I study different nuclear technologies and I'm quite excited about pebble bed reactors, liquid metal reactors, traveling wave reactors, and small modular reactors.
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The goal is called "Advanced Reactors," or sometimes "Generation IV" reactors.
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Fast reactors breed their own fuel, unlike today's fleet of light water reactors.
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China has built four small reactors in Pakistan and is building two Hualong reactors there.
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But last month, India's cabinet approved plans to build 10 reactors of indigenous Indian design and said that India will not buy foreign reactors unless these reactors are already in operation.
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"After these three reactors, we have made our decision that we would look into small reactors," he said.
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Only two Belgian reactors are in operation at the moment, namely the Doel 3 and Tihange 1 reactors.
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Russia has a lot of experience building reactors abroad: there are Soviet-era reactors all over Eastern Europe.
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In China, which currently has 36 operational nuclear reactors, the Hualong One is competing with other third-generation technology reactors for a share of 100-150 new reactors planned to come into operation by 2030.
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In the next few years, eight Westinghouse reactors are expected to open in the United States and China, four Areva reactors in Finland, France and China, and four Kepco-built reactors in United Arab Emirates.
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According to a 2014 report in the New York Times, naval reactors use four times more HEU annually than research reactors, and US ships account for roughly three-quarters of HEU use in naval reactors globally.
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Low natural gas prices have been making both existing nuclear reactors and new reactors in the United States less economical.
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Electricity output was curtailed at six reactors by 0840 GMT on Thursday, while two other reactors were offline, data showed.
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The solution should be international licensing of all reactors, incorporating standards that will assure safety and security wherever reactors operate.
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We should also invest more in research to develop advanced nuclear reactors, including small modular reactors and accident-tolerant fuels.
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"My understanding is that the material used for naval reactors or breeder reactors, which is less than 90 percent enriched, is produced, while the 90 percent HEU for domestic reactors is taken from the old stock," said Podvig.
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Electricity output was curtailed at six reactors by 0840 GMT on Thursday, while two other reactors were offline, the data showed.
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After taking office in May, he canceled plans to build six new reactors and to extend the life of ageing reactors.
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EDF, which has a 30 percent stake in the Taishan reactors, is also building two EPR reactors in Hinkley Point, Britain.
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Those civilian reactors also produce a supplement needed to charge our nuclear weapons stockpile, while future reactors could support military bases.
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The country now has 37 nuclear reactors, with another 153 under construction, and it aims to have 110 reactors by 2030.
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Germany is phasing out its reactors by 2022, and there's heavy opposition in Japan to restarting reactors shut down after Fukushima.
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EDF which operates France's 58 nuclear reactors, said the earthquake had no impact on Blayais, which has four 900 megawatt capacity reactors.
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Both reactors are among 18 of EDF's 58 nuclear reactors involved in a safety probe demanded by French nuclear safety regulator ASN.
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I would invest heavily in Generation IV fission reactors [new high-temperature, fuel-efficient reactors expected to be deployed in the 2030s].
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Reactors there melted down after a massive tsunami knocked out back-up generators, designed to maintain power to cool reactors in emergencies.
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SMRs are mini-reactors that can produce anything from about 50 to 400 megawatts of electricity, much less than the gigawatt or so that most existing big reactors can put out, or the two 1,600MW reactors planned for Hinkley Point.
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Toshiba, which owns U.S. nuclear power engineering company Westinghouse, has built 112 reactors globally, or 26 percent of all 431 reactors installed worldwide.
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"Fast reactors are less safe, less secure, and more proliferation-prone than light-water reactors," said Ed Lyman, a senior scientist at UCS.
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The two nuclear reactors being built at Georgia Power's Vogtle station, near Augusta, are the only reactors currently under construction in the country.
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Since then, 12 reactors at six nuclear plants have passed the safety requirements needed to restart, but only four reactors are currently operating.
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Only a limited number of reactors in Japan can use MOX in reactors, but the use of MOX - a blend of uranium and plutonium recycled from spent nuclear fuel - in conventional commercial reactors is a pillar of resource-poor Japan's energy policy.
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Over the past five years, U.S. nuclear operators have shut six reactors and plan to shut another six reactors over the next five years.
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Other technological approaches, such as molten salt reactors and high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, are also under rapid development thanks to generous government funding.
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South Korea has the sixth-largest fleet of nuclear reactors in the world, generating about one-third of its energy needs from 25 reactors.
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Smaller fission reactors are found on naval vessels like aircraft carriers and submarines, but these types of reactors also use steam to generate electricity.
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Driving the news: Operators of up to 1003% of America's nuclear reactors are seeking federal approval to run reactors for an unprecedented 2100 years.
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Heavy water reactors permit use of natural uranium as fuel, while light water reactors require enriched uranium, which is much more difficult to produce.
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French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would not rule out France building new nuclear reactors to replacing state-controlled utility EDF's ageing reactors.
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Gutierrez said the India had confirmed an interest in buying six AP1000 reactors despite announcing plans in May to build 10 reactors of Indian design.
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As well as building civilian nuclear reactors, Westinghouse has been the leading supplier of reactors for nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carriers, submarines and other warships.
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Other companies would also have to develop smaller, more advanced reactors, meant to be easier to build than the hulking light-water reactors of old.
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The Nordic region's nuclear plants comprise either pressurized water reactors (PWR) or boiling water reactors (BWR) - and both can be affected by warm sea water.
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Both reactors are under repair as Belgium faces a tight electricity supply situation going into winter with just two out of its seven nuclear reactors working.
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Indian authorities have confirmed they remain interested in buying six AP1000 reactors despite announcing plans in May to build 10 reactors of Indian design, he said.
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China added three new reactors to its fleet in 2017, bringing its total number of operating reactors to 41 — behind only the United States and France.
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Then we'll pay the reactors for the difference — call it a "zero-emission credit" (ZEC): This essentially creates a "price floor" for New York's upstate reactors.
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These reactors promise to be cheaper and safer than existing reactors and have several applications outside of electricity generation that might make them more politically attractive.
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This includes molten-salt reactors, but also solid-fuel systems like next-generation fast reactors, which are safer and more efficient than previous nuclear reactor designs.
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Though they remain largely untested, advanced technologies could prove cheaper and safer than current reactors: Small modular reactors (SMRs) are compact and require less on-site construction.
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Engie Electrabel, the Belgian arm of French utility Engie that operates the reactors, noted that the opinion did not rule out that the reactors could remain running.
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These small reactors are similar to ones being considered in U.S. and Europe as an alternative to the large reactors, which are the norm for power generation.
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He added that in order to be cost-efficient it was necessary to build nuclear reactors in series, with two reactors per site on three consecutive sites.
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He added that in order to be cost-efficient it was necessary to build nuclear reactors in series, with two reactors per site on three consecutive sites.
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The cores of three of the plant's six reactors were damaged by overheating, and the resulting hydrogen explosions blew apart the buildings surrounding two of the reactors.
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This analytic truth holds even for reactors sited in earthquake or tsunami zones; sometimes those are the most appropriate sites for the reactors even given the risks.
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Mitazono has no legal power to shut down operating reactors, but his consent will be required to restart Sendai after the reactors are stopped for scheduled maintenance.
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These include reactors in which the core is filled not with fuel rods but with little ceramic pebbles—or, in the case of thorium reactors, with molten metal.
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It wants to build two nuclear reactors and insists on its right to enrich uranium (and to reprocess spent fuel from those reactors, another path to a bomb).
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Reactors need a special license to be able to use MOX fuel and experts say it is an expensive method of fuelling reactors compared to using enriched uranium.
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In the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima disaster, Japan closed its nuclear reactors, which accounted for some ten percent of the more than 20143 reactors operating globally.
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The technological overlap between the reactors that power our submarines and aircraft carriers and the reactors that provide nearly 20 percent of the country's electricity benefits both parties.
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Fukushima Daini's reactors are turned off, but the plant still has uranium fuel in a storage pool that must be kept cool by pumping water through the reactors.
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Many of Japan's reactors are still going through a licensing renewal process by the new regulator, with all but three out of 42 operable reactors still in shutdown.
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Nine reactors have restarted, all of them pressurized water reactors located far from Tokyo, while the stigma of Fukushima still hangs over use of the older BWR technology.
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Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, Exelon operates two reactors at Peach Bottom and two at Limerick, FirstEnergy operates two reactors at Beaver Valley, and Talen Energy owns two at Susquehanna.
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Even before the bankruptcy, Westinghouse's Japanese parent was already moving away from the business of building nuclear power plants, focusing instead on maintaining existing reactors and developing reactors.
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Billionaires Bill Gates and Peter Thiel want to build futuristic reactors, but that effort would face big headwinds if the effort to build reactors using current technology falls apart.
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France and Russia are the only two nations recycling spent fuel from nuclear reactors, but France no longer operates the breeder reactors which are suitable to use this fuel.
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All six of its reactors are boiling-water reactors, a type designed in the late 220s and early 22021s and found all over the world, including in the United States.
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Less than half a mile from these three reactors sits Unit 5, one of the three other reactors that had been shut down for regular maintenance when the tsunami hit.
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Brouillete said the U.S. industry was working on several new nuclear technologies and his department strongly supported the development of new technologies, in particular small modular reactors and micro-reactors.
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EDF has repeatedly said it wants to extend the lifespan of its reactors to 24 and possibly 240 years, as has been done for similar reactors in the United States.
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EDF wants to build new reactors as its current fleet of 58 reactors is ageing and Flamanville's problems are weighing heavily on the future of the nuclear industry in France.
