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And how can one check every corner of a nuclear reactor when some areas are shrouded, by necessity in radiation?
sensitive component used to control the flow of water that cools the nuclear reactor. The new technology cuts down human intervention and potential exposure to radiation."
and set up of the scanner can be completed outside the vicinity of the nuclear reactor.""Operators take just a couple of minutes to install the robot on the nozzle,
and breast procedures each year, is an aging nuclear reactor in Canada that expected to stop operating in 2016.
The researchers used the method to enrich lithium-7, crucial to the operation of most nuclear reactors.
#Self-healing materials could lead to safer nuclear reactors One of the key challenges when designing nuclear reactors is finding materials that can withstand the massive temperatures, radiation, physical stress and corrosive conditions of these extreme environments.
Exposure to high radiation alone produces significant damage at the nanoscale, so scientists at Los alamos National Laboratory, New mexico, have been working on a mechanism that allows nanocrystalline materials to heal themselves after suffering radiation-induced damage.
has announced plans to build a thorium-based nuclear reactor by 2016. But it faces competition from China,
Originally designed to look for cracks in nuclear reactors water tanks the robot could also inspect ships for the false hulls
cores of nuclear reactor, solar farms, etc. to the system that is going to use it (thermal storage systems, steam generators, chemical reactors, etc..
Nuclear reactors cost a lot of money, and EDF wants to build two of them. The final bill for just Hinkley is estimated at £24. 5bn.
At the moment, almost 20%of the UK's power is generated by nuclear reactors but this is likely to fall in the short term as the UK's current nuclear capacity is decommissioned.
It works by converting electric power from solar panels or a small onboard nuclear reactor into forward thrust.
It will also almost certainly be used in gas-fired power plants and perhaps in nuclear reactors as well.
or six hundred megawatts and just to visualize that that's like one small nuclear reactor's worth of electricity being generated from the tides in the Bristol Channel,
If the core of a nuclear reactor gets too hot, bubbles in the cooling water can suddenly coalesce to form a vapor film that limits further heat transfer
Although plasma dynamics may seem far removed from the problem of film boiling in nuclear reactors,
And just to visualise that, it like one small nuclear reactor worth of electricity being generated from the tides in the Bristol Channel. he new Transverse Horizontal Axis Water turbine (THAWT)
U s. fears unsafe nuclear reactors in China Diplomatic cables from Beijing say old designs lack passive cooling and pose a big risk.
and deploying modern technologies as it constructs as many as 100 nuclear reactors over the next 20 years nearly a quarter of the total of all reactors in the world today.
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