Sentences with phrase «us nuclear power industry»

The nuclear power industry, another area on which Hitachi has set its sights, is still recovering from the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that was triggered by the massive Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

«It is still too early to tell what impact this incident will have on the nuclear power industry,» said one CEO.

Moog's technology chief George Small said the aerospace industry, like other highly regulated sectors such as the medical and nuclear power industries, was expending considerable effort on tracking parts across the supply chain to keep up with quality and regulatory demands.

Today, he runs the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and compares banking to the nuclear power industry.

by Jason Smith Blue Sky Uranium finds cause for optimism in Argentina Uranium prices have plummeted in recent years, as Japan's nuclear power industry has continued to recover very slowly from the Fukushima disaster in 2011.

Iran does have genuine reasons for developing a civilian nuclear power industry.

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.

Doubtless Labour, whose support fell by five points, will argue that it had its own particular local difficulties in Copeland — the party's leader, Jeremy Corbyn, used at least to be antipathetic to the nuclear power industry, on which the constituency is heavily dependent.

Republican state lawmakers in the Senate are pushing a $ 100 million bailout of the state's nuclear power industry using funds from a climate change program meant to cut greenhouse gases from power plants.

Senior military and intelligence figures are said to have warned Ministers about the prospect of China getting a big stake in Britain's nuclear power industry.

And 83 per cent agree that there should be a significant expansion of the nuclear power industry.

Westinghouse said in a statement Friday that it was «confident in the AP1000 design and its passive safety features, as it is one of the most studied, reviewed and analyzed nuclear power plant designs in the history of the commercial nuclear power industry.»

In the 20 years since one - hit wonder Timbuk 3 made nuclear science the pop cliché for career promise, the nuclear power industry has fallen on hard times.

The hope is that these new approaches will finally erase the memory of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and eliminate some of the political opposition that has stymied the American nuclear power industry for three decades.

In the 26 years since Chernobyl, the nuclear power industry has strengthened its safety practices, yet Fukushima demonstrates the fragility of the civil nuclear enterprise.

Last March, after the Sendai earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the aftershocks of the disaster seemed to put the worldwide nuclear power industry on shaky ground.

Small reactors in kit form are the latest idea aimed at reviving the fortunes of the nuclear power industry

«The nuclear power industry in Europe is in the midst of the same kind of regulatory and financial uncertainty that makes the future of the industry murky at best in this country,» Thomas said during a conference call with reporters.

For all their appeal, micro nukes carry some of the same drawbacks that have paralyzed the nuclear power industry in this country.

This is recognised by the nuclear power industry and its regulators, whose aim is to make the risk of accidents as low, and thus the reactors as safe, as is reasonably achievable.

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.

In Germany, where public opinion is generally opposed to nuclear power, Chancellor Angela Merkel suspended for 3 months a newly enacted law covering the country's nuclear power industry.

This has been helpful in improving the nuclear power industry's overall safety.

The government's review of the nuclear power industry, scheduled for 1994, will have to consider what to do with Britain's unwanted plutonium mountain.

Advancing Safety As the economic performance of the nuclear power industry has improved over the past 20 years, so too has its safety performance.

HMD delivers approximately 300 weldments each year to the nuclear power industry around the world.

As much as good rehabilitation gives us a licence to operate, so too does the nuclear power industry need to be able to talk about its licence to operate - and our behaviour, as their suppliers, is key to their message,» he said.

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.

Traditionally, NRC Commissioners and staff are people who have been involved in the nuclear power industry.

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. government.

«It is my pleasure and my privilege to share with you my vision of the nuclear power industry in the 21st century and South Carolina's potentially pivotal role in shaping it.

One of the most vexing issues facing the nuclear power industry today is what to do with the spent nuclear fuel after it has been used in a nuclear reactor.

Response: In designing SMR - 160, Holtec has carefully analyzed operating plant data from the nuclear power industry in order to identify the underlying reasons for current O&M costs.

The leaded gas adventurers have profitably polluted the world on a grand scale and, in the process, have provided a model for the asbestos, tobacco, pesticide and nuclear power industries, and other twentieth - century corporate bad actors, for evading clear evidence that their products are harmful by hiding behind the mantle of scientific uncertainty.

«8.5 The nuclear power industry: a tactician behind the CO2 based global warming In my view, the CO2 based global warming theory was contrived to revive a nuclear power generation industry that suffered from high cost infrastructure and from a bad public image after the disastrous Chernobyl accident in 1986.

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.

They agree with me in such statements as «'' A critical factor for the future of an expanded nuclear power industry is the choice of the fuel cycle — what type of fuel is used, what types of reactors «burn» the fuel, and the method of disposal of the spent fuel.

But it certainly was a political disaster for the nuclear power industry in many countries of the world.

So Australians are paying to subsidize the nuclear power industry which is something Australia does not have and never will have.

As such, the closure is symbolic of the broader woes of the nuclear power industry in the United States, which has been unable to build new reactors and is seeing the current reactors being shuttered, one by one.

He gives examples from the nuclear power industry, where he had direct experience, but he discusses other businesses as well.

As Petr Beckmann once said, these people don't just want to destroy the nuclear power industry, they want to destroy all large - scale power generation industries.

The commercial nuclear power industry is a spinoff from military nuclear power research for ships and submarines and if it was feasible for nuclear powered aircraft.

Readers interested in learning more about nuclear energy from the inside should take a look at RadDecision, a techno - thriller novel about the American nuclear power industry.

Those following energy issues might be interested to know that there is a new techno - thriller novel about the American nuclear power industry, written by a longtime nuclear engineer (me), and available at no cost on the web.

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.

He used to lead the nuclear power industry's main lobbying group in the United States.

And a follow up question: Why have specific tax benefits been given to the nuclear power industry?

The nuclear power industry faces a crisis that could create thousands of new «green» jobs, offsetting some losses from the president's solar panel tariff.

The suggestion you've offered, an expansion of the nuclear power industry, is exactly the same one offered by such climate scientist as James Hansen.