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But the NRC said the plant still has external power to keep reactors and waste cooled, and staff and NRC officials remain on-site while the reactors are shut off.
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Brouillette said the U.S. industry was working on several new nuclear technologies and his department strongly supported the development of new technologies, in particular small modular reactors and micro-reactors.
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The nuclear reactors aboard the first-in-class carrier USS Gerald R. Ford can generate more than three times as much power as the reactors on previous classes of carriers.
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Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, Exelon operates two reactors at the Peach Bottom and two at Limerick, FirstEnergy Corp operates two reactors at Beaver Valley and Talen Energy owns two at Susquehanna.
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Sweden has also voted for legislation forcing nuclear producers to expand the facilities of their reactors, adding external installations that can independently inject water to cool the reactors by 2020.
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States with nuclear reactors and populations within a 10-mile radius of the reactors stockpile potassium iodide to distribute in case of an emergency, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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It has two reactors, so called reactors 3 and 4, which were both taken offline last year after cracks were found on the graphite core during routine inspections at the facility.
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In May, the ASN said the anomalies found in Flamanville had also been discovered in reactors being operated by EDF and ordered safety tests on 18 out of EDF's 58 reactors.
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Five years later, only three of Japan's 42 reactors are back in operation but new reactors brought online in China and other countries have partly made up for the Japanese closures.
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After several delays in the restart of some of France's nuclear reactors following maintenance and a review ordered by the nuclear watchdog, 21 out of France's 58 nuclear reactors are offline.
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Several nuclear plants have closed while a project to build two reactors in South Carolina was abandoned in 2017 with the reactors half-built and billions of dollars in sunk costs.
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All of the 37 nuclear reactors in operation and half of the 20 reactors under construction are second or advanced-second generation, according to data from the China Nuclear Energy Association.
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This brilliant design was rejected by the United States government at the time because thorium reactors did not produce plutonium, needed for nuclear weapons, as was accomplished in uranium-based reactors.
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Early estimates suggest these futuristic reactors might initially cost around $22007,22015 to $22013,000/kW to build — cheaper than current US reactors, but still not able to compete with gas or coal.
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Releasing hot water back to the sea after cooling the reactors could be a hazard and if it exceeds 34 degrees Fortum said the reactors must be shut down due to regulations.
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Last year, Congress approved $5 million in defense policy and spending bills for the Energy Department's office of Naval Reactors to research whether naval reactors could convert to using low-enriched uranium.
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Four reactors are operating out of 42 commercially viable units, and Kyushu Electric has been planning to restart two of its reactors at its Genkai plant in southern Japan by next March.
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EDF, which operates nuclear-dependent France's fleet of 2309 reactors, expects to meet its 2471 nuclear electricity production target despite the extensive review of the components currently in use in the reactors.
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But the Cold War arms race meant the US was already in the business of enriching uranium for weapons, so nuclear reactors based on solid uranium took off while liquid reactors stalled.
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Earlier this year, leaders from the US and Europe met for the first high-level international discussions about small modular reactors, and provincial governments in Canada recently met to promote small reactors.
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Most of the existing reactors are conventional pressurized water reactors that run on enriched uranium, but the country is moving aggressively towards advanced reactor designs that can make use of the spent uranium from their current reactors, and the growing stockpiles of thorium that are a byproduct of mining for rare earth elements, a market that China dominates.
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China also agreed to convert miniature neutron source reactors to use low-enriched uranium fuel at Shenzen University, and in reactors in Ghana and Nigeria, according to the statement by the two governments.
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And therefore, after the bomb-making of the 1940s and the 1950s, people turned these reactors of essentially the same design into reactors whose primary purpose was to produce energy rather than plutonium.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French utility EDF published on Tuesday the planned maintenance schedule for its two Fessenheim reactors in 2019, signaling that the reactors could be operational until the second half of next year.
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Exelon operates two reactors at the Peach Bottom power plant, two at Limerick and one at Three Mile Island, FirstEnergy operates two reactors at Beaver Valley and Talen Energy owns two at Susquehanna.
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The utility, which operates France's 58 nuclear reactors that account for more than 75 percent of France's electricity needs, discharges water it uses as coolants for the reactors into surrounding rivers and canals.
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While conventional reactors utilize between only two and five percent of the energy available in their fuel rods before requiring replacement, molten salt reactors can consume upwards of 85033 percent of the energy.
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China makes up the bulk with 20 reactors under construction.
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By the late 1970s around 230 reactors were under construction.
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Experts warn offshore reactors could raise safety and security questions.
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TVA started work on Watts Bar reactors in subsequent years.
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Combined, the reactors provide power for nearly 2 million homes.
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A fast reactor has some significant advantages over normal reactors.
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CGN will build two reactors at Lufeng in Guandong province.
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In 2013, Japan halted operations of all nuclear reactors nationwide.
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Three reactors had meltdowns and a fourth had structural damage.
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Five robots sent into the reactors have failed to return.
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EDF also plans to build four EPR reactors in Britain.
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The reactors account for 50 percent of the country's consumption.
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Little damage was seen to the unit's reactors, they said.
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But Hollande took no concrete steps towards closing any reactors.
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SMRs should also produce revenues more quickly than big reactors.
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Of Sweden's eight nuclear reactors in operation, Vattenfall controls seven.
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Large U.S. nuclear reactors no longer make much economic sense.
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GRAPHIC - U.S. nuclear generation to fall as reactors retire tmsnrt.
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Both points are less of an issue with modern reactors.
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General Electric is not building large conventional nuclear reactors anywhere.
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For example, safety can be improved by making reactors smaller.
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Mitazono has no legal power to shut down operating reactors.
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Since the 2011 disaster, groundwater seeps into the reactors daily.
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Are the reactors and the centrifuges to be rendered inoperable?
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Such reactors make plutonium, a main fuel of nuclear arms.
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Left to overheat, three of the six reactors melted down.
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Of the country's 17 reactors, eight were immediately shut down.
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Of the remaining reactors, fewer than half have been restarted.
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Four reactors are operating out of 42 commercially viable units.
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The two reactors now under construction suffer from cost overruns.
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Chinese firms are building reactors in Pakistan and Great Britain.
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Some 600 more reactors are under construction around the world.
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Instead, expect to see small nuclear reactors start popping up.
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Many lawmakers have proposed subsidies to keep those reactors running.
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Reviews of 12 reactors received as of Sept 14 had revealed 601 anomalies which will have to be analyzed before those reactors will be allowed to restart after refueling or maintenance, the ASN said.
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Renewing some of the reactors for a few more years would still require replacement capacity, Elia said, as the reactors would need to be upgraded - a process that could run into the winter months.
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One said the board had lifted required guarantees on the successful completion of Areva-designed EPR reactors in Flamanville, France, and Taishan, China, as these reactors should be starting up in the coming year.
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Data from the World Nuclear Association shows that 55 reactors with a capacity of 55 gigawatts (GW) are now under construction, which compares favourably to 455 operating reactors that produce around 400 GW annually.
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EDF said it could be forced to halt electricity production at two reactors at St. Alban with an installed capacity of 2,300 megawatts (MW), and at the 900 MW Bugey 2 and 3 reactors.
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The number of reactors under construction is in decline for a third year, with 58 being built by the end of June, down from 20153 reactors at the end of 2013, the report said.
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The moderate union questioned the interest in building two next-generation reactors over nine years while two other EPR reactors under construction in Finland and western France have been plagued with problems and delays.
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A major difference with Ford over its Nimitz-class predecessors is its twin A1B nuclear reactors that produce more than three times the electrical power of the reactors on Nimitz — more than 100 megawatts.
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The US fleet of nuclear reactors is rapidly approaching the end of its regulatory lifetime—almost all were built before 1990—and the only two new reactors under construction have gone way over budget.
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Nuclear power hasn't suffered as much, but a handful of reactors have closed in recent years and many others are slated to retire, and a wave of expected new reactors has failed to materialize.
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Ultimately, he thinks some of the lessons here may be applicable to China and even to small modular reactors — but not to building bigger reactors in the US. His points are all worth reading.
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Unlike other nuclear countries such as the United States and China, which have used different reactor models and suppliers, all French reactors are pressurised water reactors made by the same manufacturer, a forerunner of Areva.
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"The two EPR reactors at Hinkley Point would strengthen EDF's presence in Britain, a country where its subsidiary EDF Energy already operates 15 nuclear reactors and is the largest electricity supplier by volume," EDF said.
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The case is over the enforced closure in 2011 of two of Vattenfall reactors in Germany, which the Swedish state-owned firm is entitled to pursue internationally, unlike German utilities whose reactors were also hit.
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He said that China, where EDF is building two nuclear reactors, would build half of the world's new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years but said nothing about possible new contracts for EDF there.
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Investors are considering several truly revolutionary reactor concepts, including molten-salt and metallic-fuel reactors, which will dramatically improve safety, consume existing nuclear waste and cost much less to build than conventional heavy-water reactors.
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A spate of technical problems at existing reactors, coupled with hitches at reactors under construction, has tarnished EDF's image as a leader in nuclear technology and weighed on its ability to sell nuclear plants abroad.
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In 1994, the US and North Korea signed the Agreed Framework, in which the North agreed to freeze its nuclear reactors in exchange for two nuclear power reactors and fuel oil from the United States.
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Nuclear reactors are, by their very definition, immensely difficult to control.
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Nuclear reactors currently provide about 20 percent of US electric power.
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To relicense the plant's two reactors, Entergy is seeking three things.
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Eventually, fusion power could replace fossil fuels and conventional nuclear reactors.
