Its Reactor 3 and Reactor 4 are both Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors.
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The "B" reactor was the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built.
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The parts at reactors include a reactor head at Xcel Energy Inc's Prairie Island reactor in Minnesota, reactor vessel heads at two of Dominion Resources Inc's reactors at the North Anna plant in Virginia, and another vessel head at Dominion's reactor in Surry, Virginia.
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Many of these reactor designs have all the main components inside a single large reactor vessel.
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The EPR reactor is the first new reactor to be built on its soil in decades.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Toshiba-owned nuclear reactor manufacturer Westinghouse expects its Sanmen 1 reactor in China's Zhejiang province, the world's first AP1000 reactor, to be completed in the first quarter of 2018.
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There are now 21 "stranded sites" scattered across the country – closed reactor sites with no ongoing reactor operations.
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The images show that most of a river near the reactor is frozen over, except for where water originating from a reactor outlet mixes with the river -- indicating that the reactor is likely operational.
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The power produced by the reactor core spiked to at least 21 times the rated capacity of the reactor.
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Westinghouse's AP22018 reactor is the main competitor for the Areva EPR third-generation reactor that EDF plans in Britain.
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"The deal itself seems to be deeply problematical and the reactor seems to be a failing reactor," Dorfman added.
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Westinghouse's AP20163 reactor is the main competitor for the Areva EPR third-generation reactor that EDF plans in Britain.
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At Japan's Fukushima nuclear complex, explosions at one reactor damaged the spent fuel pool in a co-located reactor.
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" "The transition from an academic reactor to a real reactor is not a hill or a valley of death.
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One reactor shut down because of the disaster, which has since created extra financial hurdles for the remaining reactor.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority just brought the Watts Bar 2 reactor online in May, America's first new reactor in decades.
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The hero Zarya uses a tobelstein reactor to power her gun, which is spelled almost exactly like Oladele's tolbelstein reactor.
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These pools can hold the equivalent of several reactor cores, stored in concrete pools outside the highly reinforced reactor building.
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Thorium isn't mentioned in the bill, but a thorium-based reactor could conceivably be one of the reactor designs explored.
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A successful cyber-attack on a plant's reactor protection system, which detects potential accident conditions and responds by shutting down the reactor and initiating reactor core cooling, would be yet more challenging, particularly as the vast majority of existing nuclear reactor protection systems still use analog or early digital technology that predates the Internet.
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After three days of carefully navigating through a shattered reactor building, the Manbo finally reached the heavily damaged Unit 3 reactor.
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Now, Russia's BN-85033 fast reactor has entered commercial operation; India is expected to commission a commercial fast breeder reactor by the end of 2017; and China is making significant advances in both molten salt and fast reactor technologies.
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At that reactor, a coolant valve got stuck open and drained a lot of the reactor coolant, resulting in a partial meltdown.
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He's onto planning his next reactor using the spherical tokamak method, which traps energy differently than the reactor that he's already built.
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"The agency has not observed indications of the delivery or introduction of major reactor components into the reactor containment building," it said.
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Last year, the French nuclear regulator said serious anomalies had been found in a reactor vessel at EDF's Flammanville 3 nuclear reactor.
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This type of reactor is often known as a fast reactor, as it uses high-speed neutrons to split the fuel atoms.
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The two rival third-generation reactor models were expected to play a big role in the country's ambitious nuclear reactor building plans.
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The reactor has already been reverently dubbed the "fusion reactor designed in hell" by the American media because of its sheer power.
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A U.S. intelligence briefing shortly after the strike highlighted the close resemblance between the Syrian reactor and the North Korean Yongbyon reactor.
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It's a nuclear power reactor, that's a pressurized water reactor that can produce 50 megawatts electric… enough power for about 50,000 homes.
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Fontana said the top and bottom of the reactor vessels for the two Hinkley Point reactors are produced by Japan Steel Works , but that future vessels for its flagship European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) reactor would be made by Creusot Forge.
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Two explosions destroyed the reactor, ejecting highly radioactive material into the atmosphere — including chunks of burning graphite, which started fires around the reactor.
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Fessenheim's nuclear reactor 1 will halt production at the end of the month and reactor 2 will stop at the end of June.
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Decommissioning costs vary according to the type and size of reactor, its location, the availability of disposal facilities and the condition of the reactor.
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The new reactor, analysts say, can make four times more than the North's existing large reactor, which long supplied plutonium for its nuclear arsenal.
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EDF said earlier that its reactor unit Framatome had warned it about "a deviation from technical standards governing the manufacture of nuclear-reactor components".
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EDF said earlier that its reactor unit Framatome had warned it about "a deviation from technical standards governing the manufacture of nuclear-reactor components".
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Yet this small reactor can crank out 60 megawatts of energy, which is about one-tenth the smallest operational reactor in the US today.
