Sentence examples for pebble design from inspiring English sources

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A common factor among current HTGR (prismatic or pebble) designs is the use of TRISO coated particle fuel.

Some experimental and demonstration reactors have been operated using a pebble bed design.

The VHTR can have a prismatic or pebble bed design and is powered by TRISO fuel in the form of a fuel compact (prismatic) or pebble (pebble bed).

The high temperature reactor (HTR) Module (Lohnert, 1990) is a graphite-moderated, helium cooled pebble bed design that has been extensively used as a reference template for the former South African (Matzner, 2004) and current Chinese (Zhang et al., 2009) HTR programs.

But the pebble-bed design is still scheduled to be reviewed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission soon.

To China's credit, it is building two reactors that use a new generation of technology known as the "pebble-bed" design, which is safer than older reactors.

Although Exelon's name is not mentioned in the energy report, its executives lobbied the task force on the benefits of the pebble-bed design.

The delay applies to several conventional nuclear reactors plus Beijing's project to build two reactors in northeastern China, using a new generation of technology known as a pebble-bed design.

In 2000 the High Temperature Reactor-10 (HTR-10), a Chinese reactor based on the German pebble-bed design, began operating at a nominal steady-state power level of 10 megawatts.

Andrew Kadak, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MITT), who has been developing a smaller, alternative pebble-bed design with his students, is convinced that "these reactors cannot melt down".Even though new designs for nuclear plants may be safer, they still generate toxic waste.