Sentences with phrase «u.k. nuclear installations»

However, CEOs felt that in the long term, the impact on new nuclear installations won't be as severe, rating that likelihood a 4.1.

In 2007, the success of Israeli Air Force's Operation Orchard against a Syrian nuclear installation was largely attributed to effectiveness of the Israeli Electronic Warfare platforms that supported the air strike and made the Syrian radars blind: some sources believe that Operation Orchard saw the baptism of fire of the Suter airborne network system against Syrian radar systems.

Parliamentary questions have revealed a worrying catalogue of fires and coolant leaks at British nuclear installations.

Backup power was needed at Fukushima after the magnitude - 9.0 quake struck and the six power lines bringing in offsite electrical power to Fukushima Daiichi were severed, says Michael Weightman, Britain's chief nuclear installations inspector and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Nuclear Safety Group.

The six - day fuel loading operation began last week after the company received permission to go ahead from the government's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate.

So says an interim report from the U.K.'s chief inspector of nuclear installations, Mike Weightman.

These slim advantages are far outweighed, Tobey says, by the downsides: possible retaliation, reduced chances for diplomacy, tighter security around nuclear installations and a pretext for Iran to impede the IAEA.

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.

The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate gave the green light to Nuclear Electric to restart reactor 2 at Bradwell power station in Essex.

Roving robot sentries are now being deployed to guard nuclear installations and patrol borders.

Our two - men team as already deliver 13 rich maps or infographics dealing with a large variety of subjects; From Japanese nuclear installations to new naval powers in the South China Sea, as well as the Syrian civil war, and Edward Snowden's «revelations».

Our two - men team as already deliver 13 rich maps or infographics dealing with a large variety of subjects; From Japanese nuclear installations to new naval powers in the South China Sea, as well as the Syrian civil war, and Edward Snowden's «revelations».

Wind turbines are huge structures, true, as are hydro or solar or nuclear installations, but they pay back the cost in CO2 of their own construction already very early in their useful life.

Of course nuclear would have higher up - front costs, but I figured after the fad passed, we could just quit buying coal, whereas we couldn't quit paying down the sunk costs of the nuclear installations.

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But now, perhaps more seriously, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) and the Environment Agency are worried about the potential for a «major event» arising from part of Sellafield's «high hazard, high risk» area.

Particularly since there have been continuing worries that the UK Nuclear Installations Inspectorate does not have the staff to deal with the proposed nuclear expansion programme.

Terrorists could commandeer a jet and crash it into a nuclear installation, or military planes could bomb one, or two... or....

Bridge on the Walney Channel and flying over a nuclear installation, the BAE System submarine - testing facility.

There is a case of an individual named Robert Knowles was fined # 800 and ordered to pay costs of # 3,500 after being prosecuted by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for flying a drone within 50 metres of the Jubilee Bridge on the Walney Channel and flying over a nuclear installation, the BAE System submarine - testing facility.

Our two - men team as already deliver 13 rich maps or infographics dealing with a large variety of subjects; From Japanese nuclear installations to new naval powers in the South China Sea, as well as the Syrian civil war, and Edward Snowden's «revelations».

Not exact matches

In a recent Compas Inc. poll, Canadian CEOs said the crisis in Japan is bad news for new nuclear energy installations in the short term, until safety reviews are completed, and ranked the statement a 5.6 on a 7 - point scale, where 1 means strongly disagree and 7 means strongly agree.

Russian nuclear weapons are targeted at South Korean military installations.

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.

At the same time, the Chinese have taken the lead in producing clean energy — from topping the world in the production and installation of solar power to building an entire new series of nuclear power plants, making use of the latest technology.

SMR - 160's footprint is minuscule compared to operating nuclear reactors; occupying a mere 6 acres of land for a two unit site and 4.5 acres for a single unit installation.

URS has provided engineering and construction services for the installation of nuclear power generation since the 1960s in the U.S. and abroad through its heritage companies Ebasco, United Engineers & Constructors, and Gibbs & Hill, and pioneered the concept of nuclear contract maintenance and modifications, and large - scale modular construction through predecessor companies Catalytic and Stearns - Roger.

