Sentences with phrase «where nuclear plants»

Where nuclear plants generate power for over 90 percent of the year, solar and wind farms do so for 20 - 40 percent of the year.

Some of these lessons could apply to Florida, where nuclear plants may be susceptible to hurricane - related storm surge.

The administration's treatment of nuclear facilities could serve as a national model for other states, where nuclear plants are also struggling to compete against cheaper power sources.

Not exact matches

Of the 31 countries that possess nuclear power plants, we have identified five where the acquisition of nuclear weapons would radically impact relations with their regional neighbors and global powers.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, where drums of radioactive refuse from nuclear weapons sites and laboratories are buried in salt caverns 2,100 feet (640 meters) underground, has...

New York State Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has proposed expanding the Long Island Pine Barrens by 800 acres around the decommissioned Shoreham nuclear power plant, but did not include saving a site in Mastic where a developer wants to build a solar farm.

County Executive Rob Astorino kicked off his Town Hall series in the northern Westchester town of Cortlandt last night, where the planned closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant will have an impact.

It's intended to help offset the loss in places like Oswego County where the Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant is slated to be shutdown in January.

The governor has a different attitude about nuclear power plants downstate, where he is trying to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant near his home in Westchester.

She said Cuomo has been a «huge part» of where the state is now: Indian Point's owner Entergy is now considering selling the FitzPatrick plant in Oswego County to Exelon, which owns the nearby Nine Mile Point and Ginna nuclear facilities.

The Robert E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant, where revenue is down because other energy sources have depressed the market, on Lake Ontario in New York, Sept. 26, 2014.

«Indian Point has been something that's been difficult for the governor, but given where we are now, I would have to say I want to give him an even bigger thank you for looking at the bigger picture knowing that it's important to making sure we keep 615 jobs at that facility [FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant],» said state Sen. Patty Ritchie (R - Owegatchie).

The governor spoke at the site of the FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Oswego, where the previous owner also had said it would close the plant if the state did not step in.

He was the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Finance in the administration of Mayor Giuliani from 1994 to 1996 and served as the Chairman of the New York Power Authority from 1979 to 1985, where he enhanced the safety and economics of two nuclear power plants then owned and operated by the Authority.

New York lawmakers should use all tools available to fight this issue head on through legislation, such as S. 4417, introduced by Senator Tony Avella, which would direct the state PSC to repeal any electric rate increase «where such increase is a subsidy to upstate nuclear power plants.»

These kinds of estimates are of great importance for safety assessments for structures and buildings that need to hold up well for a very long time, or for structures where severe weather could pose a security risk, such as drilling platforms or nuclear power plants.

Meanwhile, the shutdowns of the Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex and other nuclear plants after the earthquake have led to electricity shortages in Tokyo and neighbouring prefectures, where temporary outages are planned every day.

The Science Behind It Conventional nuclear power plants circulate water through a reactor core, where it is heated and then passed via pipes to larger vessels, where it converts to steam.

They are unlikely to have to resort to the desperate measures taken at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, where a reactor exploded and burned 25 years ago.

Weightman's conclusions differ markedly, however, from those of other countries such as Germany, where an ethics panel has recommended shutting all plants by 2021, Italy, where new plant construction is on indefinite hold, and the United States, where the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has deemed it too early to make any firm conclusions.

Across the East China Sea, west of Japan and its ongoing crisis, sits the growing Qinshan nuclear power plant, where four new pressurized - water reactors are under construction in addition to the five already operating on - site.

Scientists have found a previously unsuspected place where radioactive material from the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear power plant disaster has accumulated — in sands and brackish groundwater beneath beaches up to 60 miles away.

But «this new and unanticipated pathway for the storage and release of radionuclides to the ocean should be taken into account in the management of coastal areas where nuclear power plants are situated.»

For example, in Diabe, in the South China Sea — in China, and also in France in a village called Shoe in France where there's a nuclear power plant, neutrino physicists have set up their detector.

In the interim — which could stretch for a century — used fuel rods will remain where they are: at nuclear power plants themselves either in spent fuel pools or in giant concrete casks on pads.

