Sentences with phrase «at the nuclear plant site»

We have likewise been storing spent nuclear fuel at our nuclear plant sites since the country began using nuclear energy.

Currently, used fuel is safely stored in pools of water or in dry casks at the nuclear plant site.

Not exact matches

Per the site map of SEZ and Anator Holding Co. Ltd Projects, also in possession of this paper, the project will have at least 25 facets including a Nuclear Power Plant covering about 50,000 acres of land.

There is currently no approved national repository to begin removing it from temporary spent fuel pools located on - site at Indian Point and other U.S. nuclear power plants across the country.

In the meantime, highly radioactive waste is being stored on - site in spent fuel pools at each nuclear plant, with 1500 tons of waste are currently stored at Indian Point.

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.

At a state Assembly hearing, the site manager of one of the three plants, the Ginna nuclear power plant near Rochester, agreed with the governor's views.

Deepwater port: A deepwater port at the site of the shuttered nuclear power plant in Shoreham, coupled with a connection to the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line, could transform traffic by taking many long - haul trucks off our roads.

At a recent state Assembly hearing, the site manager of one of the three plants, Ginna nuclear power plant near Rochester, agreed with the governor's views.

Cooling towers at nuclear sites or chemical plants can release water droplets tainted with toxins, which the wind carries away.

But the computer modeling only analyzed catastrophic failure at one reactor at each of these nuclear power plants, despite the fact that Peach Bottom and Surry each have two reactors on site.

Initial sites could be found at national laboratory locations, military bases or decommissioned nuclear plants if local communities agreed, the report says.

Last year managers agreed to a road map for decommissioning the site over the next 30 to 40 years that calls for removing melted nuclear fuel masses and demolishing the plant's four reactor halls at a cost that could top $ 9 billion.

Children living near the site of Tomsk - 7 are being evacuated as the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that plutonium was released by the explosion at the Siberian nuclear plant earlier this month.

Some 16 months after meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operations to remove the nuclear fuel rods from the site have finally begun

The multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011 caused a humanitarian disaster: Upwards of 100,000 people had to be evacuated from within a 20 - kilometer ring around the site.

At the Hanford nuclear site in eastern Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is building the world's largest radioactive waste treatment plant for cleanup of 56 million gallons of radioactive and chemical waste.

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.

Seven years after one of the largest earthquakes on record unleashed a massive tsunami and triggered a meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, officials say they are at last getting a handle on the mammoth task of cleaning the site before it is ultimately dismantled.

In contrast, a conventional nuclear plant requires several years of customized design and construction, and at the end of its life several years more are needed to dismantle it and decontaminate the massive site around it.

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

The Site services group has carried out over 100 significant projects at nuclear plants around the world without a single lost time injury — a stunning record of safety!

Problems at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, proposed site of the first high - level nuclear waste repository, and implications for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a military waste repository in New Mexico.

While quick to grab the taxpayer - supported nuclear pork, none have committed to construct new nuclear plants at any of the sites.

However, U.S. government policy is to handle UET as wastes, not a uranium resource, and to build multi-billion-dollar conversion plants to remove the depleted uranium and to dispose of that waste through shallow land burial at low - level nuclear waste disposal sites.

Rusinko has held senior engineering management roles on complex technical projects including the national nuclear waste repository project at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, the Savannah River site in South Carolina, and the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant in Washington state.

Bellas Artes Projects's Bataan campus at Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar is a perfect site for this work given the World War II history of this region — including the Battle of Bataan (Japanese three - month invasion) that resulted in the unforgettable Bataan Death March (April 9, 1942)-- and the 1984 completed but never activated Bataan Nuclear Power Plant visible on the adjacent peninsula.

DOE also claims 6 years lead time for nuclear; at a round table discussion with utility CEOs (from a business site I didn't bookmark and cant find), one of them said jestingly that a new nuclear plant takes 15 years — 5 for design & permitting, 5 for litigation, and 5 for construction.

Another consideration, as Rita Sipe, manager of Duke Energy's Nuclear Fleet Communications, in February told POWER, is that used fuel pools and dry cask storage sites, which Duke has located at five of the company's six operating nuclear plants, require operations and maintenance (see sidebar, «The Dry Cask Boom&rNuclear Fleet Communications, in February told POWER, is that used fuel pools and dry cask storage sites, which Duke has located at five of the company's six operating nuclear plants, require operations and maintenance (see sidebar, «The Dry Cask Boom&rnuclear plants, require operations and maintenance (see sidebar, «The Dry Cask Boom»).

The choice to locate the pilot plant at the site of Bure Saudron was based in part on commitments made in 2006 to support the economic development of territories which are home to the laboratory research on the deep geological storage of nuclear waste.

According to the AP, new tests have shown that the levels of tritium in the wells at the Vernon, Vermont site are more than three - and - a-half times the federal safety standard.This comes hot on the heels of President Obama's interest in nuclear power, which included a call for «building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants» in last week's State of the Union address, plus $ 54.5 billion earmarked for nuclear power projects.

The timing of the completion of the solar plant at the Phipps Bend site comes as renewable energy is showing the first signs of surpassing nuclear power in the United States.

At the federal level, Energy Secretary Rick Perry proposed a rule to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to compensate baseload power plants that keep at least 90 days worth of fuel on - site — basically all nuclear power plants and some coal plantAt the federal level, Energy Secretary Rick Perry proposed a rule to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to compensate baseload power plants that keep at least 90 days worth of fuel on - site — basically all nuclear power plants and some coal plantat least 90 days worth of fuel on - site — basically all nuclear power plants and some coal plants.

Let's take «settled down» to refer to a design with at least 5 examples completed and operating in developed countries, at least some of them built on greenfield sites (that is, not next to existing nuclear power plants which already have a lot of the necessary infrastructure).

Plaintiff's decedent, Wayne Oliver, worked on the construction of two power plants, Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (Massachusetts) and Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant (Maryland), between 1971 and 1978 and his estate alleges that Mr. Oliver was exposed to asbestos - containing products present at those sites.