• The larger, much faster container ships eventually powered by advanced nuclear reactors that do not pollute the air or the sea and which power the ports in which they call, would be immune to these entirely. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • The results of the dispersion calculations were combined with the likelihood of a nuclear meltdown and the actual density of reactors worldwide to calculate the current risk of radioactive contamination around the world. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • Terrani sheds more details about the novel project and the role it may play in boosting faster adoption of advanced nuclear reactors. (powermag.com)
  • With an estimated international spend of around £930 billion for building new reactors and £250 billion for decommissioning those coming offline, there is potential for the generation of 40,000 jobs in the UK nuclear sector alone. (lancaster.ac.uk)
  • With a total installed capacity of 3760MWe from six reactors, Kozloduy is one of the largest nuclear power plants in the world. (neimagazine.com)
  • The nuclear industry has from its inception recognized the important role of fast reactors and related fuel cycles in ensuring the long term sustainability of nuclear power. (iaea.org)
  • Fast reactors operated in a closed fuel cycle help to improve the utilization of resources - both fissile and fertile materials - used in nuclear fuels. (iaea.org)
  • In this way, fast reactors and related fuel cycle technologies can make an enormous contribution to the sustainability of nuclear energy production. (iaea.org)
  • Fuel in three of the reactor cores melted, and radiation releases from the damaged reactors contaminated a wide area surrounding the plant and forced the evacuation of nearly half a million residents. (ucsusa.org)
  • Its atoms are more easily split apart in nuclear reactors. (nrdc.org)
  • In the United States, as of January 1, 2022, there are 55 commercially operating nuclear power plants running 93 nuclear reactors in 28 states. (nrdc.org)
  • Over the next few years, a few reactors are scheduled to be shut down , including California's last nuclear reactor in 2025. (nrdc.org)
  • The NRC has approved a license renewal for more than 75 percent of U.S. nuclear reactors, the average age of which is currently 40 years old. (nrdc.org)
  • And while keeping a nuclear reactor operating for 80 years is itself unprecedented, the NRC is already discussing a third round of license extensions to allow reactors to operate for 100 years. (nrdc.org)
  • These aging nuclear reactors cannot compete economically with other low-carbon energy sources, like solar and wind, or with investments in energy efficiency. (nrdc.org)
  • However, 104 nuclear power reactors still operate here, producing the same radioactive elements found in bomb test fallout, and people living downwind are routinely exposed to low levels of radioactivity. (organicconsumers.org)
  • Entergy Nuclear of Jackson, Miss. acquired Vermont Yankee in 2002 as part of its campaign to buy aging reactors to maximize their output and profit potential. (organicconsumers.org)
  • Different types of nuclear reactors require different designs of fuel assemblies, so each shipment is tailored to the specific nuclear plant receiving the assemblies. (duke-energy.com)
  • Nuclear reactors support energy independence by ensuring the reliable availability of clean, resilient and affordable power," the Energy Department said in March, announcing a second funding application period for aging plants. (fox59.com)
  • Fusion systems company SHINE Technologies has notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that it intends to submit a license application to build and operate a pilot used nuclear fuel. (ans.org)
  • The Nuclear Regulatory Commission hasgranted a request by Holtec Decommissioning International (HDI) to revise the emergency preparedness plan for the Indian Point Energy Center. (ans.org)
  • Even if this result is conservatively rounded to one major accident every 5,000 reactor years, the risk is 200 times higher than the estimate for catastrophic, non-contained core meltdowns made by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) in 1990. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licenses plants for 40 years, and then the plant's owners can apply to renew the license for an additional 20 years. (nrdc.org)
  • Since March 1993, utilities have submitted 99 requests to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for licenses to expand reactor capacity, and the NRC has approved all 99. (organicconsumers.org)
  • They note its years of mechanical problems, including what the Nuclear Regulatory Commission described as among the nation's worst cases of nuclear fuel container weakening. (fox59.com)
  • The challenge was to stop the hot core from potentially seeping into the ground or-worse-30 meters lower to water table, where radiation could potentially reach the Ukrainian capital Kiev and the Black Sea. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • MUSIC] The radiation levels are still so high humans can't go near the core. (cnet.com)
