercial power reactors.

Five nuclear power stations in Britain use first - generation Magnox reactors, with steel pressure vessels.

A short while later, the Europa mission came back to life, when it was linked with an experimental ion propulsion system powered by a nuclear fission reactor, the pet idea of Sean O'Keefe, then NASA's administrator.

Davis — Besse is running again, generating 7.7 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity in 2007, with a new reactor head scavenged from an uncompleted nuclear power plant in Michigan.

In addition to not needing to refuel between flights, a nuclear - powered airplane in theory would not pollute the environment as long as the radioactive waste from its reactor could be contained (the Air Force's project never progressed far enough to come up with a practical way to address this).

The U.K. is considering a plan to build two of General Electric's PRISM fast reactors, the latest in a series of fast - reactor designs that for several decades have attempted with mixed success to handle plutonium and other radioactive waste from nuclear power.

The concept of an ADS is almost as old as nuclear power itself: American physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron accelerator, suggested the use of particle beams in conjunction with a reactor during the 1950s.

Poll proposes nuclear - powered airplanes using reactors with engines on the wings.

Joint projects with Russian nuclear scientists began to ebb soon after President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, and reached a nadir last October when Russia suspended an agreement with the United States on nuclear R&D cooperation and terminated another on retooling Russian research reactors to no longer run on weapons - grade uranium fuel.

Our research reactor BER II in Berlin - Wannsee can not be compared with a nuclear power plant.

Scott Burnell, public affairs officer at the NRC, said NuScale's application is the first to propose a nuclear power plant designed with several small reactors instead of one large one.

But the fuel assemblies that power a commercial nuclear reactor at an electric utility generally need uranium with a 4 % — 5 % concentration of U235.

NuScale Power has created a new kind of nuclear power plant - a smaller, scalable pressurized water reactor with passive safety features, allowing shutdown and self - cooling, with no operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external wPower has created a new kind of nuclear power plant - a smaller, scalable pressurized water reactor with passive safety features, allowing shutdown and self - cooling, with no operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external wpower plant - a smaller, scalable pressurized water reactor with passive safety features, allowing shutdown and self - cooling, with no operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external wpower, and no external water.

«Unlike today's nuclear reactor, the IFR [integral fast reactor] can generate unlimited amounts of inexpensive clean power for hundreds of thousands of years... It provides an excellent solution for what to do with our nuclear waste because it can use our existing nuclear waste for fuel and it is significantly more proliferation - resistant than other methods of dealing with nuclear waste... The IFR is also inherently safe.

The size of the reactor's nuclear core is a fraction of those of large conventional nuclear power plants, with an attendant small radioactive source term.

It consists of three nuclear power plants, each with two reactor cores.

One of the most vexing issues facing the nuclear power industry today is what to do with the spent nuclear fuel after it has been used in a nuclear reactor.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is currently involved in pre-licensing vendor design reviews - an optional service to assess of a nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 3Nuclear Safety Commission is currently involved in pre-licensing vendor design reviews - an optional service to assess of a nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 3nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 300 MWe.

A fourth generation reactor designed by GEH, PRISM incorporates the groundbreaking features of the Argonne Laboratory's project, representing a technological leap that could power the UK or similar countries for hundreds of years with used nuclear fuel that is already on hand.