Sentences with phrase «with research reactors»

He noted that every state that has developed nuclear weapons has done it with research reactors not power reactors.

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

Not exact matches

In 2007, Israeli airstrikes took out Syria's research reactor (which it had built with the aid of North Korea).

In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators.

In research machines such as fusion reactors, scientists use strong magnetic fields to confine plasma, but those fields interfere with seeing what might happen during a natural dynamo.

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.

To try to confirm the location and condition of the melted fuel, the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning, set up by TEPCO and other entities, has been probing the reactors» innards with muons.

The rest of this special News & Analysis section examines what we have learned about radiation risks from previous exposures (p. 1504), improvements in safety since the boiling water designs at Fukushima (p. 1506), what to do with the wrecked reactors (p. 1507), and damage to research facilities from the earthquake (p. 1509).

In the 1980s this research was directed toward a fast reactor (dubbed the advanced liquidmetal reactor, or ALMR), with metallic fuel cooled by a liquid metal, that was to be integrated with a high - temperature pyrometallurgical processing unit for recycling and replenishing the fuel.

In Paris yesterday, researchers from the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK - CEN) in Mol, the French National Research Council (CNRS), and France's Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) reported that they had successfully operated a research reactor called Guinevere by boosting its nuclear reactions with an externally produced beam of nResearch Centre (SCK - CEN) in Mol, the French National Research Council (CNRS), and France's Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) reported that they had successfully operated a research reactor called Guinevere by boosting its nuclear reactions with an externally produced beam of nResearch Council (CNRS), and France's Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) reported that they had successfully operated a research reactor called Guinevere by boosting its nuclear reactions with an externally produced beam of nresearch reactor called Guinevere by boosting its nuclear reactions with an externally produced beam of neutrons.

The Department of Atomic Energy will grow by a healthy 21 %, to $ 2.5 billion, with $ 61 million for the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research in Kalpakkam, possibly for development of a new fuel for the fast breeder reactor.

The report says the US should focus research initiatives on the biggest impediments to ITER's donut - like design, called a tokamak — how to control the writhing plasma at the reactor's core, and understanding how it interacts with surrounding material in order to engineer walls that can maintain the reaction.

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.

So we're doubling our spending on energy research with a major commitment to small modular nuclear reactors.

HFIR provides researchers around the world with unique irradiation capabilities for studies that range from basic materials research to the development of advanced alloys for fusion or space reactor applications.

The reactor and its suite of instruments support basic research and analysis of a host of materials with applications that range from higher temperature superconductors and advanced batteries to pharmaceuticals and biofuels.

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

They achieved this with the help of neutron scattering at the BER II research reactor and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the USA.

«As one of the U.K.'s leading research universities, we are pleased that GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has looked to The University of Manchester's Dalton Nuclear Institute to provide expert knowledge and experience to the potential U.K. application of a PRISM reactor... PRISM has the potential to offer an attractive solution to the disposition of civil plutonium and we look forward to working with GEH as they progress with their proposals to deploy PRISM in the U.K.»

Organizations that currently have active engagements with NuScale include: Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Center for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors), Sandia National Laboratories, Oregon State University, University of Wisconsin, and the Electric Power Research Institute.

The supervisory authority, the Senate Department for Health, Environment and Consumer Protection, regularly tests the safety of the research reactor with the assistance of independent experts.

The reactor is unique being one of the world's research reactors with the highest flux, which provides for accumulating transplutonium elements and accelerated testing of materials to achieve high neutron fluence.

As expected for a state - of - the - art reactor design, NuScale's maintains a relationship with a number of research entities that support the design and commercialization of its technology.

These efforts include installing a 30 - ton detector system (with shielding) in an operating research reactor building as close as 21 feet to the reactor core without affecting HFIR's primary missions of neutron scattering research, isotope production and testing of irradiated materials.

The main hardware in the existing research infrastructure at IFE Hynor is found in a process room for testing and development of high temperature hydrogen production and solid oxide fuel cell technology (SOFC), including a Dual Bubbling Fluidized Bed reactor prototype (DBFB) for continuous hydrogen production by sorption - enhanced reforming (SER) of methane with an integrated process for CO2 - capture.

Then we optimized the reactor prototypes with flow modeling and numerical simulations and the resulting new reactor generation is what we showed in this research paper.

Dozens of Nuclear Cooperation Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding have been signed with these countries, ranging from research and development and human resources development to full reactor projects.

My answer to the narrowed question: • Identify adaptation policies that can be implemented to reduce impacts of extreme weather events (which will happen with or without greenhouse driven global warming) • Research on nuclear energy to reduce the stigma of nuclear generation, e.g., fast reactors (Generation 4 reactors) or thorium fueled.

[281] According to Macquarie Research, by 2016 Ukraine will construct and commission new solar power stations with a total capacity of 1.8 GW, almost equivalent to the capacity of two nuclear reactors.

With apologies to my high - energy physics colleagues and to NASA, basic natural systems monitoring is much less expensive than high - energy colliders, fusion reactor research or manned Mars missions, but will help to provide better understanding of the lesser known parts of climate and hydrologic systems (aerosols, clouds, large - scale climate connections, S. Hemisphere data, etc).