Sentences with phrase «commercial nuclear power plants»

The research may eventually help lead to ways to safely dispose of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel that is stored now at commercial nuclear power plants.

Centrus Energy Corp. is a trusted supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants in the United States and around the world.

Centrus Energy is a trusted supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants in the United States and around the world.

It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.

A case in point is that there are about 120 commercial nuclear power plants operating in the United States.

On the question of what to do about the nation's growing supply of radioactive waste from commercial nuclear power plants, Moniz said he would work to «push forward» the recommendations laid out in 2011 by a federal commission on which he served.

Even compared with other newcomer nuclear countries, it is clear that no sub-Saharan African country is ready to build its first commercial nuclear power plant in the next five years.

Rather, it is because new commercial nuclear power plants are uneconomical in the United States.

Apparently, the question of whether commercial nuclear power plants result in increased rates of leukemia in children is a subject of ongoing study, with oftentimes conflicting results, possibly due to differences in methodology and quality control.

The decision, which still awaits approval by the Georgia Public Service Commission, could leave Vogtle as the only commercial nuclear power plant under construction in North America.

The first U.S. commercial nuclear power plant, which went critical at Shippingport, Pennsylvania, in 1957, was hailed as a green new technology: it promised to reduce the terrible coal pollution that plagued nearby Pittsburgh.

Throughout its history, Centrus has been committed to the reduction of Cold War nuclear arsenals through the recycling of highly enriched uranium from nuclear warheads into low - enriched uranium to be used in fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.

That is about 20 kilometres southeast of the proposed burial site of at least 25 000 tonnes of highly radioactive spent fuel and high - level waste from the US's 120 commercial nuclear power plants, at Yucca Mountain in southern Nevada, 100 miles north of Las Vegas.

The governor of Fukui Prefecture, which hosts the Ohi nuclear power plant, is on record as opposing the restart of any commercial nuclear power plants.

On the other hand, the last unit to enter commercial operation was TVA's Watts Bar Unit 1 in June 1996, and the last successful order for a U.S. commercial nuclear power plant was in 1973.

Under terms of the contract, as amended in 1996, United States Enrichment Corporation (i) purchased the enrichment portion of the blended - down material and sold it to its electric utility customers for use in fabricating fuel for their commercial nuclear power plants, and (ii) transferred to TENEX a quantity of natural uranium equal to the natural uranium component of the low enriched uranium.

The governor of Japan's Fukui Prefecture, Issei Nishikawa, was cited by JAIF as saying: «The national government needs to resolutely develop a plan, given that little progress has been made in selecting sites for the final disposal of used nuclear fuel from the commercial nuclear power plants operated by the country's electric power companies.»

Nine years as a health physicist, twenty - two years as a computer software specialist in a commercial nuclear power plant.