Sentences with phrase «for nuclear projects»

We also help clients in developing nuclear countries to establish and comply with the legal and regulatory framework for nuclear projects, as well as advise on issues of site selection and characterization, licensing and permitting, transport of nuclear material, developing policies, and strategies and compliance procedures.

Pending the review, there should be a moratorium on all further nuclear activity, and revocation of recent clearances for nuclear projects.»

In addition, a bill has been introduced in the Georgia General Assembly to allow the inclusion of construction work in progress (CWIP) for nuclear projects in the rate base.

Not exact matches

The Vogtle nuclear project, the costs of which have soared past $ 25 billion, won't be finished before 2021, when the credit for new nuclear generation is due to expire.

U.S. utility giant Southern Co. didn't get the extension it had been looking for that would've qualified its long - delayed nuclear power project in Georgia for a production tax credit.

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.

CB&I received no upfront payment for the sale of the nuclear construction business, but stood to receive earnouts based on the progress of the completion of two U.S. projects by Stone & Webster: a nuclear power plant in Georgia for Southern Co and two reactors in South Carolina for SCANA Corp (scu).

The budget for the Department of Energy would include $ 120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project that has been stalled for years because of lawsuits and local opposition.

At the same time, subsidies and other support for renewable energy projects have boosted competition from wind and solar power and piled pressure on coal - fired and nuclear power plants.

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

The Commissioner has criticized the government for, among other things, its management of the environmental risks associated with gas, oil and nuclear projects, as well as its greenhouse gas reduction practices.

The UK is also seen as offering a welcome to infrastructure investment that delivers stable long - term returns that continues to be of great interest to China from projects regarded as too sensitive for foreign involvement by other states, such as the nuclear power industry.

In Nevada, however, there is bipartisan opposition to the Yucca project, and the state's congressional delegation prepared a series of amendments meant to ensure that the House would consider key safety provisions for the project, which is located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and adjacent to the land where the government tested nuclear weapons.

Ghana currently has a prototype nuclear power plant and is opened to nuclear investors for the development of high tech nuclear power plants for a West Africa Electric Power Pool project.

In a press release, they say that investing in energy efficiency and by completing ongoing projects the state should be able to provide enough energy to make up for the loss of the nuclear power plant.

Also in the budget: $ 65 million over several years for three projects to expand research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, including one to help it land a lucrative federal nuclear physics facility.

Conservatives, by contrast, are committed to allowing the replacement of existing nuclear power stations provided they are subject to the normal planning process for major projects (under a new national planning statement) and provided also that they receive no public subsidy.

But he suggested that projects such as the ID card scheme and the replacement for the Trident nuclear deterrent would come under scrutiny.

ALBANY - The Cuomo administration's proposed state budget would earmark $ 65 million over several years for three projects to expand research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, including one to help it land a lucrative federal nuclear physics facility.

Analysts at UBS Securities LLC project financial losses for FitzPatrick nuclear plant in years to come.

Famous for: Physicist and Nobel Prize laureate who worked on the Manhattan Project and other nuclear research.

The first truly large - scale nuclear unit — a 428,000 - kilowatt installation at San Onofre, Calif. — was licensed for construction as recently as February 24, 1964, and announcements of commercial nuclear power projects did not begin to gain momentum until the fall of 1965; yet by the summer of 1966 nuclear power had drawn abreast of fossil power in the utility marketplace.

Other goals include increased funding for nuclear weapons research; increased research on nanotechnology; space station, moon, and Mars projects at NASA; work on hydrogen fuels; and support for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project.

The experiment is still on track to begin hunting for the long sought Higgs boson next March, says LHC project leader Lyn Evans of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

An international research project led by Kazuyuki Takeda of Kyoto University and Koji Usami of the University of Tokyo has developed a new method of light detection for nuclear magnetic resonance — NMR — by up - converting NMR radio - frequency signals into optical signals.

Contracting woes may cause further delays for $ 19.4 - billion ITER, a project designed to show the feasibility of nuclear fusion as a power source

The campaign for new nuclear projects has run into depressed electricity demand due to the recession and the prospect of competition from low - priced natural gas from shale deposits.

«Such a sum would clearly destroy the project's economics (or the economics of any nuclear project for that matter),» the company said.

