Sentences with phrase «first nuclear plants»

Italian opponents of plans to build the country's first nuclear plants have been strengthened by the ongoing crisis.

In the 57 years since the first nuclear plant was built we have only had one meltdown.

Poland contends that it needs until 2020 to curb carbon emissions, for example by using more efficient boilers and carbon - scrubbing equipment and possibly building its first nuclear plant.

If this were the policy, the first nuclear plant could be bought in 2018.

Development is proceeding apace, yet the complexity of the project and its novelty as the first nuclear plant in a liberalised electricity market may give rise to obstacles or delays.

Not exact matches

Commissioner Neil Chatterjee, who has pushed for immediate aid to struggling coal and nuclear plants, signed off on the order and said in an opinion that he expected the decision to be «only the first step in a more systematic effort by the Commission» to address resilience.

Bechtel has been building the Hanford plant for the disposal of nuclear waste since 2000, for example, and the first phase isn't scheduled for completion until 2022.

For example, she waited many months before giving the go - ahead to the $ 7 billion Hinckley Point nuclear plant funded by Chinese investments, a first for any Western nation.

First is the uranium spot market has been rather tight in terms of overall percentage of production, and there have been some nuclear plant closures in addition to shutdowns in Japan after Fukushima.

It ought to come as a surprise to no one, therefore, that from the time of the first splitting of the atom down through the destruction of Hiroshima and on to current controversies about nuclear weapons and power plants, Christian people have been involved individually and corporately at every level of the debate, not incidentally but specifically because of their Christian commitment.

The world's first nuclear power plant to produce electricity from the atom: Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, in the Great Basin Desert of Idaho.

They discuss Schneiderman's projects during his first year in office, including gun regulations, ethics reforms, Indian Point nuclear plant, and financial oversight.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has pledged to make Indian Point its first and top priority in its review of seismic risk at 27 nuclear plants throughout the country, according to Gov. AndrewNuclear Regulatory Commission has pledged to make Indian Point its first and top priority in its review of seismic risk at 27 nuclear plants throughout the country, according to Gov. Andrewnuclear plants throughout the country, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Close watchers of NY1 this morning caught the first glimpse of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's television spot for the controversial nuclear power plant Indian Point.

In a letter to the PSC, Carlucci said the plan to invest $ 965 million into the state's nuclear plants in the first two years of the program will cause a spike in consumer energy bills and needs to be reconsidered.

His campaign issued a statement saying, in part, that «the Governor has led the nation in combating climate change», including, closing down the «dangerous» Indian Point nuclear power plant and implementing the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution.

First and foremost, Giuliani called on New York to keep the nearby Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant open in Westchester County, since its license is up for renewal.

October 2016 will mark the 60th anniversary of the opening of the world's first civil nuclear energy power plant, which was located in northwest England at Calder Hall and decommissioned in 2003.

He favors nuclear power but insists that problems of waste disposal, nonproliferation, and plant safety must be dealt with first.

Part of the reason is obvious: It needs the expertise to improve and maintain the nation's nuclear weapons stockpiles, and it needs people to replace the first generation of nuclear plant operators and engineers, many of whom are now retiring.

We are building our first two new nuclear reactors since the early 1970s at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant [in eastern Georgia], and that's a start.

In April 2014 the government released its first post-Fukushima strategic energy plan, which called for keeping some nuclear plants as baseload power sources — stations that run consistently around the clock.

Abagyan told New Scientist that Russia will let its 12 first - generation nuclear plants run for their «design lives» of thirty years.

New Jersey - based NRG Energy applies to build the first new nuclear power plant in the U.S. in more than 30 years

Technical obstacles to building new nuclear plants include addressing licensing, design certification and first - of - a kind engineering.

The first «turnkey» plant, Oyster Creek nuclear generating station in New Jersey was sold for less than $ 100 million in 1964 — a price well below what it would ultimately cost to build the reactor.

A 1000 - megawatt plant would take three years and cost 500 billion pesetas — around half the price of Spain's first - generation nuclear power stations of similar output.