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China has 19 nuclear reactors under construction and 41 more planned.
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But Hollande had taken no concrete steps towards closing any reactors.
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Its 24 nuclear reactors generate one-third of the country's electricity.
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Three of the six operational reactors have been closed for maintenance.
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Akademik Lomonosov consists of two 35MW reactors mounted on a barge.
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As reactors shut down, they're being replaced mostly by natural gas.
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Prolonged outages at its reactors in Britain has weighed on output.
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So do the people looking after nuclear reactors and Predator drones.
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There are small reactors that could be built inexpensively in factories.
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The reactors are about 25 miles (22011 kilometers) south of Miami.
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The regulator ordered four reactors closed for months for safety reasons.
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These agreements are not contracts to sell Russian-design nuclear reactors.
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The guidelines would address the design of non-light water reactors.
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All four units will feature Russia's latest Gen3+ VVER-1200 reactors.
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Of course this future assumes that fusion reactors are even possible.
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Nuclear reactors in the US rely on analog controls to operate.
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Reactors cost billions of dollars to build, run, secure, and maintain.
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That's down slightly from 22019 operating commercial nuclear reactors in 2011.
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Only two reactors are operating in Japan, both in the southwest.
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Proton-packs with nuclear reactors, ectoplasm levels and class 4 apparitions?
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The country has also restarted five nuclear power reactors, noted ANZ.
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The government has already dropped plans to build six more reactors.
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Nuclear reactors currently generate about 20 percent of the country's power.
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Reactors generating power require uranium enriched from 3 to 5 percent.
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The two reactors produce steam for a turbine that generates electricity.
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There are two nuclear reactors in Ohio - Davis Besse and Perry.
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The problems facing FirstEnergy Solutions' reactors are not unique to Ohio.
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Major systems like train networks and nuclear reactors were not affected.
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Finishing the reactors was likely to raise rates another 5 percent.
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All of its seven reactors were already shut down, NHK said.
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Certainly, these so-called fast breeder reactors have their dangers too.
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Modern reactors are far safer than those in Chernobyl or Fukushima.
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All active US Navy aircraft carriers are powered by nuclear reactors.
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"Both reactors at Brunswick are safe and stable," the agency said.
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The filmmakers are confusing it with what happens in nuclear reactors.
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The disaster led to shutdowns of all of Japan's nuclear reactors.
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"Frankly, the regulatory paradigm is built for large reactors," DeWitte says.
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The utility is decommissioning two of the three reactors at Ikata.
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But in recent years, Sweden's nuclear reactors have become starkly unprofitable.
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This standardisation allowed France to build reactors relatively quickly and cheaply, but also created the risk that a generic design flaw or manufacturing problem would affect many reactors and incapacitate a large part of the fleet.
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Most of France's 58 nuclear reactors were started in the 1980s and will produce power well into the next decade, which means its nuclear industry has no domestic market for new reactors in the coming decade.
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"The report does not specifically talk about possible building of new reactors or replacing existing reactors, but it does not deny such a possibility either," Shogo Tanaka, director of the ministry's energy strategy office told reporters.
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The government has decided that EDF, which operates France's 58 nuclear reactors, must halt its Fessenheim nuclear plant once its new Flamanville 3 nuclear reactor comes online, but has not targeted other individual reactors for closure.
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Could innovative new nuclear reactors like small modular reactors or the molten-salt concept solve the cost, proliferation, waste and safety concerns that plague the current generation, and so be part of the low-carbon solution?
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This could flood the Tricastin reactors and cause a meltdown of the nuclear fuel in the reactors and the spent-fuel cooling pools, in a nuclear accident similar to the one in Fukushima, Japan in 2011.
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Advocates of thorium (and there are many in futurist circles) argue that thorium-fueled reactors will produce far less waste than traditional uranium reactors, and waste that is radioactive for hundreds rather than thousands of years.
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EDF The shock resignation of the French environment minister may mean that EDF can not only extend the lifespan of its ageing reactors but could even build new reactors in France, the world's most nuclear-reliant nation.
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Three reactors at Fukushima Daiichi, which had six reactors and is located about 12 kilometres (7 miles) north of Fukushima Daini, suffered meltdowns after the giant March 2011 earthquake and tsunami shut down the plant's cooling systems.
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Japan, the world's largest importer of natural gas, is restarting its nuclear reactors six years after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, with three out of 43 nuclear reactors brought back online since August and more expected to come.
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It used to generate about 30 percent of its power from nuclear reactors before the Fukushima disaster in 2011 when a magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns, forcing the country to temporarily put all reactors offline.
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Three reactors at Fukushima Daiichi, which had six reactors and is located about 12 kilometers (7 miles) north of Fukushima Daini, suffered meltdowns after the giant March 2011 earthquake and tsunami shut down the plant's cooling systems.
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The two reactors at the plant, which entered service in 1975 and 1977, are of similar design to some of the reactors damaged at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan after an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
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The reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant automatically shut down in response to the earthquake, but the tsunami overtopped the plant's seawall, stalling the backup generators that were providing vital cooling to the idled reactors.
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The two reactors at the site, which entered service in 1975 and 1977, are of similar design to some of the reactors damaged at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan after an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
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This is the eerie blue glow most often associated with nuclear reactors.
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All three reactors experienced core meltdowns following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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Its Reactor 3 and Reactor 4 are both Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors.
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Meanwhile, Westinghouse will only focus on designing nuclear reactors in the future.
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Its reactors currently produce around 750 tonnes of spent fuel a year.
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And by reducing and better protecting nuclear reactors and spent nuclear fuel.
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EDF said in September that the problems were identified in reactors no.
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The new reactors are slated to come online in 2021 and 2022.
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This releases no carbon dioxide, and shipboard reactors are an established technology.
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Modular nuclear reactors may contribute to the energy mix in some places.
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Plus it has potential as a fuel for inertial confinement fusion reactors.
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But the last nuclear reactors will not go online until the 2030s.
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New York and Illinois adopted rules to subsidize some reactors in 2016.
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All but two of Japan's 42 reactors are in shut-down mode.
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Only two reactors were built on a site meant to accommodate four.
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EDF Energy's 15 nuclear reactors provide around 20 percent of Britain's electricity.
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EDF Energy's 15 nuclear reactors provide about 20 percent of Britain's electricity.
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That takes time (but) we need to develop these modular smaller reactors.
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Meanwhile, it's unclear what will happen to New York's reactors after 246.79.
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An EDF spokesman said its timetable for restarting the reactors was unchanged.
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The reactors are where hydrogen and gas oil mix in the hydrocracker.
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Seven of the reactors are expected to resume production on Dec. 31.
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Such reactors have improved safety features, but are more costly to build.
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Demand is growing rapidly, however, with China in particular aggressively building reactors.
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South Korea has 24 nuclear reactors, supplying a third of its electricity.
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An EDF spokeswoman said the extension concerns 32 of EDF's 58 reactors.
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The United States has more nuclear power reactors than any other country.
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It said the reports sent to ASN so far covered nine reactors.
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EDF wants to build new reactors as its current fleet is ageing.
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China is already constructing and operating advanced reactors while we have none.
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Nuclear reactors generate energy day and night, and produce no greenhouse gasses.
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The Cruas plant in southeast France has four 900 MW nuclear reactors.
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Russia isn't just building reactors for NATO members like Turkey and Hungary.
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One cause for hope is in the Pentagon's interest in mobile reactors.
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Reactors are closing across the country, and major corporations have declared bankruptcy.
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Clogging is also a major concern for southern and west-coast reactors.
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The breach exposed sensitive data but did not endanger the plant's reactors.
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"These reactors should convert to safer fuels or shut down," he said.
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Because they're smaller than traditional reactors, they're less daunting to invest in.
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In March, Connecticut found a way to save two reactors in Waterford.
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The muon device has produced crude, ghostly images of the reactors' interiors.
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The world of the future needs windmills, solar panels and nuclear reactors.
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The oil was sometimes late, and the new reactors were never delivered.
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But small reactors are hardly the only advanced nuclear technology in development.
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Small model reactors have the potential to be substantially more economically safer.
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Ohio, Pennsylvania and Connecticut have also considered proposals to protect their reactors.
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The remaining three reactors will undergo similar upgrades between 2021 and 2024.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The shock resignation of the French environment minister may mean that EDF can not only extend the lifespan of its ageing reactors but could even build new reactors in France, the world's most nuclear-reliant nation.
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AUTOS, NUCLEAR REACTORS Vehicles and parts were the biggest imports from Mexico to the United States, totalling $93.3 billion in 2018, followed by electric machines, nuclear reactors, minerals and oil, and optical equipment, according to U.S. government data.
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In return, the White House pledged to give North Korea two alternative nuclear power reactors that could not be used in a weapons program — as well as fuel to tide it over before the new reactors were ready.
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Two reactors are already back online; to meet Mr. Abe's goal of producing one-fifth of the country's electricity from nuclear power within the next 15 years, about 30 of the existing 43 reactors would need to restart.
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The utility said that 19 nuclear reactors are scheduled to undergo fuel reloading this year, 20 are scheduled for partial maintenance inspections, while 6 reactors would be halted for several months for their 10-year in depth upgrade.
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Separately, French nuclear regulator ASN said anomalies found in the vessel of a nuclear reactor under construction in Flamanville have also been discovered in other French reactors being operated by utility EDF, but the country's reactors are safe.
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Three Mile Island is something of a special case: The 1979 incident left only one of its two reactors operational, but it still employs about as many people as a plant with two reactors, making it less efficient.
