That reactor type is not ideal for producing weapons-grade plutonium, but all reactors produce plutonium that could be used in a nuclear explosion.
Even when we were touring this decommissioned reactor, we got a good flavor for the constant upgrade of safety during the lifetime of that reactor.
In like manner, I believe that reactors should be designed such that an earthquake of any magnitude could not destroy the reactor or its containment shell, further that if the reactor core was to start to melt down, the melt down itself would shut the reactor down and, at the very worst, the reactor would entomb itself with no potential release of radiation into the environment.
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Because this was a reactor that operated on water that was already at its boiling point, this also meant that the pressure inside the reactor was rising as well.
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That Syrian reactor, nearing completion, was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in 2007.
Ensuring that the reactor wall can cope with being bombarded by these neutrons presents a further challenge.
Thursday marked the second time in a month that the reactor has been shut down, following an August 22 leak in a heating system used to pressurize water.
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But emotions were high when it was announced by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the reactor at Oyster Creek in New Jersey, the oldest nuclear power plant of all, was on Alert.
There is a great possibility that the reactor will be decommissioned as the injection of sea water containing salt and impure substances will make it difficult to operate it safely again, experts say.
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The tsunami destroyed the diesel generators that provide power to drive the pumps that circulate the water coolant through the reactor that removes decay heat.
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There are some characteristics of a nuclear fission reactor that will be common to every nuclear fission reactor.
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Reports indicate that a fourth reactor is now in trouble and that radiation being emitted is now reaching dangerous levels.
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There are strong signs that after 1981, when Israel bombed the nuclear reactor that France had sold Iraq, Mr Chirac entered into negotiations to supply another one.
On top of that, no company in its right mind would want a reactor that has not received a stamp of approval from one of the world's leading nuclear countries.
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But even if they achieved temporary success, it would be just that, because the Iranian program is very different from the Iraqi Osirak reactor that the Israelis nailed so precisely in 1981.
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This caused the explosions that destroyed the buildings and damaged the reactor vessels that are meant to keep radiation from getting out.
That's when the Tennessee Valley Authority, a government-owned corporation, resurrected a North Alabama reactor that had been shut down for safety reasons 22 years ago.
The amount of energy produced by the lower reactor is comparable to that produced by the upper reactor.
But you can indeed make those medical treatments with a reactor that uses low enriched.
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However, the reactor that is selling the best, at least in the U.S., isn't a GE design.
Among other things, his team has designed a nuclear reactor that would use nuclear waste as its fuel.
Finland is using a new breed of pressurized water reactor that is being built by a German-French consortium for around three billion euros.
"This is not a footnote in a license as Edison claims, but a severely damaged reactor that is unsafe to operate, " Ulrich said.
Soviet scientists were authorised to carry out experiments that required the reactor to be pushed to or beyond its limits, with safety features disabled.
Looking back more than a year after the event, it is clear that the Fukushima reactor complex, though nowhere close to state-of-the-art, was adequately designed to contain radiation.
What if we could build a nuclear reactor that offered no possibility of a meltdown, generated its power inexpensively, created no weapons-grade by-products, and burnt up existing high-level waste as well as old nuclear weapon stockpiles?
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The disaster caused billions of dollars worth of damage to residential and commercial property and also damaged a nuclear reactor that was operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), sending dangerous levels of radiation out into the atmosphere.
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But the biggest criticism of the reactor is that it is not as safe as Eskom claims.
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All of the rods from the fuel core were put into the spent fuel pool above the reactor at that time.
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The Earth is warmed naturally by its own nuclear fission reactors within and also by the sun, that big nuclear fusion reactor.
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