Sentences with word «decommission»

«Every robot needed differs according to its purpose and the damage,» says Tomohisa Ito, a spokesperson for the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning in Tokyo, a consortium of nuclear plant companies that aims to develop new technologies for cleaning up the Fukushima plant.

The International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning in Tokyo unveiled a new robot in December 2015 that will help clean up and dismantle the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Business secretary John Hutton has published draft guidance on how energy firms planning to build nuclear power stations will pay for decommissioning costs.

And while long - term clean energy policies will have job implications, Judson said nuclear owners overstate employment impacts, noting that they have training and transitioning included in decommissioning costs.

Reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi station runs on so - called mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, in which uranium is mixed with other fissile materials such as plutonium from spent reactor fuel or from decommissioned nuclear weapons.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is currently responsible for the clean - up and decommissioning process at the Fukushima Daiichi site and in the surrounding exclusion zone.

Advising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on the community benefit structure for the extension of national low level radioactive waste repository near Drigg.

© 2018 Contenko - Home - About - Contact - Privacy - Terms The closed military site at RAF Folkingham in Lincolnshire is home to an ageing collection of decommissioned military vehicles, farming machinery and

The MIT report says that transfers of spent fuel in casks could begin with the leftover fuel at decommissioned U.S. plants — a first step that, if successful, could bolster public confidence in the process.

Anti-nuclear activists are blasting the state for agreeing to turn over about $ 1.5 billion it held in nuclear plant decommissioning funds to two energy companies.

It also makes it unclear who will bear the burden of decommissioning as these turbines reach end - of - life.

The Condit Dam was just one of several in the region slated for decommissioning by the National Parks Service.

Small satellites can provide repairs, course correction and assist with decommissioning of larger satellites.

Morgan Lewis advises clients on surrendering hydropower licenses, including the development of decommissioning plans for submission to FERC and the resolution of any public land or environmental issues before surrender becomes effective.

• Edom Hill Wind Farm, Cathedral City, CA Client: BP Alternative Energy, 3/2008 — 8/2008 Scope: $ 11.6 M BOP contract included decommissioning of (139) aging WindMatic Turbines for resale, removal of 8 met towers and overhead collector system.

In one work, Gates brings the slate roof of a local decommissioned church down to eye level, making it into a wall, part fortress and part mosaic.

PoliticsHome speaks to former Labour MP Jamie Reed about his new role as Head of Development & Community Relations at Sellafield Ltd, the nuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site in Cumbria.

It would be interesting - but probably impractical - to force developers to post a bond for decommissioning old turbines.

The USArray project is being executed by the non-profit IRIS Consortium and is slated for decommissioning after 2018.

Here the push for wind energy continues to get mandated and subsidized, while much of the media hype is on» green jobs» and lives that will be saved from decommissioning coal - fired electricity generation plants.

Inside the fight: Louisiana established a program in 1986 to convert decommissioned oil and gas rigs into artificial reef systems that provide habitat for marine life in otherwise barren areas.

For 2014, curated again by leading contemporary artist Jake Chapman, Peace One Day are asking artists to use decommissioned M16 assault rifles to produce artwork, thereby continuing the story of taking objects of war and using them in support of peace.

Other great bird watching locations include Ecola State Park, the downtown wetlands on Spruce Street and the now decommissioned water treatment ponds, just east of downtown on 2nd Street.

There is also an order to the Department of Energy Resources (DOER) to develop a 2020 mandate for energy storage, a requirement for higher level attention to natural gas pipeline integrity, and an order forming a nuclear facility decommissioning authority.

The remainder of the wind farm assets held by Altamont Winds, Inc. (an affiliate of Altamont Winds LLC), an estimated 469 wind turbines located to the east on other properties in the APWRA and north of I - 580, are not part of the Summit Wind Repower Project, but will be decommissioned under Altamont Winds Inc.'s separate permit conditions (Permit Extension, PLN2014 - 00028), and may be repowered in the future with a separate project proposal.

It has pilloried the soaring costs of HS2, it has excoriated a five - year extension to the Sellafield nuclear decommissioning contract worth # 5bn given to a private consortium which had been witheringly criticised for spending money «like confetti», and much else.

You will learn about «blood diamonds,» the Angolan civil war, a previous heist, biology of oxygen starvation (hyperlinked), air traffic control, how to operate the autopilot and use instrument landing system technology, view the avionics area (video), go to the boneyards in the Mojave desert (storage place for decommissioned aircraft), see a 777 being built and an Australian sand storm.

New research by the party suggests that on top of the up to # 90 billion cost of decommissioning existing plants, taxpayers will have to fork out billions in direct and indirect subsidies to the nuclear industry to persuade them to build new ones.

Today this glorious coastal landscape is dotted with decommissioned gun batteries and missile installations.

Cuomo is scheduled to be on Long Island today to announce the largest expansion of the state's artificial reef program with the addition of a mountain of material from the demolished Tappan Zee Bridge and decommissioned vessels to be submerged in waters around Long Island.

Actual decommissioning work at Monju will begin once this detailed plan has been approved by the NRA.

Customers pay a levy of $ 0.001 — $ 0.002 / kWh that goes into decommissioning fund.

Recommendation: To better ensure that the government obtains sufficient financial assurances to cover decommissioning liabilities in the event of lessee default, the Secretary of the Interior should ensure that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) completes its plan to revise its financial assurance procedures, including the use of alternative measures of financial strength.

As I mentioned above, I would look into converting the 2 decommissioned units into storage and coin - op laundry to boost monthly income a bit.

For Stranded Assets (2017), the artist's contribution to the 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Lewitt arranged the loan and display of a set of decorative lamps found in the stairwell of a recently decommissioned power plant in Venice's industrial port of Marghera.

«The project, curated by Jake Chapman, consists of new works by some of the most celebrated names in contemporary art all of whom are transforming fully decommissioned M16 assault rifles.»

According to Discovery News, «Launched on ballistic flight paths that quickly re-enter the atmosphere, the water wouldn't add to the debris problem, unlike some other proposals to clean up space... The so - called Ballistic Orbital Removal System could be operated inexpensively by launching water on decommissioned missiles out of suborbital launch complexes, such as NASA's Wallops Island in Virginia, he added.»

But given the life cycle footprint (based only on GHG in this instance and not on hazardous waste, recycling, resource extraction and decommissioning issues) it is seemingly not the singular solution.

Machona's current work engages with issues of migration, social interaction and xenophobia in South Africa, and explores the creative limits of visual art production through the use of decommissioned currency as a key medium.

An Enhanced Leadership Pathway — The U.S. government should have a concentrated program to support the development, manufacturing and licensing of new nuclear reactors that can be built, operated and eventually decommissioned in a manner that is safe, environmentally sound and cost - effective.

Implemented BofA / Merrill Lynch's transitioning activities: integrating key BofA trading system components to ML's environment, eventual decommissioning of transitioning platforms.

Two gigantic oil tanks decommissioned since 1981 are now being used to display live and performance art at London's Tate Modern.

Perform the tasks of providing Mechanical Engineering support to existing decommissioning projects and operating plants

Spain - supported by an abstract for «Remediation of Inactive Uranium Mining and Milling Sites in Spain» from the «European Union International Symposium on Remediation and Restoration of Radioactive - contaminated Sites in Europe,» October 1993 (attached as Appendix C) which describes fully decommissioned mine and mill tailings facilities.