Sentences with phrase «building nuclear plants»

If we use full - cost pricing — requiring utilities to absorb the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, of decommissioning a plant when it wears out, and of insuring reactors against possible accidents and terrorist attacks — building nuclear plants in a competitive electricity market is simply not economical.

Opponents of nuclear power have started a counteroffensive to Dr. Lovelock's call for a new nuclear age, arguing that mining uranium and building nuclear plants releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide, and that the danger from accidents or terrorism is too great.

If we use full - cost pricing — requiring utilities to absorb the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, of decommissioning the plant when it is worn out, and of insuring the reactors against possible accidents and terrorist attacks — building nuclear plants in a competitive electricity market is clearly not economical.

Also, Virginia should have received more credit for lowering its carbon emissions by building nuclear plants back in the 1970s when no one was thinking about carbon emissions.

At the same time, the government plans a program of building nuclear plants that would roughly triple capacity by 2024 and supply one - quarter of the country's electricity needs by 2050.

- You recommended building nuclear plants (which I did not disagree with.)

While the cost of building nuclear plants rose when it switched designs, construction costs fell when it built the same reactor on the same site using the same team.

GE and Hitachi have a legacy of building nuclear plants safely for more than 50 years.

The government would not be building any nuclear plants either, he said.

James added, «The real question is how fast we can build nuclear plants, not whether we can build them, and when the sequestration technology is going to be available.»

Forget wind turbines and other horrible structures, just build nuclear plants, they are clean, safe and quiet!

They say they should be given aid to complete five partly built nuclear plants in Ukraine.

In the UK and the US, public hostility, combined with a commercial reluctance to build nuclear plants without financial safety nets from governments, make any major nuclear revival unlikely.

Of course all that changed with Fukishima and now Switzerland has committed to never build another nuclear plant... at least for now.

What they should do is, build a nuclear plant in Central Park, right on The Lake.

Britain and Kenya are already rethinking their plans to hire the Koreans to build nuclear plants.

Heavily tax coal, don't let the power companies pass the cost to the consumer, use the funds to build nuclear plants and auction them back to the power companies.

Of course, this also means we should never build any nuclear plant that won't be operated as a base load plant.

When you build a nuclear plant you are building tomorrow's generation with today's dollars.

Vietnam recently cancelled plans to build nuclear plants and is now planning to build coal plants instead.

Italy refuses to build nuclear plants, yet they buy half their power from France and pay far higher rates than French customers.

Many people have commented saying we should build nuclear plants, and this may be fine for those countries with vast water supplies, but down here in Australia, where we have had a drought for the past 12/13 years, nuclear reactors require far too much water to cool their reactors.

Or it can offer loan guarantees and fast - track licensing for anyone who wants to build a nuclear plant.

However, if we really wanted to we could build nuclear plants safely much more quickly.

Do we really want to build nuclear plants in a world that is becoming less politically, economically, and socially stable?

Not exact matches

The Bellefonte plant came with two partially built nuclear reactors, one that's about 55 percent complete and another about 35 percent finished.

As cheap natural gas squeezes the margins of nuclear generators, there's only one company currently building reactors in the country — Southern Co., at its Vogtle plant in Georgia.

The deal is already favourable to the French: the agreed - on strike price for Hinkley C's electricity — around $ 150 per megawatt hour — is double current energy rates and could increase further if another U.K. nuclear plant currently on the drawing board is not built.

Separately, the Nikkei reported over the weekend that Hitachi will ask the UK government to take a direct stake in the company that is set to build and operate a nuclear power plant in Wales.

In his role with ACU, Flynn flew to Egypt to convince officials there to hold off on a Russian offer (this one unrelated to ACU) to build nuclear power plants.

Bechtel has been building the Hanford plant for the disposal of nuclear waste since 2000, for example, and the first phase isn't scheduled for completion until 2022.

Ontario has already wasted billions on natural gas - fired power plants that were never built and could potentially squander billions more refurbishing aging nuclear stations in a bid to prop up the province's atomic industry.

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

Much of this is due to problems concerning the company's half - built Summer Nuclear Plant.

The contrast between the Chinese program to build the next generation of nuclear plants, and Bush's energy plan, shows the «pro-nuclear» label to be a fraud.

It would lessen the increase of greenhouse gases and allow us to avoid building additional nuclear energy plants.

As Governments realise this, more and more nuclear power plants are being planned and built worldwide.

As our knowledge of nuclear power, for example, increased and we built more and more nuclear power plants, we discovered how little we really knew about the new world of technology we ushered ourselves into, with risks previously unknown and unanticipated.

The only nuclear power plant being built in the US (Vogtle in Georgia) is costing $ 7 per watt, and eventually perhaps more.

Russia has built the Busher nuclear power plant in Iran partially at her own expense on the promise by Iran that they will be buying nuclear fuel from Russia for this plant to operate.

(I mean, We should build a nuclear power plant right on the Pacific Ocean!

We will trust ourselves more to build our own cars, transform our subsistence farming to profitable and industrial agriculture, and even build nuclear power plants to generate electricity.

At the Ginna nuclear plant near Rochester, for example, the PSC ordered subsidy payments to keep Ginna running - but only for 18 months while the local utility finishes building a transmission line to bring in power from elsewhere.

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.

[98][99] In addition, the Government of Ghana has sought to build the second nuclear power plant in Africa.

Most of the nuclear facilities currently operating in America don't have them, and few of the operators of the older plants would opt to build them because of the cost, N.R.C. spokesman Neil Sheehan said.

LILCO's ambition to rise to the lucrative status of a national broker of nuclear power fell apart due in great measure to a popular uprising among the regular folks of the Town of Riverhead, wherein the Northville — which the state and LILCO referred to as Jamesport — plant was to be built.

Julia Walsh, with Frack Action, says she hopes that the governor will now act to stop the expansion or building of new gas pipelines in Westchester County, near the Indian Point Nuclear power plant, and upstate across Schoharie, Albany and Rensselaer counties.

Meanwhile, according to today's Siena poll, Nearly three - quarters of voters say they are «concerned» about the safety of New York's nuclear power plants and a majority opposes building new nuclear power plants in the state.

Toshiba has a 60 % stake in NuGen, a joint venture with France's Engie, which has the contract to build a new nuclear power plant in Cumbria in the UK.