Sentences with phrase «for nuclear decommissioning»

We are also on legal panels for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Costain Limited, Highways England, Ministry of Defence, Welsh Water, Green Investment Bank and Hochtief.

The key challenge on this project was to ensure that the technical solutions were appropriate for a nuclear decommissioning project with complex radioactive waste streams, but where the aim has been to keep the design simple.

«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.

To try to confirm the location and condition of the melted fuel, the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning, set up by TEPCO and other entities, has been probing the reactors» innards with muons.

Not exact matches

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

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.

I believe in a Nuclear Free World and believe we should put our weapons up for decommissioning at an international convention, encouraging others to do the same.

Photos obtained from a whistleblower and published in a Vermont newspaper have renewed calls for stricter oversight of Entergy and its management of the fund dedicated to decommissioning the closed Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has already confirmed it will make its sites available for developers wanting to build a new generation of nuclear power stNuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has already confirmed it will make its sites available for developers wanting to build a new generation of nuclear power stnuclear power stations.

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.

While nuclear reactors do not emit carbon dioxide at the point of power generation, the nuclear fuel chain is responsible for carbon emissions during mining, milling, enriching, construction, transportation, and decommissioning.

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.

«The Germans couldn't quite figure out what to do with it,» Clements said.German officials have been embroiled in a fight over who will pay for clean - up of nuclear waste from nine remaining decommissioned nuclear plants.

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.

This includes working with and developing alternate fuels like recycled uranium, mixed oxide and thorium, as well as Tier 1 contracts for the management and decommissioning of nuclear sites in the United States and Canada.

Application for approval of the planned schedule for the decommissioning of Monju has been submitted to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA).

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.

Nuclear plant fuel managers; dry fuel storage project managers; used fuel cask designers; utility licensing and compliance personnel; used fuel storage, transportation, decommissioning and disposal consultants; NDE vendors; architect engineers; pool - to - pad services companies; hardware suppliers; government agency managers, technical experts, contractors, stakeholders and international experts responsible for used nuclear fuel management and decommissioning Nuclear plant fuel managers; dry fuel storage project managers; used fuel cask designers; utility licensing and compliance personnel; used fuel storage, transportation, decommissioning and disposal consultants; NDE vendors; architect engineers; pool - to - pad services companies; hardware suppliers; government agency managers, technical experts, contractors, stakeholders and international experts responsible for used nuclear fuel management and decommissioning nuclear fuel management and decommissioning issues.

International Atomic Energy Agency experts review plans for decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, April 17, 2013.

Earlier this year, the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) threw a competition that appeared to be stacked in favour of Areva's MOX project wide open, with a report that declared that all three projects presented «credible reuse options» for the country's plutonium stockpile.

Lastly nuclear plants are radioactive for long time as well once they are decommissioned.

Major political parties, including the Green party of the coalition - government have recently strongly advocated for a policy to decommission the Swedish nuclear fleet prematurely.

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.

You've called for installing nuclear power plants worldwide instead of coal - fired or gas - fired plants for all new or decommissioned old plants.

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.

It does not include the additional costs for nuclear of disposing of waste, insuring plants against an accident, and decommissioning the plants when they wear out.

Aging nuclear reactors will soon enough be taken offline for refurbishment or decommissioning.

This is the same line of thinking that left us with hundreds of aging nuclear power plants without the resources for their decommissioning.

In the USA «in - situ decommissioning», that is the entombment of nuclear power stations cost US$ 73 million for two reactors.

I should add that GE - Hitachi are offering the PRISM to the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority for disposal of the UK's plutonium stockpile.

Already on this thread, I showed that claims about the «prohibitive» cost of Indian nuclear power had little basis and the levies on nuclear power generation in the US for decommissioning and spent fuel management to be small fraction of the renewables levy in Germany

Tuesday, April 24, 5:30 — 7:30, 6 pm, Montshire Museum, Norwich, Porter Community Panel Discussion: Decommissioning: A Future Without Vermont Yankee Panel: Deb Katz, Executive Director of the Citizens Awareness Network Chris Williams, Organizer for Vermont Citizens Action Network Robert Stannard, Citizen Lobbyist for the Vermont Citizens Action Network Come learn more about the current status of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon, VT: the lawsuits and appeals, the Public Service board process; public engagement and the inevitable nuclear power plant dDecommissioning: A Future Without Vermont Yankee Panel: Deb Katz, Executive Director of the Citizens Awareness Network Chris Williams, Organizer for Vermont Citizens Action Network Robert Stannard, Citizen Lobbyist for the Vermont Citizens Action Network Come learn more about the current status of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon, VT: the lawsuits and appeals, the Public Service board process; public engagement and the inevitable nuclear power plant decommissioningdecommissioning.

Let's say we shut down and decommissioned coal mines and coal - fired power plants, stopped new offshore drilling for oil and gas plus the development of shale oil and gas, moved away from nuclear power as too risky, spent trillions to subsidize non-viable windmills and solar panels to squeak by in avoiding a total blackout by imposing exorbitant taxes on energy in order to force people to cut back its use.

A report out today (but already known for years) is that we will have an enormous energy gap in 4 to 8 years as our coal and nuclear stations are decommissioned.

Nuclear energy, which is dominant in electricity generation, will enter a phase of substantial change with the decommissioning of a second plant in Bohunice, the need for important waste management investments and the privatisation of Slovenské Elektrárne (SE), the operating company, which is planning to complete a new plant in Mochovce.

Calculations are often deceptive because steps are left out for some technologies, notably the decommissioning and disposal steps are often left out in calculation of carbon footprints for nuclear power.

Levelised costs for nuclear power include decommissioning and long - term waste management costs.

Indeed, if the NRC behaves responsibly and stops rubber - stamping license renewals for aging nuclear power plants, and they are decommissioned as originally planned, it is likely that nuclear's share of US electricity generation will drop, even if a few new plants are eventually built.

ccpo: Levelised costs for nuclear power include decommissioning and long - term waste management costs.

Decommissioning nuclear power plants, cleaning up nuclear accidents and maintaining spent nuclear fuel are also real costs and should be counted in the EROEI calculations for nuclear power.

If we insist that utilities bear the full cost of nuclear power — and that's something we need to do — they have to set aside money for decommissioning and include that in the rates.

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

In addition Melanie is very active in the nuclear sector, particularly nuclear decommissioning projects, acting for the NDA and private sector clients.

The latter held that the liability of a contracting authority for the breach of EU public procurement rules under the remedies directive is assimilated to that of the State under the general EU law doctrine of State liability and thus requires a sufficiently serious breach (Nuclear Decommissioning Authority).

The respondent brought a public procurement claim against the appellant NDA, in connection with its unsuccessful bid for a contract for services to decommission sites previously used for nuclear generation.

Advising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in its defence of a # 120 million + damages claim arising from the procurement of an approximately # 6 billion contract for the decommissioning of 12 nuclear power stNuclear Decommissioning Authority in its defence of a # 120 million + damages claim arising from the procurement of an approximately # 6 billion contract for the decommissioning of 12 nuclear Decommissioning Authority in its defence of a # 120 million + damages claim arising from the procurement of an approximately # 6 billion contract for the decommissioning of 12 nuclear decommissioning of 12 nuclear power stnuclear power stations.

Advising a public sector client on the renegotiation and / or early termination of contracts for the decommissioning of nuclear energy facilities.