Sentences with phrase «for new nuclear construction»

Given the financial failures of French nuclear giant Areva and Japanese - owned and U.S. - based Westinghouse, Korea's withdrawal from nuclear would leave only Russia and China in the global competition for new nuclear construction.

Pipeline permits printed exclusively on unobtainium, fracking demonized daily in the media and fought in the courts, massive deposits of our highest quality coal placed off limits (by Bill Clinton, with the stroke of a pen without discussion), zero chance for new nuclear construction, drive to replace gas / diesel cars with electric cars - charged from what, ad infinitum.

Another potential problem stems from Heseltine's confirmation that «private finance is unlikely to be available for new nuclear construction».

Not exact matches

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Yesterday's document stated: «We have agreed a process that will allow Liberal Democrats to maintain their opposition to nuclear power while permitting the government to bring forward the national planning statement for ratification by parliament so that new nuclear construction is possible.»

But there are currently 53 new nuclear reactors under construction or planned around the globe for 2020, capable of producing 42 gigawatts of electricity.

Those figures, say the authors of the report, an update on a similar report in 2003, mean that «even if all the announced plans for new nuclear power plant construction are realized, the total will be well behind that needed for reaching a thousand gigawatts of new capacity worldwide by 2050.»

In the U.S., since 2003, 17 applications for 26 new reactors have been filed with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but not one is yet under construction.

The new Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing process provides for design certification, early site approval and combined licensing for construction and operation.

While U.S. companies have been exiting the industry over the past decades as government and popular support for new construction has waned, Sanders maintains that strong U.S. participation in the nuclear energy marketplace would give diplomats a new tool to use with would - be nuclear powers.

Nuclear power is in the midst of a resurgence in the U.S. — the first application for a new reactor in more than 30 years was filed in September 2007 — and a construction boom of new reactors is underway around the world.

China has become the nuclear industry's living laboratory for new reactor designs and the learning that comes from actual construction.

The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

The DoE issued $ 6.5 billion in loan guarantees for two new Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors already under construction at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia in February.

The United Kingdom, which last year promised to make it easier for nuclear reactors to be built but also said that it wouldn't provide any money for their construction, today announced a new nuclear safety review in light of the events in Japan.

DOE also claims 6 years lead time for nuclear; at a round table discussion with utility CEOs (from a business site I didn't bookmark and cant find), one of them said jestingly that a new nuclear plant takes 15 years — 5 for design & permitting, 5 for litigation, and 5 for construction.

To my mind, the Fukushima failure also builds the case for the kind of push under way in China, which is moving forward with construction of the first two of a new generation of nuclear reactors — cooled by helium, not water, and designed in a way that can not produce a meltdown of the fuel.

However, projected costs for new nuclear reactors have historically been underestimated and construction costs of all new energy facilities have recently risen.

An equally expensive and widely unpopular alternative is construction of many new nuclear fission plants for generation of electricity or production of secondary fuels.

Given the nuclear solution requires new reactor designs yet to be built even for demonstration and test purposes, and then the complexities of siting nuclear power plants near the calling water they need while defending them against flood waters makes construction of tested designs take a decade.

While these sections are relatively clear in describing how generation from nuclear plants is accounted for in the emission rate goals, other parts of the EPA proposal suggest the possibility that «new» nuclear plants beyond those currently under construction may play a role in state compliance planning.

The news comes the same day that Secretary Perry announced conditional commitments for $ 3.7 billion in federal loan guarantees to continue construction of a new nuclear plant in Georgia.

The nuclear reactors whose construction was halted in South Carolina last Monday would likely produce electricity for the same or less than wind and solar, a new Environmental Progress analysis finds.

«I'm not arguing for the construction of new nuclear plants,» Von Hoene said.

The average construction time of a new reactor in 2015 was 73 months, compared to an average 82.5 months for all civil nuclear reactors built over the past 60 years, according to the report.

In early 2012, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved construction permits for four 1,100 - megawatt reactors at two existing nuclear plants in the southeastern states of Georgia and South Carolina, the first permits for new plants sincNuclear Regulatory Commission approved construction permits for four 1,100 - megawatt reactors at two existing nuclear plants in the southeastern states of Georgia and South Carolina, the first permits for new plants sincnuclear plants in the southeastern states of Georgia and South Carolina, the first permits for new plants since 1978.

