Sentence examples for fission plants from inspiring English sources

An equally expensive and widely unpopular alternative is construction of many new nuclear fission plants for generation of electricity or production of secondary fuels.

Thorium technology is frequently pitched as the front-runner to replace uranium fission plants, but there are sound reasons why nobody has ever been able to get an industry on its feet, despite a global abundance of the raw material.

How about this theory: that a new generation of small-scale fission plants burning thorium or mixed oxide plutonium fuel, or advanced fusion technologies cooking hydrogen into helium will be so costly, unmanageable or simply unbuildable that they will play no meaningful role in the transition to a zero carbon world.

The safe, reliable and optimal performance of fusion and fission plants is dependent on the choice of suitable materials used as components and fuels.

The development of future fusion power plants will face similar development issues as future generation of fission plants in order to achieve the goals of technical feasibility and operability.

That code was originally designed and validated for traditional nuclear power plant safety analyses, and has been internationally recognized as a relevant nuclear source term codes for nuclear fission plants.

Last week, the energy minister Malcolm Wicks conceded in a written answer to Norman Baker, the Liberal Democrat environment spokesman, that the Department for Trade and Industry "has undertaken no assessment of the life-cycle carbon emissions of a nuclear fission plant".

He arrived at this instructive hypothetical: even if the country cut energy consumption by half, it would still require a wind farm the size of Wales, along with fifty new nuclear-fission plants, and photovoltaic cells with twice the surface area of Greater London but situated in a far-off desert, with the electricity somehow delivered to British consumers.

He arrived at this instructive hypothetical: even if the country cut energy consumption by half, it would still require a wind farm the size of Wales, along with fifty new nuclear-fission plants, and photovoltaic cells with twice the surface area of Greater London — but situated in a far-off desert, with the electricity somehow delivered to British consumers.

The assessment comprised an evaluation of the impact that plant incidents have on the annual station dose of fission reactor plants, and an assessment of the potential dose contribution of some incidents in a fusion reactor plant.

and other technological experiences like fission power plants or industrial systems.