Sentences with phrase «largest nuclear power»

Interestingly the US is already the largest nuclear power country by capacity, just low as a percentage of its needs (20 %).

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (PVNGS), at 3,937 MW, is the largest nuclear power plant in the U.S., and the 2nd largest of any U.S. power plant.

Exelon (exc), the nation's largest nuclear power generator, was up 1.1 % at $ 38.60.

The extra electricity, which can increase by as much as a gigawatt — or the output of a large nuclear power plant — in under an hour, must be quickly sold to other utilities or in many cases it is wasted.

The largest solar farm in the world, in China, generates almost as much electricity as a large nuclear power plant

Constructed in one third of the time needed to build current large nuclear power plants, the time value of capital is a significant contributor to the low capital cost.

Unlike large nuclear power plants, no electrically - powered pumps or heat exchangers are needed to ensure that the plant remains safely cooled and contained.

«Experts project that by 2010 the number of solar water heaters installed in China will equal the thermal equivalent of the electrical capacity of 40 large nuclear power plants.»

At peak generation, this solar facility's electricity output would rival that of five large nuclear power plants.

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.

These would produce enough power to replace five large nuclear power stations, tellingly at about the same time as the first of the much - touted new generation of reactors is likely to come on stream.

The divisions the bills have created within the state — with the utility commission, some lawmakers, clean energy advocates and the executive branch on one side, and Xcel and other members of the legislature on the other — echo wider debates about large nuclear power plants in the U.S., and who should pay for them.

«If you wanted to power the entire world on nuclear, you'd need about 17,000 large nuclear power plants, each 850 megawatts,» Jacobson says.

Experts project that by 2010 the number of solar water heaters installed in China will equal the thermal equivalent of electrical capacity of 40 large nuclear power plants.

Due to the country's desire to enhance its energy security, Japan has developed a large nuclear power industry.

15 GWe is 3 x large nuclear power plants 15 GWe is 3 x large hydro power plants 15 GWe is 15 x biggest Wind farms 15 GWe is 30 x biggest PV solar plants 15 GWe is 40 x Ivanpah CS solar plants

Not exact matches

On April 26, 1986, a radioactive release many times as large as the that of the Hiroshima bomb occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.

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.

The idea is that utilities generate large amounts of clean power in remote, large power plants in much the same way that natural gas, coal, and nuclear power are generated today.

If you had done your analysis right then it would have led you to believe that many of the largest companies in Japan, especially the owners of the nuclear power plant, would have seen a decrease in the value of their stock price.

While neither is overly occupied with the policy concerns of the larger environmental movement ¯ global climate, carbon capture, alternative energy, the future of nuclear power, and so on ¯ they help illuminate a common narrative that places nature above human need.

For example, it is well known that nuclear radiations are dangerous in large doses and this was used as an argument against nuclear power.

But the governor's power in Albany to pass issue - based legislation is diminished compared to the broad power the office yields during the budget process — thanks in large part to the fact that he no longer wields the all - or - nothing budget extender nuclear option.

We'll still be the fourth largest defence power in the world, he continued, and listed retention of Britain's nuclear deterrent, a world class new aircraft carrier, a new fleet of destroyers and the new Typhoon fighter as evidence that Britain will remain a «full spectrum defence player.»

On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Assemblymember Kavanagh, Chair of the Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee, held a press conference with Energy Chair Amy Paulin, Corporations Chair Jeffrey Dinowitz, Environmental Conservation Chair Steve Englebright, and other Assemblymembers to question the lack of transparency by the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) regarding massive subsidies to a large corporation to operate upstate nuclear power plants that are set to take effect on April 1.

Syracuse CIty Councilor at - large Jean Kessner asks Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to halt a multi-billion-dollar state bailout of upstate nuclear power plants.

But if a state proposal to shutter Indian Point for three months a year is part of larger plot to close the nuclear power plant permanently, as the owner contends, the governor isn't saying so.

Cuomo addressed that seeming contradiction in a briefing at Indian Point on Sunday, saying the difference is that the Westchester nuclear power plant is near one of the world's largest population centers, and logistically, there can be no safe way to evacuate people if something major goes wrong.

New York's air is the cleanest its been in a long time and that's thanks in large measure to our nuclear power plants.

He pledged to join the protesters, and he linked their efforts to earlier protests against nuclear power and to the larger energy debate.

Large transformer explosion at Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.

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.

The meltdown started when water to cool the reactors fell to dangerously low levels four hours after the fourth - largest recorded earthquake rattled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Exelon, headquartered in Chicago, is a $ 31 billion energy services and wholesale power firm with one of the nation's largest nuclear fleets, as well as extensive holdings in natural gas, wind and hydropower generation assets.

The Science Behind It Conventional nuclear power plants circulate water through a reactor core, where it is heated and then passed via pipes to larger vessels, where it converts to steam.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

That means that the rest of the world — particularly China, which is building almost every type of reactor on offer, and Russia — may well inherit the promise and peril of nuclear power, whether small or large.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large animal farms, PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

Since the end of World War II, violent conflict between states has declined drastically, owing in part to the nuclear standoff of the major powers (two scorpions in a bottle writ large).

Aaron Kreider, a Web developer in Philadelphia who runs a site called the Energy Justice Network, a nonprofit group that supports clean energy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United States.

Uranium, the radioactive element that fuels nuclear power plants and occurs naturally in the Earth's crust, is typically mined from large sandstone deposits deep underground.

About 20 percent of U.S. electricity comes from nuclear power plants, making it the third - largest source of electricity in the country after coal (45 percent) and natural gas (23 percent).

With 54 nuclear reactors generating 280 billion kilowatt - hours annually, Japan is the world's third - largest producer of nuclear power, after the U.S. and France, according to data from the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Foreign nuclear groups such as Toshiba Corp's Westinghouse and Areva have won multi-billion dollar contracts to build nuclear power plants in the world's second largest economy.

In 2015, wind surpassed nuclear to become the grid operator's third - largest power source.

But even if the EU picked up the entire bill, says the Ökoinstitut, «it would cost every citizen of the EU an insurance premium of at most $ 2.80 per year» to shut down the largest concentration of nuclear power plants in Eastern Europe.

Although nuclear power plants require large up - front investments, their operational and fuel costs are competitive and predictable.

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.

That helps explain why such a large earthquake was unexpected in the region, resulting in catastrophic consequences that included more than 24,000 people dead or missing and fuel meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the coast.

Seven years after one of the largest earthquakes on record unleashed a massive tsunami and triggered a meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, officials say they are at last getting a handle on the mammoth task of cleaning the site before it is ultimately dismantled.