Sentences with phrase «year old reactor»

With all due respect to your efforts and experience, no one is suggesting new 50 - year old reactor builds.

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There was the 15 - year - old who invented a better test for pancreatic cancer, the 18 - year - old who presented his second nuclear reactor design, and the 13 - year - old who strung flickering light - emitting diodes around his family's livestock to keep the lions away.

This week, EDF Energy took offline three of its nuclear reactors at its Heysham 1 and Hartlepool plants in Britain for inspection which are both 31 years old, after a crack was discovered on a boiler spine of another Heysham 1 reactor with a similar boiler design, which had already been taken offline in June.

The 29 - year - old boiling water reactor's future is grim as the Illinois Legislature missed the deadline yesterday to pass new energy rules and rates that would extend Clinton a lifeline.

The quest for fusion energy is more than 60 years old and the current great hope, the $ 18 billion ITER reactor, won't hit its stride until 2027 at the earliest.

At the Wylfa plant in Wales - Britain's oldest, at 43 years - the one remaining operational reactor was out of service for seven months this year.

But the absorption of ANSTO into the CSIRO could be used by the government to justify a compromise of refurbishing the old Lucas Heights reactor to keep it operating for another five or 10 years.

Simply swapping old for new would require starting construction on a new reactor every six months for the next 40 years.

«You need an organization somewhere that's providing central support and stewardship for a national program,» says John Root, director of the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre in Chalk River, Ontario, which relies on the 60 - year - old reactor.

Canada's Chalk River complex contains the 60 - year - old National Research Universal reactor, the world's oldest operating nuclear reactor.

By JUAN MATTHEWS and COLIN ENGLISHSafety inspectors threatened to close down the oldest commercial nuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on working.

Safety inspectors threatened to close down the oldest commercial nuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on working.

The 60 - year - old reactor — the world's oldest operating research reactor — is slated to shut down in March 2018, after which Canadian and other scientists will no longer be able to use the highly specialized equipment in their experiments.

That's because the 59 - year - old NRU — the oldest of this type in operation — is one of only seven research reactors worldwide that produce 95 percent of molybdenum - 99 (Mo - 99).

For the most part, it seems to be Nicky's story, but he's just a ten year old boy and as such he is merely an observer and reactor to what's happening.

While some reactors have been granted lifetime extensions beyond the typical 40 years — many U.S. units have, for example — these may not be as readily approved after the demise of the four Fukushima reactors, which averaged 37 years old when disaster struck.

Arjun Makhijani, President of Institute for Environmental and Energy Research, Amory Lovins, co-founder and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and Rifkin have all demonstrated how a nuclear «renaissance» — to replace the 400 old reactors now rattling apart worldwide and get to the total of 1,600 that Rifkin says are needed for a minimum impact on climate disruption — would require that we build three new reactors every 30 days for 40 years.

Unless governments start routinely granting operating permits for reactors more than 40 years old, a half - century of growth in world nuclear generating capacity is about to be replaced by a long - term decline.

The average age of nuclear reactors operating today is 27 years; the 142 reactors that have already retired were just 23 years old on average when they closed.