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«One might combine climate and proliferation concerns with a way of attaching carbon credits to new nuclear construction in countries that took certain kinds of agreements around enrichment and reprocessing,» Moniz said.

Vogtle is the nation's first new nuclear construction in decades.

Not exact matches

The government said it would take a «special share» in all future nuclear new construction projects to ensure that significant stakes can not be sold without its consent.

That idea resonated with the U.S. nuclear - construction industry, which never recovered from the Three Mile Island disaster in the 1970s and was looking to new markets overseas.

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It's likely that the construction of at least one new nuclear power plant will be initiated by the end of this year, ending a two - decade drought in new nuclear plant construction.

And while Germany is phasing out nuclear power, five new reactors are under construction in the U.S., adding to its existing fleet of 99 commercial reactors.

Nuclear power has attracted new interests in the U.S.. Two reactors under construction near Waynesboro, Ga., will be the first built here in 30 years.

Those figures, say the authors of the report, an update on a similar report in 2003, mean that «even if all the announced plans for new nuclear power plant construction are realized, the total will be well behind that needed for reaching a thousand gigawatts of new capacity worldwide by 2050.»

The situation is no better in Europe, according to Steven Thomas, a professor of energy studies at the University of Greenwich in London: Finland can not complete its new reactor; the U.K. has yet to get started on any projects; and a new nuclear reactor in France, after 18 months of construction, is 20 percent overbudget and requires complete subsidy by the French government.

In the U.S., since 2003, 17 applications for 26 new reactors have been filed with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but not one is yet under construction.

While U.S. companies have been exiting the industry over the past decades as government and popular support for new construction has waned, Sanders maintains that strong U.S. participation in the nuclear energy marketplace would give diplomats a new tool to use with would - be nuclear powers.

The domestic nuclear industry had basically shut down, with no new construction in decades and a flight of talent and ideas overseas.

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.

Across the East China Sea, west of Japan and its ongoing crisis, sits the growing Qinshan nuclear power plant, where four new pressurized - water reactors are under construction in addition to the five already operating on - site.

In the U.S. the five new nuclear reactors under construction will replace the four aging reactors that closed in 2013, but as older reactors like Oyster Creek in New Jersey and Vermont Yankee continue to shut down, the number of reactors in the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as welIn the U.S. the five new nuclear reactors under construction will replace the four aging reactors that closed in 2013, but as older reactors like Oyster Creek in New Jersey and Vermont Yankee continue to shut down, the number of reactors in the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as wenew nuclear reactors under construction will replace the four aging reactors that closed in 2013, but as older reactors like Oyster Creek in New Jersey and Vermont Yankee continue to shut down, the number of reactors in the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as welin 2013, but as older reactors like Oyster Creek in New Jersey and Vermont Yankee continue to shut down, the number of reactors in the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as welin New Jersey and Vermont Yankee continue to shut down, the number of reactors in the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as weNew Jersey and Vermont Yankee continue to shut down, the number of reactors in the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as welin the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as well.

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The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

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The DoE issued $ 6.5 billion in loan guarantees for two new Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors already under construction at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia in February.

The United Kingdom, which last year promised to make it easier for nuclear reactors to be built but also said that it wouldn't provide any money for their construction, today announced a new nuclear safety review in light of the events in Japan.

Much of nuclear's revival hinges on the ability of new reactors to outshine those of yore in terms of safety, economics, construction time and life span.

A falloff in construction of new nuclear power plants will make climate change requirements harder to meet

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Construction of the two new nuclear units at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle, among the first to be built in the United States in more than three decades, is also progressing well.

To my mind, the Fukushima failure also builds the case for the kind of push under way in China, which is moving forward with construction of the first two of a new generation of nuclear reactors — cooled by helium, not water, and designed in a way that can not produce a meltdown of the fuel.

The collapse of Toshiba will result in the halting of all new nuclear power plant construction by its US - based subsidiary, Westinghouse.

While these sections are relatively clear in describing how generation from nuclear plants is accounted for in the emission rate goals, other parts of the EPA proposal suggest the possibility that «new» nuclear plants beyond those currently under construction may play a role in state compliance planning.

The news comes the same day that Secretary Perry announced conditional commitments for $ 3.7 billion in federal loan guarantees to continue construction of a new nuclear plant in Georgia.

EIA's assumption regarding the treatment of new nuclear units beyond those already under construction in the Base Policy case (CPP) is consistent with its reading of:

The nuclear reactors whose construction was halted in South Carolina last Monday would likely produce electricity for the same or less than wind and solar, a new Environmental Progress analysis finds.