Before John Major's recent visit to Moscow I brought to his attention Debora MacKenzie's article on assistance for nuclear safety projects in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

The waste presents significant challenges for Vit Plant project engineers and nuclear chemists.

«Almost immediately it occurred to many people around the world that this could be used to make power and that it could be used for nuclear explosives,» another immigrant who worked on the Manhattan Project, the German physicist Hans Bethe, told me during an interview in 1997.

The former nuclear weapons facility at Savannah River, Ga. — also part of the Manhattan Project — has been successfully vitrifying weapons waste for years, but only one fuel separation process was used there.

The project was set up in February 2005 as way of searching for gravitational waves (also emitted by pulsars) in data collected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) detector instruments located in Livingston, La., and on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash..

To build the accelerator, the government said that it will provide $ 250 million with additional funding from Italy's Institute of Technology and National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), which is coordinating the project.

«What DOE and NRC are concerned about are the things we don't know about,» Julie Keys, senior project manager for the Nuclear Energy Institute.

Some funding for such work is available from the European Commission's Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States (TACIS) fund, set up to provide aid for nuclear safety, distribution and public sector projects in the former Soviet Union.

Even though a supporter of nuclear power, Charpak was one of three signatories to an editorial in the French daily Libération in August that called for a halt to the building of the experimental fusion reactor ITER in the south of France because the cost of the project has running out of control and the plant will be «unusable.»

Other EPSRC - funded programmes and consortia include the Fusion Programme, the «Keeping the Nuclear Option Open» programme (nuclear fission), the UK Energy Research Centre, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the Carbon Vision Buildings Project, and Building Knowledge for a Changing CNuclear Option Open» programme (nuclear fission), the UK Energy Research Centre, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the Carbon Vision Buildings Project, and Building Knowledge for a Changing Cnuclear fission), the UK Energy Research Centre, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the Carbon Vision Buildings Project, and Building Knowledge for a Changing Climate.

Unusually for such a project, the TSRI chemists analyzed the 3D atomic structure of their template compound using X-ray crystallography as well as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Jacques Haissinski, deputy director of the French national institute for nuclear and particle physics, says Virgo is becoming a European project.

Poll, head of technology for the British government — funded Omega Project, a division of Manchester Metropolitan University that partners with industry to study the environmental impact of aviation and offer possible solutions, pointed out the need for nonkerosene - powered aircraft «I think nuclear - powered airplanes are the answer beyond 2050,» he said, concluding, «If we want to continue to enjoy the benefits of air travel without hindrance from environmental concerns, we need to explore nuclear power.

The plant is supposed to convert plutonium from weapons into fuel for nuclear power plants, but the study triggered fears that DOE wanted to pull the plug on the project, whose cost has ballooned from $ 4.9 billion to $ 7.7 billion.

They presented historical examples of scientists helping to bring nations together dating back to the establishment of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, which was established in 1954 after World War II, and, more recently, SESAME, a major research project in the Middle East that involves scientists from nations still engaged in conflict.

«Dolly the Sheep told me that nuclear reprogramming is possible even in mammalian cells and encouraged me to start my own project, wrote Yamanaka, who splits his time between the University of California, San Francisco, and the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University in Japan, which he directs.

Insiders say the most vulnerable are the National Accelerator Centre near Cape - town, home to a number of particle accelerators, including a powerful cyclotron used for medical, biological and physical research; Mossgas, the multi-billion rand project set up to beat oil sanctions by pumping natural gas ashore from beneath the Indian Ocean; and the Koeberg nuclear power plant at Melkbosstrand.

The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump site in Nevada gets a $ 120 million reboot on licensing for the project in the White House's 2018 budget blueprint for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Their enthusiasm stems from an inescapable truth: now the old enemy in the shape of the Soviet Union has collapsed, nuclear weapons designers and those employed on projects for the Strategic Defense Initiative are facing redundancy unless they can find a new adversary on which to focus.

Due east along Guangdong's coastline, one of the region's most sophisticated technological projects, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Complex, is also the stage for a cutting - edge experiment in high - energy physics: measuring the proportion of electron antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed throughNuclear Power Complex, is also the stage for a cutting - edge experiment in high - energy physics: measuring the proportion of electron antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed throughnuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed through space.

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.

In a statement the NNSA said that, before the first loading of materials, it had conducted a five - year safety review of the Taishan nuclear power project and dispatched on - site supervisors for the entire construction process.