Sentences with phrase «for aging reactors»
Whether or not nuclear generation has truly peaked will depend on a number of factors, including how many Japanese reactors resume operation, how many licenses are extended for aging reactors worldwide, and the pace and magnitude of uprating existing units.
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Standoff over refueling an aging research reactor paved way for key advance in Iran's uranium enrichment know - how.
The panel, known as the Neutron Landscape Group, said last week that as the aging reactors shut down over the next 5 to 10 years, the number of neutrons available for research will fall by as much as half.
Next year, when two nuclear reactors near Syracuse, N.Y., are shut down for normal refueling operations, technicians will enter their cavernous containment structures looking for signs of aging in the thick steel walls surrounding shrouds of concrete.
European governments are devising a cut - price solution for monitoring radiation leaks from the ageing reactors of the former communist bloc.
Behind the histrionics and talking points framing the decades - long battle over the place of nuclear power in America's (and the world's) energy menu, there have long been hints of a path forward, both for dealing with existing, aging reactors and considering a new generation of technologies.
Survival for the Canadian nuclear industry also depends on keeping its 22 aging CANDU reactors operating.
A decision by parties to an obscure convention has huge implications for Europe's ageing nuclear reactors.
However, low natural gas prices, increasingly affordable renewable technologies and grid improvements, declining demand for electricity, and costly age - and safety - related power plant repairs have led to some nuclear reactors being retiring abruptly, with little or no advance planning.
Aging nuclear reactors will soon enough be taken offline for refurbishment or decommissioning.
The post, «Germany's Solar Panels Produce More Power Than Japan's Entire Fukushima Complex,» implies that solar PV may be an adequate substitute for aging nuclear reactors in both Germany and Japan.
About 1.6 million electric customers in South Carolina are paying for the unfinished reactors that were supposed to mark a new age of nuclear power as coal - fired plants were shutting down.