Sentences with phrase «new reactor units»

In exchange, PSEG Power has been granted an option to acquire an ownership interest in the technology, which paves the way for PSEG Power to be responsible for the training and operations of the SMR - 160 when the new reactor units are built.

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«We just completed that last week, and now we'll finish up that process of putting new fuel in the reactor and then they can start Unit 3 back up.»

«Several technical and manufacturing innovations make this reactor a potential game changer for the global clean energy market,» said Christofer Mowry, president and CEO at Babcock & Wilcox Modular Nuclear Energy, LLC, the new unit in charge of the small reactor.

The unit is expected to become the fifth Japanese reactor to resume operation under new safety standards introduced following the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Constellation and French power company Electricità © de France are partners in Unistar, a joint venture that had intended to make the new Calvert Cliffs reactor the first of a fleet of identical units around the country.

Resource management and unit upgrades have been further stripped of their complexity through the removal of the UNSC reactors and Covenant temples — there's now a larger focus on maintaining economic balance with the addition of a new generator type.

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.

The loan guarantees announced Tuesday would sharply lower borrowing costs to finance new reactors at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in eastern Georgia near the South Carolina border, where two units are being operated by the Atlanta - based Southern Co., a large utility.

Companies in line for new reactor licenses have several years before they have to build a new unit, which can cost between $ 5 billion and $ 12 billion, said Jone - Lin Wang, head of CERA's global power group.

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.

The report states that «there is no significant age - related trend in nuclear reactor performance» with older units achieving the same level of reliability as newer ones.