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Congress, federal agencies and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must work with utilities to preserve our existing reactors in the safest possible way, and to develop the next generation of reactors that will provide cheaper, reliable, carbon-free electricity.
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After several delays in the restart of some reactors following maintenance and a review ordered by the nuclear watchdog, 21 out of France's 58 nuclear reactors are offline, putting available nuclear capacity at 63.80 percent of the total.
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Related: Someone Flew a Drone Carrying Radioactive Material on to the Japanese PM's Office The specific kind of reactors used at Chernobyl, known as RBMK reactors, say a lot more about the Cold War than they do nuclear power.
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For now, 1.63 of EDF's 21.6 reactors remain offline for maintenance or unplanned outages and just three reactors - Cruas 21, Fessenheim 20.8477 and Paluel 2 - are in long-term outages that are set to continue through the winter months.
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At a rate of 0.5 reactors per million people, this gives South Korea the world's second-highest share of nuclear power stations in relation to its population, behind France's rate of 0.9 reactors per million, according to Reuters calculations.
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The commission has reported that one of Indian Point's reactors has the highest risk of all the country's reactors of being damaged by an earthquake, and federal studies show that Indian Point is incredibly vulnerable to acts of terrorism.
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The state's energy infrastructure is privately owned, and Florida Power and Light, which operates the state's four nuclear reactors at two sites on the Atlantic coast, said the reactors would be safely shut down as winds reached hurricane strength.
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Gravelines 2 is one of the 18 reactors involved in a carbon probe demanded by French nuclear safety regulator ASN, which has caused prolonged outages at several reactors and sparked fears of potentially tight winter power supply in France.
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The exteriors of Units 1 and 2, two of Fukushima Daiichi's six reactors.
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The two reactors are essentially identical in terms of safety, technology, and output.
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FPL, however, has not made a final decision to build the new reactors.
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The reactors haven't operated since 1999, but the plant still has 3,800 employees.
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EDF Energy said the operation of its other UK reactors was not affected.
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The European nation has seven nuclear reactors generating about half of its electricity.
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These are new and different hazards from those considered for land-based reactors.
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EDF operates 58 nuclear reactors which produce about 13 percent of France's electricity.
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These reactors are smaller but use the same basic technologies as current plants.
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Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have also considered proposals to protect their reactors.
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Regulators gave TEPCO, a Japanese power company, approval to restart two nuclear reactors.
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Workers continue the decontamination and reconstruction process at the base of the reactors.
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EDF operates 58 nuclear reactors which produce about 75 percent of France's electricity.
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But last August, reactors have started coming back online, much to public resistance.
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The reactors are modified versions of those used to power Taymyr-class icebreakers.
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Some reactors have since come back online, but global uranium inventories remain high.
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In many ways, the MTF concept anticipates problems that other reactors have faced.
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There are reactors designed to destroy isotopes that could be made into weapons.
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The history of advanced reactors is littered with the carcasses of failed attempts.
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Many court cases are pending for reactors in the east of the country.
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He said he was more worried about the nuclear waste than the reactors.
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Reactors 22, 20213, and 22021 overheated, resulting in meltdowns and hydrogen-air explosions.
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The reactors would be built serially, with the first completed in seven years.
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When reactors do shut down early, it's usually awful news for climate change.
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The report also said many countries' nuclear reactors were vulnerable to online attacks.
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Put away your toy arc reactors and turn down that Black Sabbath song.
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Japan shut down all but two of its 43 reactors over safety concerns.
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More than half of these deviation reports concerned reactors in France, he said.
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The rest were for reactors abroad, including in the United States and China.
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It also maintains the nation's nuclear arsenal and nuclear reactors for the Navy.
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The number of reactors was more than the nine cited in previous reports.
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Belgium's nuclear reactors are set to be phased out from 2022 to 201.
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One agreement even offered two civilian nuclear reactors, though they were never completed.
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All but three of Japan's 54 commercial nuclear reactors are currently shut down.
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The NRC has maintained that the parts and the reactors were completely safe.
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EDF's website showed the two reactors at the plant were both in service.
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Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) is building the four APR-1400 reactors simultaneously.
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The two new reactors will double the plant's nominal capacity of 2,000 megawatts.
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NASA estimates that four reactors could power an initial outpost for a decade.
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Placing nuclear reactors on vessels could also help reduce the costs of construction.
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The North Koreans have plutonium-producing reactors and a very sophisticated centrifuge program.
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Above the reactors, for example, is a pavilion structure designed to maximize airflow.
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Similar discoveries were made at the complex's two other ruined reactors this year.
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The seven reactors still in operation today are due to close by 2022.
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The country has or will decommission 24 reactors, 40 percent of its total.
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After that, utilities can apply to operate their reactors for 23 additional years.
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Utilities in other states have found the cost of large new reactors prohibitive.
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Sometimes the reactors are barely visible, and often they aren't visible at all.
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His parent company is one of the world's leading designers of nuclear reactors.
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In the preceding years, reactors across the Soviet Union failed one after another.
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In roughly two decades, the United States could lose about half its reactors.
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Advanced nuclear reactors are estimated to cost $5,366 for every kilowatt of capacity.
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Because the industry is essentially starting afresh, these new reactors are quite pricey.
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These are the first reactors of their kind, so you'd expect some hiccups.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's energy production is plunging as its nuclear reactors are taken offline for repairs, with the power shortfall this winter seen as a test of the country's ability to cope when the reactors are phased out from 22003.
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Only two of Japan's 43 commercial nuclear reactors have been generating power, illustrating the slow restart process since all reactors were eventually idled in the wake of the meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011.
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It was clear that those reactors produced very large amounts of waste heat, which was a byproduct that wasn't useful initially, but people realized very quickly that so much waste heat being produced in the reactors could be turned into power.
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Instead, according to the agreement, the international consortium is supposed to replace the plutonium reactors with two light water reactors and the US agrees to supply half a million tons of heavy fuel oil every year during the construction period.
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Chevet said the standardisation of French nuclear reactors - all use the same pressurised water technology - makes problem detection easier but also increases the risk of a generic flaw that can force the closure of several reactors at the same time.
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Both reactors at its Turkey Point facility, about 30 miles (48 km) south of Miami, remained shut early Tuesday, while both reactors at its St. Lucie plant, about 120 miles (190 km) north of Miami, were operating at full power.
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Despite serious tensions with Washington on many other issues, China's president, Xi Jinping, promised to convert some of China's nuclear reactors, as well as reactors supplied to Ghana and Nigeria, to low-enriched uranium, which is less suitable for weapons use.
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Fortum has stakes in eight operating nuclear reactors in Finland and Sweden, with net capacity of about 3 gigawatts (GW), and is participating in projects for two more Finnish reactors that are due to start operating in 2018 and 2024.
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Vattenfall, which derives much of its turnover from activities in Germany, had to idle the Kruemmel and Brunsbuettel reactors in northern Germany permanently in 2011 when the government decided to close old reactors and accelerate the exit programmes for the remainder.
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North Korea will say, yes, but we have needs, civil reactors, we want fuel.
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Did all the fuel flow out of the reactors, or was some still inside?
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Oswalt started with poring over other people's accounts of how they built their reactors.
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But Diablo Canyon's operator, PG&E, has proposed closing the reactors down in 2025.
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The UK has 15 nuclear reactors that produce about 21 percent of its electricity.
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In July Russia promised $11.4 billion in loans towards a pair of nuclear reactors.
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Median annual wage: $9503,2950Projected job growth through 22026: -216% These workers control nuclear reactors.
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South Korea has managed to reduce the cost of building new reactors over time.
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Last year, 35% of Finnish energy production came from the country's four nuclear reactors.
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Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are also considering similar rules to protect their reactors.
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Local guides still take over 2,000 tourists each year to villages near the reactors.
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KHNP currently operates a total of 25 nuclear reactors in Asia's fourth-largest economy.
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Those reactors once produced plutonium for America's nuclear arsenal, though production ended in 1980.
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This month, regulators cleared the way for the firm to restart two more reactors.
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Output at its reactors in Britain slipped 2 percent in December to 4.8 TWh.
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We must lead, particularly in efforts to develop the next generation of nuclear reactors.
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Heavy water reactors can more efficiently produce plutonium, which can be used in weapons.
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Irish has already selected sites in Ontario where Terrestrial could build the first reactors.
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Decommissioning of those reactors has started and the two others will be scrapped eventually.
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The shutdown created a glut of uranium used to make fuel for nuclear reactors.
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How many other nations among the 30 with power reactors have been equally complacent?
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China is building 24 reactors to produce power from nuclear fuel, according to Cameco.
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France relies on nuclear reactors run by EDF for three-quarters of its electricity.
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The Kingdom has invited bids from the world's top nuclear firms to build reactors.
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Second, small modular reactors could prove much cheaper to build over the long run.
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Likewise, small modular reactors might ultimately prove cheaper, but that's speculation at this point.
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Imagine the impact on local communities if one or more reactors is shut down.
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The kingdom is currently reviewing bids from international companies to build two nuclear reactors.
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Prior to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, reactors generated about 30% of Japan's total energy.
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The Cattenom plant has four nuclear reactors with a capacity of 1,300 megawatts each.
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A small handful of new plants or reactors are under construction domestically as well.
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The projects, using AP1000 reactors, were designed and being built by Pittsburg-based Westinghouse.
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The reactors and all other necessary equipment will be developed and supplied by Russia.
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There, components for two reactors each in Georgia and South Carolina would be manufactured.
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Le Bugey 4 and Cruas 2 reactors reported some load reductions early on Monday.
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Nearly 100 nuclear reactors in the US provide about 20% of the country's electricity.