  • The IAEA has repeatedly expressed concern that the fighting could cause a potential radiation leak from the facility, which is one of the world's 10 biggest nuclear power stations. (businessmirror.com.ph)
  • But when a neutron strikes the nucleus of certain atoms-uranium, for example-this atomic center can break into pieces in a process called nuclear fission, releasing enormous energy in the form of heat and radiation. (nrdc.org)
  • If uncontrolled, that chain reaction could produce so much heat that the nuclear reactor core itself could actually melt and release dangerous radiation. (nrdc.org)
  • Half a century ago, as America produced and exploded hundreds of atomic bombs (1054 nuclear tests in all, 331 in the atmosphere), public officials assured everyone that low-dose radiation exposures were harmless. (organicconsumers.org)
  • To help promote the so-called nuclear renaissance, health risks from low-level radiation are once again being ignored or denied - even though evidence of harm exists. (organicconsumers.org)
  • It appears that citizens in the densely populated southwestern part of Germany run the worldwide highest risk of radioactive contamination, associated with the numerous nuclear power plants situated near the borders between France, Belgium, and Germany, and the dominant westerly wind direction. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • Germany's exit from the nuclear energy program will reduce the national risk of radioactive contamination. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • This cramped crawl space is the heart of a nuclear reactor in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, site of the most severe radioactive hotspot in the world. (cnet.com)
  • Both units have containment buildings constructed in pre-stressed concrete to hold the effect of any radioactive release in accordance with latest international nuclear safety requirements. (neimagazine.com)
  • We drive the highest standards of safety and security in the global transport of nuclear and radioactive materials. (wnti.co.uk)
  • As nuclear explosions go, the US "Cactus" bomb test in May 1958 was relatively small-but it has left a lasting legacy for the Marshall Islands in a dome-shaped radioactive dump. (phys.org)
  • Although U.S. nuclear power plant regulators monitor operational safety, natural hazards (such as hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes), human error, mechanical failure, and design flaws can still trigger the release of radioactive contamination. (nrdc.org)
  • This is uncharted risk territory," said Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist for a group called Beyond Nuclear, who vowed to "fight this proposal at every turn" after Holtec pitched it during a March 20 NRC meeting. (fox59.com)
  • The 137Cs isotope is a product of the nuclear fission of uranium. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • The nuclear fuel is uranium-235 and the propellant is hydrogen. (nasa.gov)
  • Most nuclear power plants use enriched uranium as their fuel to produce electricity. (nrdc.org)
  • Nuclear power plants employ a controlled atomic fission reaction, splitting uranium atoms to create heat to boil water to make steam to turn a turbine to generate electricity. (organicconsumers.org)
  • Consider the case of the VanEck Uranium+Nuclear Energy ETF ( NLR C+ ) . (etfdb.com)
  • NLR , which tracks the MVIS Global Uranium & Nuclear Energy Index, turned 15 years old last month and is home to 25 stocks. (etfdb.com)
  • Aside from funding reactor projects directly, Congress is supporting activities such as early-stage R&D, reactor licensing reforms, development of specialized uranium fuel supplies, and assistance to communities hosting fossil fuel plants that will transition to advanced nuclear power. (etfdb.com)
  • If a single nuclear meltdown were to occur in Western Europe, around twenty-eight million people on average would be affected by contamination of more than forty kilobecquerels per square meter. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • One of the biggest safety lessons of Chernobyl for Russian technology is a structure called a "core-catcher"-a steel vessel, water-cooled, built directly under a reactor to catch the molten reactor core in case of meltdown . (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Japan Nuclear Meltdown: It's Much, Much Worse Than It Looks (Thanks To The Stupidity of Nuclear Engineers! (infiniteunknown.net)
  • BLANK_AUDIO] In 2011, a 9.0 earthquake triggered a tsunami with 50-foot waves that devastated the plant's powers supply so it could not longer cool all the nuclear rods. (cnet.com)
  • Battery power was quickly exhausted, and overheating fuel in the plant's operating reactor cores led to hydrogen explosions that severely damaged three of the reactor buildings. (ucsusa.org)
  • Fission is a nuclear reaction and is the plant's source of energy. (duke-energy.com)
  • Among the losses was the damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor that lost onsite power and was unable to cool the reactor cores. (cdc.gov)
