Sentences with phrase «new reactor projects»

An official of another energy company that had considered new reactor projects said, «We're going to build gas [generators] and that's the way it is.

Not exact matches

May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

But by its own estimates, the U.S. nuclear industry can handle only about two new nuclear reactor projects annually at its present - day capacity.

Now NRG Energy, based in Princeton, New Jersey, is sticking its neck out with plans to build two new nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project facility near Bay CiNew Jersey, is sticking its neck out with plans to build two new nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project facility near Bay Cinew nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project facility near Bay City.

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.

And DOE was told not to spend more than $ 115 million on the U.S. contribution to ITER, the international fusion reactor being built in France, until ITER officials present a new schedule for the troubled project.

* Update, 28 February, 3 p.m.: The executive summary of the report on management of the international ITER fusion reactor project was published today by The New Yorker.

In October Constellation Energy pulled out of a bid to build a new reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland, among other U.S. nuclear projects that have recently been dropped or delayed.

Constellation Energy has shelved its proposal to build a new reactor at its Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant, Obama administration officials said Friday, even though the administration had decided to award the project a $ 7.5 billion loan guarantee.

However, projected costs for new nuclear reactors have historically been underestimated and construction costs of all new energy facilities have recently risen.

In fact, nuclear capacity has declined over the last four years, a trend which is projected to continue, regardless of planned new reactor startups.

And two proposed reactors at the South Texas Project are among plans for more than 25 new reactors throughout the country.

But construction on the two new US reactors is moving ahead, though most other utilities are waiting to see if these projects can come in on time and on budget.

The new FOA covers three funding pathways: First - of - a-Kind (FOAK) Nuclear Demonstration Readiness Project pathway, intended to address major advanced reactor design development projects or complex technology advancements for existing plants which have significant technical and licensing risk, and have the potential to be deployed by the mid-to-late 2020s; Advanced Reactor Development Projects pathway, covering a broad scope of concepts and ideas that could improve the capabilities and commercialisation potential of advanced reactor designs and technologies; and Regulatory Assistance Grants, providing support towards obtaining certification and licensing approvals for advanced reactor designs and capabprojects or complex technology advancements for existing plants which have significant technical and licensing risk, and have the potential to be deployed by the mid-to-late 2020s; Advanced Reactor Development Projects pathway, covering a broad scope of concepts and ideas that could improve the capabilities and commercialisation potential of advanced reactor designs and technologies; and Regulatory Assistance Grants, providing support towards obtaining certification and licensing approvals for advanced reactor designs and capabProjects pathway, covering a broad scope of concepts and ideas that could improve the capabilities and commercialisation potential of advanced reactor designs and technologies; and Regulatory Assistance Grants, providing support towards obtaining certification and licensing approvals for advanced reactor designs and capabilities.

Although these 64 reactors add up to some 62,000 megawatts of potential new capacity, fewer than one in four has a projected date for connecting to the electrical grid.

American utilities have taken a very short - term view on project pay - back and cite $ 7,500 + per - kW prices on new reactors and outlandish per - kWh costs to customers (Lovins has a piece denouncing nuclear because of this, but he doesn't take into consideration that its been done much cheaper elsewhere).

n guarantees were approved at the end of 2007, making U.S. taxpayers the co-signers on l... s for new reactors and uranium enrichment projects, half of which are predicted to default.

It is hard to see how construction of new reactors would be proposed again for the South Texas Project (rejected owing to foreign ownership) with Austin getting solar power at $ 0.05 / kWh.

And though the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently approved the first new nuclear reactors in decades, the projects have been plagued by delays and high costs.

This ruling allows regulators to «avoid careful consideration of serious environmental and human health impacts associated with a plan to build new nuclear reactors at the Darlington site on Lake Ontario — including the consequences of a major nuclear accident — during the project's environmental assessment.»