Sentences with phrase «by nuclear plant operators»
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.
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In the US, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is giving plant operators in central and eastern parts of the country 18 months to revise their hazard assessments, following a new report reconsidering the risks posed by the region's geological faults.
A typhoon killed 17 people in Japan on Wednesday, most on an offshore island, but largely spared the capital and caused no new disaster as it brushed by the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power station, the plant's operator said.
Hindering that process were a lack of regulations as well as «a collusion between the government, the [nuclear] regulators and [plant operator] Tepco and the lack of governance by said parties ``, Kurokawa's panel said in an English - language summary.
The first commercial 12 - module power plant, which will be owned by Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and run by an experienced nuclear operator, Energy Northwest, is planned for construction on land owned by the US Department of Energy at the Idaho National Laboratory.
Years back, during the congressional hearings over the FPO (full power operation) permit for the Seabrook power plant on the east coast, I found out about a MOA (Memorandum of Agreement) between the US NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) and INPO (Institute of Nuclear Power Operations), which is a private corporation that can be hired by nuclear power operators for tasks such as investigating nuclear power plant safety deficiNuclear Regulatory Commission) and INPO (Institute of Nuclear Power Operations), which is a private corporation that can be hired by nuclear power operators for tasks such as investigating nuclear power plant safety deficiNuclear Power Operations), which is a private corporation that can be hired by nuclear power operators for tasks such as investigating nuclear power plant safety deficinuclear power operators for tasks such as investigating nuclear power plant safety deficinuclear power plant safety deficiencies.
Already by the early 1970s, U.S. nuclear plant operators were seeking to standardize nuclear plant design to reduce the time and cost of licensing and construction.
The urgency of an accelerated grid expansion has been underlined several times since last May by individual grid operators — as well as by the Federal Grid Agency, which warned that nuclear plant closures had brought the nation's transmission grids «to the edge of their resilience.»
The NRDC cites the «2016 State of the Market» report by PJM, the largest grid operator in North America, as showing that «new entrant natural gas - fired combined cycle plants, combustion turbine plants, and solar are economical, but that new coal and nuclear plants are not.»
Now that Ohio - based utility First Energy has declared bankruptcy, there is the possibility that its three nuclear plants could be purchased by Exelon, which has proven capable of operating its plants at a cost that is roughly one - quarter less than other nuclear operators.
That's because the North Anna nuclear plants are only two out of more than 1,300 generating units (power plants) feeding a 13 - state portion of the transmission grid managed by independent operator PJM Interconnection.
Many countries have now liberalized the electricity market where these risks, and the risk of cheaper competitors emerging before capital costs are recovered, are borne by plant suppliers and operators rather than consumers, which leads to a significantly different evaluation of the economics of new nuclear power plants.
The nature of the wind subsidy is such that it has required the main operator of Illinois» nuclear power plants to pay for the power surges created by wind turbines.
... The Market for Electricity is Rigged... The preferential dispatch system used by many RTO / ISO grid operators favors wind and solar to the exclusion of critical baseload power from fossil fuel and nuclear power plants.
The secondary coverage is provided by way of an assessment on the operators of all nuclear plants, which would result in approximately $ 12 billion in coverage, based on an assessment to each plant of a maximum of $ 111.9 million.