Sentences with phrase «licensed nuclear site»

Providing a licensed nuclear site on which several nuclear reactors have been built and operated.

Not exact matches

There is also little incentive for companies to try to license and develop new low - level waste sites, because nuclear plants, which generate most of that waste, have managed to dramatically reduce their volume and store more on site, according to Todd Lovinger, executive director of the Low - Level Radioactive Waste Forum, a nonprofit that is helping state compacts comply with the low - level waste law.

The new Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing process provides for design certification, early site approval and combined licensing for construction and operation.

But is it necessary for every aspect of nuclear power to be re-examined by a cascade of public inquiries every time the nuclear industry proposes to build a reactor, especially when it is virtually identical to its predecessor and on a site which has already been licensed?

The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump site in Nevada gets a $ 120 million reboot on licensing for the project in the White House's 2018 budget blueprint for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Holtec has submitted an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to store ALL of the nation's commercial spent fuel at a site in southeastern New Mexico.

They abandoned a collective radiation dose limit when it was discovered that the Yucca site could not meet it, and, just last year, the EPA promulgated final standards for licensing Yucca Mountain that rely on dilution of nuclear waste as opposed to containment.

Mr. Fertel has almost 50 years of experience working with the electric utility industry on issues related to designing, siting, licensing and managing both fossil and nuclear plants.

Nuclear waste disposal must be based on a geologically adequate site, not on standards designed to ensure any site selected is licensed.

And since it's for research and development, don't expect anything; nuclear power plants take a long time to design, site and license.

Energy Alberta Corporation (Energy Alberta) has filed an application for a site preparation license for two twin - unit ACR - 1000 CANDU nuclear reactors to provide power for the oil sands operations in Alberta.

Plaintiffs claimed that Nebraska had breached its good faith obligation under an interstate compact when it refused to license a nuclear waste disposal site.

We also help clients in developing nuclear countries to establish and comply with the legal and regulatory framework for nuclear projects, as well as advise on issues of site selection and characterization, licensing and permitting, transport of nuclear material, developing policies, and strategies and compliance procedures.

In the UK, we assisted in the successful application for the first nuclear site license.

Our understanding of the nuclear sector is unrivalled — we have worked on almost all of the UK's public nuclear licensed sites, and alongside operators at all levels of the supply chain.