On Tuesday 31 May, the Department of Physics ran a training event for future presenters of Binding Blocks, a LEGO Nuclear Chart installation.

In this film, which began life as a multichannel video installation, Blanchett plays 13 roles, from a turbaned choreographer to a nuclear scientist, with all of her dialogue spliced together from nearly 60 artistic manifestos of the 20th Century.

«For 25 years, the L.A. artist has been creating immersive video installations that appear to breach the contours of the gallery, transporting viewers into other realities: swimming with dolphins, interacting with wolves or exploring the contaminated ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,» wrote art critic Sharon Mizota in the Los Angeles Times.

Emilija Škarnulyte's immersive video installation depicts neutrino detectors and nuclear submarines from the perspective of an anthropologist from the distant future.

The multimedia artist Lisi Raskin uses large - scale drawings, collages, and installations to tackle themes that emerged during the Cold War, from nuclear panic and fallout shelters to the military command centers that brought mankind to the brink of annihilation.

She makes video installations that poetically grapple with threats to the natural world, from the extinction of species to long - lasting environmental disasters such as the nuclear fallout of Chernobyl.

Framed around the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, the 2010 video installation spotlights the consequences of manmade catastrophes on the natural world.

The artist was a key figure of Tokyo's Anti-Art Movement in the late 1950s, where his performative paintings and installations marked the beginning of his preoccupation with the impact of nuclear catastrophe and the excess of consumer society associated with the post-war economic boom.

Across town, in a fascinating group show at White Cube in Hoxton, featuring work inspired by Edgar Allen Poe, Kiefer has created two signature pieces: a giant vitrine in which a grey, ash - encrusted landscape is overlain with branches; and an installation in the bowels of Shoreditch town hall featuring his sculptures of what look like hospital beds rescued from a nuclear disaster.

The devastating disaster of the March 11, 2011 tsunami and the nuclear accident afterwards were both a shock and inspiration for Japanese Neo-Pop artist Mr.. In response, he composed a massive installation made of hundreds of everyday objects from Japanese life.

In the case of Monk, the forked Peace symbol adopted by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been affixed to a yellow VW hood additionally referring to another one of Burden's installation pieces, The Reason for the Neutron Bomb (1979), which consisted of 50,000 nickels with matchstick tips glued to them, arranged in tight rows across the floor of the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York.

Jim O'Rourke's «Door,» a three - screen video installation of a stealth bomber ominously coming in for a sunset landing reflects a soft nuclear douche looming on the horizon.

The Otolith Group produces films, installations, and exhibitions that emerge from archival research into the global nuclear regime, speculative futures, tricontinentalism, and cybernetics.

Probably even more, given the installation context of many of the imaginary nuclear plants.

The 5.8 - magnitude quake, centered in Virginia 84 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., is a reminder of the importance of factoring in shaking in the design of buildings and important installations like nuclear power plants.

The world's current 70,000 megawatts of photovoltaic installations can, when operating at peak power, match the output of 70 nuclear power plants.

Renewable installations can require hundreds to thousands more acres of land than a coal, natural gas or nuclear power plant to produce the same power.

Would 9 million microgneration installations, which would cost upwards of # 21billion for 1 % of our energy needs, even be equivalent to 5 nuclear power stations?

Even with the 30 % credit, even with economy of scale on the installation price, the levelized cost of PV solar is estimated to be a decade or so away from matching coal or nuclear, and longer than that for matching natural gas.

An injection of 21 billion pounds ($ 41.22 billion) over the period could see nine times as many installations in place by the same time and generating as much power as five nuclear power stations, the independent report said.

I agree — it doesn't make sense that a mess of red tape is preventing the installation of Thorium cycle nuclear reactors.

The facts are: In «sunny» Germany over one million of PV panels installation all across the country have produced 25 May the equivalent of 20 nuclear power stations over the day.

Along with the company's portfolio of conventional coal, nuclear and natural gas power plants, Crane began investing in the mid-2000s in large wind and solar power plants, and acquiring companies involved in rooftop solar installations, home efficiency tools and electric vehicle charging networks.