Sentences with phrase «new nuclear power plant construction»

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

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

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.»

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

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.

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.

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.

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

«The Atomic States of America»: In 2010, the United States announced construction of the first new nuclear power plant in more than 32 years.

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.

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

Given the nuclear solution requires new reactor designs yet to be built even for demonstration and test purposes, and then the complexities of siting nuclear power plants near the calling water they need while defending them against flood waters makes construction of tested designs take a decade.

A new fleet of coal - fired power plants and a revival of nuclear construction after three decades are both looking tougher lately.

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).

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.

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

Indeed, only four out of more than two dozen applications for new nuclear power plants have begun construction after receiving a federal license to do so.

The first is that countries shut down their nuclear power plants or stop the construction of new ones, and switch instead to fossil fuels.

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.

«The global financial climate is causing some U.S. customers, primarily ones that are relying on the capital markets to finance their projects, to reprioritize needs and consider options for the construction of new nuclear power plants,» Roderick said.

Construction of new nuclear power plants is a notoriously long and expensive undertaking.

Funny thing: everybody and his ankle know that nuclear is more expensive than solar and wind, except for utility companies who are ready to invest hundreds of billions of their private money into construction of new nuclear power plants.

\ I don't know enough about nuclear power to say whether regulations regarding new power plant construction should be stronger or more lenient \

I don't know enough about nuclear power to say whether regulations regarding new power plant construction should be stronger or more lenient (but is that what's been holding back nuclear power?

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