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It's in the general class of salt reactors the U.S. has played around with.
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EDF plans to build two EPRs (European Pressurised Reactors) at Hinkley Point in Britain.
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Putin's recent successful visit to the Gulf, hawking weapons and nuclear reactors demonstrated that.
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There are more than 300 other nuclear reactors producing electricity in 30 other countries.
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Nuclear plants can hold up to two years worth of fuel in their reactors.
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It currently manages 58 French reactors which provide over 75 percent of France's electricity.
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After Fukushima's nuclear reactors melted, radiation made it across the Pacific Ocean to California.
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EDF also plans to build two more nuclear reactors at Sizewell in eastern England.
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But it also uses Pacific Ocean water to cool the reactors, harming marine species.
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Saudi Arabia's plans involve building two nuclear reactors by 2020, and sixteen by 2030.
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The Navy runs on nuclear energy, operating 2628 reactors on submarines and aircraft carriers.
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The number of reactors was more than the nine the NRC had previously disclosed.
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The Nordic country has two nuclear reactors, one in Halden and one outside Oslo.
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China gave the go-ahead to build four Westinghouse-designed AP1000 reactors in 2007.
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In the best cases, it takes about 10 years to bring new reactors online.
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The outage at the three reactors reduced French power generation by 2,700 megawatts (MW).
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The plant, with four reactors, has total capacity of 5,600 megawatts (MW) of electricity.
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Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are considering adopting similar rules to protect their reactors.
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EDF and RTE did not give reasons for the delays in restarting the reactors.
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FirstEnergy Solutions said shutting the reactors could result in the loss of 4,300 jobs.
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There are now 22018 reactors in operation, and another 250 under construction (see map).
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SMRs will, therefore, cost more than large reactors for each unit of generation capacity.
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Most of Japan's plutonium comes reprocessing spent nuclear fuel burned in the country's reactors.
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Since 2013, six reactors, including Dominion's Kewaunee in Wisconsin, have shut for economic reasons.
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New York and Illinois adopted rules to subsidize some of their reactors in 2016.
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The Belleville nuclear plant, located in central France, has two 1,300 megawatt capacity reactors.
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That includes four new AP1000 reactors currently being built in Georgia and South Carolina.
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Second, small modular reactors may prove much cheaper to build over the long run.
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Using nuclear reactors for marine propulsion, or on floating power plants, is not new.
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France has the world's second-largest fleet of nuclear reactors behind the United States.
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Owners are threatening to close nearly a dozen of the nation's nearly 100 reactors.
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So Yang proposes massive subsidies for two somewhat speculative alternatives to traditional nuclear reactors.
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Recently, it scaled back its initial plan to the construction of just two reactors.
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A Nimitz-class carrier has armaments and aircraft, nuclear reactors, and other complex systems.
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In addition to cutting costs, the solar reactors sped up the chemical reactions tested.
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Two reactors outside Houston are running at full capacity and suffered no serious damage.
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Whether it be turbines, reactors, trains or satellite launchers, China has mastered this procedure. ■
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Their output, depending on the level of enrichment, can fuel reactors or atom bombs.
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However, the final decision on whether the reactors are scrapped is a political one.
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The country is building 11 more nuclear reactors, to add to its existing 47.
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In some designs, next-generation reactors can even use preexisting nuclear waste as fuel.
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Uranium can be enriched for peaceful purposes, like to fuel reactors in power plants.
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RICK PERRY: The idea that small model reactors -- just, you know, settle down here.
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Fewer reactors were built than originally envisioned in the 225s, depressing demand for uranium.
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But when pressed during the town hall, both pledged not to build new reactors.
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In 1979, the plant experienced the partial meltdown of one of its two reactors.
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The strategy calls for eventual closure of the Swiss reactors, but without a deadline.
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It has two KLT-40C reactors which have a capacity of 35 megawatts each.
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The market ultimately forced a retreat, with the facility's two reactors closing by 2021.
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Neither were France and Germany, both of which use Russian HEU for domestic reactors.
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The 98 U.S. reactors today provide nearly 20 percent of the nation's electricity generation.
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Crews also prepared 16 nuclear reactors in the three-state region for the storm.
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Japan's chief government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said after the verdict that there was no change in Tokyo's stance on safety at the Takahama reactors or in its policy of promoting the restart of reactors that meet new safety standards imposed after Fukushima.
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The utility had to curb output at some reactors last year during a prolonged heatwave, as environmental regulations limit the volume of cooling water its nuclear reactors can pump out of rivers and how much warm water they can release during hot weather.
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Last year, EDF suffered extended unplanned outages as well as longer-than-expected maintenance outages at several of its 217.18 nuclear reactors in France, while the nuclear regulator ordered its four reactors in Tricastin, southern France, shut down for months for safety reasons.
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The ambitious 2016 nuclear plan, formalized in China's 13th five-year plan in March, includes completing 58 power reactors by 2020 and building perhaps another 100 gigawatt-sized reactors by 2030, when China would become the largest nuclear power producer in the world.
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PARIS, July 23 (Reuters) - French utility EDF will cut output at the two reactors at its St. Alban nuclear power plant from Tuesday evening due to scorching temperatures and dry weather which have limited its use of river water to cool the reactors.
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The two new French reactors are part of a plan bring up to 10 European Pressurised Reactors (EPR) designed by French nuclear technology company Areva on line by 20163, EDF said in the document, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters.
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The checks have delayed the restart of several reactors, forcing EDF to prolong their outage periods and raising fears that France, which depends on its 58 nuclear reactors for 75 percent of its electricity needs, could face a tight supply this winter.
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The United States should initiate an effort to competitively design and build a new generation of LEU-fueled high-performance research reactors that would satisfy all needs presently met by current HEU-fueled high-performance research reactors as well as provide new capabilities.
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"EDF is doing its best to have the maximum number of reactors online although as of today, ASN has not authorized us to restart some the reactors despite our request," Jean-Bernard Levy said the sidelines of an energy conference in Paris.
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Under that agreement, North Korea halted the construction of two reactors that could be used to produce fuel for nuclear weapons in exchange for oil and the promise of two light-water nuclear reactors that could produce energy but not weapons fuel.
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While Russian rival Rosatom has a $133 billion order book for new reactors worldwide, EDF's only foreign project is for two EPR reactors - of the same design as Flamanville - at Britain's Hinkley Point, in a contract with its own UK arm, EDF Energy.
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State-controlled utility EDF, which operates France's 58 nuclear reactors, has proposed to the government that it studies the shutdown of pairs of reactors at its Blayais, Bugey, Chinon, Cruas, Dampierre, Gravelines and Tricastin plants as part of the nuclear phase out.
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Mitazono, who will become the governor of Kagoshima prefecture on July 28, will have no legal power to shut down operating reactors, but his consent will be required to restart Sendai after the reactors are stopped for scheduled maintenance starting in October.
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Under the 85033 Agreed Framework, Pyongyang agreed to suspend its nuclear activities — particularly plutonium-producing heavy water reactors — in return for what amounted to bribes: fuel oil shipments and construction of two "proliferation resistant," but not proliferation proof, light water nuclear reactors (LWRs).
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However, increased availability of electricity from nuclear reactors will blunt demand, keeping pressure on prices.
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But none of these robots were capable of penetrating the innermost areas of the reactors.
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Back in 2013, the United States had 104 reactors supplying one-fifth of its electricity.
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Utilities in other states have gone through similar calculations and shut down their reactors early.
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Scientists see 6 percent fewer electron neutrinos coming out of nuclear reactors than they should.
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There was no suggestion that the problem identified at Olkiluoto 3 would affect other reactors.
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EDF Energy's 15 nuclear reactors in Britain provide about 20 percent of the country's electricity.
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Moreover, the business case for a new breed of small reactors below 300MW is improving.
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Median annual wage: $93,370Projected job growth through 2026: -10 percent These workers control nuclear reactors.
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The plant has two nuclear reactors and generates power to supply around 1.7 million homes.
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Eight reactors are currently lying idle and several may not restart for weeks or months.
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Median annual wage: $94,350Projected job growth through 2026: -10 percent These workers control nuclear reactors.
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The owners of the state's nuclear reactors include units of Exelon Corp and Entergy Corp.
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"There are a number of reactors that have shut down in recent years," Sheehan says.
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Heavy water is used in nuclear reactors that can produce plutonium, an alternative bomb fuel.
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Those reactors are of similar design to the plants already in operation around the world.
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The 10 additional reactors would be the latest design of India's Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor.
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Both nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors rely on fission to produce a powerful chain reaction.
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The AP1000 reactors are designed to have new safety features and a bigger generation capacity.
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Most U.S. reactors already have seen their licences extended to 60 years from 40 years.
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The two also aim to expand nuclear ties, with Russia building several reactors in India.
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Atomic power from France's 58 reactors accounts for over 75 percent of its electricity needs.
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Its 211 reactors supplied over 21 percent of the nation's energy needs before the disaster.
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Floating reactors were first proposed in the United States in the 1970s but then abandoned.
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Four nuclear reactors have already been temporarily closed in France due to the high heat.
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Atomic power from France's 13 reactors accounts for over 75 percent of its electricity needs.
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Uranium miners' hopes center on the 56 nuclear reactors under construction, including 19 in China.
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The scare provided a reminder that nuclear reactors are radiological mines that terrorists could exploit.
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It didn't matter; Jia worked in the protein reactors, diving in tanks full of nutrients.
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The company estimates that 439 nuclear reactors operated globally in 2015, down two from 2010.
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Damage to the reactors could mean the unit would be unable to make motor fuels.