Using it for electrical power generation, including complete flue gas cleanup, makes economic sense, as long as new nuclear planet construction is blocked by environmentalists and red tape.

Riverkeeper retained Synapse to assess the potential impacts to energy reliability and electric power sector air emissions associated with the construction and operation of a closed - cycle cooling system as the «best technology available» (BTA) for the Indian Point nuclear power plant, in order to inform the analysis being conducted by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) under the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA).

Nuclear power has multiple subsidies in the form of: - direct payments for new nuclear plants of 2.3 cents per kWh generated for the first ten years (in the US), — this is US$ 2 billion for a 1000 MW plant after ten years operation, - complete indemnity under the Price - Anderson Act for harm caused by a radiation release (above a modest insured amount), - changes to safety regulations to allow continued operation, - new plant construction loan guarantees, - direct subsidies for existing plants to keep operating as a jobs - protection program, and Nuclear power has multiple subsidies in the form of: - direct payments for new nuclear plants of 2.3 cents per kWh generated for the first ten years (in the US), — this is US$ 2 billion for a 1000 MW plant after ten years operation, - complete indemnity under the Price - Anderson Act for harm caused by a radiation release (above a modest insured amount), - changes to safety regulations to allow continued operation, - new plant construction loan guarantees, - direct subsidies for existing plants to keep operating as a jobs - protection program, and nuclear plants of 2.3 cents per kWh generated for the first ten years (in the US), — this is US$ 2 billion for a 1000 MW plant after ten years operation, - complete indemnity under the Price - Anderson Act for harm caused by a radiation release (above a modest insured amount), - changes to safety regulations to allow continued operation, - new plant construction loan guarantees, - direct subsidies for existing plants to keep operating as a jobs - protection program, and others.

Indeed, only four out of more than two dozen applications for new nuclear power plants have begun construction after receiving a federal license to do so.

(Note: Do people here at CE know that there is a Production Tax Credit (PTC) for new nuclear units [e.g., Georgia Power Vogtle units under construction] which is almost identical to the current wind PTC?)

To his credit, Smil acknowledges nuclear power's environmental and health benefits, but he goes on to suggest that for nuclear power to be economically viable, engineers will need to make a «breakthrough» in reducing the construction times of new nuclear power plants.

The growing sense of climate urgency combined with the slow approval for financing and construction of new nuclear reactors makes for a daunting challenge.

«The global financial climate is causing some U.S. customers, primarily ones that are relying on the capital markets to finance their projects, to reprioritize needs and consider options for the construction of new nuclear power plants,» Roderick said.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its analysis of EPA's Clean Power Plan had to consider new nuclear capacity as a separate case analysis because construction of new nuclear capacity other than what is currently under construction or at risk for retirement is not a major compliance option based on EPA's proposed rule despite nuclear power's zero carbon dioxide emissions.

As the crisis at the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex continues to captivate global media attention, President Obama's domestic energy plans, which have long - included a push for the construction of new nuclear reactors, are beginning to be called into question.

Government and industry must decide whether to invest vast sums, of the order of hundreds, perhaps even thousands of billions of dollars in production of synthetic liquid fuels from coal or oil shale, an equally expensive and widely unpopular alternative is construction of many new nuclear fission plants for generation of electricity or production of secondary fuels.

Funny thing: everybody and his ankle know that nuclear is more expensive than solar and wind, except for utility companies who are ready to invest hundreds of billions of their private money into construction of new nuclear power plants.

Nations must work together to develop a long - term plan for new nuclear plant construction to achieve economies of scale.

Author and blogger Chris Goodall estimates that if the planned construction of new nuclear power stations in the UK stalls in response to the crisis, the result will be an increase of 9m tonnes of carbon dioxide for every year we delay».

And while civilian light water reactors do not require that kind of enrichment, new nuclear plants still start out with a huge carbon and energy debt to work off, which means it is years before they produce more energy than they consumed along the way (I have heard estimates exceeding 15 years when all the construction and fuel cycle energy use is accounted for).

More stringent safety standards and construction delays also added to costs, and enthusiasm for new nuclear waned.