Sentences with phrase «at nuclear plants during»

His work as a maintenance contractor at nuclear plants during refueling outages mostly takes place in spring and fall, giving him summers and winters off.

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The trucks were used to evacuate people during the Boston Marathon bombings, are stationed at nuclear power plants around the world, and are used by the State Department in hostile regions.

Governor Cuomo talked about the importance of temporarily relying on what he calls «carbon free» nuclear power during an appearance at the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego in August.

The decision also is partly about saving jobs, as Cuomo told power plant workers at the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego during a visit over the summer.

A reactor that was shut down during a transformer fire two weeks ago at the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County has returned to service.

Governor Cuomo talked about the importance of temporarily relying on what he calls «carbon - free» nuclear power during an appearance at the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego in August.

BUCHANAN >> A reactor that was shut down during a transformer fire two weeks ago at the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County has returned to service.

More than 100 gigawatts of geothermal power (one tenth of the current U.S. electrical generation) could be developed for $ 1 billion during the next 40 years — at the full cost of one carbon - capturing coal - fired power plant or one - third the cost of a new nuclear generator.

Lake Barrett — director of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant during its decommissioning after a partial meltdown at the Middletown, Pa., facility in 1979 — says TEPCO will use robots to remotely dig out the melted fuel and store it in canisters on - site before shipping to its final disposal spot.

For instance, during hurricane Francis in 2004 doors designed to protect safety equipment from flying debris at the St Lucie nuclear power plant in Florida were left open.

HFIR joins the Graphite Reactor, Tower Shielding Reactor, Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator, the Molten Salt Reactor and the Radiochemical Processing Plant as ANS Nuclear Historic Landmarks at ORNL, a multiprogram research lab begun during the Manhattan Project.

But at a hearing at the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on January 23 in which much of the discussion was centered around how power reliability fared during the recent record - breaking cold weather event in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, a number of key stakeholders noted that nuclear was as vital as other baseload plants in maintaining reliability.

For example, nighttime energy demand is much lower than during the day, and yet we waste a great deal of energy from coal and nuclear power plants, which are difficult to power up quickly, and are thus left running at high capacity even when demand is low.

At other facilities, including both coal plants in Texas during Hurricane Harvey and nuclear plants in Florida during Hurricane Irma, staff had to be evacuated, forcing those plants offline.

A growing number of climate scientists have warned that if these nuclear plants were to abruptly close, carbon emissions in New York will increase by more than 31 million metric tons during the next two years, resulting in public health and other societal costs of at least $ 1.4 billion.

«We feel we were betrayed [by the central government and TEPCO],» Sato said during an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun on Thursday, nearly a month after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and the outbreak of a series of accidents at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.