Sentences with phrase «conventional nuclear power plants»

And the conventional nuclear power plants currently under construction are, as always, way over budget and way behind schedule and fraught with problems.

The SMR - 160 is advanced only in the sense that it exploits gravity to drive passive plant cooling to levels of safety unattainable by large conventional nuclear power plants.

The size of the reactor's nuclear core is a fraction of those of large conventional nuclear power plants, with an attendant small radioactive source term.

Unlike the waste from conventional nuclear power plants, which remains radioactive for tens of thousands of years, the by - products of fusion decay within decades.

When the head of the Atomic Energy Commission at the time, Lewis Strauss, infamously quipped in 1954 that electricity would become «too cheap to meter,» he was likely referring to nuclear fusion, not nuclear fission, the atom - splitting reaction that powers conventional nuclear power plants today.

The Science Behind It Conventional nuclear power plants circulate water through a reactor core, where it is heated and then passed via pipes to larger vessels, where it converts to steam.

Not exact matches

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

The price tag for a conventional, 1,600 - megawatt nuclear power plant is about $ 8 billion to $ 10 billion, assuming anyone could get approval to build it.

In a study published in March, it compared three scenarios: completing Ukraine's partly built VVER nuclear plants; phasing out nuclear power and supplying Ukraine's expected power needs with conventional plants; and the same plan, but with investments in energy efficiency.

For one thing, a bundle of micro nukes would collectively produce just as much nuclear waste as a conventional plant generating the same amount of power.

As in a conventional fossil fuel or nuclear power plant, that steam spins turbines, which generate electricity.

An alternative to conventional uranium and plutonium reactors might be immune to the problems that have plagued the Fukushima nuclear power plant

Wheeler examined International Energy Agency data for 174 countries on investments in six low - carbon power sources (hydro, geothermal, nuclear, biomass, wind and solar) to find the incremental costs of clean power compared to a cheaper, carbon - intensive option like a conventional coal - fired power plant.

While wind and solar energy are more intermittent than conventional power plants, no power source is available 100 percent of the time, which is why even nuclear, oil, coal and natural gas power plants can be considered intermittent sources.

Along with the company's portfolio of conventional coal, nuclear and natural gas power plants, Crane began investing in the mid-2000s in large wind and solar power plants, and acquiring companies involved in rooftop solar installations, home efficiency tools and electric vehicle charging networks.

Renewables would have to compete directly with conventional power plants, which could result in a renaissance for coal and nuclear power in Europe.

They would have to compete directly with conventional power plants, which could result in a renaissance for coal and nuclear power in Europe.

Let's make some big assumptions: 1) Hyperion will ever actually deliver these modules (apparently the release date for these $ 25 million nuclear plant on a flatbed has been pushed back another year, to 2014); 2) Generating all of the electricity at a tar sands mine through nuclear power will actually reduce emissions to a level comparable to conventional petroleum.

Conventional power plants place heavy demands on our water resources — coal power consumes the most, but natural gas and nuclear power also require significant amounts.

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