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"At the light water reactor, the agency also observed activities consistent with the fabrication of reactor components and the possible transfer of these components into the reactor building," Amano said in a statement to the IAEA's Board of Governors, reporting on the period since August.
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Since then, Areva, which designed the EPR reactor, EDF and the ASN have been testing whether weak spots could jeopardise the safety of the reactor.
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A toroidal fusion reactor like the the smaller Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, ITER's design uses a donut-shaped reactor in which incredibly hot plasma resides.
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The No. 3 reactor had just restarted operations in January and is the second reactor at the Takahama plant to suspend operations in two months.
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About half of the reactor core melted from the overheated nuclear fuel, and about 20 tons of radioactive uranium poured out of the reactor core.
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"The administration should now end the waivers for the remaining projects related to the deal, especially the Arak reactor, Iran's heavy water reactor," they added.
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The team is less categorical in recommendations for a large new reactor, known as the experimental light-water reactor, now being started up at Yongbyon.
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China is a key contributor to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, the world's largest fusion reactor which is being built in southern France.
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According to earlier data, EDF's 900 megawatt per hour (MWh) Bugey 4 reactor and Gravelines 2 reactor had been due to restart on Nov. 30.
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They targeted the facility's spent-fuel pool building, which can hold the equivalent of several reactor cores in concrete pools outside the highly reinforced reactor building.
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Consequently, Tesco is planning to send the robot into reactor No. 1 in March, while its survey plan for reactor No. 2 is now on hold.
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The experimental fast-breeder reactor, once dubbed the "dream reactor," was designed to produce more plutonium than it consumes, thus minimizing the amount of nuclear waste.
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TVO said that the Areva-Siemens Consortium that is building the reactor had informed it that nuclear fuel will be loaded into the reactor in Jan.
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NuScale uses a light water reactor—by far the most common type of reactor in commercial nuclear power plants—but that's about where the similarities end.
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A second robot, dubbed the "scorpion," is scheduled to measure radiation and temperature inside the reactor, and to assess the condition of reactor and the melted fuel.
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He's also allocated funds, including $300 million in this year's proposal, toward a Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) meant to test and develop advanced reactor fuels and materials.
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EDF is expected to hand over a complete review of each reactor to ASN two months before the restart of the reactor following a scheduled maintenance outage.
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"This could potentially cause flooding in the pump houses of twenty reactor units, thereby resulting in the functional loss of both reactor cooling water systems," it added.
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France state-owned utility EDF is buying Areva's reactor arm, leaving the company to focus on uranium mining and fuel after struggling with losses and scant reactor sales.
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It is groundwater that has seeped into the reactor buildings; it is not the water that is pumped through the reactor cores to keep melted fuel from overheating.
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The graphite bricks form channels which contain nuclear fuel and the reactor control rods, while allowing carbon dioxide coolant to remove heat from the reactor fuel and core.
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FIRST NEW U.S. NUCLEAR REACTOR IN 2202 YEARS: The Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Tuesday highlighted the opening of the Watts Bar 2628 reactor in Tennessee, which became the first new nuclear reactor to connect to the power grid in the U.S. since 28500 when it went online on June 6900.
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Iter (originally, "International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor", but now rebranded as Latin, thus meaning "journey", "path" or "method") will be a giant fusion reactor of a type called a tokamak.
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Iran filled in the reactor core, the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported, and the reactor will be revamped to yield only small amounts of plutonium insufficient for bomb making.
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Another way to fuel a nuclear bomb is using plutonium, specifically plutonium produced through the natural operation of a specific kind of nuclear reactor called a "heavy water" reactor.
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China developed the Hualong One reactor as a rival to the Westinghouse-developed AP1000 and Europe's "Evolutionary Pressurised Reactor", with both models beset by cost overruns and construction delays.
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Thirty years ago, on April 26, 1986, technicians at Chernobyl's infamous reactor number four were conducting routine systems testing when the reactor was struck by an unexpected power surge.
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Perhaps Iraq did not retaliate after Israel bombed the Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981, just as Syria did nothing when Israel bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007.
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Including a detailed inspection of the reactor vessel, EDF would also have to control and make sure the circuits of the reactor and the containment building are properly sealed.
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Daya Bay's detectors are located hundreds of meters from the reactor but PROSPECT is only seven meters from its reactor, allowing researchers to observe neutrinos much sooner after they're emitted.
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The arch is being fitted with cranes and other equipment for dismantling the damaged reactor and waste management tasks ahead of them, before it is eventually slid over Reactor 4.
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Unfortunately, the record was hit right before the Alcator C-Mod reactor, the world's only compact, high-magnetic field fusion reactor of the tokamak design, was pulled offline for good.
