Sentences with phrase «westinghouse reactor project»

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.

An official of another energy company that had considered new reactor projects said, «We're going to build gas [generators] and that's the way it is.

Funding for fusion in general is extremely tight because of general government budget - cutting and the high cost of the ITER fusion reactor project in France, of which the United States is a partner.

Cost cutting has been the name of the game for Osamu Motojima since he took the reins of the ITER fusion reactor project, the world's most expensive science experiment, in July.

The leader of a proposed compact fusion reactor project says that Lockheed Martin's decision to lift the lid on its secret effort is an attempt to build a scientific team and find partners.

ITER, the international fusion reactor project in France, is reeling from an assessment that found serious problems with the project's leadership, management, and governance.

* Update, 28 February, 3 p.m.: The executive summary of the report on management of the international ITER fusion reactor project was published today by The New Yorker.

Managers from the ITER fusion reactor project in France held urgent meetings at the European Commission in Brussels today following Wednesday's collapse of the commission's plan for filling a $ 1.4 - billion ITER funding hole in 2013.

Last week, it was announced that Europe's contribution to building the ITER fusion reactor project would amount to $ 7.2 billion, 2.7 times the original estimate.

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has invited small modular reactor project proponents to evaluate the construction and operation of a demonstration SMR project at a site it manages.

Mindful of the public mood, the government of Shinzo Abe has completely given up on the country's dream of nuclear self - sufficiency, and pulled the plug in December on the $ 8.5 billion experimental reactor project at Monju.

Dozens of Nuclear Cooperation Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding have been signed with these countries, ranging from research and development and human resources development to full reactor projects.

«Israeli warplanes bombed a reactor project at the site in 1981.

The federal government would bear most of the risk, facing potentially large losses if borrowers defaulted on reactor projects that could not be salvaged.

Next - Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP)- The Department of Energy and the NRC complied with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 in examining the NGNP advanced reactor project.

Not exact matches

The ITER international project in France has been plagued by cost overruns — the original 5 - billion - euro project is now budgeted at 13 billion euros (about $ 15 billion)-- and its 23,000 - ton Tokamak experimental reactor, three times heavier than the Eiffel Tower, is still many years from completion.

CB&I and Westinghouse were consortium partners building those reactors prior to their deal for Stone & Webster, which was meant to resolve disagreements over each contractor's responsibilities over the projects.

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).

May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

Nor is this a UK phenomenon: the Finnish reactor is running a year behind schedule and the World Bank will no longer lend on nuclear projects.

The projected in - service date for the Champlain line is 2021, just as Indian Point's second reactor is scheduled to retire.

The so - called «wave reactor» needs a pilot project to evaluate whether its components could stand radioactive bombardment

The US Department of Energy is co-sponsoring a project to see whether small modular reactors (SMRs), each producing about 180 megawatts (compared with 1000 megawatts from a full - sized reactor) can be made cost - effective.

As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor.

One of the biggest ongoing projects is ITER in France, an international effort to build the first magnetic fusion reactor that pumps out more energy than it consumes.

Now NRG Energy, based in Princeton, New Jersey, is sticking its neck out with plans to build two new nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project facility near Bay City.

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

Simply put, even the largest utilities do not have the capital to build a $ 7 billion reactor, and such large projects have a tendency to see costs balloon as projects are delayed.

But Southern Co., the primary developer, is permitted to recapture costs during construction, and another project partner has a «hell or high water» sales contract requiring customers to keep paying down on the project's debt even if the reactors can't be completed.

The situation is no better in Europe, according to Steven Thomas, a professor of energy studies at the University of Greenwich in London: Finland can not complete its new reactor; the U.K. has yet to get started on any projects; and a new nuclear reactor in France, after 18 months of construction, is 20 percent overbudget and requires complete subsidy by the French government.

EDF's financial backing and the participation of France's reactor builder Areva, were crucial bulwarks for the Maryland project, with expectations that French export credits would help meet the financing requirements.

And DOE was told not to spend more than $ 115 million on the U.S. contribution to ITER, the international fusion reactor being built in France, until ITER officials present a new schedule for the troubled project.

«We are the first to use both light and heat to synthesize liquid hydrocarbons in a single stage reactor from carbon dioxide and water,» said Brian Dennis, UTA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and co-principal investigator of the project.

Hundreds of scientists and engineers at the world's biggest fusion reactor, the Joint European Torus (JET) at Culham near Oxford, will be laid off later this year unless a solution is found to a long - running dispute over the treatment of Britons working on the project.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project has been 2 decades in the making, and with today's signing, construction of the reactor in southern France can begin next year.

«ITER is not the first mega project: it's a great challenge, but it's also great fun,» says Ken Blackler, who will have the job of fitting together the giant components inside the tightly confined wall of the reactor, Tetris - style.

It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the Manhattan Project invented the first nuclear weapon, to 1987, when the last reactor shut down.

For more than 18 months the European Union has been trying to find $ 1.3 billion to pay for its 2012 - 13 contribution to the ITER fusion reactor, a $ 16 billion international project now being built in France.

ITER, which is poised to begin construction at the reactor site in southern France, has yet to gain final approval for its design, schedule, and cost, collectively known as the project's baseline.

U.S. researchers have been working to master fusion for decades and are partners in ITER, a global project to build a huge fusion reactor in France which is currently under construction.

Because of nagging concerns over the construction schedule of the reactor, the ITER council, which represents the seven international partners in the project — China, the European Union, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and the United States — did not give the expected rubber stamp to the thousands of pages of documents that fully define the project.

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.»

Work began on a pair of dedicated, Mo -99-producing reactors, but the project was abandoned by 2008.

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.

The Prime Minister replied that the proposed investment of about # 177 million to complete the construction of two 440 - megawatt Soviet - designed VVER 213 reactors at Mochovce will be the first nuclear project financed by an international financial institution.

The critics claim that for all the effort being put into the project, it may not bring the reactors up to Western safety standards.

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.

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).

The government has already spent about $ 4 billion on the project, Scott noted, which is supposed to help convert 34 metric tons of weapons - grade plutonium from the former Soviet Union and elsewhere into fuel pellets for commercial reactors.

A study projects 130 future cancer deaths from the meltdowns at the reactors in Fukushima last year, but does that suggest nuclear power is safer than fossil fuel alternatives?