Sentences with phrase «generated by a nuclear power»

For example, he points out that the proportion of electricity to be generated by nuclear power plants in the year 2000 will, at 34 per cent, be almost double the previous forecast made less than three years ago.

The knowledge gained from such research could inform the design, selection, and improvement of adsorbent materials and membranes for capturing gases such as radioactive krypton and xenon generated by nuclear power plants.

Today, electricity generated by a nuclear power plant costs about 6.4 cents per kilowatt hour (kwh), as compared to 4.5 to 5 cents per kwh for coal and 3.5 to 4 cents per kwh for natural gas, Holdren explains.

We'd now be at perhaps 30 % of global electricity generated by nuclear power.

Not exact matches

They are employed by pulp and paper processing companies, nuclear and hydro power generating companies, mining, petrochemical and natural gas companies, industrial instrument and other manufacturing companies, and by industrial instrument servicing establishments.

Nuclear power stations produce hardly any atmospheric pollution and provide by far the safest way to generate energy (with the possible exception of gas).

In the intervening years, the energy policy would give utilities an incentive to use power generated by nuclear plants, which are considered clean sources, though not renewable.

The 650 - megawatt CPV plant in Orange County has already received a series of approvals from the Cuomo administration over the years, and is viewed by officials as key if the governor is to realize his long - term goal of shutting down the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County and replacing the energy it generates with other sources.

Reactors driven by particle accelerators could eat nuclear waste — and generate power at the same time.

For decades scientists have sought to generate clean energy by instigating the kind of sustained nuclear fusion reactions that power the sun.

Fusion aims to generate power by melding light nuclei together to make larger ones, a process during which some of the nuclear mass is converted into energy.

A $ 12 billion worldwide attempt to generate power from nuclear fusion was signed into existence today by ministers from the project's seven international partners — China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United States.

We owe the wonderful images of the outer solar system taken by the Galileo and Cassini spacecraft to the power generated by Cold War surplus nuclear isotopes.

Wavering solar and wind power don't play well with baseload nuclear plants that prefer to run at full blast, so the French must find a way to cope with this imbalance if they are to meet the European Union's directive to generate 20 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2020.

«By 2030, we might be seeing something around 18 percent of power being generated by nuclear rather than the 16 percent we see today,» Moomaw addBy 2030, we might be seeing something around 18 percent of power being generated by nuclear rather than the 16 percent we see today,» Moomaw addby nuclear rather than the 16 percent we see today,» Moomaw adds.

By power source, coal generated 33 % of Southern Company's total megawatt hours in 2015, gas accounted for 47 %, nuclear was 16 %, and hydro power was 3 %.

This all could have been precluded if 30 years of hysteria promoted by these groups against the use of nuclear generated power had not occured.

By the time that new nuclear power plants can even begin to generate any «carbon free» electricity, we can build and deploy hundreds of gigawatts of wind and solar generating capacity — and that's with today's mainstream, already commercialized technology, let alone the innovations like thin - film solar that are just beginning to enter the market.

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

During a peak viewing time when most sets are on, such as the Super Bowl, TVs in the state collectively suck up the equivalent of 40 % of the power generated by the San Onofre nuclear power station running at full capacity.

Some new analysis done by Synapse Energy Economics, at the request of NRDC and Riverkeeper, shows that the state of New York could close the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the pPower Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the ppower capacity in the regions surrounding the plant.

This can come from electricity generated by use of nuclear power reactors which should be constructed as soon as possible.

After the eight nuclear reactors were shuttered in March 2011 by order of the government, a series of reports released by the Federal Network Agency analyzing scenarios under different conditions concluded that Germany would be able to generate sufficient power to cover its own electricity needs, but it could no longer support security of the European interconnected grid to the extent it had done previously.

After nearly 60 years of nuclear power, 15,000 reactor - years of operational experience and only one accident that caused fatalities, it is clearly demonstrated, by virtually all authoritative studies, that nuclear is about the safest way of generating electricity.

China plans to raise its total installed nuclear power generating capacity to 70 GW by 2020 and to raise the proportion of China's nuclear power to 5 % of the total installed electricity generating capacity by 2020.

