Sentences with phrase «many nuclear power plants»

(A nuclear power plant operating at peak capacity produces about 1 gigawatt.)

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.

The country's nuclear power plants have been shuttered with only part of the capacity replaced by wind and solar.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 29 years ago on 26 April 1986, releasing radioactive particles into the air that were 250 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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.

Federal regulators on Monday rejected a rule proposed by Energy Secretary Rick Perry that would have subsidized coal and nuclear power plants.

CB&I received no upfront payment for the sale of the nuclear construction business, but stood to receive earnouts based on the progress of the completion of two U.S. projects by Stone & Webster: a nuclear power plant in Georgia for Southern Co and two reactors in South Carolina for SCANA Corp (scu).

(Among other things, it's used for real - time control systems in nuclear power plants.)

It plans to shut down its nuclear power plants by the end of 2022.

Separately, the Nikkei reported over the weekend that Hitachi will ask the UK government to take a direct stake in the company that is set to build and operate a nuclear power plant in Wales.

Of the 31 countries that possess nuclear power plants, we have identified five where the acquisition of nuclear weapons would radically impact relations with their regional neighbors and global powers.

At the same time, subsidies and other support for renewable energy projects have boosted competition from wind and solar power and piled pressure on coal - fired and nuclear power plants.

The trucks were used to evacuate people during the Boston Marathon bombings, are stationed at nuclear power plants around the world, and are used by the State Department in hostile regions.

Plutonium and uranium are converted into chemical compounds called oxides, and mixed together in fuel rods for civilian nuclear power plants.

In his role with ACU, Flynn flew to Egypt to convince officials there to hold off on a Russian offer (this one unrelated to ACU) to build nuclear power plants.

With the German government planning to take its nuclear power plants offline by 2022, CEZ Group will likely have to supply even more power to its giant neighbour.

Clients who have become friends tell countless tales of meeting him at the end of one of his 12 - hour seminar days — Robbins exhausted from giving out as much energy as a nuclear power plant to a room of thousands of acolytes — because he wanted to help with a project or problem, even at 2 a.m. «The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business,» says Guber.

After the 2011 event caused massive damage at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Japan is understandably on edge over undersea earthquakes.

I love that AWS going down means like... someone's smart egg tray can't order more eggs and someone else's nuclear power plant doesn't work.

This radioactive isotope of hydrogen is only manufactured in nuclear power plants and would cost any fusion generator $ 100 million per week.

Offices that will see deep cuts include those responsible for promoting energy efficiency, bringing carbon capture and storage to market, and extending the life of nuclear power plants.

High - reliability - organization (HRO) practices help prevent catastrophic failures in complex systems like nuclear power plants through early detection.

Electricité de France, which operates 58 nuclear power plants, has been an exemplar in this area: It goes beyond regulatory requirements and religiously tracks each plant for anything even slightly out of the ordinary, immediately investigates whatever turns up, and informs all its other plants of any anomalies.

The closure of Hydro - Quebec's Gentilly - 2 nuclear power plant temporarily lowers Quebec's fiscal capacity, as measured under the Equalization program, which in turn lowers Ontario's Equalization entitlement over a three - year period.

After the leak of heavy water at the Wolsong nuclear power plant, South Korea is reconsidering its plan to import an additional Candu - 9 model pressurized heavy - water nuclear reactor from Canada.

In 1972, at age 15, he was involved in a community group that opposed a nuclear power plant proposed for two miles north of New York City (a proposal that the utility company quickly withdrew).

Particularly controversial are the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the UK (currently under construction and controversial because of security concerns) and the Toulouse airport in France (a Chinese consortium purchased a majority stake but was relegated to a minority stake after French government intervention).

According to the companies, EON buys RWE's shares in Innogy, a subsidiary with both a strong renewable energy portfolio and distribution grids and power retail, while RWE gets EON's renewable business, including minority interests in two nuclear power plants.

In the US, for instance, a proposal to force California's two nuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in November.

Just like in 2008, with the derivatives that have been layered into the mix, the embedded leverage in the commercial mortgage / CMBS / REIT model is the financial equivalent of the Fukushima nuclear power plant collapse.

We also had a nuclear power plant, San Onofre, and it got shut down a couple years ago.

The state - run nuclear power plant operator was preparing for further cyber-attacks after its data was leaked on a blog and to a Twitter account under the profile «president of anti-nuclear reactor group.»

It also greatly impacted a major nuclear power plant.

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.

Also, the French believe that Frau Merkel played politics and an anti-French card by moving to halt electricity production at seven NUCLEAR POWER plants, thus making the French look bad as well as having the impact of driving up electricity prices.

In 2011, following the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan shut down and reviewed its nuclear energy system.

Southern has struggled over the past few years with cost over runs from the construction of two new nuclear power plants (Vogle and Kemper).

Within a few months it took a 30 % + plunge due to cost overruns on its new Nuclear Power Plant project and than abandonment due to the bankruptcy of Westinghouse.

Your major account lead generation company develops a lead for you with ABC Power Services, Inc. which is a multi-million dollar company creating nuclear power plants worldwide.

Wildfire Burns in Fukushima «No - Go Zone,» Sparking Fears of Airborne Radiation EcoWatch A wildfire broke out in the highly radioactive «no - go zone» near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant over...

«Financial markets have been rattled by the growing risk posed by potential radiation leaks at the stricken nuclear power plants in Japan,» said Lee Hardman, an analyst at The Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ.

A new report makes the damning claim that nuclear power plants around the world have an «element of denial» about the risks of cyberattacks and are...

The nuclear power plants in use around the world today use fission, or the splitting of heavy atoms such as uranium, to release energy for electricity.

I remember reading about the» Hotscrams» that occurred at a good number of nuclear power plants.

Nuclear power plant disasters?

As efforts continue at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant to fully fix the infrastructure damaged in the earthquake and tsunami, workers have discovered seawater with a high radioactivity.

Tests conducted on water being dumped into the Pacific Ocean near the Fukushima nuclear power plant have found levels of radioactivity millions of times more than is normal in water.

By that time, nuclear power plants will be spread throughout the world, and it is predicted that more than 35 countries will possess nuclear weapons (as opposed to seven now).

If electricity use continues to double every nine years, huge amounts of power will have to come from 500 years» worth of coal supplies and lots of nuclear power plants — by this time possibly breeder or fusion plants.

As Governments realise this, more and more nuclear power plants are being planned and built worldwide.