One of the landers contained a small reactor designed to encourage the growth of micro-organisms.
The Bushehr reactor, designed for power generation and located in southern Iran, has a long and tangled history.
A majority of Vermonters, including the state's governor, Peter Shumlin, support shutting down the Vermont Yankee reactor, designed and built by General Electric.
Doctors halted trials pending construction of a reactor designed specifically to handle clinical experiments on people, and the result was the medical reactor, completed in 1959.
American intelligence reports contend it was a covert reactor designed by North Korea and intended to produce plutonium for atomic bombs.
In August, NRG announced that it had selected Toshiba to lead construction of the two-unit reactor designed by General Electric, to be built at a site 90 miles southwest of Houston.
The spherical torus experiment is a small reactor designed to test new approaches to fusion, in which hydrogen atoms are fused together at ultrahigh temperatures to produce energy — as the Sun does.
One such proposal was the development of a new nuclear reactor designed to produce electricity -- a gas-cooled reactor built on tennis-ball-size graphite spheres -- that the report said "has inherent safety features".
The deal, meant to rein in Tehran's nuclear ambitions, had Iran shipping 98percentt of its fuel to Russia, dismantling more than 12,000 centrifuges so they could not enrich uranium, and pouring concrete into the core of a reactor designed to produce plutonium.
The broadly similar European Pressurised Reactor, designed by Areva, a French firm, has four redundant safety systems instead of the more usual two or three.But to Babbage's mind, the question is not whether their "passive" designs ie, emergency cooling systems that work by gravity and natural convection instead of electrical valves, relays and pumps can make them safer.
Germany completes the epic construction of the reactor designed in hell.