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A restart at the 1,500 MW Chooz 2 reactor, offline since Thursday, was delayed until Monday and at the 1,2.683 MW Paluel 3 reactor, restart was also delayed until Saturday.
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Part of the pressuriser, a primary circuit component of the reactor, is vibrating at levels that exceed safety limits, said Pekka Valikangas, the regulator's section head for nuclear reactor regulation.
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The back-up generators, of which there are two per reactor, provide auxiliary power for reactor safety systems, including cooling the spent-fuel pool in the event of grid failure.
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Part of the pressurizer, a primary circuit component of the reactor, is vibrating at levels that exceed safety limits, said Pekka Valikangas, the regulator's section head for nuclear reactor regulation.
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The start-up is now exploring a different nuclear concept based on molten chloride reactor technology, which uses a molten salt mixture, instead of water, as the primary reactor coolant.
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According to Podvig, this includes 90 percent enriched uranium for the FRM-II reactor in Germany, as well as 64.4 percent enriched uranium as fuel for China's Experimental Fast Reactor.
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The report did not say what kind of reactor would be built in Sudan, but China is currently promoting its own-brand reactor known as the Hualong 1 on overseas markets.
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The Flamanville reactor is years behind schedule and billions over budget, but EDF CEO Jean-Bernard Levy said this month EDF plans to load fuel in the reactor before end-2018.
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China's ambitious reactor-building plans have been held back by its decision to rely on larger, safer but untested "third-generation" reactor designs, which are costly and have long construction time.
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The discovery of weak spots in the reactor vessel of the EPR reactor under construction in Flamanville in 2014 led Areva to review manufacturing procedures at its Creusot steel forging plant.
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The reactor where the accident occurred 40 years ago is not owned by Exelon, and it was dormant long before the company began operating a nearby reactor around two decades ago.
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The two leading Western reactor makers - French Areva AREVA.
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Images confirmed that fuel debris had melted through the reactor pressure vessel (RPV), also known as the reactor core, dripping down into a collection chamber known as the primary containment vessel (PCV).
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Reactor number 1 was online with output at around 890 MW, while reactor 4 has been offline since May 5 for planned maintenance and refuelling, is scheduled to restart on July 16.
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In 2014, an unidentified person walked into a plant, turned a valve and drained 65,000 liters of oil used to lubricate reactor turbines, knocking the reactor out of commission for five months.
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The bottom of the reactor looked like a collection of huge bolts — the access points for control rods used to speed up and slow down the nuclear reaction inside a healthy reactor.
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But he said the country wanted to produce "modern fuel" for its Tehran Research Reactor, a small, aging reactor that was given to it, during the shah's reign, by the United States.
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The reactor created more steam than it could vent, the fission reactions churned on, and the pressure from the steam exploded, rupturing fuel lines and exploding out the roof of the reactor.
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One idea currently in favor is to build a massive 20-foot robot arm that would enter the reactor building on rails, reach into the reactor pressure vessel, and scoop up the fuel.
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But EDF also said it would not make a binding offer for Areva's reactor arm until it is "completely immunised" against any risks related to Areva's Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) reactor project in Finland.
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Those are the problems NASA's Kilopower project hopes to solve with a compact nuclear fission reactor that uses a uranium-235 reactor core "roughly the size of a paper towel roll," reports Reuters.
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According to Cuneo, even if Sandia pursued the creation of a pulsed fusion reactor, the Z machine is far from achieving the breakeven energy point that is needed to create a fusion reactor.
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"They are talking about advanced centrifuge research and development, but they're not talking about changing the Arak reactor back to making plutonium," Nephew said, referring to the country's large-scale, heavy-water reactor.
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The other major safety feature is that if the reactor overheats, which has been the major cause of nuclear power plant accidents, the liquid salt thorium reactor simply stops working and automatically cools.
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In January, Oregon-based NuScale Power submitted the first application for a small modular reactor to federal regulators, but the company does not expect to build its first working reactor until the 2020s.
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The waivers' renewal for 60 days will allow nonproliferation work to continue at the Arak heavy-water research reactor, the Bushehr nuclear power plant, the Tehran Research Reactor and other nuclear cooperation initiatives.
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A 1992 follow up report elaborated on the problems—there was a complete lack of safety protocol, poor communication between the reactor designers and operators, and dangerous design flaws in the reactor itself.
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The reactor was fatally flawed from design onwards, they say.
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The department handles research and development for advanced reactor technologies.
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This component is responsible for balancing pressure in the reactor.
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A fast reactor has some significant advantages over normal reactors.
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The Tricastin 1 reactor is offline from June to Nov.
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The mission to destroy the reactor started at 10.30 p.m.
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"Our report shows the reactor can operate safely," he said.
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Basically, she explained, the reactor has two sides to it.
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Nerd cred: Working at a nuclear research reactor in college.
