Sentences with phrase «debate over nuclear power»

The debate over nuclear power continues to rage in environmental circles.

Although we don't know yet just how bad the situation is at Japan's damaged nuclear plants in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami, the events across the Pacific are already triggering a new and differently tinged debate over nuclear power back here at home.

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The debate is part of a larger controversy over whether or not the country should phase out its nuclear power by 2022, as current law stipulates.

But ANP engineers and management were mired in debate over reactor technologies, how best to transfer nuclear power to a conventional engine, and the best material to shield the crew from radiation.

But the issues thrown up are still arousing passions today, as witnessed by further arguments in favour of using tidal power in the Severn and debate over the UK government's recent go - ahead for the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in Somerset.

Then O'Brien travels up the Hudson to the Indian Point nuclear power plant to examine the debate over efforts by its owner, Entergy, to renew the plant's license for another 20 years.

The ongoing situation in Japan has reignited the debate in France over nuclear power, currently the source of 75 % of the country's

Much like with the debate over decommissioning the aging Indian Point nuclear power plant, much of the added power that could be created because of the increased pipeline capacity, could just as easily (and probably far more cheaply) be offset with energy efficiency improvements in the region.