The materials of the article consider analysis construction active zones new generation nuclear reactors. reflects general ideas about development reactor technologies: in 1950s and 1960s, first reactors was created; early 1970s, operation industrial began - second generation: pressurized water (WWER, PWR), boiling (RBMK, BWR), heavy (CANDU), as well gas-cooled (AGR). Further some types made it...

This article describes the pyrolysis behavior of precipitated washed lignin in a Laminar Entrained Flow Reactor between 700 and 1000°C and at different residence times. Lignin was precipitated by acidification of softwood black liquor using CO2. After acid washing, the solid material was dried and sieved (80-100 μm). This material was then fed into the reactor at a rate of about 0.1 g/min. The ...

Slaughterhouse wastewater contains diluted blood, protein, fat, and suspended solids, as a result the organic and nutrient concentration in this wastewater is vary high and the residues are partially solubilized, leading to a highly contaminating effect in riverbeds and other water bodies if the same is let off untreated. The performance of a laboratory-scale Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) has ...

This paper summarizes a study of the implications of a technology-neutral regulation for advanced nuclear power plant designs and proposes a predominately rationalist approach to future nuclear plant regulations. The current body of regulations has been developed and evolved over the past 50 years with consideration of the knowledge and incidents experienced from operation of the Light Water Re...

Energy balance in Central and Eastern Europe is based to a substantial degree on the use of nuclear energy. Nuclear's share of electricity production stands at about 20% in the Czech Republic, 25% in Ukraine, 32% in Bulgaria, 46% in Hungary, and 49% in the Slovak Republic. Reliable operation of nuclear power plants has been essential for the economic development of these countries. Nuclear plan...

Mesoporous, 3-D, nanocrystalline Si has been synthesized via the magnesiothermic reduction of SiO particles at a peak temperature of only 500 °C in a scalable flow-through reactor setup. Such 3-D porous Si as an anode material exhibited high, reversible capacities (i.e., >900 mA h g(-1) after 160 charge-discharge cycles at 1000 mA g(-1)).

A two-stage methanotrophic bioreactor system was developed for remediation of water contaminated with TCE and other chlorinated, volatile, aliphatic hydrocarbons. The first stage of the reactor was a suspended-growth culture vessel using a bubbleless methane-transfer device. The second stage was a plug-flow bioreactor supplied with contaminated groundwater and cell suspension from the culture v...