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The utility uses water from the river to cool the two reactors at the plant.
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Down the road, we may see reactors that can consume nuclear waste (see diagram here).
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EDF and CGN also plan to build two more reactors at Sizewell in eastern England.
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The intergovernmental agreement covers construction and modernization of research nuclear reactors and nuclear medicine development.
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The guidelines will help low-level nuclear power reactors meet the requirements for being decommissioned.
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Some 1,600 Creusot components are installed across EDF's fleet of 58 nuclear reactors in France.
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Some of the challenges that face big reactors—in particular, safety—confront smaller ones too.
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SMRs have the edge when they can be placed in locations where big reactors cannot.
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Cooling and water circulation to keep the reactors in a safe state were not affected.
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Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery, instruments, pharmaceutical and chemical products, vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft, plastics and more.
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The industry also argued that axing the reactors would threaten deals to export nuclear technology.
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Westinghouse is part of IP3's proposed consortium to build nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia.
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The Department of Energy has promoted research into the small modular reactors that Perry mentioned.
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It worked: That choice is largely the reason pressurized-water reactors now dominate the industry.
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What they do, according to O*NET: Operate and maintain nuclear reactors in power plants.
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ASN will rule on a potential lifespan extension of EDF's nuclear reactors in 2020-21.
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Read more: Russia still has 10 Chernobyl-style reactors that scientists say aren't necessarily safe
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South Korea has 25 nuclear reactors, supplying about a third of the country's total electricity.
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Those include EPR reactors in Taishan in China, Olkiluoto in Finland and Flamanville in France.
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SCANA has previously partnered with Westinghouse to build a pair of since-scrapped nuclear reactors.
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Westinghouse marketed its new AP1000 reactors as cheaper to build and safer than older designs.
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Most U.S. reactors already have seen their licenses extended to 60 years from 40 years.
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Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said one focus will be development of small modular reactors.
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Decommissioning, which can take decades, involves dismantling reactors and removing the used fuel from them.
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Currently, FPL can operate the reactors for up to 60 years, until 2032 and 2033.
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Local governments have been calling for the decommission of all four reactors at Fukushima Daini.
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"Using spent fuel is really only good for a limited number of reactors," says Geveden.
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Argon gas at the bottom of the reactors carries the PFAS molecules to the surface.
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The majority of EDF's nuclear reactors were connected to the grid between 1980 and 1990.
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There is also work underway to improve the economics of nuclear energy using modular reactors.
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South Carolina Electric & Gas and Santee Cooper abandoned plans to build two reactors in 2017.
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Its 113 reactors supplied over 211 percent of the nation's energy needs before the disaster.
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Officials set up a perimeter for miles around the reactors, known as an exclusion zone.
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There are 81,500 tons of nuclear waste from commercial power reactors in the United States.
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Next, the Saudis want to build two commercial reactors and are shopping around for contractors.
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When completed Barakah will have four reactors with a total capacity of 5,600 megawatts (MW).
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Most of these changes, Lovering says, were ultimately good things — they made the reactors safer.
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Opponents counter that the reactors were inherently unsafe and cost overruns were a natural consequence.
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To control the rate of fission in a nuclear power plant, reactors use control rods.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Finland's Loviisa power plant, consisting of two reactors with a combined capacity of 1 gigawatt, had to reduce power by 170 megawatts on Wednesday as the sea water that is used to cool the reactors had become too warm, operator Fortum said.
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South Korea, the world's fifth-biggest user of nuclear power, has been eager to sell its nuclear reactors abroad since its state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) won a deal to build four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates in 2012.
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PARIS, Nov 15 (Reuters) - EDF will not be able to restart seven nuclear reactors undergoing safety checks for at least another 45 days, France's nuclear watchdog ASN said on Tuesday, suggesting a potential setback in EDF's plans to restart the reactors by the year-end.
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France, a net power exporter in Europe, which relies on its 285 nuclear reactors for 75 percent of its electricity needs, had to import heavily from neighbors last winter after nuclear regulator ASN ordered safety checks on a dozen reactors operated by utility EDF.
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First elected to parliament in 1996, Kono has said he wants Japan to commit to phasing out nuclear power by shutting down reactors when they reach 40 years of service, contrasting the government's policy of maintaining its nuclear reactors as a core energy source.
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CGN is awaiting regulatory approval to build two of its own nuclear reactors in Britain and has provided a third of the financing for the construction of two European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs) at Hinkley Point in order to secure future projects in the country.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will resume the suspended construction of two new nuclear reactors from midnight, its energy ministry said on Tuesday, but has torn up plans to build six more reactors as Seoul seeks to meet pledges to cut reliance on nuclear power.
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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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EDF said in a statement that its reactor building unit Framatome - formerly called Areva - had informed it of "a deviation from technical standards" in manufacturing of certain components on reactors that are currently in operation, notably the weldings on some of the reactors' steam generators.
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Nuclear reactors generate just over 20 percent of Britain's electricity and even before EDF Energy said last week it would need to shut down one of two reactors at the Hunterston B plant, almost half of that capacity was scheduled to go offline by 2025.
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The Hunterston plant has been offline since last year after cracks were found in the cores of its two reactors, while the two reactors at the Dungeness site are also currently offline and not expected to return to service until later in the year.
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That means South Korea's plan to build 11 nuclear reactors by 2029 could be under threat.
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Southern said it now expected the two reactors to be completed by the end of 2022.
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Generation IV reactors don't require elaborate external cooling systems like the ones that failed at Fukushima.
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If there's one unbreakable rule governing nuclear reactors, it's that they must be kept from overheating.
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Another two reactors are under construction in Georgia, as well as two more in South Carolina.
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Russia is separately building six reactors in southern India and is in talks for another six.
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FRENCH MINISTER HULOT SAYS SAYS GOVERNMENT WILL ASSESS WHICH NUCLEAR REACTORS TO CLOSE IN COMING YEAR
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On April 25, 1986, one of the reactors at the the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant malfunctioned.
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Four such reactors would be needed to fuel a Martian outpost, according to a NASA release.
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Graphite bricks ensure reactors can be cooled and thousands of them are used in reactor cores.
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Helium-3 is a clean, non-radioactive energy source that could potentially power nuclear fusion reactors.
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A related problem is all the radioactive water on site, a result of cooling those reactors.
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Now Russia is building floating nuclear plants with reactors taken from their nuclear powered icebreaker program.
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France depends on its 58 nuclear reactors for more than 75 percent of its electricity needs.
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But approvals have been slow with a variety of new advanced reactors subject to repeated delays.
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The two reactors in Somerset, southern England, are also a cornerstone of Britain's future power mix.
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The "Ampere" scenario would close 16 reactors and leave the share of nuclear at 46 percent.
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Two 1,100MW nuclear reactors that Chinese engineers are building west of Karachi have raised environmental concerns.
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A man photographs his girlfriend in front of the reactors, smiling and flashing a peace sign.
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RTE said the eight reactors were expected to be back on full capacity by Tuesday evening.
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Saudi Arabia plans to award a construction contract for its first two nuclear reactors in 2018.
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It was under the first Kim that North Korea began to build up its nuclear reactors.
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The 22007 billion pound ($22017 billion) nuclear reactors carry huge risks for both France and Britain.
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High water temperatures and sluggish flow limit the ability to use river water to cool reactors.
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Two reactors generate 2,000 megawatts of electricity, enough power to supply more than 1 million homes.
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Power generated by the reactors operated by EDF reached 32.7 terawatt hour (TWh) the company said.
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"Our priority is to demonstrate to the ASN that our reactors can operate safely," Girre said.
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Conventional reactors have a fundamental risk of meltdown, largely because they were designed to power submarines.
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High water temperatures and sluggish flows limit the ability to use river water to cool reactors.
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Fukushima officials and residents have demanded TEPCO decommission its remaining reactors, saying uncertainty has hampered reconstruction.
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Back in 2013, the United States had 104 nuclear reactors supplying one-fifth of its electricity.
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NuGen plans to build the reactors using technology from Toshiba's bankrupt U.S.-based nuclear arm Westinghouse.
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EDF said the earthquake had no impact on Blayais, which has four 900 megawatt capacity reactors.
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It forecasts that total to rise to 450 reactors this year and to 497 by 2025.
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Today, the world isn't even building enough new reactors to offset coming retirements (see chart here).
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The reactors are being developed by NuScale Power, a company whose major investor is Fluor Corp.
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A February poll by broadcaster NHK found that only 20% thought the reactors should be restarted.
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Most of it comes from reprocessing spent nuclear fuel burned in its reactors at power stations.
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Seven of the 12 reactors involved in the investigation are expected to restart on Dec. 31.
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The Rosatom reactors at the Ninh Thuan 1 plant were due to start operating in 2020.
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This is a grand dream for the future, where reactors big enough could have global impacts.
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The CNSC oversees Canada's 19 nuclear reactors, which generate about 17 percent of the nation's electricity.
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FirstEnergy Solutions has warned that shutting the reactors could result in the loss of 4,300 jobs.
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That same year, Hungary awarded Rosatom - without a tender - a contract for two reactors in Paks.
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He said Pakistan wanted to build at least 3-4 more big nuclear reactors by 2030.
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NuGen, solely owned by Toshiba, is expected to build three nuclear reactors in Moorside, northwest England.
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There are currently 85033 nuclear power plants operating in the country, though many have multiple reactors.
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New York and Illinois in 2016 established financial credits for nuclear reactors for emissions-free power.
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When removed from reactors, spent fuel rods are cooled under 23 feet (7 meters) of water.