  • An initial physics test program determined core excess reactivity, flux and power distribution, control rod group and pattern worths, and power-peaking values for various control rod patterns. (trb.org)
  • Core physics tests included measurements of operating reactivity coefficients and calibrations of various control rod Groups. (trb.org)
  • Application of the triplet-DNP technique to nuclear physics, material and life sciences is proceeding. (riken.jp)
  • Physics of Nuclear Kinetics. (nuclear-power.com)
  • U.S. Department of Energy, Nuclear Physics and Reactor Theory. (nuclear-power.com)
  • Recent studies have shown that HIV-1 cores enter the nucleus prior to capsid disassembly 3 - 5 . (biorxiv.org)
  • And within each atom is a nucleus, a tightly packed core that holds protons and neutrons bound together by what's known as the strong nuclear force. (nrdc.org)
  • Studies of beta decay, which involves an electron and antineutrino being emitted from a nucleus, can reveal new properties of the weak nuclear force-one of the four fundamental forces in the universe. (phys.org)
  • The nuclear Equation of State (EoS) is an important component in the evolution and subsequent explosion of core collapse supernovae. (epj-conferences.org)
  • The research subjects include isospin dependences of nuclear equation of state, spin-isospin responses of exotic nuclei, new correlations at low-densities (with SAMURAI and SHARAQ spectrometers), mass measurements of short-lived nuclei (with the Rare RI Ring). (riken.jp)
  • Chernobyl is considered the world's worst nuclear disaster to date. (ucsusa.org)
  • The United States is the world's largest producer of nuclear energy, accounting for more than 30 percent of global nuclear electricity generation. (nrdc.org)
  • Organization (WHO) has been in existence, member and strengthening of national systems and infrastructure states have made use of the constitutional provision (referred to as core capacities). (cdc.gov)
  • Joint external evaluation of IHR core capacities of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. (who.int)
  • National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) was drafted based on the recommendations of Joint External Evaluation (JEE) of IHR core capacities. (who.int)
  • IHR "core capacities" are those required to detect, assess, capacity and readiness to respond to chemical events. (who.int)
  • The health sector may not nean Region (EMR) in implementing IHR core capacities necessarily be the lead agency in all aspects of management concerning chemical events. (who.int)
  • WNTI members', CORE POWER, ABS and Lloyd's Register have events scheduled during London International Shipping Week 2023. (wnti.co.uk)
  • Our aim at Core Power is to create an integrated power system where the ship is fuelled for life, which is 20-30 years depending on the type of ship, which in turn avoids handling spent nuclear fuels in ports. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • Holtec Decommissioning International bought the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station last June for the stated purpose of dismantling it, weeks after previous owner Entergy shut it down. (fox59.com)
  • The International Atomic Energy Agency said its experts deployed at the Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant reported hearing numerous explosions over the past week, in a possible indication of increased military activity in the region. (businessmirror.com.ph)
  • ANS is pleased to introduce the online Buyers Guide database, which includes content published in both the Nuclear News and Radwaste Solutions annual print directories. (ans.org)
  • The Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy will provide an update to the San Onofre Community Engagement Panel (CEP) on spent fuel transportation preparations on Thursday, October. (ans.org)
  • How could nuclear energy transform commercial shipping? (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • In light of our findings I believe an internationally coordinated phasing out of nuclear energy should also be considered," adds the atmospheric chemist. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • As a global debate rages over nuclear power's future as a safe and clean energy source, Russia is. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • The systematic analyses for compliance of the units with the current safety requirements and the internationally adopted codes and practices began in 1990 and was initiated by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safety review and World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) missions. (neimagazine.com)
  • For such nuclear energy systems to become viable for industrial deployment in the coming decades, designers will have to increase their level of safety in order to gain public acceptance. (iaea.org)
  • What Is Nuclear Energy? (nrdc.org)
  • Nuclear energy comes from the core of an atom. (nrdc.org)
  • Nuclear power comes from the energy that is released in the process of nuclear fission. (nrdc.org)
