Sentences with phrase «nuclear construction industry»

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Small businesses generally participate in the nuclear industry by supplying parts to the giant multinationals that do the actual construction and processing.

That idea resonated with the U.S. nuclear - construction industry, which never recovered from the Three Mile Island disaster in the 1970s and was looking to new markets overseas.

In the attempt to put a stop to further reactor construction, the antinuclear movement may be tempted to constipate the system — to plug up the radwaste outlet for the nuclear industry — hoping thereby to force a shutdown of electrical power generation.

The false weapon of community backing, shamelessly exploited by LILCO and its Wall Street and nuclear industry buddies, and the lobbyists, banks, insurance companies and the powerful construction trade unions, was dramatically snatched right out of their hands.

The nuclear industry, which until a few years ago anticipated a «renaissance» of new construction, has found its growth checked by the aftershocks of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi disaster.

«As well as our existing work with the nuclear industry, we want to work more closely with experts in areas such as aviation, emergency medicine, mining and construction.»

This month, Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor was supposed to begin generating power, a tangible sign of the revival of the nuclear industry outside of Asia after nearly 30 years of no new construction because of accidents, cost - overruns and other issues.

While U.S. companies have been exiting the industry over the past decades as government and popular support for new construction has waned, Sanders maintains that strong U.S. participation in the nuclear energy marketplace would give diplomats a new tool to use with would - be nuclear powers.

The domestic nuclear industry had basically shut down, with no new construction in decades and a flight of talent and ideas overseas.

Despite the nuclear industry's talk about a «nuclear renaissance» and the promise of generous federal loan guarantees, the industry faces constraints in breathtaking construction costs and risks.

China has become the nuclear industry's living laboratory for new reactor designs and the learning that comes from actual construction.

If you'd like to see how China has been expanding its nuclear industry, check the «under construction» box on the east Asia map.

Recommendation: To improve DOE's management and oversight of the WTP project, the Secretary of Energy should not resume construction on the WTP's pretreatment and high - level waste facilities until critical technologies are tested and verified as effective, the facilities» design has been completed to the level established by nuclear industry guidelines, and Bechtel's preliminary documented safety analyses complies with DOE nuclear safety regulations.

I am not against nuclear, but looking at the plants currently under construction and their escalating cost and slipping schedules, I have pretty much lost faith in the nuclear industry to make any noticeable contribution towards solving this problem.

Industry records show that our abilities are highly strained by the complex engineering and fastidious attention required for safe nuclear generating plant construction and operation.

We are watching that process play out, for instance, and the Vogtle plant, currently under construction in Georgia — where, with the familiar pattern of cost overruns, and construction snafus, it seems possible that taxpayers will be taking yet another bath, courtesy of the nuclear industry.

These two disasters, both caused by sloppy construction work and maintenance, and a lack of attention to detail, have put the kabosh on the nuclear power industry in the United States.

With the French nuclear industry crippled and Toshiba - Westinghouse out of the nuclear construction business, the West is effectively ceding the future of nuclear energy to China, Korea and Russia.

The building of a radically new, untested design — the AP1000 — led to lengthy construction delays and cost overruns that bankrupted Westinghouse, once the jewel of the American nuclear industry, and which has been majority - owned by Japanese conglomerate Toshiba since 2006.

However, in nuclear and renewable energy generation most of the fatalities are amongst workers in the industry — workers anywhere in the chain from mining materials, processing, manufacturing, construction, transport decommissioning and disposal.

Yet despite five new reactors under construction and a wave of license extensions, post-Fukushima the center of the nuclear industry is shifting to places like China and India.

Parliament's cross-party Energy and Climate Change Committee, having reviewed the option of modular construction of nuclear plants, has concluded that a «a sustained period of collaboration between government and industry,» will be required to put SMRs into operation in Britain.

The last new U.S. nuclear power reactor built went into operation in 1996, but construction on that unit began before the Three Mile Island incident in 1979 helped slam the brakes on the industry's first phase of widespread growth.

On the contrary, 80 % renewable sourced energy IS attainable IF the greens continue succeeding with the shutdown and prevention of new construction of all: fossil, nuclear, hydro plants; mining, drilling and just about every other industry in Western Civilization.

Government and industry must decide whether to invest vast sums, of the order of hundreds, perhaps even thousands of billions of dollars in production of synthetic liquid fuels from coal or oil shale, an equally expensive and widely unpopular alternative is construction of many new nuclear fission plants for generation of electricity or production of secondary fuels.

The industry is also seeing construction of an advanced nuclear reactor technology at the twin AP1000 Vogtle expansion units.

A report released by the French government in November 2003 called for a significant expansion of the industry, including the construction of a third - generation of nuclear reactors and the upgrading of existing plants.

But a panel said a nuclear renaissance was still on the horizon and that engineers were working furiously to address the industry's skyrocketing operating and construction costs.

Given the nuclear industry's long record of absurd underestimates of construction costs, not to mention outright lies, no - one should take these figures seriously for a moment.

The bottom line: With 29 reactors under construction, China has become the most important factor in the global nuclear industry.

His practice has a particular focus on international construction claims and disputes in relation to civil engineering, industrial (including nuclear) and building projects, as well as claims under contracts in the oil and gas industry.

Rob has particular sector expertise in the nuclear, gas and electricity generation and distribution, wind energy, chemicals, engineering and construction industries.

They work across a wide range of industry sectors including Oil & Gas, Construction, Nuclear, Infrastructure plus many more!

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