Sentences with phrase «local nuclear power plant»

Whatever happened to the good ol days when you got your power from your local nuclear power plant or coal plant.

As a starting point for that piece, I'm going to pop down to Indian Point, my local nuclear power plant just nine miles from home, on the way to Pace University.

Qualified Personnel Only by WhatAreBirds A two - player physical experience where you are filling in for a friend who works at the local nuclear power plant.

It's one of the many findings in their study which was commissioned by local nuclear power plant unions to show state lawmakers their value.

Not exact matches

The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away, but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

At the Ginna nuclear plant near Rochester, for example, the PSC ordered subsidy payments to keep Ginna running - but only for 18 months while the local utility finishes building a transmission line to bring in power from elsewhere.

It's also the date for an $ 8 billion bailout of some upstate nuclear power plants to begin, and more than 80 local government leaders are making a last - ditch effort to stop a plan that they say will cost electric utility ratepayers billions of dollars.

This, in turn, convinced the county Legislature, and the local representatives in Albany and Washington, that a Jamesport nuclear power plant made political sense, simply because it was a popular idea.

State and local officials toured an 800 - acre forest around the shuttered Shoreham nuclear power plant in an effort to preserve the site slated for a solar farm on Tuesday, April 18, 2017.

Well before a March 11 earthquake led to a partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, local antinuclear activists and elected officials were warning of the potential for disaster if a hurricane or other unusual weather...

At 6:30 p.m., Sen. Terrence Murphy holds a local public hearing on the proposed closing of Indian Point nuclear power plant, Local 21 Plumbers and Steamfitters Union Hall, 1024 McKinley St., Peekslocal public hearing on the proposed closing of Indian Point nuclear power plant, Local 21 Plumbers and Steamfitters Union Hall, 1024 McKinley St., PeeksLocal 21 Plumbers and Steamfitters Union Hall, 1024 McKinley St., Peekskill.

Local restaurant owner Nick Canale delivered the keynote address, urging the crowd to rally around the Fitzpatrick and Nine Mile Point nuclear power plants in Oswego County.

The operator of New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant and a local union have reached a contract agreement for security workers.

CORTLANDT, N.Y. — The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

Just after 6 AM local time on Tuesday in Japan, a sound like an explosion was heard near the suppression pool of reactor No. 2 at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

A resulting tsunami damaged the Fukushima - Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, leading to a major nuclear disaster in addition to other local destrNuclear Power Plant, leading to a major nuclear disaster in addition to other local destrnuclear disaster in addition to other local destruction.

In fact, a typical coal - fired power plant exposes local residents to as many as 18 millirems of radiation yearly, whereas a nuclear power plant emits less than six millirems per annum, according to researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Meanwhile, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano was reported in this morning's Asahi Shimbun (newspaper) as saying it is conceivable that none of the country's nuclear power plants will be operating this summer because of the difficulty of gaining local approval to restart.

By law, nuclear power plants must be periodically shut down for maintenance and inspection; utilities need national and local permission to restart operations.

However, only a majority of Tea Party members (52 %) would support building a nuclear power plant in their own local area.

Actively connecting with local communities So far, the Biketour cyclists have already joined a protest against a planned nuclear power plant at Belene, Bulgaria.

Earlier in January, California regulators approved Pacific Gas & Electric's application to retire the Diablo Canyon plant by 2025, following a protracted battle over the generating station that pitted local economic interests against environmentalists and other opponents of nuclear power.

As for the breakdown of electricity rates, more detailed information needs to be disclosed, such as (1) «wheeling charges» (cost of transmitting electricity); (2) the cost of generated electricity equivalent to the amount of expenses shared to cover the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, etc. (included in the wheeling charges; legislation requires all electricity users to pay a share of this cost); and (3) the amount of a «promotion of power - resources development tax,» which is used to subsidize local governments hosting nuclear power plants.

«This order is an important step forward that will result in new projects in the ground, but much work remains to ensure that community solar can achieve its full potential to make affordable local clean energy available to customers all over the state, to help realize Governor Cuomo's clean energy goals, and to help replace power from the Indian Point nuclear plant.

Nuclear power plants are always near water and the neighboring river, lake or ocean sees its local temperatures rise because of the warm water returned from the power plant, threatening the local ecosystems.

Federal, state and local governments have massively intervened in energy markets to support renewable power with subsidies and mandates, but given virtually no support to existing nuclear plants.

When residents of the Turkish village of Büyükeceli decided to install a set of solar panels to demonstrate how renewable energy could be a viable alternative to the proposed nuclear power plant they are fighting, they first thought to use the green electricity to power a local school.

NO American nuclear power plant has Ever exceeded the local natural background radiation.

Just down the road from us is Didcot A power station, a large coal - burning plant with poor pollution control and therefore with substantial effects on local air quality, as well as more substantial emissions of radiation than from any UK nuclear power station and a Co2 output of about 8 million tonnes a year.

In the afternoon, we were joined by several local activists from the nearby town of Plogoff, who successfully campaigned against a new nuclear power plant being built on the coastline in the 1970s.

So, even in their own reality, they're the bad apples for, climate (windmills apparently change local climate and global climate is just statistics of local climate, but besides every windmill needs a 1:1 existence of coal, gas or nuclear power plant on standby).