Sentences with phrase «taishan nuclear power project»

U.S. utility giant Southern Co. didn't get the extension it had been looking for that would've qualified its long - delayed nuclear power project in Georgia for a production tax credit.

(In September, the Trump administration made a conditional loan to help finish the construction of a languishing nuclear power project in Georgia.)

The party notes that no British nuclear power project has been completed on time.

Theresa May puts the brakes on Hinkley Point nuclear power project amid security fears over China's involvement

The first truly large - scale nuclear unit — a 428,000 - kilowatt installation at San Onofre, Calif. — was licensed for construction as recently as February 24, 1964, and announcements of commercial nuclear power projects did not begin to gain momentum until the fall of 1965; yet by the summer of 1966 nuclear power had drawn abreast of fossil power in the utility marketplace.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is working to increase the amount of nuclear power in India's grid, but a nuclear power project with the U.S. was scrapped because of safety fears, the International Business Times reported.

But those two Texas reactors, as well as several other high - profile nuclear power projects, had been on the ropes long before Fukushima.

In a statement the NNSA said that, before the first loading of materials, it had conducted a five - year safety review of the Taishan nuclear power project and dispatched on - site supervisors for the entire construction process.

The technology is proven, PRISM's simplified reactor design will speed construction, and GEH's technical and operational expertise has proven our ability to consistently deliver on time and on budget nuclear power projects anywhere in the world.

A South Carolina - based utility voted Monday to pull out of a $ 14 billion nuclear power project, marking another rough week for the nuclear industry.

But economic factors have made nuclear power projects more challenging.

She also has held senior project managerial positions on an oil refinery project in Thailand, a coal seam gas to liquid natural gas plant in Queensland, Australia, and roles in construction field engineering on a variety of nuclear power projects.

Tanaka said concerns about the safety of nuclear energy, if they derailed nuclear power projects, would also hurt efforts to limit carbon emissions and contain global warming.

Why is nuclear power projected to decline so dramatically?

Finally, I work to compel utility regulatory bodies to deny proposed nuclear power projects, and to close operating nuclear power plants.

A South Carolina - based utility voted Monday to pull out of a $ 14 billion nuclear power project, marking another rough week for the nuclear industry.

Seanna Adcox, «Billions lost in nuclear power projects, with more bills due,» The Washington Post, August 5, 2017

According to the AP, new tests have shown that the levels of tritium in the wells at the Vernon, Vermont site are more than three - and - a-half times the federal safety standard.This comes hot on the heels of President Obama's interest in nuclear power, which included a call for «building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants» in last week's State of the Union address, plus $ 54.5 billion earmarked for nuclear power projects.

Obama's Team talked about a «Nuclear Renaissance» where the DOE Loan Program would provide financing support for between 13 and 30 new nuclear power projects.

Not exact matches

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

CB&I received no upfront payment for the sale of the nuclear construction business, but stood to receive earnouts based on the progress of the completion of two U.S. projects by Stone & Webster: a nuclear power plant in Georgia for Southern Co and two reactors in South Carolina for SCANA Corp (scu).

At the same time, subsidies and other support for renewable energy projects have boosted competition from wind and solar power and piled pressure on coal - fired and nuclear power plants.

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.

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

Within a few months it took a 30 % + plunge due to cost overruns on its new Nuclear Power Plant project and than abandonment due to the bankruptcy of Westinghouse.

While EDF, which is 85 % owned by the French government, is due to contribute two - thirds of the projected # 18bn cost of the project, the final third would come from the Chinese General Nuclear Power Group — a deal inked by David Cameron and President Xi Jinping during last October's state visit, following groundwork laid by George Osborne when chancellor.

The UK is also seen as offering a welcome to infrastructure investment that delivers stable long - term returns that continues to be of great interest to China from projects regarded as too sensitive for foreign involvement by other states, such as the nuclear power industry.

Gardiner has been a supporter of China in his shadow portfolios, in particular surrounding the development of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, opposing inner - party disputes over criticism of Chinese involvement in the project, despite military and intelligence figures warning ministers that such involvement posed a threat to national security.

Ghana currently has a prototype nuclear power plant and is opened to nuclear investors for the development of high tech nuclear power plants for a West Africa Electric Power Pool propower plant and is opened to nuclear investors for the development of high tech nuclear power plants for a West Africa Electric Power Pool propower plants for a West Africa Electric Power Pool proPower Pool project.

Per the site map of SEZ and Anator Holding Co. Ltd Projects, also in possession of this paper, the project will have at least 25 facets including a Nuclear Power Plant covering about 50,000 acres of land.

In a press release, they say that investing in energy efficiency and by completing ongoing projects the state should be able to provide enough energy to make up for the loss of the nuclear power plant.

It's hoped that energy generated from the project could, in part, replace the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

Conservatives, by contrast, are committed to allowing the replacement of existing nuclear power stations provided they are subject to the normal planning process for major projects (under a new national planning statement) and provided also that they receive no public subsidy.

At 11 a.m., elected officials from across New York state will come together to ask Cuomo to halt the projected $ 7.6 billion bailout of three upstate nuclear power plants, outside Senate chambers, 3rd Floor, State Capitol, Albany.

His initial reluctance to support a project to build a new nuclear power plant in the constituency was damaging to Labour's campaign.

With the party divided between social and economic liberals, debates on nuclear power, the economy, tuition fees, green policy and taxation are unlikely to yield unanimous responses, resulting in internal division which may hinder the party's ability to project a clear and consistent message in the run up to 2015.

The U.S. Air Force's Project Pluto sought to create nuclear - powered cruise missiles, but was terminated decades ago after second thoughts over the dangers

Contracting woes may cause further delays for $ 19.4 - billion ITER, a project designed to show the feasibility of nuclear fusion as a power source

Germany has also decided to give up nuclear power,» a Jiangmen resident said in a post on the Jiangmen government's page on the popular social networking site Weibo, under registered name of «YOoUuNnGg», in reaction to its decision to scrap the uranium processing project.

The scrapped Jiangmen project was a joint venture between China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) and China General Nuclear Power Group (CGNPG).

Among many more was Project Orion, a 20 - storey egg - shaped starship whose escape from Earth's gravity would have been powered by about 200 nuclear explosions.

«Almost immediately it occurred to many people around the world that this could be used to make power and that it could be used for nuclear explosives,» another immigrant who worked on the Manhattan Project, the German physicist Hans Bethe, told me during an interview in 1997.

A $ 12 billion worldwide attempt to generate power from nuclear fusion was signed into existence today by ministers from the project's seven international partners — China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United States.

When projects on the scale of a nuclear power station or THORP are concerned, or the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment, to give another example, it is not possible to model them fully in the laboratory using traditional trial - and - error methodology.

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.»

If it is not, coal at power plants could be replaced by natural gas, nuclear power and large - scale renewable energy projects.

A consortium of 16 power companies announced last week that it will help to underwrite a $ 100 million project to design a standardised advanced nuclear reactor.

Poll, head of technology for the British government — funded Omega Project, a division of Manchester Metropolitan University that partners with industry to study the environmental impact of aviation and offer possible solutions, pointed out the need for nonkerosene - powered aircraft «I think nuclear - powered airplanes are the answer beyond 2050,» he said, concluding, «If we want to continue to enjoy the benefits of air travel without hindrance from environmental concerns, we need to explore nuclear power.

In addition to not needing to refuel between flights, a nuclear - powered airplane in theory would not pollute the environment as long as the radioactive waste from its reactor could be contained (the Air Force's project never progressed far enough to come up with a practical way to address this).

«We are trying to engage the nuclear energy community as we design a high - power proton accelerator, called Project - X.»