«The nuclear industry in general is an industry where it's in our best interest that everybody builds safe and reliable plants,» said Steve Winn, executive vice president of strategy, environment and nuclear development at Princeton, N.J. — based utility NRG Energy, in an interview with Scientific American in 2007.

Hydrogen and steam explosions pose ongoing risks at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, where three such events have already occurred in the past five days

If the approach is successful, it could be considered for other sites where uranium was processed for nuclear arsenals or power plant fuel.

Task force member Gary Holahan, deputy director of NRC's Office of New Reactors, said yesterday that the group concluded that action was needed to remedy the kinds of inconsistent performance by nuclear plant operators where safety measures covering extreme hazards were covered by voluntary guidelines.

The prototype of a lead - cooled nuclear power plant, ALFRED is set to be built at the Nuclear Research Institute in Pitesti - Mioveni, where Valeca was head of the scientific board before he joined the govenuclear power plant, ALFRED is set to be built at the Nuclear Research Institute in Pitesti - Mioveni, where Valeca was head of the scientific board before he joined the goveNuclear Research Institute in Pitesti - Mioveni, where Valeca was head of the scientific board before he joined the government.

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 ENUSA we manufacture nuclear fuel in our Juzbado facility (Salamanca), where the activities focus on procurement of the uranium and components required for the process and on the engineering and manufacturing of fuel assemblies for Spanish and European nuclear power plants, using the most innovative technologies and latest market advances.

[font = Century Gothic] «PU - 239» is the radioactive isotope of plutonium that Timofey (Paddy Considine) is trying to sell in the black market of Moscow, two days after being exposed to a lethal dose of radiation at the nuclear plant where he works and stole the plutonium.

In this photo dated Aug. 23, 2010, Iranian technicians work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, where Iran had confirmed several personal laptops infected by Stuxnet malware.

Our new Godzilla starts where it should: at a nuclear power plant in Japan.

starts where it should: at a nuclear power plant in Japan.

Grand Central Blue is the Warmest Color star Lea Seydoux puts in her second turn against A Prophet «s Tahar Rahim in this French / Austrian production about a risky love affair set at the nuclear power plant where they both work.

It picks up where the first title Shadow of Chernobyl left off with players continuing their adventure in the areas surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant know as the Zone.

After a fictional second explosion at Chernobyl, the land surrounding the nuclear plant has become a wasteland known as the Zone, where mutant creatures and humans roam and the laws of nature no longer apply.

The mission soon turns in a fight for survival as the rescue mission turns into a search and destroy mission where players must plant a nuclear bomb and make it back to their dropship before the bomb goes off.

Qualified Personnel Only by WhatAreBirds A two - player physical experience where you are filling in for a friend who works at the local nuclear power plant.

China is also the most likely place [where] new nuclear designs which can eliminate many of the problems of today's nuclear plants will get tried.

Example: I was a business meeting in St. Galen where Economie Swiss (lobbyist) was showing how they were able to improve their messaging for building new nuclear plants in Switzerland.

But a few reactors are being built here in the U.S. And in the countries where demand for electricity is rising quickly — like China — nuclear plants are a LOT cheaper to build.

While all such forecasts are implicitly uncertain, this one helps clarify where to focus efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions; reinforces the importance of resolving questions about how to safely expand, while not stopping, extraction of vast domestic reserves of natural gas; and powerfully challenges proponents of accelerated deployment of today's menu of renewable energy technologies or nuclear power plants to lay out a credible strategy for supplanting coal.

We are watching that process play out, for instance, and the Vogtle plant, currently under construction in Georgia — where, with the familiar pattern of cost overruns, and construction snafus, it seems possible that taxpayers will be taking yet another bath, courtesy of the nuclear industry.

The power came back on Saturday in the control room of Reactor No. 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where the tsunami caused explosions and fires after the earthquake in Japan.

Where the idea of going nuclear remains unpalatable we see for example that Germany may be the first of the EU countries to begin the abandonment of the global warming house of cards in favor of coal and gas - fired power plants.

Some numbers Where both BNEF and EP find 9.3 gigawatts of nuclear threatened in Illinois, Rhodium finds 7.4 gigawatts for the whole East North Central region, which includes Illinois and Michigan, whose Palisades nuclear plant was announced for closure in December.