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Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars

LONDON (Reuters)- Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars.

Not exact matches

The technology — designed to lower investment, operational and maintenance costs in screening of municipal and industrial waste water with compacting of extracted solids — has also cut the amount of maintenance and waste that has to be handled by plant operators, reducing operational health hazards and improving OHS performance.

Such extended seasonal closures would certainly cut into the plant's profits — according to Entergy, the plant's operator, they would cost billions of dollars annually — and if they were put in place over the long term, could mean the end of Indian Point as a going concern.

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.

The lawmakers charge that Morgan Stanley set up an alleged price fixing scheme between the two plant operators and made $ 21.6 million on the deal which cost ratepayers $ 300 million.

Meserve said he urged the panels to strengthen Japan's regulatory oversight of nuclear power, making nuclear safety the highest priority for plant operators, above cost and power production.

This collaborative commercialization program will also work to confirm projected construction and operating costs and identify a lead - plant owner and operator for the joint aSMR.

The collaboration will also include the near - term objectives of confirming projected construction and operating costs, as well as the identification of a lead plant owner / operator for the reactor.

While the DOE's reasoning for linking fuel stores to grid resiliency has been widely criticized for its vagueness and gaps in logic, its idea for a solution is clear: «full cost recovery» for those power plants now playing by the rules of the energy and capacity markets run by interstate grid operators serving about three - quarters of the country.

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.

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.

Fukushima presented an opportunity for AGL Energy because it meant that Tepco, the plant's operator, was no longer in a position to invest in Loy Yang A and was a distressed seller of its one third stake in Loy Yang A. AGL Energy, which already had a 32.5 per cent stake in the plant, says Loy Yang A will remain one of the lowest cost generators in the NEM because of cheap coal at the doorstep — it pays just $ 6 / t for brown coal, which would give it a massive advantage over black coal generators in NSW, which are facing costs of $ 45 / t and will go higher in future years.

The PJM independent system operator (ISO) said there is no imminent danger to the grid when it was asked about the First Energy bankruptcy filing and First Energy's request of FERC for cost recovery for its nuclear and coal - fired power plants.

PJM vice president Stu Bresler said the plan described in the grid operator's November 15 report was in the works well before the Department of Energy proposed rules to guarantee cost recovery for coal and nuclear plants in the PJM region and certain other competitive markets.

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.

Some power plant operators have decided that retrofitting units to meet the new standards will be cost - prohibitive and are choosing to retire units instead.

The costs of the equipment needed to control acid and toxic metal emissions, such as flue gas desulfurization (FGD) and dry sorbent injection (DSI), play a significant role in retrofitting and retirement decisions faced by coal plant operators.

For technical and cost recovery reasons, nuclear plant operators try to continuously operate at full power.

And because solar panels have zero marginal cost — once they are installed and paid off, they generate power for free — grid operators take their electricity instead of resorting to more expensive «peaker» natural gas plants.

Collaborated with plant management, outside engineering resources, and plant operators that ensured the most cost effective design was achieved.