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The MIT Nuclear Research Reactor (MITR) serves the research purposes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a tank-type 6 megawatt reactor [ 2 ] that is moderated and cooled by light water and uses heavy water as a reflector.
In December 2012, Areva estimated that the full cost of building the reactor will be about €8.5 billion, or almost three times the original delivery price of €3 billion. [5] [6] [7] The economics of nuclear power are debated. Some opponents of nuclear power cite cost as the main challenge for the technology.
Those blueprints contained designs for a power plant with a 100-megawatt pressurized water reactor. [3] The OPEN100 plans aim to standardize nuclear power plant construction to increase speed and cost-effectiveness, allowing plants to be built in under two years for a cost of $300 million. [ 4 ]
The design that was certified by federal regulators is for a 50-megawatt, advanced light-water small modular nuclear reactor. The company is currently seeking certification for an upgraded 77 ...
For example, if a 3000 MW thermal (equivalent to 1000 MW electric at 33.333% efficiency, which is typical of US LWRs) plant uses 24 tonnes of enriched uranium (tU) and operates at full power for 1 year, the average burnup of the fuel is (3000 MW·365 d)/24 metric tonnes = 45.63 GWd/t, or 45,625 MWd/tHM (where HM stands for heavy metal, meaning ...
The 35-megawatt thermal reactor will test the concept of using molten salt as a coolant and test the type of nuclear fuel, the NRC said.
It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). [2] The plant is capable of producing 2.2 GW of electricity, enough to meet the needs of 1.25 million people. Actual production averages about 1.6 GW
To understand how is used, consider a reactor operating at 20 MW and Q = 2. Q = 2 at 20 MW implies that P heat is 10 MW. Of that original 20 MW about 20% is alphas, so assuming complete capture, 4 MW of P heat is self-supplied. We need a total of 10 MW of heating and get 4 of that through alphas, so we need another 6 MW of power.