Earlier in January, California regulators approved Pacific Gas & Electric's application to retire the Diablo Canyon plant by 2025, following a protracted battle over the generating station that pitted local economic interests against environmentalists and other opponents of nuclear power.

About half of Japan's nuclear reactors will probably have to be inspected, reducing the nation's power generating capacity by 15 %.

With nuclear power cheaper than fossil fuel generated electricity it could avoid 50 % of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by around mid 21st Century (and achieve the other objectives in the list).

Lobbyists crowded into a committee room at the General Assembly to watch the inevitable advance Tuesday of a bill that sponsors say would simultaneously lower electric rates and stabilize profits generated by the Millstone Nuclear Power Station.

The calculation was achieved by adding together the equivalent gigawatt hours heat and electricity generated under this theoretical scenario, and dividing it by the output of a large nuclear power station.

An injection of 21 billion pounds ($ 41.22 billion) over the period could see nine times as many installations in place by the same time and generating as much power as five nuclear power stations, the independent report said.

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.

An excellent study by Joe Wheatley of the relatively isolated all Ireland grid, EifrGrid, which has negligible hydro, negligible interconnectors to UK, no nuclear and a mix of modern CCGT, coal, peat and CHP plants, and 17 % of electricity generated by wind power in 2011, found that wind was just 53 % effective at reducing CO2 emissions per MWh.

Existing U.S. nuclear power generating plants operate under increasingly competitive market conditions brought on by relatively low natural gas prices, increasing electricity generation from renewable energy sources, and limited growth in electric power demand.

Wind further solidified its role as the number three electricity source in China (behind coal and hydropower), out - generating nuclear power by an impressive 22 percent.

«Nuclear power provides about one - sixth of the world's electricity today,» generated by 440 reactors, he notes.

That's because the North Anna nuclear plants are only two out of more than 1,300 generating units (power plants) feeding a 13 - state portion of the transmission grid managed by independent operator PJM Interconnection.

Years ago, its brains trust determined to shutter its safe and reliable fleet of nuclear power plants by 2022; hypocritically, Germany still imports plenty of nuclear generated electricity from France and will do for decades to come.

In our scenario guaranteeing profits to both coal and nuclear plants for 25 years, the amount of power generated by natural gas declines due to more coal and nuclear generation.

Nuclear power is also by far the safest way to generate reliable energy, according to every major study published over the last 50 years.

«A new study called Solar Vision 2025, issued by the Canadian Solar Industry Association and prepared by consultants Ernst & Young, reports the cost of solar power projects will be cut by more than 50 % before 2025, making the solar electricity competitive with electricity generated by oil, gas, hydro or nuclear plants,» said Dr. Shawn Qu, CEO and President of Canadian Solar.

Nuclear industry advocates had predicted more than a dozen new reactors worth $ 100 billion or more generating at least 15,000 megawatts of power in the United States by 2020.

N - R HES systems are managed by a single entity that link a nuclear reactor that generates heat, a thermal power cycle for heat - to - electricity conversion, at least one renewable energy source, and an industrial process that uses thermal and / or electrical energy.

According to the ISO, in 1990, the region saw nuclear power as the dominant generating source, at 36 %, followed by oil at 34 %, coal at 16 %, hydro at 7 %, natural gas at 6 %, and pumped storage at 1.7 %.

The basic principle behind a nuclear reactor is simple: the heat produced by a controlled nuclear reaction is used to create steam pressure that drives a power - generating turbine.

[3] Each state has interim targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing demand - side energy - efficiency measures.

A senior Chinese official had earlier announced that wind generating capacity would reach 100 gigawatts by 2020, which means it would overtake nuclear power well before then.

Wavering solar and wind power don't play well with baseload nuclear plants that prefer to run at full blast, so the French must find a way to cope with this imbalance if they are to meet the European Union's directive to generate 20 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2020.

Worldwide, nuclear power generation actually declined in 2008 while wind electric generating capacity increased by 27,000 megawatts, enough to supply 8 million American homes.

Nuclear plants generate a lot of power, and so there's a lot of money to be made by the energy companies that replace them.