Sentences with phrase «license extension»

Supported by reliable performance, several are planning license extensions to 80 years.

Despite ongoing safety problems at Indian Point, Entergy, its owner, is seeking a 20 - year license extension for both reactors.

Three other Entergy nuclear sites, including New York State's controversial Indian Point, are also up for license extensions.

Yet despite five new reactors under construction and a wave of license extensions, post-Fukushima the center of the nuclear industry is shifting to places like China and India.

Entergy Corp., which last week received NRC approval for a 20 - year operating license extension at its Vermont Yankee plant, must in the wake of Japan's crisis obtain final approval from Vermont lawmakers, who last year voted against re-licensing the facility after 2012.

And provisions in the Senate's climate bill call for DOE to increase these investigations in the hope of extending plant lives «substantially beyond the first license extension period.»

The Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Ocean County, New Jersey, was found to be leaking tritium just last year — «just days after Exelon won NRC approval for a 20 - year license extension there,» the AP reports.

Should the plant receive a twenty - year license extension, an additional 1000 tons would be generated and remain on - site at Indian Point indefinitely.

Indian Point is profitable, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo opposes Entergy's application for a 20 - year license extension.

Indeed, some of the license extensions already granted for more than 60 of the 104 operating U.S. reactors could be revisited,» it says.

Physicist Arjun Makhijani of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research described the license extension as quote «not consistent with safety.»

When a nuclear site applies for a license extension or for basically getting a new extension on the life of the reactor, they need to go through a very rigorous risk analysis of their reactor vessel and other hardware.

This license extension follows the results of a clinical trial — the so called EPIC trial — which studied the effect of pimobendan (the active ingredient in...

In order to receive a license extension, Indian Point must also receive a certification from the New York State Department of State (DOS) that its operations are consistent with New York's coastal policies.

Following a joint study by EPRI, the Department of Energy, and the NRC that examined degradation of 15 - year - old fuel stored in a dry cask, the NRC began approving 40 - year license extensions.