Sentences with phrase «for nuclear plants»

Now there is one — and it increases the state's renewable portfolio standard and solar carve - out while also offering subsidies for nuclear plants.

The use of Solar and Wind energy is a great way to reduce the total need for nuclear plants.

Wind power farms generate between 17 and 39 times as much power as they consume, compared to 16 times for nuclear plants and 11 times for coal plants.

And they have yet to deny an extension request for any nuclear plant that has finished the process of requesting one.

«Everything you described in your article was true for nuclear plants built in the 1970s,» an industry veteran told me.

This starts with investment and financing as well as support for nuclear plants at risk of premature closure due to our discriminatory subsidy regime.

In terms of safety, we are still using 1960s technologies for our nuclear plants.

This could well also prove to be the case for nuclear plants, which, unlike wind farms, most green groups oppose.

Those considering applying for nuclear plant technical advisor job can take guidelines from nuclear plant technical advisor cover letter on this site.

I have written technical procedures and prepared license amendment requests for a nuclear plant.

So contrary to Madigan's claim, Exelon never recovered all the construction costs for its nuclear plants from ratepayers — either before or after deregulation.

He says the pension fund is also shifting away from investments like coal and he's not enthused about nuclear because as a resident of Long Island, electric customers are still paying for a nuclear plant which never opened.

Would I make a batch of my Scovie Award - winning Cranberry - Habanero Jelly for her nuclear plant co-workers in southern Vermont?

«Close only counts for horseshoes, not for nuclear plants.»

PSC Chair Audrey Zibelman beseeched Entergy Corp., which owns FitzPatrick, to work with state officials on a financial rescue for the nuclear plant.

With four years to plan for the nuclear plant's closure, some of those reliability issues may be resolved as other electricity generating resources come online.

Cuomo's new policy aims to improve the financial outlook for nuclear plants, or at least the Upstate reactors.

The 2001 terrorist attacks drew attention to the potential hazard of an aircraft crash for nuclear plants, and afterward the NRC and nuclear industry examined whether new precautions were needed.

This has applications for nuclear plant safety, as well as national security and nuclear nonproliferation monitoring.

Germany is poised to use it as a substitute for the nuclear plants it will shut down by 2022 (see «Germany will use coal and gas to plug nuclear power gap»).

At the same time, OSU was gaining international recognition for its work in the development of passive safety systems that use natural circulation to provide cooling for nuclear plants.

Q24: What is Holtec's experience in designing gravity - driven systems for nuclear plants?

laid back but kinda shy with all this im not a millionaire but im a union craftsman for nuclear plant also im a former marine scout / sniper and a silver star award winner

Presumably today's vets either are not taught the radiation risks or they choose to forget it when they routinely blast semen and eggs with radiation greater than is safe for nuclear plant workers!!!

Another important article, «Japanese Rules for Nuclear Plants Relied on Old Science,» shows how efforts to safeguard nuclear plants in Japan lagged way behind science pointing to the need to account for tsunami damage and flooding.

Nuclear fuel is over one million times more «energy dense» than coal, and so it's easy for nuclear plants to keep several years worth of fuel on - site.

In the U.S., cost and schedule overruns for nuclear plants are legendary.

Model finds operating nuclear plants flexibly can reduce electricity costs, increase revenue for nuclear plants, and cut carbon emissions in electric power systems.

Let's not forget that at the end of 2010 the German government extended commissions for nuclear plants by 8 - 14 years, which we celebrate at our board meeting in February 2011.

Endorsed on 26 March by an METI advisory council, and likely to be adopted by the Cabinet later this year, it calls for nuclear plants to be restarted, boosting their share of electricity generation to between 20 % and 22 % by 2030.

Therefore, comparison with other power generation methods is strongly dependent on assumptions about construction timescales and capital financing for nuclear plants.

«Recent market developments are influencing the pace of new power plant projects in the U.S. industry - wide,» said Danny Roderick, vice-president for nuclear plant projects at GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy.

That's a difficult operation for a nuclear plant, as is ramping back up when the sun sets.

Compared to existing New Jersey state subsidies for solar at fifty times this amount per megawatt - hour, the proposed help for nuclear plants would provide outstanding environmental protection value while paying for itself through lower fossil fuel bills and retained in - state jobs and tax revenue.

In order for nuclear plants to receive the $ 11 per megawatt - hour (MWh) subsidy they needed to keep operating, Gov. Murphy, anti-nuclear groups EDF and NRDC, and companies that install panels like Sunrun demanded a whopping $ 210 / MWh to $ 304 / MWh for solar energy.

The CDU made an nuclear about - face, shutting down 7 nuclear plants temporarily and calling for a three - month moratorium on extensions for nuclear plant operating permits.

For years the utilities have depended on rising capacity factors of nuclear and coal plants and power uprates for nuclear plants to keep up with the baseload demand.

«The problem is most acute in PJM,» Crozat said, noting wind power coming from the midwest is proving economically and technically challenging for nuclear plants.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit challenging New York's groundbreaking subsidies for nuclear plants, clearing the way for three Upstate nukes to continue collecting roughly $ 483 million a year from utility ratepayers.

«Progress seeks to raise its base rates by 30 percent to pay for the nuclear plant, which would not be up and running until at least 2018.»

Yet financing the up - front investments needed for nuclear plants is a major challenge even in industrialized countries: so far nuclear power expands only where governments facilitate private investment, a practice that is at odds with strong market liberalization policies.

The capital costs for nuclear plants are $ 6,000 a kilowatt, or $ 6 a watt, or more, not including waste storage, and often rise higher than expected.

The group is pushing the state to adopt Gov. Andrew Cuomo's clean energy standard, which could provide lucrative subsidies for nuclear plants.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan for a «clean energy standard» that might include subsidies for nuclear plants is too late to save the doomed FitzPatrick plant in Oswego County, an Entergy Corp. executive said today.

Sources told Reuters in May that German utilities were in talks with the government about setting up a «bad bank» for nuclear plants, in response to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to close them all by 2022 after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Lawmakers on April 12 could pass the package of bills, which includes S - 2313, a bill directing the Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to establish zero emission certificates (ZECs) for a nuclear plant that can demonstrate it will cease operations unless it experiences a material financial change.

The most recent change is a 10 - year sunset provision on the zero emission credit (ZEC) for the nuclear plants.