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It is unclear whether the reactor is still in operation.
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The Phantom Reactor will be manufactured in France near Fontainebleau.
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It's not clear whether the reactor is being used, however.
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The damaged reactor on Three Mile Island was never restarted.
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No U.S. civilian reactor had ever used MOX as fuel.
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The reactor is due to come on stream in 2024.
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This was Areva's first reactor sale in almost a decade.
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The department handles research and development for advanced reactor technologies.
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Another suggests building a nuclear reactor in her own backyard.
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Rusatom Service is also upgrading the other reactor, Unit 6.
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The control rods slipped into the reactor to slow reactivity.
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"There were indications in the LWR (light-water reactor) construction yard of an increase in activities consistent with the fabrication of certain reactor components," the IAEA report posted on the General Conference's website said.
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Two employees who were involved in "advanced nuclear reactor development and new reactor technology" clicked on what prosecutors described as a "malicious link" that would have allowed the hackers to steal email login information.
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The university believes its upgrade will usher in a new era of reactor technology development in part because PUR-1 can now easily, electronically, and instantly share experiment and reactor status data with researchers.
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"Imagery from January 22 shows a water plume (most probably warm) originating from the cooling water outlet of the reactor, an indication that the reactor is very likely operating," it said in a report.
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A nuclear reactor at Chernobyl exploded in 1986, spewing tons of radioactive material into the air, and contaminating an area of thousands of miles around the reactor, spanning parts of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
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PA) is set to complete its takeover of the reactor unit of nuclear group Areva later this year and has taken the lead in negotiating export contracts for Areva's flagship European Pressurized Reactor (EPR).
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The story points out that the Chernobyl disaster never really ended: The reactor is still smoldering, and the sarcophagus the Soviets built over the reactor site in the 1980s is showing signs of age.
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The regulator's green light about the reactor vessel is crucial for EDF and Areva, as European Union antitrust authorities have made it a precondition for their approval of EDF's planned takeover of Areva's reactor unit.
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The decision allows the company to restart its Ikata No. 3 reactor on Saturday, after the Hiroshima High Court, in late September, lifted an injunction of December 2017 blocking operations of the 890-megawatt reactor.
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The company also received some guarantees that could allow it to shut down the reactor by end-2018, when it starts production at its new generation EPR reactor under construction in Flamanville in northern France.
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LE CREUSOT, France (Reuters) - Irregularities found in manufacturing tracking records for reactor components produced by French nuclear group Areva's Le Creusot factory are no reason for reactor shutdowns, a senior Areva executive said on Wednesday.
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Kansai Electric restarted its Takahama No.3 reactor late January as part of test operations, making it the third reactor in Japan to resume operations after passing stringent safety checks imposed following the Fukushima disaster.
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Before the reactor can restart Britain's Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) must be satisfied with the company's safety case, showing the reactor would be safe to operate even in the unlikely event of an earthquake.
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Leveling to 99 in the first reactor is pointless and meaningless.
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So once the coolant starts to boil, the reactor power spikes.
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MIT's "tokamak" fusion reactor seems to promise much cheaper fusion power.
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This has been irritating me to death and flooding our reactor.
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He also opposed the nuclear breeder reactor and limited offshore exploration.
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The reactor has been shut since October 2017 for scheduled maintenance.
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They were also distributed widely after the 2011 Fukushima reactor accident.
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The deadlines start next year and are different for each reactor.
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The dome of the Unit 21990 reactor building towered behind us.
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Only the reactor buildings or other restricted areas require special equipment.
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He said the first reactor, in Fessenheim, would close from 2019.
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Speaking of specs, the Phantom Reactor is a curiously designed gadget.
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Oklo is shooting to have a commercial reactor online before 2025.
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The tobelstein reactor, which is one of Zarya's sprays in 'Overwatch.
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Authorities don't yet have a clear picture of each reactor either.
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The lifetime of such a reactor is usually around 40 years.
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It works only at Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor, which produces electricity.
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For now, though, it is what I like best about Reactor.
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Bradwell would be a Chinese-led project, using Chinese reactor technology.
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The fast breeder reactor is not going to be commercially viable.
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The roof was putting too much weight on the reactor walls.
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A floating reactor, supporters say, would survive tsunami waves at sea.
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In 2008, the country publicly destroyed its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.
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Of the four global suppliers, two rely on a single reactor.
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Experts say the site is now inaugurating a large new reactor.
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It was an exact replica of the plutonium reactor at Yongbyon.
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" Even's conclusion: Operations at Israel's "Dimona nuclear reactor should be halted.
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The strike destroyed the reactor, which was mere months from completion.
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This behavior is not unlike what happens in a fusion reactor.
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Steam plumes were observed from the reactor in images from Feb.
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NuScale's reactor won't need massive cooling towers or sprawling emergency zones.