  • In fission, the nuclear fuel is placed in a nuclear reactor core and the atoms making up the fuel are broken into pieces, releasing energy. (nrdc.org)
  • While the energy produced in a nuclear reactor could also be used in other industrial and chemical processes, these other uses have not been adopted (except in some isolated cases), due to concerns over safety, security, and cost. (nrdc.org)
  • You're going to talk with her today just to tease here about nuclear propulsion or other forms of nuclear energy and how handy those would be out there beyond Earth. (planetary.org)
  • The energy heats the water in the reactor and the neutrons split other atoms, thus perpetuating the nuclear chain reaction. (duke-energy.com)
  • One of the great advantages of producing energy at a nuclear plant is that refueling occurs only once every 18-24 months. (duke-energy.com)
  • The remaining fuel is carefully relocated in the reactor to maximize the energy use from each fuel assembly, and the new fuel assemblies are loaded into the core. (duke-energy.com)
  • Nuclear Generation - On track to a cleaner energy future. (duke-energy.com)
  • Nuclear energy is getting its day in the spotlight again, and that probably won't be transitory. (etfdb.com)
  • Once viewed as controversial in a bygone era of energy policy debate, nuclear is back in style in a big way for a simple reasons: It's one of the cleanest, perhaps most dependable form of renewable energy. (etfdb.com)
  • Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm previously voiced support for nuclear, saying it's essential that it be part of a broader renewable energy agenda. (etfdb.com)
  • Nuclear fusion has long been considered the "holy grail" of energy research. (discovermagazine.com)
  • In order to generate power from a fusion reaction, you must first inject it with sufficient energy to catalyze nuclear fusion at a meaningful rate. (discovermagazine.com)
  • At the same time, fast neutrons favour fission of heavy atoms, instead of capture, so they can also be used to transmute minor actinides, thereby reducing the demands on geological repositories for the final disposal of nuclear waste. (iaea.org)
  • It argued that the sanctions on Russian flights imposed by the U.S. and its allies, visa restrictions and other obstacles effectively have made it impossible for Russian military experts to visit U.S. nuclear weapons sites, giving the U.S. "unilateral advantages. (wkrn.com)
  • Take action to expand recognition and compensation for nuclear weapons victims. (ucsusa.org)
  • The most frightening aspect of the present threatening situation, which was not relevant before the start of the two world wars, is that all the three involved countries have the biggest stocks of nuclear weapons. (countercurrents.org)
  • In addition six other countries also have nuclear weapons. (countercurrents.org)
  • Eric Schlosser, a widely acclaimed writer on nuclear weapons, has spoken at length to top officials and commanders at various stages of planning and control of nuclear weapons. (countercurrents.org)
  • In addition he has close contacts with peace movements struggling for a world free from nuclear weapons. (countercurrents.org)
  • He has written that these very different persons all share a very strong and sincere desire to avoid actual use of nuclear weapons. (countercurrents.org)
  • The reason why both these sections share this strong belief is that both groups are well-informed about what actual use of nuclear weapons means. (countercurrents.org)
  • Schlosser has written, "The latest studies suggest that a relatively small nuclear exchange (relative to the total number of nuclear weapons that exist in world) would have long-term effects across the globe. (countercurrents.org)
  • While this has been written in the context of the use of 100 nuclear weapons of roughly the destructiveness of Hiroshima weapon, the total number of nuclear weapons in the world is over 13,000 and the destructive capacity of many such weapons is much higher than the bomb used on the people of Hiroshima. (countercurrents.org)
  • It is clear that apart from killing millions of people immediately, exchange of nuclear weapons can lead to unprecedented environmental catastrophe which can kill an even larger number of people while also destroying other life-forms like never before. (countercurrents.org)
  • Some strategists have argued that there can be a less catastrophic role for nuclear weapons in the form of tactical nuclear weapons. (countercurrents.org)
  • A nuclear war started with tactical weapons can easily spill into a full-blown nuclear war if the opposing side also has nuclear weapons. (countercurrents.org)
  • Secondly, use of even tactical nuclear weapons can be very destructive, even for the using country! (countercurrents.org)
  • Pakistan in particular has been keen to develop tactical nuclear weapons in recent times as it feels that this can be one way of checking and defeating an invasion by a country with superior conventional war capability and bigger economic resources. (countercurrents.org)
