Hardide will install two of its new
reactors at its new UK factory at Bicester, alongside its plans to relocate its existing three
reactors at an older, smaller site.
He said the
reactor was acquired under a tripartite agreement between Ghana, China and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in December 1994.
The APR1400 features enhanced systems to safely shut down the
reactor and reduce the effects of an accident.
Dr Ian Scott, inventor of the Stable Salt
Reactor and co-founder of Moltex Energy, told PE: "All the key novel elements have been validated at the theoretical level.
Tihange's unit 1 is 40 years old, while unit 2 recently had to be shut down because of hairline cracks in the
reactor vessel.
Molten-salt
reactors also offer inherent safety advantages: because the fuel is liquid, it expands when heated, thus slowing the rate of nuclear reactions and making the
reactor self-governing.
Challenges include demonstrating that the
reactor designs are safe.
There is an austere difference found in the composition of the core of nuclear explosive devices and the nuclear power
reactors that nullify the prevailing nebulous notion stated above.
The project includes the construction of two BN-800
reactor power units with 800 MW capacity each.
The new requirements for the first time oblige utilities to put in place specific countermeasures against possible severe accidents like
reactor core meltdowns, as well as against huge tsunami -- the direct cause of the Fukushima crisis.
Arak heavy water
reactor uses natural uranium to produce radio medicines and it is planned to replace the Tehran research
reactor gradually.