Rather than proposing a few more big nuclear reactors, the start-ups are advocating many small nuclear reactors, variously called small, right-sized or modular.
Second, nuclear reactors can only be run above maximum capacity for a short period before they begin experiencing complications, so each region maintains backup facilities to burn fuel oil or natural gas at peak periods or for when the nuclear reactors are offline.
Ukrainian opposition leader Vyacheslav Kirilenko submittted a bill to parliament to ban completion of two new nuclear reactors at the Khmelnitskaya nuclear power plant, set to go online in 2016.
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Tritium is a radioactive substance produced by the reactors from nuclear-powered submarines based at the Devonport yard.
Their stated aim to build nuclear reactors is a clear sign that they recognize the danger of a nuclear-armed Iran.
All 50 of Japan's nuclear reactors were shut down after the disaster in March 2011, and the stoppage of nuclear power use by 2040 was ordered.
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Expressing his sympathy for those killed and forced from their homes by the disaster, he said it was vital to stabilise the nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi as soon as possible and to decontaminate the areas around the nuclear plant.
It is charged with deciding safety issues for the major nuclear programs such as relicensing existing reactors, evaluating proposals for nuclear waste disposal designs, evaluating new designs for the next generation reactors and the small modular reactors.
Because earlier reactors were jerry-rigged and covered in retrofits, every one of the nation's 104 nuclear reactors is different, even ones sitting on the same sites built by the same company and owned by the same utility.
Nearly 80% of France's electricity is produced by the country's 59 nuclear reactors, and a French company, Areva, is one of the world's foremost builders of nuclear power plants.
The Earth is warmed naturally by its own nuclear fission reactors within and also by the sun, that big nuclear fusion reactor.
It runs 73 fossil and hydro plants along with six nuclear reactors at three sites.
By comparison, there are 104 nuclear reactors in the United States and 58 in France.
We have lots of ways to boil water without the expense and danger of nuclear reactors.
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Senator McCain is supporting the construction of 45 new nuclear reactors over the next two decades.
Right-sized nuclear reactors face the same financial and regulatory obstacles as do their bigger brothers.
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The great tragedy of the Fukushima accident is that Japan shut down all its nuclear reactors.
It runs 73 fossil and hydro plants along with 6 nuclear reactors at three sites.
Then there is the tragedy in Japan and the ongoing issues with the nuclear reactors.
The camera is southwest of the area where the six nuclear reactors are located.
Consider that in March 2011, Germany received 25 percent of its electricity from 17 nuclear reactors.
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Three additional nuclear reactors would create all of the electricity needed for operation of the ship.
Instead client countries would have a guaranteed access to low enriched uranium to fuel civil nuclear reactors.
Meanwhile, a new generation of nuclear reactors is already under construction or in advanced stages of planning.
The system could also be used to monitor fallout from accidents at nuclear reactors, Sandia officials said.
Today, sources of tritium include commercial nuclear reactors and research reactors, and government weapons production plants .
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Nearly a quarter of the 104 nuclear reactors in the United States are in areas experiencing severe levels of drought.
It will be made up of two nuclear reactors and will be built next to Hinkley Point A and B.
The problem with nuclear reactors, whether in 1970 or 2010, is that they take so long to build.
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