  • In the much earlier days of the cold war the NATO had stocked a lot of tactical nuclear weapons in West Germany to check a possible Soviet invasion. (countercurrents.org)
  • It was realized only then that German civilian deaths from the use of tactical nuclear weapons on its own land can be higher than total German civilian deaths in the Second World War! (countercurrents.org)
  • Moreover when tactical nuclear weapons have to be prepared for use then control has to be more dispersed and scattered. (countercurrents.org)
  • It is therefore not at all proper to be under the false impression that tactical weapons provide some form of safer nuclear weapons. (countercurrents.org)
  • Government-funded research found that nuclear weapons workers and those exposed to fallout from atomic bomb tests in Nevada suffered from cancer in large numbers. (organicconsumers.org)
  • According to the naval architecture and marine engineering we have today, these are the speeds that modern hulls are already capable of, and so it's more a matter of having a power rating that stretches out the advanced nuclear fuel cycle in a way that avoids refuelling and creates a practical maintenance regime of the power systems onboard. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • In this the second-part of three-part series where we examine the phases of the nuclear fuel cycle. (duke-energy.com)
  • Be sure to stop by next week to read the third part of the nuclear fuel cycle series. (duke-energy.com)
  • 1%). These other sources include occupational exposure, nuclear fallout, and the nuclear fuel cycle. (cdc.gov)
  • The core also contains structural components, the means to both moderate the neutrons and control the reaction, and the means to transfer the heat from the fuel to where it is required, outside the core. (wikipedia.org)
  • Also inside the core are control rods, filled with pellets of substances like boron or hafnium or cadmium that readily capture neutrons. (wikipedia.org)
  • When the control rods are lowered into the core, they absorb neutrons, which thus cannot take part in the chain reaction. (wikipedia.org)
  • The graphite moderates the neutrons vital to the continuation of the fission chain reaction and provides support and stability for the entire core. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • May be a nuclear hormone receptor coactivator. (lu.se)
  • As a knowledge manager for the 2018 Utility Working Conference, I had many opportunities to interact with nuclear utility leaders. (ans.org)
  • We report the analysis of data taken during a pilot run in 2018 to study the feasibility of nuclear fragmentation measurements with the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS. (arxiv.org)
  • He noted that the IAEA team was informed that staff at the nuclear power plant had been reduced temporarily to minimum levels due to concerns of more military activity in the area. (businessmirror.com.ph)
  • Nuclear engineers design, build and operate equipment and processes that benefit humanity. (lancaster.ac.uk)
  • A test was conducted to determine the plant equipment's ability to provide sufficient electrical power to operate the reactor core cooling system and emergency equipment during the transition period between a loss of main station electrical power supply and the start-up of the emergency power supply. (ucsusa.org)
  • Some are even starting to obtain renewals for a total of 80 years, including the Turkey Point nuclear power plant in Florida, which is being allowed to operate through at least 2053. (nrdc.org)
  • She joins the show to talk about the advantages of various types of nuclear propulsion, the engineering and policy challenges that face them, and the role of government versus the private sector in developing and deploying transformational technologies. (planetary.org)
  • Strengthened capacity of surveillance provincial officers on the detection and management of chemical, biological and radio-nuclear (CBRN) incidents. (who.int)
  • One-fifth of the country's electricity comes from nuclear power. (nrdc.org)
  • Rosatom, though, is trying to spin the Chernobyl nightmare into a selling point: Who better to understand nuclear safety than the people who lived through the worst? (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Russia's nuclear ambitions were on full display at "AtomExpo"-a three-day festival of international nuclear technology and conversation hosted by Rosatom, Russia's state-owned nuclear company, this past June in Moscow. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • One type uses solid nuclear graphite for the neutron moderator and ordinary water for the coolant. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor, a British design, the core is made of a graphite neutron moderator where the fuel assemblies are located. (wikipedia.org)
  • Graphite bricks make up a significant part of the core of an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR). (manchester.ac.uk)
