Sentences with phrase «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.

No — what's holding back nuclear is not decommissioning costs, but the immense financial and political power of fossil fuel interests, which are able to stack the deck against nuclear energy.

Nick Gotts, as I understand it, decommissioning costs are based on past experience with decommissioning.

WRT decommissioning costs — and even more so, long - term storage costs — I certainly wouldn't trust any estimates from nuclear industry or enthusiast sources: they have every incentive to under - estimate costs, and a long record of doing so.

It is not clear if this figure includes required upgrades to the transmission grid or decommissioning costs.

Even without Zinke's planned offshore drilling expansion, the Government Accountability Office estimates that taxpayers» contingent liability in the Gulf of Mexico for decommissioning costs could be as much as $ 35 billion.

The annual $ 7 billion figure does not include industry freebies like publicly funded infrastructure for fossil fuel development on our shared land, inadequate financial protections to pay for coal mining cleanup, or decommissioning costs for offshore drilling.

that taxpayers» contingent liability in the Gulf of Mexico for decommissioning costs could be as much as $ 35 billion.

To keep the industry going, the Scottish government would have to invest around  # 3,800 per person to match the  # 20 billion the UK government has set aside for decommissioning costs, DECC suggests.

Wikipedia, 2017/01/24, listed estimated decommissioning costs varying from US$ 153 million to US$ 514 million per reactor.

«In 2016 the European Commission assessed that European Union's nuclear decommissioning liabilities were seriously underfunded by about 118 billion euros, with only 150 billion euros of earmarked assets to cover 268 billion euros of expected decommissioning costs covering both dismantling of nuclear plants and storage of radioactive parts and waste.»

They often sell off the asset to some other unsuspecting fool and will in any case go out of business before they are faced with the decommissioning costs at end of life.

Politicians prefer to see the next generation pay decommissioning costs rather ask current customers and taxpayers to pay enough extra to cover decommissioning.

E.ON's CEO Johannes Teyssen warned of substantial financial losses, and Vattenfall CEO Oystein Loseth demanded «fair compensation» for losses as a result of the decision, based on «writing off» the plants, cancelled upgrades scheduled after September 2010, and decommissioning costs.

Under PG&E's proposal, ratepayers would pay a «non-by-passable charge» to make good decommissioning costs that would have been funded had Diablo completed a typical 60 - year service life.

The fact that nuclear doesn't pay its full liability costs is a subsidy, the fact that it doesn't pay its full waste and decommissioning costs is a subsidy.»

The decommissioning costs may also be borne by the taxpayer, though companies will be asked to pay into a «decommissioning fund».

Management believes analysts and investors use Adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental measure to evaluate overall operating performance and facilitate comparisons with other wireless communications companies because it is indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating performance and trends by excluding the impact of interest expense from financing, non-cash depreciation and amortization from capital investments, non-cash stock - based compensation, network decommissioning costs as they are not indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating performance and certain other nonrecurring income and expenses.

Not exact matches

The state government's failed shared services scheme will be completely decommissioned and its managing office shut down by the end of 2013 at a cost of $ 90 million.

This includes 1.5 trillion yen for development and another 1.5 trillion yen for acquiring around 100 of the jets, in addition to costs such as maintenance and decommissioning.

The endlessly repeated arguments against nuclear power, namely the disposal of nuclear waste, leukemia clusters around nuclear power stations, the cost of decommissioning and the shortage of uranium have all been conclusively refuted or put into proper proportion [1].

Even the Finnish reactor - much touted by the prime minister - has a guaranteed price for its output and a taxpayer commitment to deal with all waste after 60 years and with any overrun costs of decommissioning.

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.

Open Senate was developed as part of an overall Information Technology modernization project in the Senate, initiated with the election of a new Senate Majority in January 2009, which has yielded in excess of $ 500,000 in annual net savings to date; savings have derived primarily from increasing the Senate's ability to create and maintain technology in - house, including using a combination of free open - source software and low - cost Software - As - A Service (SaaS) solutions whenever possible, thus enabling the Senate to cancel unnecessary maintenance and service contracts, and decommission expensive obsolete computer systems.

It will cost at least # 73 billion to decommission the UK's first - generation civil nuclear sites and run the remaining operating ones, MPs have claimed.

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.

Chris Huhne, at Energy and Climate Change, has started to lobby for special treatment by announcing the discovery of a # 4bn black hole in his budget for the cost of decommissioning nuclear power stations.

