A prerequisite to full-scale commercial reactor design is the R & D to engineer an economically competitive fuel salt cleaning system.
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The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania was the first commercial reactor in the USA and was opened in 1957.
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He states that since the 1950s British officials have mistakenly insisted that plutonium from commercial reactors could not be made into bombs.
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The Energy Department wants to generate tritium like this : Rods of the element lithium would be inserted into a commercial reactor.
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But already, the breeder program has been postponed significantly, so a fully commercial reactor is not expected until 2030 at the earliest.
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In Nevada, local politicians adamantly oppose the opening of an underground repository at Yucca Mountain for high-level nuclear waste from commercial reactors.
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No sector of the energy industry attracted greater scrutiny among federal planners for the Y2K rollover as the country's 103 commercial reactors.
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This brings us a step closer to a commercial reactor that could provide enormous amounts of energy with hardly any pollution or waste.
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South Carolina's lawsuit says accepting the European waste could open the state to accepting similar waste from commercial reactors in the United States.
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This material is of little use to commercial reactor operators, who prefer uranium as fuel because it is cheaper and easier to handle.