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The 679-megawatt Wolsong reactor has been offline since May 2017.
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Advanced reactor designs may substantially reduce the threat of a meltdown.
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You're the reactor, doing the majority of your work in silence.
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CHINA-DESIGNED UK NUCLEAR REACTOR PLAN CLEARS THIRD ASSESSMENT STAGE - REGULATOR
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Not a single new reactor began construction between 1978 and 2013.
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A new, secret nuclear reactor was added to the Yongbyon facility.
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The No. 4 reactor has been shut since July 2011, months after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. Kansai Electric restarted its Takahama No.3 reactor late January as part of test operations, making it the third reactor in Japan to resume operations after passing stringent safety checks imposed following the Fukushima disaster.
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In advance of its traditional Memorial Day season opener, the museum will offer special Obscura Day guided and self-guided tours of the on-site nuclear reactor, the reactor control room, radiation detection equipment, and more.
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PARIS, Oct 10 (Reuters) - French nuclear regulator ASN said on Wednesday that it had authorised utility EDF to commission and use the reactor vessel of its new-generation Flamanville 3 EPR nuclear reactor under certain conditions.
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Following the discovery of weak spots in the reactor vessel of the EPR reactor under construction in Flamanville, in France, nuclear energy group Areva launched a review of manufacturing procedures at its Creusot steel forging plant.
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The amendment would establish modeling and simulation programs for reactor technology, set up user facilities and a "national innovation center" for research sharing and push to get the Nuclear Regulatory Commission more involved in reactor research.
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With the Flamanville reactor vessel welded in place in 2013 and covered by thousands of tonnes of concrete since then, taking out the vessel would delay the reactor startup by several years and cost billions of euros.
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While Entergy fights to get Indian Point re-certified for another generation's use, Reactor 2 has been allowed to continue to operate without a license—making it the only such reactor in the U.S., the film notes.
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The company is currently working to develop a waste-annihilating molten salt reactor, a reactor that converts high-level nuclear waste into clean, carbon-free electric power that eliminates the awful waste generated by most nuclear reactors.
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Because molten salt reactors run not on solid uranium rods, but rather on a liquid fuel in their heat exchange, molten salt reactor vessels are able to operate at normal, atmospheric pressures making reactor blowouts nearly impossible.
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In the event of a molten salt reactor system failure where pumps are not able to move the liquid fuel through the reactor, the reaction safely slows as the fuel cools and self-regulates the fission process.
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The testing program, called the Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Technology (KRUSTY), was undertaken at the Nevada National Security Site and meant to study the integrity of the reactor design in conditions similar to those in deep space.
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A test to determine how Reactor No. 4 would operate after losing power went awry, and a sudden increase in power levels triggered an explosion that spewed radiation into the air, and set the nuclear reactor ablaze.
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It was surprised again the next year when the head of the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, arrived at the White House with photographs showing a nuclear reactor under construction in Syria that matched the North's Yongbyon reactor.
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It said that after the discovery of weak spots in the reactor vessel of the EPR reactor under construction in Flamanville, France last year, Areva began a review of manufacturing procedures at its Creusot steel forging plant.
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EDF said that in the next few months it would continue work started by Areva and NPCIL to secure certification for the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) reactor in India and to finalise the economic and financial conditions.
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China is in the middle of a reactor-building program it hoped would serve as a shop window to promote its homegrown designs and technologies overseas, especially its own third-generation reactor design known as Hualong One.
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Only a single reactor melted down, and none of its fuel escaped.
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An Argentinian research reactor has been developed on the outskirts of Riyadh.
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There were indications the experimental reactor had kept running, the IAEA said.
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Tour guides pointed out the nuclear reactor in the center of campus.
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Apart from that, SNC may be building another CANDU reactor in Argentina.
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On Thursday he urged Israel to dismantle its nuclear reactor at Dimona.
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Tests at a fusion reactor in China have hit a major milestone.
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As a Berkeley graduate student he studied reactor physics at Hanford, Wash.
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EDF is building two similar EPR reactor models at Hinkley Point, Britain.
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In 1981, Israel's air force destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad.
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Image: Ingress IntelMost troublingly, an Ingress location appears just outside the reactor.
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The first reactor, delayed by design flaws, eventually went live in 24.7.
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EDF has a controlling stake in Areva NP, the group's reactor business.
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The hands and the arc reactor on the suit actually light up.
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Take ITER, an enormous superconducting fusion reactor currently under construction in France.
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In Germany, the Gundremmingen C reactor started a full outage on Saturday.
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Melted grating inside reactor No. 2, likely caused by falling fuel debris.
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So the possibility of more flexibility does exist with the Phantom Reactor.
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My son worked in the fourth reactor but wasn't there that day.
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A plant official walking near reactor No. 20213 of the Fukushima plant.
