The AP1000TM Reactor: Passive Safety and Modular Design

The Pebble-Bed Modular Reactor: Safety Issues

The Bush Administration has made the expansion of nuclear power generation a centerpiece of its domestic energy policy. However, the White House has not addressed the practical issue of how to overcome the nearly three-decade-long aversion among U.S. electric utilities to investing in new nuclear plants. In today's deregulating market, utilities will not build new nuclear power plants unless th...

The Pebble-Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR): Safety Issues

The Bush Administration has made the expansion of nuclear power generation a centerpiece of its domestic energy policy. However, the White House has not addressed the practical issue of how to overcome the nearly three-decade-long aversion among U.S. electric utilities to investing in new nuclear plants. In today's deregulating market, utilities will not build new nuclear power plants unless th...

The Gas-turbine Modular Helium Reactor

Conceptual Design for a Fast Reactor Safety Test Facility

In May 1975 Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory issued a preliminai.. report on a study of Fast Reactor Safety Test Facilities. The study addressed itself to three closely related tasks. 1. A review of the current understanding of fast reactor safety with the aim of identifying important areas of uncertainty which cannot be adequately resolved using analysis, out of pile and/or existing in-pile fa...

The ‘Automated Versatile Modular Reactor’: construction and use

Automation of discontinuous elementary operations specific to organic chemistry on a laboratory scale was developed as early as 1970 by the Roussel UclafCompany [1]. A modular system was chosen, because of the diversity of possible operations. Each module governs a simple operation: measuring and comparing a temperature, controlling a pump, etc. These elements communicate with one another throu...