Liquid-fuel reactor technology was developed at Oak Ridge National Labs in the 1960s.

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Beyond that, the company is not releasing details of its patented reactor technology.

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That would likely mean a greater reliance on Western reactor technology and plant-management methods and on Western providers of nuclear equipment and services, which have struggled for a place in this state-dominated industry.

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Daniel Roderick, senior vice president of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between General Electric and Japan's Hitachi, told Bloomberg the company is looking to secure contracts to deliver reactor technology, nuclear services, and nuclear fuel cycle services to Saudi Arabia.

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This process could result in a piecemeal assemblage of potentially incompatible parts of dubious reliability in an untested reactor of questionable technology with no operational track record.

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We think China has the will, money, skills, technology and desire to build its reactor fleet in the coming decade.

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The reactor, according to Petrobras, was built with technology to produce oil with low sulfur content, respecting the new environmental standards on fuel quality.

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GreatPoint relied on widely available technology wherever possible, including the fluidized-bed reactor, common in power plants across the country, in which pulverized coal is combined with oxygen so it burns more efficiently.

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Moses says that together with emerging laser amplification technology that is less power hungry, and the huge energy gain from the fission reaction, a combo reactor would deliver 200 times the energy it consumes.

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