Last year managers agreed to a road map for decommissioning the site over the next 30 to 40 years that calls for removing melted nuclear fuel masses and demolishing the plant's four reactor halls at a cost that could top $ 9 billion.

(One of the reactors, Barsebäck 1, has been shut down as part of Sweden?s phaseout of nuclear power, but decommissioning of the remaining 12 has stalled because no cost - effective substitutes have been found.)

«The energy payback time of a nuclear power plant is at present about 11 years compared with natural gas at half a year,» Storm van Leeuwen argues, when the full cost of decommissioning a nuclear power plant at the end of its useful life is included.

Well before the first 20 - year relicensing period ends, power plant owners will have to know what new components and equipment upgrades will be required to extend the lives of current reactors to 80 years, and how high the costs and regulatory hurdles will be, before deciding whether to take that route or decommission the plants and shutter them, industry officials say.

Of that, $ 130 million is intended to offset the cost of decommissioning ballistic missiles, nuclear submarines and bombers.

If Topfer's draft becomes law, the companies that run Germany's 21 nuclear power plants would have to shoulder the costs of disposing of waste, decommissioning, and research and development.

The second reason is that it costs a minimum of # 2 billion ($ 3.14 billion) to decommission a nuclear reactor, according to the European Union, and there are two reactors at each of these EDF stations.

«PRISM has the potential to offer an attractive solution to the disposition of civil plutonium and we look forward to working with GEH as they progress with their proposals to deploy PRISM in the U.K.» The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has contracted GEH to carry out feasibility work in a number of key areas including the proposed commercial structure, disposability of the fuel, risk transfer model, costs and licensability of GEH's PRISM offering

Judge Thomas S. Moore of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) found that HRI's Restoration Action Plan (RAP)- a blueprint for calculating the amount of money that will be needed to restore contaminated groundwater, decommission surface facilities and reclaim disturbed lands at the end of mining - underestimated well - plugging, reclamation equipment and labor costs for independent contractors that would take over clean - up should HRI go bankrupt.

Thus, WIPP's mission has been to demonstrate whether the federal government and its contractors, at the cost of unknown billions of dollars can: (1) safely operate WIPP to meet the «start clean, stay clean» standard; (2) safely transport plutonium - contaminated waste through more than 20 states without serious accidents or release of radioactive or hazardous contaminants; (3) meet commitments to clean up transuranic waste at about 20 DOE nuclear weapons sites; and (4) safely close, decontaminate, and decommission the WIPP site, beginning in 2030 or sooner.

The cost of decommissioning the reactors will increase fourfold to about 8 trillion yen, while compensation payments will rise to 7.9 trillion yen.

The decommissioning of Monju will take 30 years and cost more than JPY375 billion ($ 3.2 billion), the government estimates.

The decommissioning of Monju will cost more than JPY375 billion ($ 3.2 billion), the government estimates.

They run out, are placed inappropriately, cost lots, demand (and get) subsidies and take lots of time and money to build and need careful decommissioning and do not produce any power until complete.

TEPCO, the owner of the Fukushima plant, estimates that compensation costs for the tens of thousands of people displaced by the accident in Japan will exceed $ 50 billion and that it will cost about $ 20 billion to decommission the plant.

With nuclear, upfront costs are high, but the end costs of decommissioning and of hot fuel rod treatment are even higher.

I've read reports in the past about the huge cost to both the UK and US about the cost of decommissioning plants let alone the nuclear waste or security.

Coal and nuclear are only cheap if you ignore externialities like waste disposal, decommissioning and health costs from particulates.

The Swedish nuclear industry is financially responsible for all costs related to decommissioning and final storage of spent nuclear fuel.

Waste and decommissioning nuclear plants is a major problem, costing millions of pounds in decommissioning and nuclear waste buried for hundreds of years underground.

He contrasted the advantages of renewables over nuclear power plants as their ease of decommissioning: there is no long - lived radioactive waste to deal with, and upgrading, for example, offshore wind turbines, is cost - effective because the foundations and infrastructure are already built.

In none of the cases I looked at would the income over the 20 year life of the turbine be sufficient to pay back the capital cost, let alone interest on the capital, maintenance, insurance, decommissioning.

Decommissioning Sellafield nuclear power station in the UK will cost taxpayers at least # 70 billion as costs hit «astonishing levels,» senior MPs said yesterday.