... reactor safety—and, in particular, the risks and consequences of major accidents. We ourselves have been skeptical of industry and government assurances in this area. We continue to be. The following special report, Capitalizing on the ...
... reactor development program: 1. Selection of the Bechtel Corporation of San Francisco, California, by the AEC Idaho Operations Office to perform major construction work on the first reactor to be built at the Commission's new Nuclear ...
... reactor containment building. The containment. Reactor containment buildings are both massive and well-equipped (Figures 1 and 2). Most are designed to withstand internal pressures of three to four atmospheres and may maintain their ...
... reactor is shown with its emergency core-cooling system. The ECCS is designed to prevent catastrophic overheating of the reactor core in the event the core suddenly loses its coolant water because of the worst accident conceivable ...
... reactor was invented to make the other 99 percent of natural uranium available for energy production by converting uranium 238 into plutonium 239 in the reactor core and a uranium "blanket" around it. The spent fuel and blanket would ...
... reactor for the foreseeable future.1 He directed federal agencies to expand their investigation of "alternative" nuclear reactors and fuels, an ironic twist from the point of view of those who have pressed for investigating alternatives ...
... reactor accidents, involving both privately licensed reactors and reactors constructed under government contract. These measures were incorporated in the Committee bills, S. 4112 introduced by Senator Anderson and H.R. 12050, introduced ...
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... Reactor design. The design for the R3 reactor, finalized in 1958, called for the powerful (initially 65,000 kilowatts of thermal output) reactor to be fueled by natural (unenriched) uranium, freeing Sweden from dependence on the ...
... reactor installation; it is only about 3.5 percent of the present annual cost of electricity generated by U.S. commercial reactors, and a much smaller fraction of the projected revenues from reactor generated power in the future. Since ...