A string of new nuclear plants were being planned and there were loan guarantee programs in place from the federal government to make their construction possible.

The average construction time of a new reactor in 2015 was 73 months, compared to an average 82.5 months for all civil nuclear reactors built over the past 60 years, according to the report.

In early 2012, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved construction permits for four 1,100 - megawatt reactors at two existing nuclear plants in the southeastern states of Georgia and South Carolina, the first permits for new plants since 197In early 2012, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved construction permits for four 1,100 - megawatt reactors at two existing nuclear plants in the southeastern states of Georgia and South Carolina, the first permits for new plants sincNuclear Regulatory Commission approved construction permits for four 1,100 - megawatt reactors at two existing nuclear plants in the southeastern states of Georgia and South Carolina, the first permits for new plants sincnuclear plants in the southeastern states of Georgia and South Carolina, the first permits for new plants since 197in the southeastern states of Georgia and South Carolina, the first permits for new plants since 1978.

What's strange about the fall of nuclear energy, especially older plants, is that it's losing primarily to natural gas in capacity bids and in new construction.

Riverkeeper retained Synapse to assess the potential impacts to energy reliability and electric power sector air emissions associated with the construction and operation of a closed - cycle cooling system as the «best technology available» (BTA) for the Indian Point nuclear power plant, in order to inform the analysis being conducted by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) under the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA).

Pipeline permits printed exclusively on unobtainium, fracking demonized daily in the media and fought in the courts, massive deposits of our highest quality coal placed off limits (by Bill Clinton, with the stroke of a pen without discussion), zero chance for new nuclear construction, drive to replace gas / diesel cars with electric cars - charged from what, ad infinitum.

Nuclear power has multiple subsidies in the form of: - direct payments for new nuclear plants of 2.3 cents per kWh generated for the first ten years (in the US), — this is US$ 2 billion for a 1000 MW plant after ten years operation, - complete indemnity under the Price - Anderson Act for harm caused by a radiation release (above a modest insured amount), - changes to safety regulations to allow continued operation, - new plant construction loan guarantees, - direct subsidies for existing plants to keep operating as a jobs - protection program, and Nuclear power has multiple subsidies in the form of: - direct payments for new nuclear plants of 2.3 cents per kWh generated for the first ten years (in the US), — this is US$ 2 billion for a 1000 MW plant after ten years operation, - complete indemnity under the Price - Anderson Act for harm caused by a radiation release (above a modest insured amount), - changes to safety regulations to allow continued operation, - new plant construction loan guarantees, - direct subsidies for existing plants to keep operating as a jobs - protection program, and nuclear plants of 2.3 cents per kWh generated for the first ten years (in the US), — this is US$ 2 billion for a 1000 MW plant after ten years operation, - complete indemnity under the Price - Anderson Act for harm caused by a radiation release (above a modest insured amount), - changes to safety regulations to allow continued operation, - new plant construction loan guarantees, - direct subsidies for existing plants to keep operating as a jobs - protection program, and others.

Building new nuclear plants is also unlikely, with the only one now under construction in the U.S., the Vogtle plant in Georgia, estimated to cost a whopping $ 27 billion.

New nuclear power plants in this country are offered subsidies that now rival or exceed their total construction costs.

Given the financial failures of French nuclear giant Areva and Japanese - owned and U.S. - based Westinghouse, Korea's withdrawal from nuclear would leave only Russia and China in the global competition for new nuclear construction.

New units being built in South Carolina have been abandoned, while the only other nuclear construction project in the U.S. — the Plant Vogtle expansion in Georgia — is behind schedule and over -LSB-...]

Although there is much talk of building new nuclear plants in the United States, there are none under construction.

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.

Included in these will be the «timely launch» of new nuclear power plant construction projects in China's eastern coastal region.

To his credit, Smil acknowledges nuclear power's environmental and health benefits, but he goes on to suggest that for nuclear power to be economically viable, engineers will need to make a «breakthrough» in reducing the construction times of new nuclear power plants.

New nuclear plant construction is also well behind target and global biofuel production stalled in 2012.

Faced with concerns over how quickly new nuclear will progress through the planning and licensing system, and the possibility that even coal plants that are compliant with existing EU environmental regulation may be forced to close early by the proposed Industrial Emissions Directive, generators have little choice but to prepare to build a second wave of gas - fired plants (ie in addition to the 8GW currently under construction) to keep the lights on before new nuclear and some CCS coal plants start to come onto the system in the 2020s.

The last new U.S. nuclear power reactor built went into operation in 1996, but construction on that unit began before the Three Mile Island incident in 1979 helped slam the brakes on the industry's first phase of widespread growth.