In fact, I design nuclear reactors.

In response to concerns about the security of research reactors, IAEA developed an integrated plan for enhancing the security of research reactors.

And especially the small reactors need to go forward.

Moreover, four reactors were de commissioned during 2009, and a larger number of reactors in Japan and Germany are not in use, owing to various technical stoppages. At least one hundred older and smaller reactors will most likely be closed over the next 10 15 years.

Babcock Wilcox that make nuclear reactors, here's an integral fast reactor.

And they're selling these floating reactors, only 35 megawatts, to developing countries.

Ten reactors that had produced weapons grade plutonium have been shut down.

But frankly micro reactors which are just now coming on, might serve even better.

The Agency reported last year that 20 of the 31 reactors under construction worldwide were located in Asia and that 19 of the 28 reactors to be connected to the grids were in the Far East and South Asia.

The red line is what is done in most nuclear reactors. It's called the open fuel cycle.

Our experts are involved actively in the Agency's International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles (INPRO).

The agreement paves the way for American exports of nuclear technologies and materials for use in India s civilian nuclear program. In return, India has pledged to open 14 of its 22 existing and planned nuclear power reactors, as well as all future civil reactors, to international inspection.

And regardless of whether it's nuclear reactors or metamaterials or whale sex, the common or lowest common denominator is me.

The EU is pleased to note the approval of the IAEA's Code of Conduct on the Safety of Research Reactors.

New reactors being built today incorporate significantly enhanced safety features, both active and passive, compared to the Fukushima generation of reactors. But, in order to regain and maintain public confidence, governments, regulators, and operators must be transparent about the benefits and risks of nuclear power and honest when things go wrong.

The Russians, who started this, are building floating reactors, for their new passage, where the ice is melting, north of Russia.

We note with interest that 60 per cent of all new nuclear power reactors are being built in the developing world.

The pace of the construction of those reactors could be further increased if most States were not subjected to undue restrictions.

Plutonium produced at the remaining three reactors which generate heat and electricity has not been used for nuclear weapons since 1994.

Well the good news is that the developing world, but frankly, the whole world, is busy building, and starting to build, nuclear reactors.

True, a few countries Belgium, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, with Peru the only non European country to join the trend formally declared their intention to phase out or avoid nuclear energy. These decisions affect a total of 26 reactors, while 61 reactors are under construction around the world, with another 156 projected and 343 under official consideration.

As global warming brings about a rise in average temperatures and ocean levels, inland reactors will increasingly contribute to, and be affected by, water shortages. During the record breaking 2003 heat wave in France, operations at 17 commercial nuclear reactors had to be scaled back or stopped because of rapidly rising temperatures in rivers and lake.

And the fact is, we're going to use the nuclear waste we have for fuel in the fourth generation of reactors that are coming along.

And they published this book in 1937, where they actually began to think about, what could you do in bio reactors to grow whole organs?

The August 2003 blackout in the northeastern US revealed that more than a dozen nuclear reactors in the US and Canada were not properly maintaining backup diesel generators. In Ontario during the blackout, reactors de signed to unlink from the grid automatically and remain in standby mode instead went into full shutdown, with only two of twelve reac tors behaving as expected.

I think of most interest to a TED audience would be the new generation of reactors that are very small, down around 10 to 125 megawatts.

Uruguay has no nuclear reactors of any kind, hence there is no possibility of diversion or theft of nuclear fuel for subsequent use in producing nuclear devices.

This funky little thing people didn't used to think that it was worth taking samples out of nuclear reactors because it was dangerous and, of course, nothing lived there.

These include biodigester septic tanks for treatment of domestic sewage anaerobic pond systems for treating agricultural processing wastes and anaerobic sludge reactors for the treatment of food processing waste water.

The fact is that the industry s safety record is second to none when measured against those of its rivals. Like airplanes, nuclear reactors are conceived and constructed to mind boggling standards.

The IAEA International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles works to ensure that the future needs of all countries, including developing countries, are considered when innovative nuclear systems are evaluated.

India has committed itself to carrying out an INPRO joint study for the assessment of an innovative nuclear energy system based on high temperature reactors for the production of hydrogen using the INPRO methodology.

Currently, HEU is used for civilian purposes as a fuel for research and propulsion reactors, in critical assemblies and as the source of certain short lived isotopes, which are produced by bombarding HEU targets.

Luckily, two missed the target, and Israel managed to intercept the third. But the episode represented a serious escalation of hostilities and served as an important reminder of the vulnerability of nuclear reactors in warzones.

In the Japanese case, only wind and the lack of a land border prevented a major impact on neighboring countries. In continental Europe, many reactors are within 100 miles (161 kilometers) of another country s territory.

While the US is the principal exporter of reactors, it currently has just two under construction on its own territory. Denmark, Greece, Ireland, and Portugal are strongly anti nuclear, and Switzerland has stopped all nuclear power projects.

At present, in accordance with a Russian American agreement signed in 2003, work is being carried out on construction of substitute heat generating and power generating capacity that will enable us to shut down these reactors completely.

Along with the two 1000 MWe light water reactors (VVERs) presently under construction at Kudankulam in collaboration with the Russian Federation, they will contribute 3420 MWe additional carbon free electricity to the Indian grids in about three years' time.

Other states, which have their own civil nuclear capacity, have the potential to develop a weapon. The number of countries in this category is bound to increase as the number of nuclear power reactors doubles over the next 20 years.

I heard from Nathan Myhrvold and I think here's the action point it'll take an act of Congress to make the Nuclear Regulatory Commission start moving quickly on these small reactors, which we need very much, here and in the world.

India has set itself on a path of virtually doubling its nuclear power output. This is deeply troubling, for India s supply of nuclear fuel, technology, and reactors is almost entirely dependent on imports from manufacturers who refuse liability for any malfunction.

Duke Energy, America s largest utility, has shelved plans to build two reactors in Florida, after having spent 1 billion on the project. The decision came only three months after the company abandoned investment in two new units in North Carolina.

Moreover, of the 66 reactors under construction worldwide, two thirds are located in just three countries China, India, and Russia with China alone accounting for 28. Nine of the 66 have been listed as under construction for more than two decades.

But this assumes that all of them are constructed according to schedule, and the nuclear industry has rarely met its promised construction deadlines. According to the World Nuclear Association (WNA), 17 new reactors should have become operational between 2007 and 2009.

On 7 9 February 2005, in the spirit of the Group of Eight's Global Partnership, Switzerland organized a conference designed to facilitate the participation of interested States in the decommissioning of the Russian Federation's three remaining plutonium producing nuclear reactors.