Sentences with phrase «even nuclear plants»

Even nuclear plants have a lot of thermal pollution for their cooling sources.

Not exact matches

Critics of the proposal said it could have let some coal and nuclear plants continue to operate even if they're not economic to run.

More likely, there are still nuclear plants running, and there may even be some natural gas plants lingering in the system — not running at full capacity, but they have the ability to power up quickly when there's not a lot of sun or wind.

I've used neuroscience to improve safety measures in transportation, even in nuclear plants, and helped banks train their staff to deal better with stress and improve decision - making processes while trading.

With the German government planning to take its nuclear power plants offline by 2022, CEZ Group will likely have to supply even more power to its giant neighbour.

Clients who have become friends tell countless tales of meeting him at the end of one of his 12 - hour seminar days — Robbins exhausted from giving out as much energy as a nuclear power plant to a room of thousands of acolytes — because he wanted to help with a project or problem, even at 2 a.m. «The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business,» says Guber.

Electricité de France, which operates 58 nuclear power plants, has been an exemplar in this area: It goes beyond regulatory requirements and religiously tracks each plant for anything even slightly out of the ordinary, immediately investigates whatever turns up, and informs all its other plants of any anomalies.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away, but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

We will trust ourselves more to build our own cars, transform our subsistence farming to profitable and industrial agriculture, and even build nuclear power plants to generate electricity.

More important than his legacy of helping to spare us the Jamesport nuclear plant, and likely the others which were sure to dot the eastern Long Island landscape, was his inspiration for all of us, especially young people who seek role models for public service: that when you hold on to what you know is right and work hard, even struggle, to make the world a better place, you're more than just an idealist, you're someone who can make a real and lasting difference.

Even with the caveat of building a new generation of nuclear plants in «limited» circumstances, this was a big policy U-turn for the party, which has long preferred to favour renewable energy resources.

«Indian Point has been something that's been difficult for the governor, but given where we are now, I would have to say I want to give him an even bigger thank you for looking at the bigger picture knowing that it's important to making sure we keep 615 jobs at that facility [FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant],» said state Sen. Patty Ritchie (R - Owegatchie).

She noted that two of Iran's three nuclear development plants will be completely dismantled — one even filled in with concrete.

Additional testing has turned up even higher levels of radioactive tritium than what was reported last week at the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

CORTLANDT, N.Y. — The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - Hundreds of supporters of the FitzPatrick nuclear plant rallied in Scriba this evening to express their hope that the plant remains open.

These electrical surges infiltrated power grids all over North America and northern Europe, and even destroyed a transformer at a nuclear power plant in New Jersey.

Even as the industry as a whole seemed to be teetering on the brink, existing nuclear plants were thriving.

After the public soured on nuclear power following Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster, a previous administration even decided to build new coal - fired power plants rather than turn to renewable energy, Yun says.

The ongoing leaks from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have raised concern that some workers and even the public could be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.

But for those tasked with managing critical infrastructure, such as airports, trains or nuclear power plants, an early warning even if false may be preferable to an alert coming too late (SN: 4/19/14, p. 16).

In addition to the Portsmouth and Paducah plants, robots could be useful elsewhere in DOE's defense nuclear cleanup program, which is not even half complete, Rimando said.

«Our inspectors found all the reactors would be kept safe even in the event their regular safety systems were affected by these events, although a few plants have to do a better job maintaining the necessary resources and procedures,» said Eric Leeds, director of the NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

Inspectors come with a range of expertise, from physics, engineering, and chemistry to computer science and even biology; samples from plants and animals often play a role in detecting unreported nuclear materials.

Those figures, say the authors of the report, an update on a similar report in 2003, mean that «even if all the announced plans for new nuclear power plant construction are realized, the total will be well behind that needed for reaching a thousand gigawatts of new capacity worldwide by 2050.»

Fifty - seven percent of the public opposed restarting existing nuclear power plants even if they satisfied new regulatory standards, and 73 percent supported a phaseout of nuclear power, with 14 percent advocating an immediate shutdown of all nuclear plants.

There has been no power shortage even without nuclear power plants.

But even if the EU picked up the entire bill, says the Ökoinstitut, «it would cost every citizen of the EU an insurance premium of at most $ 2.80 per year» to shut down the largest concentration of nuclear power plants in Eastern Europe.

For example, even though more than a decade has passed since the last U.S. reactor began operation, more than 20 new nuclear plants are being planned.

Customised nanoparticles give lipsticks their stick and could even polish up rusty nuclear power plants

If researchers can understand how plants respond to radiation, Mousseau says, they could begin to engineer crops to withstand — or even sequester and remove — nuclear contamination.

Financing the construction of a capital - intensive nuclear facility such as a commercial reactor or enrichment plant, however, is a challenging enterprise even in good economic times.

And even in the U.S., the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico currently stores waste from the production of nuclear weapons.

The spent fuel produced by nuclear power plants will emit harmful radiation for hundreds of thousands — even millions — of years.

It is a far cry from the standard nuclear plant — the size of a small town, cranking out enough electricity to power a major city — not to mention the even bigger plants going up in China and France.

For one thing, Reyes explains, miniaturized nuclear plants are small enough to mass - produce, driving down costs, and they can be shipped just about anywhere by truck or boat, even to locations that are off the grid.

Even though Illinois has more nuclear power plants than any other state, Obama is not gung ho on that type of energy.

Moreover, puffer machines, which can also be configured to search for narcotics, are now popping up in many places outside of airports: nuclear power plants, correctional facilities, courthouses, and even the Statue of Liberty.

Even though a supporter of nuclear power, Charpak was one of three signatories to an editorial in the French daily Libération in August that called for a halt to the building of the experimental fusion reactor ITER in the south of France because the cost of the project has running out of control and the plant will be «unusable.»

As a result, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate also asked the company to assess the integrity of the pressure vessels in the other four Magnox plants, even though Trawsfynydd's vessels receive higher neutron doses than the other reactors because of differences in design.

«There will be deficiencies or defects that occur as you start new plants up, even though new plants are simpler and have fewer components,» says Adrian Heymer, senior director for strategic programs at the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group.

The M.I.T. report predicts that even if the world's fleet of more than 400 nuclear power plants grew to be 4,000 such plants that then operated for a century, the cost of the electricity from those facilities would rise by a mere 1 percent as a result of the increased demand for uranium.

Two weeks after the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing three nuclear reactors to melt down and release radioactive plumes, officials were bracing for evenNuclear Power Plant, causing three nuclear reactors to melt down and release radioactive plumes, officials were bracing for evennuclear reactors to melt down and release radioactive plumes, officials were bracing for even worse.

Even before the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi could be brought under control and investigated, Germany earlier this week said it would shut down seven of its nuclear power plants built before 1980.

Even though federal laws limit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to be used only for defense transuranic (plutonium - contaminated) waste from nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed actions to expand WIPP to three additional missions in 2012 - 2013.

Combinations of high gas prices and significantly lower capital costs could make nuclear plants competitive with fossil fuel plants, but the bottom line is that in the current economic climate, commercial nuclear generation is not even close to being competitive with fossil - fueled plants and there is no easy path to a competitive market for new nuclear plants.

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Constellation Energy has shelved its proposal to build a new reactor at its Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant, Obama administration officials said Friday, even though the administration had decided to award the project a $ 7.5 billion loan guarantee.

Here, it's not war, nuclear holocaust or even a hostile invasion that threatens the end of humanity; instead, it's a strange, plant - based species that quietly and effectively replaces the inhabitants of San Francisco with identical pod people.