With earlier activities focusing on the development of condition monitoring and diagnostic techniques for current nuclear power plants, recent activities have focused on the implementation of those methods and the development of methods for next generation plants and space reactors.
There are only one or two prototype fast reactors still in operation, although interestingly both gas and fast systems are now starting to be reconsidered for next generation plants.
France, meanwhile, has shut not a single reactor in the wake of the disaster in Japan, and it is building a next-generation plant on the northern coast.
We propose that next-generation plant metabolic engineering will improve current engineering strategies, for the purpose of producing valuable metabolites in plants on industrial scales.
Discussion of next-generation plant genetics is already underway [ 34] and similar strategies are being planned for use in plant taxonomy and physiology.
These new, next-generation plants will be able to produce bigger screens more cost-effectively, making the large flat screens that so many covet much more affordable.
Nonetheless, the film's sections exploring how nuclear technology became demonized, from the abandonment of the completed Shoreham plant on Long Island to the shutdown of government research on a next generation of plant designs, are informative and convincing.
"We want the next generation of plant ecologists to be urban ecologists," he said.
Instead of punting on those questions, we owe it to the next generation to plant the seeds of doubt.
If Japan truly hopes to contribute to world peace, it should nurture peace and reconciliation in the minds of its next generation, not plant the seeds of conflict and dispute".
