Sentence examples for reactor of the same from inspiring English sources

Another problem now made manifest is that if operator error or shoddy construction causes a reactor of the same design as yours halfway round the world to go wrong, yours may be shut down too.

EDF is planning to build two new nuclear reactors at Hinkley in western England with Chinese help, but at Flamanville in Normandy a new reactor of the same EPR design is behind schedule and massively over budget.

The catalytic tests were conducted in a micro fluidized-bed reactor with a tapered inner diameter from 4 to 9 mm and a fixed-bed reactor of the same size.

The legislation stated that the number of operational reactors should not exceed the current total and that any new reactor should replace an existing reactor on the same site.

To condemn the design of the RBMK-1000, much less nuclear technology itself, was to criticize Soviet know-how and jeopardize other economically necessary reactors of the same type.

Entergy owns several other reactors of the same type as Vermont Yankee, including Pilgrim, in Massachusetts, but Pilgrim uses shorter fuel assemblies.

Hinkley is scheduled for completion by 2025, but many regard that timetable as unrealistic because reactors of the same design being built by EDF in Finland and France are running years behind schedule.

Senator Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican who is a vocal supporter of nuclear power in Congress, urged the commission to "act promptly on the applications awaiting approval for 14 reactors of the same model".

When nuclear fuel overheated at Fukushima Daiichi, it led to a hydrogen explosion despite the presence of vents similar to those at reactors of the same type in this country.

"You're looking at several thousands of gallons a day potentially out as long as a year," said Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear engineer who worked on reactors of the same design as those in Japan.

— The Tennessee Valley Authority opened the doors to its Browns Ferry nuclear plant on Friday to present perhaps the most detailed case so far that American reactors of the same design and vintage as the ones damaged in Japan do not face the same risks.