Sentences with phrase «u.s. nuclear project»

In October Constellation Energy pulled out of a bid to build a new reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland, among other U.S. nuclear projects that have recently been dropped or delayed.

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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.

The cancelation of the project is another blow to the much - hyped (and thus far non-existent) nuclear renaissance in the U.S..

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).

Officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and U.S. Department of Energy, at a news conference in Las Vegas, detailed the development of the nuclear fission system under NASA's Kilopower project.

Aghast by the church's historical «moral sausage - making» when it comes to the political outworking of the gospel in the area of U.S. nuclear weapons policy, Tyler Wigg - Stevenson — a Baptist minister and a nuclear policy expert — responded by launching the Two Futures Project (hereafter 2FP).

Since then, different U.S. administrations have tried to make even the concept of MAD obsolete with the development of ballistic missile defense systems, culminating in the 1980s with the so - called «Star Wars» project of President Reagan aimed at deploying a global shield in space against nuclear ballistic missiles.

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

When asked why this project is so important to him, he voiced the dominant perspective among weapon scientists at LLNL: He doesn't want nuclear weapons to be used and passionately believes the key to ensuring they aren't is to making sure the U.S. stockpile continues to be an effective deterrent.

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.

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.

The tests were part of phase one of the Source Physics Experiment, a $ 40 - million project run by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.

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.

«This is the first formal confirmation at that high level that those countries entered mainstream strategic nuclear war planning,» says Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at FAS, which obtained the excerpt from a 2002 U.S. Strategic Command (U.S. STARTCOM) briefing on the new war plan to take effect inuclear war planning,» says Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at FAS, which obtained the excerpt from a 2002 U.S. Strategic Command (U.S. STARTCOM) briefing on the new war plan to take effect iNuclear Information Project at FAS, which obtained the excerpt from a 2002 U.S. Strategic Command (U.S. STARTCOM) briefing on the new war plan to take effect in 2003.

If everything goes according to plan the first of two AP1000 reactors will go online in 2016 at Plant Vogtle in Burke County, Ga., marking the first U.S. nuclear construction project to break ground since the 1970s; the second is set to go online in 2017.

When you consider that during this 10 - year period the number of physical science job openings is projected to be about half the number of physical science degrees granted by U.S. universities, occupations such as radiation therapy (median salary $ 74,980, according to BLS) and nuclear medicine technology (median salary $ 68,560) start to seem attractive.

The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump site in Nevada gets a $ 120 million reboot on licensing for the project in the White House's 2018 budget blueprint for the U.S. Department of Energy.

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.

Comments on DEIS to Construct and Operate the Crownpoint Uranium Solution Mining Project, Docket No. 40 - 8968, Hydro Resources, Inc., to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by Peg Rogers, Atty., Navajo Nation Department of Justice, February 21, 1995.

Over the years, science has given way to raw politics as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and supporters of DOE's repository project in Congress have sought to obfuscate and compensate for an ever - multiplying set of flaws and problems with the site and with the notion of transporting unprecedented amounts of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level nuclear waste across the country.

His responsibilities spanned the range of U.S. energy policies and programs — hydrocarbons, renewables, nuclear, and efficiency — including cybersecurity, project management, national security, and international cooperation.

The U.S. Department of Energy established in 2016 the Exascale Computing Project (ECP)-- a joint project of the DOE Office of Science (DOE - SC) and the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)-- that will result in a capable exascale ecosystem and prepare mission critical scientific and engineering applications to take advantage of that ecoProject (ECP)-- a joint project of the DOE Office of Science (DOE - SC) and the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)-- that will result in a capable exascale ecosystem and prepare mission critical scientific and engineering applications to take advantage of that ecoproject of the DOE Office of Science (DOE - SC) and the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)-- that will result in a capable exascale ecosystem and prepare mission critical scientific and engineering applications to take advantage of that ecosystem.

The «Integral and Separate Effects Test Program for the Investigation and Validation of Passive Safety System Performance of SMRs» project would yield a uniquely configurable set of testing platforms to demonstrate passive safety system performance, accelerate the SMR - 160 and other small modular reactor designs to market, and help license these designs with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and international regulators.

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The meeting with the widow of Manhattan Project scientist Alexander Langsdorf led to other interviews, including a conversation with Al Wattenberg, who also worked on the U.S. government initiative to develop nuclear weapons.

He has developed a process to detect weapons - grade nuclear material and chemical - warfare agents in shipping containers, a project that has interested the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

He is currently working on a new book project entitled The New Monuments and the End of Man: American Sculpture Between War and Peace, 1945 - 1975, which will consider the intertwined histories of sculpture and nuclear war in postwar U.S. culture.

He is currently working on a book project entitled The New Monuments and the End of Man: American Sculpture Between War and Peace, 1945 - 1975, which will consider the intertwined histories of sculpture and nuclear war in postwar U.S. culture.

To illustrate this, could you imagine if during the effort to convince the U.S. government to embark on the Manhattan Project, the word «physics» was hardly ever used by the advocates of atom bomb development (who were simply known in this alternate reality as «nuclear * scientists *»), to such an extent that many well - placed non-physicists didn't even realize that the claims of destructive power were based on it?

The budget bill passed by Congress and signed by President Trump in the early hours of February 9 extends a host of tax credits for energy technologies, including provisions to help the Vogtle nuclear expansion in Georgia as well as U.S. carbon - capture projects.

Obama through the U.S. Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program provided credit support to build our first nuclear project in decades (Georgia Power's Vogtle).

New units being built in South Carolina have been abandoned, while the only other nuclear construction project in the U.S. — the Plant Vogtle expansion in Georgia — is behind schedule and over -LSB-...]

«Recent market developments are influencing the pace of new power plant projects in the U.S. industry - wide,» said Danny Roderick, vice-president for nuclear plant projects at GE Hitachi Nuclear nuclear plant projects at GE Hitachi Nuclear Nuclear Energy.

«The global financial climate is causing some U.S. customers, primarily ones that are relying on the capital markets to finance their projects, to reprioritize needs and consider options for the construction of new nuclear power plants,» Roderick said.

Trump should work Congress to significantly increase the financing of U.S. nuclear plants in foreign nations, and personally involve himself in selling projects to allied nations.

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