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Currently, there are 85033 nuclear power plants with 99 operating nuclear reactors in the United States.
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Neutrinos are made in nuclear processes (think nuclear reactors and atomic explosions) and in particle accelerators.
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Some reactors have since come back online, but global inventories of the radioactive metal remain high.
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Ukraine operates four civilian power plants with 15 reactors, and several research institutes hold radioactive materials.
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This week, New Jersey's public utilities commission awarded clean-energy credits to three vintage nuclear reactors.
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Olkiluoto 3 will be one of the world's largest reactors with a capacity of 1.6 gigawatts.
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From the mid-1960s, reactors had been shutting down until the last one closed in 1987.
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Using KEPCO's own reactors could "give a better reason to join the project", the person said.
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Such a deal would have to be signed before the transfer of materials to build reactors.
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Basically stars are like massive nuclear reactors, fusing together elements until they run out of fuel.
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Small modular reactors may ultimately prove cheaper and more flexible, but that's speculation at this point.
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Plus cheaper natural gas has reduced the need to invest in risky and expensive nuclear reactors.
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In fact, most countries have suspended development of fast-neutron reactors for the last 15 years.
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Reactors in Japan are required to be shut for servicing after 13 months of commercial operation.
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The wall is not yet fully frozen, though, and groundwater continues to flow into the reactors.
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South Korea is building four reactors for the United Arab Emirates under a $20 billion contract.
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And cheap natural gas from hydraulic fracturing has forced some American nuclear reactors to cease operations.
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Vattenfall has invested in Forsmark to extend the lifespan of its reactors and increase their capacity.
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Scana has struggled since this summer when it abandoned two unfinished nuclear reactors in South Carolina.
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With its cooling systems offline, reactors at the site quickly overheated and triggered multiple hydrogen explosions.
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Spent fuel will also eventually be shipped here from Fortum's reactors, on the country's southeastern coast.
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Attempts to extend the lifetime of existing reactors, meanwhile, also run into economic and political hurdles.
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The accord bans plutonium reactors for 220006 years and stipulates Iran must dismantle its current one.
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The accord bans plutonium reactors for 28503 years and stipulates Iran must dismantle its current one.
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We should be replacing our old reactors with safer new ones and expanding the total number.
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Japan has been dogged for more than five years by the meltdown of reactors at Fukushima.
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Eighty-eight of the 96 operating U.S. reactors have already received their first 20-year extensions.
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The county lost about 5,000 jobs last summer when construction was halted on two nuclear reactors.
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The agency renewed the operating licenses of two reactors near Miami from 220 years to 280.
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Santee Cooper, a state-owned utility, has increased rates five times to pay for the reactors.
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About 23.5 tons of water passes through the reactors every day, including groundwater that seeps in.
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The water picks up radiation in the reactors and then is diverted into a decontamination facility.
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Over the years, a handful of attempts to fund research into thorium reactors have fallen flat.
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Nearly half of the country's working nuclear reactors will go off-line for required security upgrades.
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But in the meantime, Bezos could invest in advanced nuclear fission energy like small modular reactors.
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LNG usage should fall further as overall energy demand declines and the country reopens nuclear reactors.
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It has been trying to renew the licenses for the two Indian Point reactors since 2007.
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It entered service in 1969, making it one of the oldest operating reactors in the country.
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Progressively shutting down the country's nuclear reactors over time had been part of the original plan.
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To achieve those goals, Wolf recommended implementing policies to keep the state's nuclear reactors in service.
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Kyushu Electric had a similar schedule for the two reactors it wants to restart at Genkai.
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Areva is also due to play a crucial role in extending the lifespan of EDF's reactors.
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And Florida Power & Light's NRC-approved additional two reactors at Turkey Point may never come online.
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If Westinghouse is unable to complete the reactors, it puts the states in an unenviable position.
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China is currently building 20 reactors at an average of one new reactor every five months.
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One reason is that it barely uses any nuclear fuel, at least compared with existing reactors.
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Enter the small modular reactor, designed to allow several reactors to be combined into one unit.
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Reactors in Japan are required to be shut for maintenance after 13 months of commercial operation.
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The Chernobyl reactor also lacked important safety features, like containment domes, common to all US reactors.
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South Korea currently operates 25 nuclear reactors, which supply about a third of the country's electricity.
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But over the next decade, at least eight of these reactors are scheduled to shut down.
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They mostly do minor repairs, but they can work on more complex systems like nuclear reactors.
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Swedish industry groups — heavy electricity users like Volvo or steelmaker SSAB — lobbied to save the reactors.
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Some products were included for reasons of national security, like components for nuclear reactors and aircraft.
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The two reactors at the plant were operating at or near full power earlier on Wednesday.
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Kashiwazaki's Mayor Masahiro Sakurai demanded in 2017 that Tepco submit plans to shut at least one of the No. 1 to No. 5 reactors in return for approval of the restart of reactors No. 6 and No. 7, a city official told Reuters by phone on Monday.
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Under the "Agreed Framework," North Korea halted construction of two reactors the United States believed were for nuclear weapons production in exchange for two alternative nuclear power reactors that could be used to provide electricity but not bomb fuel, and 500,000 metric tons of annual oil supply.
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Trump's decision to not help SCANA with its reactors dealt a blow to the industry, and what the Energy Department decides to do with Southern's reactors will be, at the risk of overstating it, a make or break it moment for the industry for the foreseeable future.
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The Clinton administration promised him two proliferation-resistant reactors—that is, reactors from which North Korea would not have been able to derive weapons-gradenuclear material—economic aid and an easing of sanctions if he agreed to freeze and then dismantle the country's nuclear-weapons programme.
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In the past five years, operators have shut six reactors amid stagnant electricity demand and low natural gas and power prices, and plan to shut another six reactors in deregulated states over the next five years, in part because they cannot compete with gas-fired plants.
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Although Turkey Point's main reactors are 20 feet above sea level, the plant's diesel-powered backup generators, which keep cooling water circulating through the reactors when power is knocked out, are less elevated and less well insulated, according to Phil Stoddard, the mayor of South Miami.
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Every day, as much as 165 tons of groundwater seeps into the reactors, becoming contaminated with radiation.
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But a Russian source told Reuters the estimated cost of the two reactors is around $12.5 billion.
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The two VVER-1200 pressurized water reactors will be operational in 2024 and 2025 respectively, he said.
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Nuclear power will contribute about 10 percent of the country's energy mix when both reactors are ready.
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South Korea, the world's fifth-biggest nuclear power user, is seeking to export its nuclear reactors abroad.
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Availability could improve if its Cruas 38.653 and Cattenom 238.65 reactors restart as planned later on Wednesday.
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When all its reactors are up an running, EDF can produce up to 2910 TWH per year.
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Today, most fusion reactors use a mix of hydrogen isotopes called deuterium and tritium as nuclear fuel.
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Combined, the two reactors at Hunterston can provide enough electricity to power more than 1.7 million homes.
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Tougher safety checks have failed to reassure the nuclear-phobic public that the reactors can be restarted.
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Even if it someday works, most of the reactors supposed to use its MOX fuel are offline.
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Vogtle's two reactors were originally supposed to cost $14 billion and be online in 2016 and 2017.
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TEPCO has applied to Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) to restart two of the plant's seven reactors.
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The 99 nuclear reactors operating in the United States provide about 20 percent of the nation's power.
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And the uranium would still have to be fabricated into nuclear fuel rods for use in reactors.
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Radioactive waste is stored onsite at the nearly 100 reactors around the country, stoking fears and opposition.
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The final price tags of the only new U.S. reactors under construction today could exceed $30 billion.
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These next-generation reactors are all being built at existing plant sites, which helps minimize public opposition.
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Saudi Arabia is reviewing bids by firms from several countries to build nuclear reactors in the kingdom.
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The Indian Point Energy Center is home to three nuclear reactors, only two of which are active.
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Pyongyang constantly complained about delayed oil shipment and the construction of the reactors that were never delivered.
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According to the World Nuclear Association, operations are ongoing to build containment units around the nuclear reactors.
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The kingdom has its own ambitious nuclear plans: 16 reactors, at a cost of up to $3003bn.
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Fresh delays to the restart of eight EDF reactors boosted European prompt power prices early on Tuesday.
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All TEPCO's reactors were shut down following the meltdown at its nuclear plant in Fukushima in 2011.
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Maintaining America's nuclear arsenal, disposing of radioactive waste, and producing nuclear reactors would all fall under Perry.
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The four reactors operating in New Jersey are capable of generating over 22050,2100 megawatts (MW) of electricity.
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Besides France, Russia is the only country that reprocesses fuel, which it uses in two breeder reactors.
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That has two reactors that generate about 1,600 megawatts of electricity, or enough for about 900,000 homes.
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The money will be mainly used for building four nuclear reactors in southern Guangdong and Guangxi provinces.
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The group hosted leaders from 17 sectors, which included emergency services, water systems and even nuclear reactors.
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"The estimated restart date of the Tricastin reactors is November 27, 2017 as at today," EDF said.
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The regulator had said in September that the restart of the reactors were subject to its approval.
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He expects France will eventually build some 30 EPR reactors to replace its current fleet, he added.
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Germany has just under 10,000 MW of reactors left and will gradually phase them out by 2022.
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EDF had warned last week that extreme weather could force it to limit production from the reactors.
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Russian and South Korean companies have already expressed interest in bidding on the reactors in Saudi Arabia.
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Turkey Point's reactors rest inside six feet of concrete strengthened with steel, according to The Miami Herald.
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Between 27 and 2000, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the construction of four brand new nuclear reactors.
