Sentences with phrase «getting nuclear costs»

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Toshiba is seeking a minimum of $ 18 billion for the world's second - biggest producer of NAND chips and wants to get the deal done as quickly as possible to help it cover billions of dollars in cost overruns at now - bankrupt nuclear unit Westinghouse.

David Tillman, a spokesman for Exelon, which operates the Nine Mile Nuclear Power Station, said the company has offered to provide Fitzpatrick's fuel at cost so it can remain open while state officials work out the plan for how to achieve Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal to get 50 percent of state energy from renewable sources by 2030.

That gets us to half the cost for electricity in the decade 2020 - 2030 then if we stick with fossil and nuclear fuel.

Granted, a nuclear - powered car is not a likely alternative, but if it were possible to get other energy sources at the current taxed or subsidized cost into the gas tank, here's how the costs would compare.

And again, my position is that (1) nuclear power is not needed, since we can get all the electricity we need, and more, from renewables; (2) nuclear can not possibly be expanded enough, quickly enough to have any significant impact on reducing GHG emissions in the time frame that's needed, while renewables can be (and already are); and (3) resources invested in expanding nuclear power would be far more effectively invested in renewables and / or efficiency, and the opportunity costs of nuclear therefore mean that putting resources into nuclear power hinders rather than helps the effort to quickly reduce CO2 emissions from generating electricity.

Ramping that up significantly requires years of lead time to build factories & equipment... I've never seen a study that didn't betray an obvious bias, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that the time & cost to do all this, and get say 100 GWatts of solar panels out there generating power, is going to be much different from that needed to build 100 nuclear plants.

Ramping that up significantly requires years of lead time to build factories & equipment... it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that the time & cost to do all this, and get say 100 GWatts of solar panels out there generating power, is going to be much different from that needed to build 100 nuclear plants.»

If we do not get the cost down to competitive with coal, than we can not have the benbefit of the much greater safety of nuclear.

The opportunity for the purchase was presented by a confluence of events — the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, the generous support for brown coal generators in the government's carbon pricing package, which will see Loy Yang A alone get more than $ 1.2 billion in cash payments and free permits, and the anticipated sharp cost increases for NSW black coal generators as their subsidized source of coal comes to an end.

No matter what assumptions we enter, it is clear that we are far better off to get nuclear at least cost — as long as it will give us better total health effects than we have now., which clearly replacement of fossil fuels with nuclear will do.

To get nuclear at a cost competitive with coal, or cheaper, we must jetision our ludicrous requirement that nuclear must be 10 to 100 times safer than coal or we wont accept it.

Focus our attention on is how can we get nuclear at a cost less than coal in Australia.

We can only get it if we are willing to focus on working out how to get nuclear at a cost that is competitive, or cheaper, than coal,

I believe it will not matter how many of the Green activists you can convince, if we can not offer nuclear at a cost competitive with coal, it will not get supported by the majority of electors.

What we need to concern ourselves with is how to get nuclear in Australia at a cost less than coal.

We need to focus our efforts on what needs to be done to get nuclear power cost competitive with fossil fuels.

«It is not obvious to see how nuclear will be affordable without some form of public subsidy because the costs keep rising of building nuclear and getting rid of the waste,» he said.

Double or tripple the price of nuclear fuels and it makes little difference to the cost of electricity; but do the same with gas and you nearly double or tripple the cost of electricity (not quite but you get the message).

«Unless we get extremely lucky and see the cost of new modular nuclear reactors or NET Power's CCS gas plant somehow become cost competitive overnight, the current trajectories for wind and solar are by no means sufficient to carry us to the kind of deep decarbonization that we need,» Jenkins said.

To get a sense of the costs of nuclear waste disposal, we need not look beyond the United States, which leads the world with 101,000 megawatts of nuclear - generating capacity (compared with 63,000 megawatts in second - ranked France).

But there it is: That is how much Angela Merkel's «green» energy transition policy — getting rid of nuclear power and installing subsidized wind and solar power — will cost the German taxpayers.

The challenge is to get the front - end capital cost of nuclear — or anything else — competitive with non-ccs coal on a global basis.

Aside from the public perception that nuclear power plants are an enormous potential hazard, the high initial cost of these plants and the high cost of closing them when they get old works against attracting investment.

The USA can be most effective in that by removing the impediments that are preventing the world from getting low cost nuclear energy.

It turns out you can't get rid of an affordable, reliable energy source (like nuclear), and rely on an expensive, unreliable source (like solar and wind), without increase the cost to ratepayers (like me and you).

In the UK, trespass (except in places like nuclear plants and railway lines) is a civil offence not a criminal offence, and so you can only be sued for compensation for any costs the landowner incurred as a result of your trespass, and you can't get a criminal record.