Sentences with phrase «u.s. nuclear industry»

Promote nuclear power as the climate - neutral and politically - bipartisan energy resource that it is, incentivize the U.S. nuclear industry to expand America's nuclear capacity, and stimulate U.S. research and development in advanced nuclear reactor designs for implementation at home and abroad 5.

The recent history of the U.S. nuclear industry suggests that nuclear power can be a safe source of low - carbon electricity.

The U.S. nuclear industry has long argued that new reactors are prohibitively expensive because of an overly burdensome site selection and permitting process, which they say unnecessarily drives up costs.

Rather than creating new solutions, efforts to restart the U.S. nuclear industry have mostly focused on encouraging utilities to build the next generation of large, light - water reactors with loan guarantees and various other subsidies and regulatory fixes.

Between 2004 and 2009, wind energy capacity in the United States grew by 423 %, while solar energy capacity expanded by 150 %.30 Yet over the same time frame, nuclear energy managed to increase by only 1 percent.31 By 2020, wind energy will grow by another 82 %, while nuclear power is only on track to expand by 10 %.32 A clean energy standard would help lift the dormant U.S. nuclear industry off the mat while also ensuring that the market for traditional renewables, like wind and solar, continues to grow through aggressive state mandates.

Marv Fertel retired at the close of 2016 as president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) which is the policy organization for the U.S. nuclear industry and represents the industry in addressing generic technical and regulatory issues before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; as well as policy and legislative activities with the Congress and the Executive Branch.

Previously, Mr. Dyke led Booz Allen Hamilton's business practice on nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear security, working closely with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, DOE as well as the U.S. nuclear industry on a wide spectrum of energy and security consulting projects.

The transformer fire at Indian Point Energy Center on the Hudson River is just the latest incident plaguing the U.S. nuclear industry

As the U.S. nuclear industry and its regulator, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC), implement these actions, the report recommends particular attention to improving the availability, reliability, redundancy, and diversity of specific nuclear plant systems:

· The U.S. nuclear industry and USNRC should strengthen their capabilities for assessing risks from events that could challenge the design of nuclear plant structures and components and lead to a loss of critical safety functions.

· USNRC and the U.S. nuclear industry must continuously monitor and maintain a strong safety culture and should examine opportunities to increase the transparency of and communication about their efforts to assess and improve nuclear safety.

But there has already been a core damage event in the U.S. nuclear industry — TMI Unit 2 — «so we've already blown the goal,» says Rick DeVercelly, a former operator at the Vermont Yankee and James A. Fitzpatrick (near Oswego, N.Y.) nuclear plants, and now a trainer at the NRC.

But that doesn't mean its boom time for the U.S. nuclear industry.

The Trump administration's arrival has forced the U.S. nuclear industry to revise its climate - based pitch for government assistance for at - risk reactors.

And that may ultimately erode the current U.S. nuclear industry advantage — from design to operation to regulation.

The U.S. nuclear industry can point to an enviable safety record — no member of the public has ever been injured by an accident at a plant.

But by its own estimates, the U.S. nuclear industry can handle only about two new nuclear reactor projects annually at its present - day capacity.

Staying flexible The U.S. nuclear industry, for its part, is suggesting that it will voluntarily implement an approach it calls FLEX, which is meant to be a «diverse and flexible coping capability.»

Not exact matches

Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Edward McGinnis said the administration wants to revitalize the U.S. nuclear energy industry, including by pursuing exports to Saudi Nuclear Energy Edward McGinnis said the administration wants to revitalize the U.S. nuclear energy industry, including by pursuing exports to Saudi nuclear energy industry, including by pursuing exports to Saudi Arabia.

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.

A historian by training, her research interests include nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation, nuclear energy industry, East Asian security, U.S. foreign policy, two Koreas, and the Cold War.

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Foes of a U.S. nuclear power revival continue to fight the AP1000 and have seized on a statement from NRC last week that cited new issues in the agency's design review — a review that industry officials had assumed was going smoothly toward a final decision this year.

The industry and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) claim that nuclear power is safe, but their lack of transparency does not inspire confNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) claim that nuclear power is safe, but their lack of transparency does not inspire confnuclear power is safe, but their lack of transparency does not inspire confidence.

The main industry trade group, the Nuclear Energy Institute, commissioned studies that showed U.S. plants could sustain a direct hit from a modern airliner without any radiation release.

The Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan has thrust the NRC's role as industry overseer squarely in the spotlight, but another critical player in U.S. nuclear safety is the NRC's Office of the Inspector General, an independent agency that serves as watchdog to the watchdog.

Far from abandoning the nuclear industry, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) seems intent on reinvigorating it or at least propping it up — to the dismay of many environmentalists.

Climate change was a key focus for the nuclear industry under the Obama administration, including treatment under U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan and ongoing studies at DOE on how plant closures would affect U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

The nuclear industry, she stressed, generates $ 60 billion a year for the U.S. economy and supports 475,000 jobs, all while avoiding emissions that save the United States $ 33 billion annually.

Considering the nuclear industry is only legally liable for $ 13.6 billion, thanks to the Price Anderson Act of 1957, U.S. taxpayers would have to cover the remaining costs.

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 failure of Congress to reach agreement on climate and energy legislation has left the future of U.S. new nuclear projects up in the air, focusing more attention on the possibility and the challenges of further extending the life expectancy of the current nuclear fleet, industry officials say.

«Only two out of the 54 are operating, and these utilities are trying to work their way through the mechanics to get permission to restart,» said Neil Wilmshurst, vice president for the nuclear sector at the U.S. industry's Electric Power Research Institute.

Bigger, but not cheaper In the face of delays the U.S. government recently put money forward to try to jump - start the domestic nuclear power industry.

As President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear inNuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear innuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear innuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear innuclear industry.

Ted Jones of the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group in Washington, D.C., says the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is already deeply engrossed in international nuclear safety eNuclear Energy Institute, an industry group in Washington, D.C., says the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is already deeply engrossed in international nuclear safety eNuclear Regulatory Commission is already deeply engrossed in international nuclear safety enuclear safety efforts.

Fortunately for the industry, one of its biggest obstacles — environmental opposition — is on the decline, though former U.S. EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman noted that green groups aren't embracing nuclear power just yet.

At the leading edge of U.S. nuclear technology development, Centrus is dedicated to the long - term growth of the commercial U.S. nuclear fuel supply and the expansion of the commercial nuclear power industry worldwide.

The Capitans founded ENDAUM (Eastern Navajo Dinéh Against Uranium Mining) to rally their poor and underrepresented community to stand up to the nuclear power industry, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and even the U.S. govenuclear power industry, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and even the U.S. goveNuclear Regulatory Commission, and even the U.S. government.

From 1990 to the formation of NEI in 1994 he was the Vice President of Technical Programs at the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness (USCEA) where he was responsible for ensuring the technical accuracy and effectiveness of USCEA's industry communications and also led the regulatory, policy and R&D activities associated with supporting companies in the front - end of the nuclear fuel cycle.

Using nuclear power to generate electricity provides many benefits: it's low carbon, it diversifies our electricity supply, it operates reliably on a constant basis, and it provides substantial economic benefits in communities where plants operate and to U.S. companies who supply the global nuclear industry.

In our opinion, this will help the company leverage its expertise in the nuclear pharmacy industry to expand access to a therapeutic agent and increase the use of radiopharmaceuticals in the U.S. and Canada.

Isn't it interesting that warming would be a net benefit for the U.S., according to the report cited, yet the Green lunatics have crippled our fossil - fuel and nuclear industries to prevent the chimera of AGW?

Available at: http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/ftproot/forecasting/0484%282007%29.pdf; See also United States, Energy Information Industry, «U.S. Nuclear Generation of Electricity,» 2009 Capacity and Generation, Accessed December 9, 2010.

Increasingly dependable and emitting few greenhouse gases, the U.S. fleet of nuclear power plants will likely run for another 50 or even 70 years before it is retired — long past the 40 - year life span planned decades ago — according to industry executives, regulators and scientists.

Alas, today, the nuclear industry in the U.S. is dying.

However, none of the alternative technologies, including nuclear power, appear at present to promise sufficient cost reduction to enable the electric power industry to again become a leading rather than a sustaining source of economic growth in the U.S. economy.

The potential bankruptcy of a U.S. nuclear energy company could give Vladimir Putin «nuclear domination» over the industry as Russian - backed companies gobble the global market, according to pro-nuclear environmentalists.

The nuclear power industry is struggling in the U.S. Several reactors are at risk of early closure due to difficulty competing in the wholesale power markets.

The U.S. government and the nuclear industry must take new actions to ensure that nuclear power is safe for the American public.