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… EIA) has released a summary of nuclear reactor designs that are available or anticipated to become ..... to develop a new generation of commercial reactor designs by 2030. "New Reactor Designs ," a paper from the Energy Information Administration …
29 September 2010 - French electricity generator EDF is working on two new nuclear reactor designs of its own which could rival those made by Areva, the world's biggest atomic energy company, the Expansion magazine said …
… Westinghouse Electric Co. “But how we achieve some of the functions is different.” A common feature on the new reactor designs is passive cooling. In the current Gen II operating fleet, operators managing an unexpected incident inject water …
… reactors – using gas as a coolant, natural uranium as a fuel, and graphite as the modulator – resulted in large reactor designs with very high first costs. Subsequent designs switched to enriched uranium as fuel to drastically reduce the physical …
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is reportedly in talks with two nuclear suppliers about submitting detailed plans for proposed new reactors at the Darlington nuclear power plant in Ontario.
… regulators. British Energy said that it has had initial discussions with four companies that are promoting their reactor designs for the UK. These are Atomic Energy of Canada, French construction group Areva, US-based General Electric and …
… to standardize nuclear power reactor designs worldwide. The executives formed ..... International Standardization of Nuclear Reactor Designs ," that outlines a three-phase ..... international standardization of nuclear reactor designs . The phases are: Sharing design …
… that a nuclear renaissance is just around the corner: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved several new reactor designs that could be built with minimal future licensing hassle; the Bush administration pushed through legislation to deal …
… policies may do little to drive down the price of other advanced energy technologies, such as solar or advanced nuclear reactor designs , that may have higher costs now but hold the potential to become much cheaper in the long-run. Intermittent and …
… Summary, 2011-02 Rev 1 - "Licensing Submittal Information and Design Development Activities for Small Modular Reactor Designs "). The Alliance sees the process heat sector as important because it is currently totally dependent on fossil fuels …