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"This is a major blow to Japanese ambitions to, finally, export their first nuclear reactors," said Schneider.
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FPL also closed the two reactors at Turkey Point, shutting one unit on Saturday as Irma approached.
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Of the current 15 operating reactors, six will reach the end of their design lives by 2020.
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Innovative technologies like molten salt reactors safely create power that is both carbon free and highly reliable.
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Today it is, and nuclear innovators are responding by making reactors safer, scalable, and more cost-effective.
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But even for advanced reactors, there are several easy and obvious steps that have not been taken.
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But whatever the merits of the decision to mothball all reactors, nuclear power remains unpopular in Japan.
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Utilities in the U.S. state of South Carolina abandoned construction of two of those reactors in July.
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Such government investment led to cheap natural gas, the first nuclear reactors, and lower cost solar panels.
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The biggest headwinds are huge costs for new reactors and competition from cheap natural gas and renewables.
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The two nuclear reactors on the barge can produce up to 70 megawatts of electricity, Rosatom says.
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Rather than mothballing nuclear technologies such as molten salt reactors, the U.S. should develop and advance them.
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But for now, completing the Vogtle reactors and the MOX fuel facility are good places to start.
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The Death Star has multiple reactors, which, when united, can cause the total destruction of a planet.
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Groundwater flowing from hills above the plant enters the reactors, where it mixes with highly radioactive debris.
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The site, north of the existing Sizewell B power station, would include two new European-designed reactors.
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Norway does not have nuclear power stations and its two research reactors only study nuclear safety issues.
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Entergy has been trying to renew the federal licenses for the two Indian Point reactors since 2007.
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The reactors weren't all built at once, but over a twenty year period from 1943 to 1963.
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The results of the checks on the reactors will be submitted to French nuclear safety authority ASN.
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Seventy five percent of all reactors currently under construction or planned globally are from Russia or China.
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EDF operates France's 58 nuclear reactors, which account for over 75 percent of the country's electricity needs.
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Other goals, including the removal of spent fuel rods stored inside the reactors, are still further off.
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One possibility for new nuclear reactor construction comes from what are called the Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).
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SMRs, as the name suggests, produce relatively small amounts of electricity in comparison with currently operational reactors.
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All but two of Japan's reactors have been shut down since the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011.
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Two EDF nuclear reactors have also been shut for months following problems related to Creusot-made parts.
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KEPCO aims to build six more reactors abroad by 2025, targeting markets like Britain and South Africa.
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Several provisions on plutonium, including forbidding the construction of new heavy water reactors, last for 15 years.
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The two reactors at full capacity can provide enough electricity to power more than 1.7 million homes.
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Pennsylvania's nine nuclear reactors provide thousands of jobs and most of the state's non-carbon emitting generation.
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Washington needs to make it simpler for innovators who are building state-of-the-art nuclear reactors.
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When those reactors retire, wind and solar usually cannot expand fast enough to replace the lost power.
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Russia has agreed to build four nuclear reactors in Turkey, but the effort is seriously behind schedule.
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Four other nuclear reactors are under construction and could join the fleet within the next four years.
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Nine reactors have been restarted, the most since the Fukushima disaster caused the shutdown of the sector.
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The two reactors, which have cost the utilities roughly $9 billion, remain less than 40 percent built.
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Oklo's reactor, known as Aurora, will be a lot different from the reactors on the grid today.
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But in the past, producing these nanoparticles meant baking them in reactors at around 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit.
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EDF said nuclear power production at its reactors in Britain fell 11.8% in September to 4.5 TWh.
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TWR technology uses depleted uranium and is more fuel-efficient and cheaper to run than conventional reactors.
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FPL also received approval in April 2018 to construct two additional reactors at the low-lying site.
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She opposes EDF extending the life of its oldest reactors, saying it should instead start decommissioning them.
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The 100,000 ton Nimitz-class vessel is powered by two nuclear reactors and carriers almost 100 aircraft.
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The country's use of LNG in power generation has been declining this year as more reactors return.
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Almost all of the United States' nuclear-generating capacity comes from reactors built between 1967 and 1990.
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It has about 45 nuclear power reactors in operation and 15 under construction, according to the WNA.
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Negotiations over the construction of next-generation nuclear reactors in India have been dragging on for years.
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The gigawatts of electricity produced for millions of people by these reactors has emitted no air pollutants.
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But while he has characterized nuclear reactors as dangerous downstate, he has said they are critical upstate.
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It said the faults had no impact on the environment or on those working at the reactors.
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On June 22040, it cost 21 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) to operate these reactors, on average.
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China and South Korea can build reactors at one-sixth the current cost in the United States.
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Back in the 1960s, new reactors in the US were one of the cheaper energy sources around.
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A rule that forces reactors to limit the temperature of its water discharge can be dealt with.
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That explains why some companies are now focused on building smaller modular reactors — 300 megawatts or less.
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Tepco may take steps to decommission more than one of the No. 1 to No. 5 reactors within 5 years after the restart of the No.6 and No.7 reactors if its is confident it can secure enough non-fossil fuel energy sources, according to the statement.
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Separately, RTE said that the unplanned outages caused by the strike had reduced output at seven of France's 58 nuclear reactors, cutting electricity output from the reactors by nearly 3 GW. The power generation plants are expected to resume full production by 2100 GMT on Tuesday, RTE said.
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China is building more reactors at home than any other country, and its state-owned nuclear companies are beginning to enter the international market in Pakistan, Argentina and the UK. Russia's Rosatom, already an established exporter, is providing reactors for plants in Eastern Europe, India, Bangladesh and Turkey.
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An EDF spokesman said on Tuesday it was too early to say whether the problems could lead to reactor closures, but he added that several of EDF's reactors were affected by welding anomalies and that the firm would provide more detail on individual reactors in the coming days.
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The long series of technical problems - both at its existing fleet of 58 nuclear reactors and at the EPR reactors under construction in Flamanville and in Olkiluoto, Finland - have tarnished EDF's image as a leader in nuclear technology and weighed on its ability to sell nuclear plants abroad.
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That, in turn, requires that the nuclear-powered subs be fitted with bigger reactors—a fiendish technical challenge.
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But EDF internal documents show it plans to build two new reactors by 2030 to renew its fleet.
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China has ambitions to become a top nuclear vendor, although it has little experience of building reactors abroad.
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Nuclear reactors operate 24/7 providing baseload electricity — they can't ramp their output up or down very easily.
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As for new nuclear reactors that could replace the old ones, there are only five on the horizon.
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Many European reactors are reaching the end of their lives and showing defects that ultimately cannot be fixed.
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Sweden, which also has nuclear reactors, tends to have the cheapest electricity prices during most of the year.
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And, of course, we need to know about any possible hidden or underground nuclear reactors or reprocessing facilities.
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For example, in 2016 Iran twice exceeded that amount of heavy water in nuclear reactors it could have.
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Nonetheless, state utility EDF said it was delaying planned maintenance outages at two nuclear reactors by a week.
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In short, adding helium-3 into the mix would make fusion reactors non-radioactive and incredibly more efficient.
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A bipartisan group of senators also pushed through a bill that would speed advanced nuclear reactors to market.
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Even with the NRA safety approvals, the restart of reactors at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa are still likely years away.
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It has approved only eight of them so far, and just two reactors are currently operating (see map).
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Meanwhile, an anti-nuclear governor is suing to get one of the two working reactors shut down again.
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About 45 more nations are interested in developing their own new reactors, according to the World Nuclear Association.
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Moreover, even if Japan manages to restart a few more of its reactors, many of them are old.
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Finland's four nuclear reactors operate at among the world's highest utilisation rates, and supply 26% of its electricity.
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The two reactors could ultimately produce 7 percent of British electricity and create 25,000 jobs, according to EDF.
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First Light Fusion predicts that reactors using its technology will be in place some time in the 2030s.
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The other reactor, Oyster Creek, is owned by Exelon Corp, which also owns part of the Salem reactors.
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SNPTC will build two additional reactors at Haiyang in Shandong province, where Westinghouse is also building two AP1000s.
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Sheffield University's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre is pioneering new ways of 3D printing and building modular nuclear reactors.
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Atomic Alchemy builds tiny, privately-owned reactors from off-the-shelf parts in order to generate nuclear medicine.
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The 2011 Fukushima meltdown led to shutdowns of all of Japan's nuclear reactors, depressing the radioactive metal's price.
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Japan has eight reactors operating and many are still going through a relicensing process under the new standards.
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Recently, the United States' bet on conventional water-cooled reactors has been going bad in very expensive ways.
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Hurricane Sandy in 2012 caused three reactors in the U.S. Northeast to shut but inflicted no serious damage.
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EDF uses water from the Rhone to cool the two 1,335 megawatt (MW) capacity reactors at St. Alban.
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Fortuitously, reactors 220 through 2000 had been shut down for inspections, but 4 was damaged during the explosions.
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The decommissioning under consideration would mean all 10 of TEPCO&aposs reactors in Fukushima will be dismantled eventually.
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I mean, Clinton and Carter went over there and built two nuclear reactors, gave them millions of dollars.
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"We are going to close some nuclear reactors and it won't be just a symbolic move," he said.
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The Tricastin reactors, which have a combined capacity of 3,600 megawatts, were scheduled to resume production next week.
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"The reactors continue to bleed radiation into the ground water and thence into the Pacific Ocean," Gundersen said.
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Nine reactors, including Ikata No. 3, have received regulatory approval to restart, with seven of them in operation.
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"None (of these reports) is cause for worry and there is no need to close reactors," he said.
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