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PA reactor business, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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What we have seen at Fukushima Daiichi can happen at another reactor.
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Iran already runs one Russian-built nuclear reactor at Bushehr, its first.
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Foreign and Iranian journalists were escorted to the reactor on Wednesday morning.
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The plant's other reactor, Unit 2, continued to operate at full power.
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This means growing the cells in reactor vessels filled with nutrient broth.
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Maybe he's an industrious young man who builds his own arc reactor.
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That's actually a very unusual design called a molten chloride fast reactor.
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That disaster led to reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
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France's nuclear reactor supplier Areva is being rescued by the French state.
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Over the last 28503 years, the U.S. has added just one reactor.
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A valve popped open and allowed steam to escape from the reactor.
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In Germany, the Grohnde reactor is due to restart on Aug. 20.8973.
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Iran has removed the Arak [atomic] reactor and filled it with concrete.
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No longer a nuclear weapons factory, nuclear reactor stacks were knocked down...
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That includes their deploying floating commercial nuclear reactor for remote power generation.
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"You would drop a bomb on their nuclear reactor?" asked Scott Pelley.
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It is unclear how mobile or seaworthy these reactor ships will be.
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The reactor is expected to take another 24 hours to cool down.
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SNAP-10A, the only nuclear reactor the US ever sent to space.
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The Phantom Reactor is also much more compact than the original Phantom.
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So the Phantom Reactor is just a damn good speaker, nothing else.
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Tehran also operates an over 50-year-old research reactor in Tehran.
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But I worked at a nuclear research reactor when I was there.
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But within a few years, the reactor was back up and running.
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The reactor-export business development of China's nuclear industry has gone well.
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The site hosted the nation's first nuclear reactor, which generated an estimated .
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There is one company, Seaborg, that has figured out a clever reactor.
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Is the limit not a subsidy for the owner of the reactor?
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Last year the cut-off became permanent when the reactor was closed.
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If a reactor leaks, the heat can slowly diffuse into the pool.
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One gigawatt is the equivalent of about one medium-size nuclear reactor.
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The damaged reactor, on the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, was never restarted.
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She even smokes, as if in sympathy with the still-unsecured reactor.
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On April 26, 19923 a nuclear reactor exploded in the Soviet Union.
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The downside of such an approach is that the rest of the reactor will absorb neutrons as well, making the whole thing radioactive (though nothing like as radioactive as a conventional fission reactor) and ultimately damaging its structure.
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The United States has already spent about $1 billion on the prototype reactor and was scheduled to contribute up to another $1.5 billion through 2025, when the experimental fusion reactor is scheduled to run a first operational test.
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China General Nuclear Corporation (CGN) - China's other big reactor vendor and French EDF's partner in the Hinkley Point nuclear project - has an agreement with the British government to build a Hualong reactor in Bradwell in south east England.
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The reactor, Tokai Daini, also has the same basic design as those that melted down in the Fukushima crisis and will be the first boiling water reactor (BWR) to be approved for a lifetime extension of 20 years.
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PARIS, April 10 (Reuters) - French state-controlled utility EDF on Tuesday no longer ruled out that problems with weldings at the nuclear reactor under construction in Flamanville may impact the cost and start-up schedule of the reactor.
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In January, Oregon-based NuScale Power submitted the first application for a small modular reactor to federal regulators, but the technology remains unproven, and the company does not expect to build its first working reactor until the 2020s.
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"From (July 7) onward with the Arak reactor, if you don't operate (according to) the programme and time frame of all the commitments you've given us, we will return the Arak reactor to its previous condition," said Rouhani.
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LONDON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - * UK nuclear regulator approves Hitachi-GE reactor design; says suitable for construction in Britain * The advanced boiling water reactor has passed the generic design assessment of new nuclear reactor designs * Horizon Nuclear Power plans to use the design for two reactors at Wylfa Newydd in Wales and Oldbury-on-Severn in south Gloucestershire in England (Reporting by Nina Chestney; Editing by Mark Potter)
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Also, the lead-based liquid metal the reactor uses as a cooling system does not boil until it reaches a temperature of 1,400 degrees Celsius, which makes the reactor safer than any existing thermal one in commercial operation today.
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Iran's Ali Akbar Salehi said he envisaged a joint pilot project with Hungary to design a 25-megawatt reactor and then a reactor of up to 100 megawatts, a size he said would be marketable across Asia and Africa.
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The company said in July that its teams had noticed during inspections at Doel 3 and during a planned stop of the reactor that the concrete ceiling of the building adjacent to the reactor building needed to be repaired.
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The fine powder catalyst can become plugged as it circulates through the unit from the reactor, where it mixes with gas oil, to the regenerator, where excess carbon is removed so it can be used again in the reactor.
