Sentences with phrase «increase nuclear plant safety»

The government policy is also due, in part, to the emergence of new nuclear energy technologies that, if successfully developed and implemented, could increase nuclear plant safety while also reducing costs and the risk of nuclear proliferation.

Not exact matches

This advanced nuclear power plant has major appeal in domestic and international markets, offering a right - sized, cost - effective solution for carbon - free energy, and ensuring attainable power options to existing and emerging global economies demanding increased certainty of public safety, environmental protection and security from intrusion and proliferation of nuclear materials.

Because of inflation in the 1970s and more stringent safety regulation on nuclear power plants placed shortly before and after the Three - Mile Island accident in 1979, US nuclear plant construction times increased from around 7 yr in 1971 to 12 yr in 1980.

Proponents of increasing nuclear power should be pushing the industry to meet higher safety and security standards, and for the NRC to require the plants to meet the regulations it is supposed to enforce.

The life cycle of nuclear power results in relatively little global warming pollution, but building a new fleet of plants could increase threats to public safety and national security.

thus reducing the financing costs for all of the plants life 4) Increasing support allows the NRC licensing process to be completely revamped and the culture of the organisation changed from «safety first» to a balance of all costs and risks, > including the costs and risks of nuclear being delayed and too expensive to compete as well as it could if the costs were lower.

Congress should establish financial incentives for power plant owners to purchase safer reactor designs and make safety upgrades by increasing the liability of the nuclear industry for a nuclear accident.