Sentences with phrase «more nuclear power reactors»

Increasing mitochondria involves mitochondrial biogenesis, which creates more nuclear power reactors and is great for spreading the workload.

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In addition, the massive dam generates more power than 18 1000 megawatt nuclear reactors as well as protects communities downstream from horrific floods — such as one in 1998, which left 14 million homeless — that once plagued Wuhan, Nanjing and even Shanghai.

Toward that end, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited agreed to purchase from the French nuclear giant AREVA at least two 1650 MW European Pressurized Reactors, each priced at more than $ 3.5 billion, with an option for four moreNuclear Power Corporation of India Limited agreed to purchase from the French nuclear giant AREVA at least two 1650 MW European Pressurized Reactors, each priced at more than $ 3.5 billion, with an option for four morenuclear giant AREVA at least two 1650 MW European Pressurized Reactors, each priced at more than $ 3.5 billion, with an option for four more later.

He also continued to work with Enrico Fermi on the reactor in Chicago, because he felt at that point that he'd rather work on nuclear power, which he believed had more of a future than just working on bombs.

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.

After a 30 - year hiatus, there is a greater push for more nuclear power plants, with 22 new reactors under review.

Nuclear power is in the midst of a resurgence in the U.S. — the first application for a new reactor in more than 30 years was filed in September 2007 — and a construction boom of new reactors is underway around the world.

Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.

In fact, during that period more than half the uranium fuel that powered the more than 100 reactors in the U.S. came from such reprocessed nuclear weapons.

That hydrogen buildup was the result of hot steam coming into contact with overheated nuclear fuel rods covered by a cladding of zirconium alloy, or «zircaloy» — the material used as fuel - rod cladding in all water - cooled nuclear reactors, which constitute more than 90 percent of the world's power reactors.

Energy company SCANA subsidiary South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G) plans to add two AP - 1000 reactors to its nuclear power plant near Jenkinsville, S.C., by 2016 and 2019, whereas the Tennessee Valley Authority will finally complete Watts Bar Unit 2 near Chattanooga, Tenn. — more than 30 years after construction began, including a nearly two - decade hiatus — next year.

For starters, retrofits could make U.S. reactors safer — and maybe even make nuclear power more palatable

«Dale Klein told me that those three nuclear applications will be approved,» she told the State of the Planet conference at Columbia University today, the 29th anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Island in Middletown, Pa. (Subsequently, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the then Ukrainian Soviet Republic melted down in April 1986 in what would become the worst nuclear power accident in history, spreading radiation as far away as North America and leading to the evacuation and resettlement of more than 336,000 people).

Operating nuclear power reactors have a generating capacity of more than 380,000 megawatts of electric power.

There are more than 440 operating nuclear power reactors worldwide, most of which use enriched uranium for fuel, including 99 reactors in the United States.

«Unlike today's nuclear reactor, the IFR [integral fast reactor] can generate unlimited amounts of inexpensive clean power for hundreds of thousands of years... It provides an excellent solution for what to do with our nuclear waste because it can use our existing nuclear waste for fuel and it is significantly more proliferation - resistant than other methods of dealing with nuclear waste... The IFR is also inherently safe.

Neutrinos, or more specifically antineutrinos, are also emitted as a by - product of power generation in manmade nuclear reactors, giving scientists a powerful way to study them on Earth in a controlled manner.

There is almost no geologic setting in the world more dangerous for nuclear power than Japan — the third - ranked country in the world for nuclear reactors.

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«If we have a viable pathway at building nuclear power in smaller bites, the whole financing structure can change and make it much more affordable... If we can demonstrate let's say the first modular reactor in the early part of the next decade, then what we hope is it's part of the planning process in the middle of the next decade for our utilities.

The addition of storage will allow customers to become even more independent, having seen retail power prices rise around 20 % over the last five years as the country's nuclear reactors have aged.

Finishing the reactors would be more expensive than building new gas - fired power plants, but averaged over the 60 - year service life, the costs will be right in line with renewables, about $ 60 to $ 80 per MWh — except nuclear produces reliably, where wind energy is fundamentally unreliable and chaotic.

Nuclear defenders are calling for keeping things in perspective — fossil fuels, they point out, have many more costs and risks associated with them than nuclear power; and newer generation reactor designs are far safer than those built in Japan many decades ago (a number of US plants from the same era have the same or similar deNuclear defenders are calling for keeping things in perspective — fossil fuels, they point out, have many more costs and risks associated with them than nuclear power; and newer generation reactor designs are far safer than those built in Japan many decades ago (a number of US plants from the same era have the same or similar denuclear power; and newer generation reactor designs are far safer than those built in Japan many decades ago (a number of US plants from the same era have the same or similar designs).

Breakthrough explains that the reactors are inherently safer and operate more efficiently than the fleet of inferior conventional reactors that occupy the world's nuclear power landscape today.

China is building more than a third of the world's nuclear reactors currently under construction, and has plans to triple its nuclear power capacity by 2020.

Gieré and his colleagues found people living close to reactors tend to have more favorable attitudes towards nuclear power than those living farther away.

By helping to finance the construction of the reactors — the first new U.S. nuclear power units in more than 30 years — Obama is hoping to jump - start his efforts to pass comprehensive climate - change legislation, which has stalled in Congress in the face of GOP opposition.

Nuclear industry advocates had predicted more than a dozen new reactors worth $ 100 billion or more generating at least 15,000 megawatts of power in the United States by 2020.

Examples include refining ways to securely handle radioactive waste from nuclear reactors; testing repositories for carbon dioxide captured at power plants; and, perhaps more important, improving the electricity grid so that it can manage large flows from intermittent sources like windmills and solar panels.

The post, «Germany's Solar Panels Produce More Power Than Japan's Entire Fukushima Complex,» implies that solar PV may be an adequate substitute for aging nuclear reactors in both Germany and Japan.

About 112 nuclear power reactors run in six countries in Asia, and more than 264 are planned for construction, according to the London - headquartered World Nuclear Assocnuclear power reactors run in six countries in Asia, and more than 264 are planned for construction, according to the London - headquartered World Nuclear AssocNuclear Association.

Such storage could be the key to enabling more renewable sources of electricity generation — providing power when the sun is not shining or the wind not blowing — or simply making the best use of existing resources, such as sucking up power that would otherwise be dumped from always - on nuclear reactors.

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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered the restart of two idle nuclear reactors Saturday amid widespread public opposition, more than a year after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai - ichi Power Plant, and halted all 50 reactors in Japan...

Or invest in generating more power with nuclear — in particular recycling our existing waste with passively cooled reactors.

More controversial is subsidizing downstream development and deployment, such as tax credits for building commercial - scale compressed - air power storage or a new nuclear reactor design.

China, the country that is building more nuclear reactors than any other, continued to get more electricity from the wind than from nuclear power plants in 2014.

CCS has not yet been commercially deployed at any centralized power plant; the existing nuclear industry, based on reactor designs more than a half - century old and facing renewed public concerns of safety, is in a period of retrenchment, not expansion; and existing solar, wind, biomass, and energy storage systems are not yet mature enough to provide affordable baseload power at terawatt scale.