Sentences with phrase «for nuke plants»
If we want to reduce CO2 emissions, make the coal, gas, and oil fired powerplants install CO2 scrubbers / processors and give tax incentives and lawsuit immunity to private investment for Nuke Plants.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/
NEW LIFE FOR NUKE PLANTS?
Not exact matches
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit challenging New York's groundbreaking subsidies for nuclear plants, clearing the way for three Upstate nukes to continue collecting roughly $ 483 million a year from utility ratepayers.
The 72 - megawatt array would benefit from existing transmission lines and a substation built for the never - used nuke plant.
I'm also 100 % for riding the butts of the power companies that own the nukes — if they don't follow the safety rules / laws relating to nuclear power plants.
But for 50 or so nations currently running or constructing nuke plants, the calamity was an incentive to take a moment to run some stress tests and review the safety manuals before reaffirming their support for nuclear power.
For one thing, a bundle of micro nukes would collectively produce just as much nuclear waste as a conventional plant generating the same amount of power.
To speed things up further, NuScale is initially marketing its micro nukes in bundles of 12 set up to replace existing nuclear power plants — which means that the company will not have to wait for approval of specific sites, since the go - ahead will already be in place.
New nukes in the US The Tennessee Valley Authority announced today that it will seek licenses for two new nuclear plants
The reason there is so much frantic fervor for nukes is that a nuclear plant can monopolise energy production, and can be somewhat cheaper if long run impacts are excluded from consideration.
IF private investors want to build multi-billion dollar nuke plants, fine, but the nuclear lobby has been feeding at the trough for far too long.
Worse, nuke plants require water for cooling and would be shutdown in summer drought just when the AC load peaks.
Avoiding looking at it completely is, in my opinion, analogous to strident opposition to nuclear power plants, hoping for some (physically unlikely) breakthrough in completely clean energy which can substitute for nukes and coal in scale and continuity, all the while new coal plants get built.