  • During operation, the graphite can be oxidised due to the extreme conditions inside the core and so undergo weight loss. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • The report then considers various methods which can be used to inspect the deterioration of graphite blocks within the cores of AGRs deriving quantitative and qualitative information on density and crack profiling. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Using atomic force microscopy-based approaches, we found that purified wild type cores rapidly returned to their normal conical morphology following a severe compression. (biorxiv.org)
  • KYIV, Ukraine-The United Nations atomic watchdog warned of a potential threat to nuclear safety from a spike in fighting near Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine, whose forces continued pressing their counteroffensive on Saturday. (businessmirror.com.ph)
  • But now the nuclear industry has seized on global warming to promote atomic power plants once again as necessary and safe. (organicconsumers.org)
  • Molten salt reactor (MSR) technology has the potential to revolutionise the commercial shipping industry by making the largest ships faster, cleaner and more efficient, Core Power Chairman and CEO Mikal Bøe said in an interview with World Nuclear News . (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • FREE Newsletter Latest nuclear news & technology. (neimagazine.com)
  • Not only do we need an in-depth and public analysis of the actual risks of nuclear accidents. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • Serious nuclear accidents have been few and far between-but their stories will help prevent future catastrophes. (ucsusa.org)
  • They will also consider the current and future legislative framework for maritime nuclear in conjunction with flag, class and insurance, before finally analysing what advanced nuclear floating solutions might look like, how they will be built and operated, along with their economic and environmental benefits. (wnti.co.uk)
  • Details for: Environmental consequences of nuclear war. (who.int)
  • The computer simulations revealed that, on average, only 8 percent of the 137Cs particles are expected to deposit within an area of 50 kilometers around the nuclear accident site. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • A major nuclear accident there would affect around thirty-four million people, while in the eastern United States and in East Asia this would be fourteen to twenty-one million people. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • Whatever happens in a conflict zone, wherever it may be, everybody would stand to lose from a nuclear accident, and I urge that all necessary precautions must be taken to avoid it happening," Grossi said. (businessmirror.com.ph)
  • The earthquake and tsunami that struck eastern Japan on March 11, 2011, caused a serious accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant on the northeastern coast of Japan. (ucsusa.org)
  • Because nuclear power is so complex, it is accident-prone and unforgiving - small errors can have large consequences. (organicconsumers.org)
  • Congress has passed a series of bills over the past four years supporting the development and deployment of 'advanced' nuclear reactor designs, which are markedly different from those currently in commercial operation. (etfdb.com)
  • For the nuclear industry, it's a unique opportunity to create the ultimate 'nth-of-a-kind' mass production system around a hugely positive, deep-impact narrative. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • CORE POWER is a UK based maritime and technology innovation company, co-funding and co-developing advanced nuclear technologies for ocean transportation and heavy industry. (wnti.co.uk)
  • At LISW 23, immediately following the UK Chamber of Shipping event (and at the same venue), CORE POWER will host three sessions with industry panellists offering a holistic view of new nuclear for maritime, including a look at the addressable market in offshore and maritime, covering both synthetic fuel production and propulsion. (wnti.co.uk)
  • So while industry advocates argue that nuclear power is important to decarbonizing the economy, it simply isn't a solution to the climate crisis, especially in the time frame that we need to act. (nrdc.org)
  • Because of these important disadvantages, for the past three decades it has looked as if nuclear power were a dying industry. (organicconsumers.org)
  • Earlier this year the British magazine, the Economist, characterized the U.S. nuclear industry as "a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money. (organicconsumers.org)
  • The U.S. nuclear power industry stopped growing in the mid-1970s. (organicconsumers.org)
  • 1] But fears of global warming and an ardently pro-nuclear Administration in Washington have laid the groundwork for an industry revival. (organicconsumers.org)
  • That's not a huge lineup, but NLR's underlying benchmark has the flexibility to tap into several nuclear industry groups, showing that the fund is more diverse than its roster size indicates. (etfdb.com)
  • Conservative margins of the reactor core thermal-mechanical reliability and negative reactivity coefficients for all operational modes. (neimagazine.com)
