Sentences with phrase «aging reactors»

U.S. nuclear power plant owners are gaining regulatory approval to run aging reactors longer but, as the power plants age, the need for rigorous safety supervision steadily mounts

«The average age of the (French) reactors is now about 30 years, which raises questions about the investment needed to enable them to continue operating, as ageing reactors increasingly need parts to be replaced,» according to the World Nuclear Industry Status report 2014.

South Korea has revised down its future reliance on nuclear power, although growing energy demand and the shutdown of aging reactors mean it is still likely to need more nuclear - fired plants over the coming two decades.

Whether or not nuclear generation has truly peaked will depend on a number of factors, including how many Japanese reactors resume operation, how many licenses are extended for aging reactors worldwide, and the pace and magnitude of uprating existing units.

Nuclear critics, on the other hand, have argued that it's time to shut down the aging reactor and focus on developing wind, solar and other clean sources of power.

The new plants will simply replace the output of ageing reactors being shut down by utility companies.

Maria Korsnick, the new head of the Nuclear Energy Institute, told skeptical Wall Street analysts in New York today that supporting financially struggling, aging reactors is critical to curbing heat - trapping emissions, and that states like Illinois, New York and now Connecticut are stepping up with financial support (Energywire, Feb. 9).

The panel, known as the Neutron Landscape Group, said last week that as the aging reactors shut down over the next 5 to 10 years, the number of neutrons available for research will fall by as much as half.

In the U.S. the five new nuclear reactors under construction will replace the four aging reactors that closed in 2013, but as older reactors like Oyster Creek in New Jersey and Vermont Yankee continue to shut down, the number of reactors in the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as well.

The installation of a gamma curtain — a dense net of radiation monitors strategically placed to pick up radiation leaks from the ageing reactors — is a much cheaper option, which should cost no more than 26 million Ecu.

European governments are devising a cut - price solution for monitoring radiation leaks from the ageing reactors of the former communist bloc.

«We need independent, third - party studies to determine the true risk presented by these large, dangerous faults in such close proximity to California's aging reactors,» state Sen. Sam Blakeslee (R) said yesterday in a statement.

By MONICA HORTEN European governments are devising a cut - price solution for monitoring radiation leaks from the ageing reactors of the former communist bloc.

In 2009 and 2010, Southern California Edison spent nearly $ 700 million — financed by ratepayers — to install two new steam generators, which were supposed to keep San Onofre's aging reactors running well into the future.

Behind the histrionics and talking points framing the decades - long battle over the place of nuclear power in America's (and the world's) energy menu, there have long been hints of a path forward, both for dealing with existing, aging reactors and considering a new generation of technologies.

Since then, more information about the seismic activity near the two aging reactors has made it increasingly clear that Diablo Canyon should never have been built on its current site.