For the first time in decades a new uranium rod fabrication plant is operating in New Mexico and it may soon be joined by as many as three others in the U.S.. That's because 2013 will see the expiration of an agreement with Russia that allows the U.S. to blend down the highly enriched uranium from decommissioned Russian nuclear warheads into the lower level enriched fuel used in U.S. nuclear reactors — a program known as «Megatons to Megawatts» that currently provides as much as 50 percent of U.S. nuclear fuel.

For example, in February 2000 a steam generator tube abruptly ruptured at the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, N.Y. — a potential problem first identified in 1997 that had not been fixed.

After Hayashi's first two - week stint at the plant ended, he discovered his nuclear passbook - a record of radiation exposure - had been falsified to show he had been an employee of larger firms higher up the ladder of contractors, not RH Kogyo.

In Poland, in contrast, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Poland «is not in a seismically active zone,» and would not reconsider its plans to build the country's first nuclear power plant near Danzig.

If everything goes according to plan the first of two AP1000 reactors will go online in 2016 at Plant Vogtle in Burke County, Ga., marking the first U.S. nuclear construction project to break ground since the 1970s; the second is set to go online in 2017.

Since then, Wallace has intermittently made new announcements about incremental progress toward building a new reactor about 45 miles south of Washington, which could be the first U.S. nuclear plant put on order and built since 1973.

Across the U.S. nuclear energy sector, plant owners are seeking — and gaining — NRC approval to run first - generation plants for 20 years beyond the original license period.

One of the U.K.'s top nuclear officials said today that she was told the U.S. will okay plans to build the first nuclear power plants since the accident at Three Mile Island nearly three decades ago.

«The people who were involved in building the first generation of nuclear plants, for example in France in the 1980s, are on the point of retiring.»

From GE's founding innovation, Thomas Edison's light bulb, to developing the first civil nuclear power plant connected to a commercial power grid in 1957; everything that we have learned from 130 years of experience has helped GEH to create PRISM.

After more than 20 years of controversy, the first truck of radioactive garbage arrived at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the world's first nuclear waste repository, on March 26, 1999.

Problems at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, proposed site of the first high - level nuclear waste repository, and implications for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a military waste repository in New Mexico.

In the next few weeks and throughout 2004, there will be several major activities related to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the world's first deep underground nuclear waste repository, located in southeastern New Mexico.

Scott Burnell, public affairs officer at the NRC, said NuScale's application is the first to propose a nuclear power plant designed with several small reactors instead of one large one.

Steve Kuczynski, CEO of Southern Nuclear and chairman of the New Plant Advisory Committee at the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), said «At Southern Company, we are building the first new - generation nuclear plants in the United Nuclear and chairman of the New Plant Advisory Committee at the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), said «At Southern Company, we are building the first new - generation nuclear plants in the United Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), said «At Southern Company, we are building the first new - generation nuclear plants in the United nuclear plants in the United States.

From developing the first accelerator mass spectrometer for use in the biology field to tracking radionuclides from the Dai - ichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster, the Laboratory's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (CAMS) has spent 25 years in the spotlight of not only dating ancient artifacts...

Incorporating an interim fuel storage system (HI - STORM UMAX) into the base SMR - 160 plant offering is a first - of - a-kind feature for any nuclear power plant, and will eliminate the need for major subsequent plant modifications and upgrades later in plant life, typically in excess of $ 100M.

Penn State College of Medicine researchers have shown, for the first time, a possible correlation between the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station and thyroid cancers in the counties surrounding the plant.

GE Hitachi Successfully Completes First Pressurized Water Reactor Outage with Exelon Generation at Ginna Nuclear Power Plant

The first commercial 12 - module power plant, which will be owned by Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and run by an experienced nuclear operator, Energy Northwest, is planned for construction on land owned by the US Department of Energy at the Idaho National Laboratory.

As fears rise in Japan about nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant, the first and best line of defense are the reactor's six inch thick steel - walled chambers, made by a company that still forges samurai swords by hand.

The Universal logo yields to a view of the Earth from space, featuring the globe aglow with crisscrossing lines of communication; then we zoom in, first to China, then to the Chai Wan Nuclear Power Plant, until the camera passes through a computer terminal to the network of wires, motherboards and pulsing white packets of sinister code.

«The Atomic States of America»: In 2010, the United States announced construction of the first new nuclear power plant in more than 32 years.