  • High degree of core heat removal redundancy due to the existence of six main circulation loops and coolant stable natural circulation (with possibility for heat removal of up to 9% of the reactor thermal power). (neimagazine.com)
  • Nuclear thermal propulsion spacecraft concept An artist's concept of a spaceship powered by nuclear thermal propulsion. (planetary.org)
  • On May 11, 2020, ORNL announced the project completed several "foundational" experiments, including selection of a core design. (powermag.com)
  • At the same time, however, some nuclear power plants are being allowed to remain operating longer than ever intended. (nrdc.org)
  • TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - A company that tears down closed nuclear power plants wants to do in Michigan what has never been done in the U.S.: restore a dead one to life. (fox59.com)
  • These results provide new insights into the mechanisms of HIV-1 nuclear entry and the antiviral mechanisms of HIV-1 capsid inhibitors. (biorxiv.org)
  • A nuclear reactor core is the portion of a nuclear reactor containing the nuclear fuel components where the nuclear reactions take place and the heat is generated. (wikipedia.org)
  • The core shroud, also located inside of the reactor, directs the water flow to cool the nuclear reactions inside of the core. (wikipedia.org)
  • These nuclear reactions are important for the interpretation of secondary cosmic-ray nuclei production (Li, Be, and B) in the Galaxy. (arxiv.org)
  • The flow is reversed up through the core from the bottom of the pressure vessel to pass through the fuel assemblies , where the coolant temperature increases as it passes through the fuel rods. (nuclear-power.com)
  • Interactions with the nuclear pore complex are necessary but not sufficient for nuclear entry, and the mechanism by which the viral core traverses the comparably sized nuclear pore is unknown. (biorxiv.org)
  • Large amount of water above the core (the distance between the inlet nozzles axis and the top of the core is 1470mm) and absence of reactor vessel nozzles below the coolant inlet nozzles. (neimagazine.com)
  • As in the VVER-440 design, in-core monitoring is ensured by detectors installed through nozzles on the reactor head, which does away with the need for penetrations in the bottom of the reactor vessel. (neimagazine.com)
  • Other lower core support structures (lower core plate, core baffle , or heavy reflector ) are attached to the core barrel, which transmits the weight of the core to the reactor vessel . (nuclear-power.com)
  • The coolant enters the reactor vessel at the inlet nozzle and hits against the core barrel. (nuclear-power.com)
  • The core barrel forces the water to flow downward in the space between the reactor vessel wall and the core barrel, and this space is usually known as the downcomer . (nuclear-power.com)
  • To clean up the worst nuclear disaster in history. (cnet.com)
  • Included PHEIC and IHR core capacity requirements in the National Disaster Management Plan - Health Sector (NDMP). (who.int)
  • For Units 1, 2, and 3 the robots need to access the reactor's primary containment vessel where much of the core is underwater. (cnet.com)
  • The core barrel inside a reactor pressure vessel of LWR. (nuclear-power.com)
  • The core barrel rests on a ledge machined into the pressure vessel flange and is centered at its upper flange with alignment pins. (nuclear-power.com)
  • The lower internals and the core barrel remain in place during refueling but may be removed for reactor pressure vessel in-service inspections. (nuclear-power.com)
  • Our model uses the minimal nuclear norm of representation error image as a criterion, and the alternating direction method of multipliers method to calculate the regression coefficients. (arxiv.org)
  • The discussions often centered around finding innovative ways to sustain the existing fleet of nuclear plants by improving plant economics. (ans.org)
  • Fuel assemblies arrive at Duke Energy's nuclear fleet by truck. (duke-energy.com)
  • We use nuclear power mainly for electricity generation. (nrdc.org)
  • The Nuclear Dynamics Research Group pursues research activities putting primary focus on interplay of spin and isospin in exotic nuclei. (riken.jp)
  • In fact, physicist Leonid Bolshov, the man responsible for that design in those early days, has now become a leading Russian expert on nuclear safety. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • He is director of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nuclear Safety Institute, which he set up after Chernobyl heralding the beginning of Russia's cooperation with other countries on nuclear safety. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Hidehiko Nishiyama, the deputy-director general of Japan's nuclear safety agency, later said the smoke at reactor No.3 had stopped and there was only a small amount at No.2. (infiniteunknown.net)
  • This year you will study modules covering topics such as nuclear chemistry, nuclear engineering systems and nuclear safety. (lancaster.ac.uk)