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"The fact that the NRC is accepting a digital console for a small research reactor, with parts certified under the KTA standards, signals the regulatory body moving toward approval in a large industry reactor," Townsend said in the release.
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After billions of dollars spent on nuclear reactor designs that never made it to orbit, much less the moon, the KRUSTY program was the first successful test of a nuclear reactor intended for space applications over half-a-century.
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In one reactor where a robot was sent in January, much of the melted fuel is believed to have burned through the bottom of the inner reactor vessel and burrowed into the thick concrete foundation of the containment structure.
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To assure that we have safe and affordable advanced reactor designs that can be deployed at scale by midcentury, the United States will need to dramatically increase and refocus the budget of the DOE's NE toward advanced reactor development.
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They may keep a reactor operational that if, somehow, they&aposre making electricity.
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Each reactor has three containers set one inside another like Russian nesting dolls.
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First up is that bright nuclear fusion reactor in the sky, our sun.
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Meanwhile, the Turkey Point reactor was at 100 percent, according to the company.
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When the NSC is completed, it will be pushed over the damaged reactor.
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I'm not sure the top of the reactor has blown off just yet.
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In 2014, Tepco finished the removal fuel rods from the No. 4 reactor.
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Particularly if the fuel is reasonably fresh out of a reactor, for example.
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But China is also exploring new reactor technologies—or rather, technologies abandoned elsewhere.
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Its design uses a donut-shaped reactor in which incredibly hot plasma resides.
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In December it signed a $21.3bn contract to build Egypt's first power reactor.
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The agency believes he could have also violated a nuclear reactor regulation law.
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PA over delays at the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, Areva said on Monday.
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A 1-gigawatt nuclear reactor uses 27 tons of nuclear fuel per year.
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Toshiba sold the unit to help cover losses from Westinghouse's nuclear reactor business.
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Lackner became convinced that a fusion reactor was, at a minimum, decades away.
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Its first reactor, with a capacity of 852 megawatts, started operation in 1974.
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Because Reactor keeps moving, you can't find a reliably shady corner for reading.
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North Korea, he says, has no known experience with this type of reactor.
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No matter what environment we expose it to, the reactor performs very well.
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The Kilopower reactor is put in a vacuum chamber for the KRUSTY project.
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The other reactor, Unit 6, is working at full capacity, the plant said.
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The largest and most expensive research effort is the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.
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The reactor helped North Korea create plutonium, an important ingredient for nuclear bombs.
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Russia agreed to destroy the same quantity using a special type of reactor.
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This creates "weapons grade" uranium used to make reactor fuel and nuclear weapons.
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He co-founded TerraPower, which has developed a new type of nuclear reactor.
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Oklo's reactor also departs from legacy nuclear systems in its fuel of choice.
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The risk of shortages increased when Canada shut a research reactor in 2016.
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The restart of the 3003 MWh Tricastin 4 reactor was scheduled for Dec.
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The Barakah reactor, run by a joint venture with Korea Electric Power Corp.
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But could not comment on when the reactor would be up and running.
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A 1903-gigawatt nuclear reactor uses 27 tons of nuclear fuel per year.
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Since then, the country has been working on an experimental light water reactor.
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" Bryce Littlejohn from the Illinois Institute of Technology explained to Gizmodo in an email: "Reactor neutrino experiments," those where neutrino detectors observe the radioactive elements at nuclear power plants, "see 6% fewer reactor neutrinos than what theorists predict they should see.
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That official pointedly praises Israel for twice launching air strikes against suspected nuclear weapons sites, once in 1981 against the Osirak reactor being built by Iraq, and in 2007 against a reactor in Syria allegedly under construction with North Korean help.
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The loading face of the X-5753 graphite reactor, the world's second reactor after Enrico Fermi's so-called "Chicago Pile," can be seen through the window of the control room at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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The loading face of the X-10 graphite reactor, the world's second reactor after Enrico Fermi's so-called "Chicago Pile," can be seen through the window of the control room at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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EDF is buying between 51 and 75 percent of Areva's reactor business and will make a binding offer once arrangements have been made to immunise EDF against costs and risks related to Areva's Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) reactor project in Finland.
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There are still aspects of a nuclear reactor, or at least that nuclear reactor, that are a little bit puzzling to me to this day, particularly the way water and steam move around—I could really get boring about it.
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PARIS (Reuters) - EDF's Flamanville 3 nuclear reactor being built in northwest France is fit for service despite weak spots in its steel, but the utility will have to replace the reactor cover by 2024 at the latest, nuclear regulator ASN said.
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"The inconvenient truth is that only military action like Israel's 1981 attack on Saddam Hussein's Osirak reactor in Iraq or its 2007 destruction of a Syrian reactor, designed and built by North Korea, can accomplish what is required," Mr. Bolton wrote.
