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Thus, this reactor design is self-regulating, meltdown is impossible, and the design is inherently safe. From a safety point of view, the design leverages the technology used in the TRIGA reactor, which uses uranium zirconium hydride (UZrH) fuel and is the only reactor licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for unattended operation.
Reactor Overview. Small, sealed, transportable, autonomous reactor (SSTAR) is a proposed lead-cooled nuclear reactor being primarily researched and developed in the United States by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It is designed as a fast breeder reactor that is passively safe.
Muskingum River Power Plant: Beverly: 1375: American Electric Power: Coal (5 units) Closed in 2015 [28] Philo Power Plant: Philo: 510: Ohio Power: Coal: Closed in 1975; Philo Unit 6 was the first commercial supercritical steam-electric generating unit in the world, [29] and it could operate short-term at ultra-supercritical levels. [30] Picway ...
SMRs have offered the most promise. Unlike traditional nuclear plants that have been costly and time-consuming, modular reactors are one-third the size, with a power capacity of 300 megawatts or less.
Google is adding nuclear plants to its seemingly ever-growing portfolio. The company has partnered with Kairos Power to back the construction of seven small nuclear reactors in the U.S. It’s the ...
Economic factors of scale mean that nuclear reactors tend to be large, to such an extent that size itself becomes a limiting factor. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster caused a major set-back for the nuclear industry, with worldwide suspension of development, cutting down of funding, and closure of reactor plants.
Georgia Power announced Monday that the first of two nuclear reactors under construction at Plant Vogtle, in Burke County, has achieved “initial criticality,” meaning engineers have begun ...
Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station; E. Erie Nuclear Power Plant; P. Perry Nuclear Generating Station; Piqua Nuclear Generating Station; Z. William H. Zimmer Power ...