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The ASN has repeatedly postponed deadlines for ruling on the safety of reactor vessel.
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Uncertainty over a possible closure of RWE's Gundremmingen C reactor boosted day ahead contracts.
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In Kiev, we hadn't witnessed the glowing fire of the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl.
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Beta radiation can be blocked, so it isn't harming the person wearing the reactor.
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Another easy one is the Arc reactor worn by Tony Stark in Iron Man.
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The nuclear reactor in Chernobyl didn't care that the Soviets insisted it was flawless.
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Satellite images in 2010 showed the regime was beginning to construct a new reactor.
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In February, satellite images appeared to show signs the five-megawatt reactor was operating.
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The DHR model consists of a reactor core immersed in a water-filled tank.
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Kirby also confirmed that concrete had been poured into the core of the reactor.
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Tourists are actually booking tours to the site of the 1989 nuclear reactor explosion.
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EDF hopes the Flamanville reactor will be in service by the of end 2018.
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Westinghouse also won approval on Thursday from British regulators for its AP1000 reactor design.
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In Taishan, China the world's first EPR reactor went into commercial operation in Dec.
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There's something seemingly opening behind him — doors, a gateway or some kind of reactor?
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Why, then, would anyone in the Middle East bother to build a large reactor?
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It said the reactor was expected to return to full capacity by 1200 GMT.
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Sizewell will also be less costly as the reactor design would have been proven.
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Nuclear power reactor operators topped the ranking with a median annual salary of $94,350.
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But when trying to destroy something specific, Governor Tarkin orders a single-reactor ignition.
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The core of a heavy-water reactor at Arak has been filled with concrete.
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The regulatory guide will clarify design standards for light-water-reactor nuclear power plants.
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Late Sunday night, Russian officials confirmed that the explosion involved a small nuclear reactor.
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ALEX SCHWEDER: Last night was our first night sleeping in Reactor after its completion.
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SHELLEY: My experience in Reactor is that it really is pleasant, sheltering, even nurturing.
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It was the "B" reactor that produced the first plutonium in the United States.
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French forward power prices rallied on concerns about further reactor downtime in coming months.
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" The image also "suggests that preliminary testing may have begun at the new reactor.
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Everything worked flawlessly, even when the reactor was dealing with several failures at once.
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The 1994 accord blocked the North from reprocessing plutonium from its reactor at Yongbyon.
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The reactor in Scotland was previously scheduled to come back online on Oct. 1.
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Hitachi hoped Britain would prove to be an international showcase for its reactor designs.
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And despite plans to ramp up production in Australia, reactor construction is notoriously tricky.
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Then, billions of years later, we get that energy back in a nuclear reactor.
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The entire area around the reactor was dark, and cluttered with pipes and machinery.
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North Korea helped Syria build a nuclear reactor, although Israel destroyed it in 2007.
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Construction on the reactor began in 1973 but was put on hold in 1985.
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Increased availability of fissile material from global reactor growth will add to the problem.
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For example, a number of companies are pioneering small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) designs.
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DeWitte says the Aurora demonstration reactor will require several thousand pounds of Haleu fuel.
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Fuel in three of the reactor cores melted, leading to a release of radiation.
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The reactor in Scotland was previously scheduled to come back online on Feb. 28.
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The nuclear agreement requires Iran to fabricate all such LEU into research reactor fuel.
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Its opponents, though, say the U.S. shouldn't subsidize the country by buying reactor materials.
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Tokyo Electric hopes to begin removing fuel debris from the reactor cores in 2021.
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Then you have shore-based training to learn how to run a nuclear reactor.
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So I helped lead a team of seven that took care of reactor chemistry.
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The radiation was detected with a camera inserted into the reactor, not a robot.
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The Penly 2 reactor has been offline since July 27 for maintenance and refuelling.
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A cooling system in a nuclear reactor shut down but was restored without incident.
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Chernobyl reactor No. 4 building, encased in steel and concrete to limit radioactive contamination.
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Then the nuclear reactor shuts down when the tidal wave reaches its seaside dome.
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Kids danced on the main street of Kiev, 22010 miles out from the reactor.
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It's not like anyone is going to be able to hijack a reactor easily.
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What followed was incredible heroism and self-sacrifice on the part of the "liquidators" who fought to get the thing under control: shoveling chunks of fuel back into the reactor and spraying water on the exposed reactor core to keep it cool.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A fire caused an explosion at the Flamanville nuclear power plant in northwest France on Thursday, leading the operator EDF to take a reactor offline, but there was no risk to the reactor, EDF and a local official said on Thursday.
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Part of the pressuriser, a primary circuit component of the reactor, is vibrating at levels that exceed safety limits, said Pekka Valikangas, the regulator's section head for nuclear reactor regulation, ahead of an important assessment which is due to be published on Monday.
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