Sentences with phrase «nuclear companies on»

I mean, I'm on the MIT, The Future of Nuclear Advisory Board, there's going to be nuclear companies on that advisory board.

The other trade associations behind the study are the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, with utility and nuclear companies on its board, and the Nuclear Energy Institute.

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Ivanov's story is just one example of the serendipity involved in this small Canadian company's rise to the forefront of a worldwide race to harness nuclear fusion, a race that has been going on fitfully, consuming tens of billions of mostly public dollars, for more than half a century.

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

We don't want a revolution, we would just like a country where we can put a tax on nuclear companies and banks.

The sanctions are the latest against third - country companies and individuals in an effort to exert greater economic pressure on Kim Jong Un's regime, which has conducted regular missile and nuclear tests in defiance of United Nations resolutions and has developed weapons that may be capable of hitting the continental U.S.

NEW YORK, April 1 - FirstEnergy Corp said late on Saturday its nuclear and coal power plant units filed for bankruptcy court protection as the company looks to restructure, sell assets and win government support to cope with competitors using lower - cost natural gas.

A couple of years later during the nuclear winter that fell on Silicon Valley in the wake of the dot - com bust, I started my own company.

On June 8, 2010, Uranium One announced it had signed an agreement that would give «not less than 51 %» of the company to JSC Atomredmetzoloto, or ARMZ, the mining arm of Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy agency.

Because startup investors are ostensibly focused on technology companies, the fact that most professional venture capitalists have a background in engineering (electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering mostly, but there are some more niche areas like nuclear engineering represented here) or technical subjects (like information systems and materials science) is predictable.

General Atomics has received two awards from the U.S. Department of Energy totaling more than $ 3.26 million to continue the San Diego - based company's work on developing new types of fuel for advanced nuclear reactors.

The divestment would complete the company's gradual shift away from its original focus on generic drugs and nuclear imaging toward branded specialty pharmaceuticals, which now comprise the bulk of its revenues.

Unless a small company of resisters faces up to the real threat of nuclear holocaust, we may well be the last evil people on earth.

The bill essentially bans any company that does more than $ 20 million dollars in business with Iran's energy sector — either oil, gas, or nuclear power — from being able to bid on state or local government contracts.

It goes on to clarify that it applies to any company engaged in oil or natural gas development in Iran, as well any company found to be directly involved in nuclear power.

Assembly Democrats grilled Gov. Andrew Cuomo's energy officials for more than four hours yesterday on a taxpayer subsidized plan executed by the PSC and a major energy company — Entergy — that will keep three upstate nuclear power plants alive for the next twelve years.

A prohibition on investment in companies involved in the development of nuclear weapons could also be in the text.

Assembly Democrats grilled Governor Andrew Cuomo's energy officials for more than four hours on a plan executed by the Public Service Commission and a major energy company that will keep three upstate nuclear power plants alive for the next twelve years.

However, since Europe will want to save the nuclear deal and these US sanctions stand in the way, the EU may impose sanctions on your company if you were to comply with US sanctions.

The US has imposed sanctions on a dozen Russian and Chinese companies and individuals it accuses of helping North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.

At the same time, Parliament's energy and climate change committee has warned that failure to build new nuclear will make it much harder and more expensive for us to meet our climate change targets, that government appears to be «crossing its fingers that private companies will deliver» and that a Plan B is required in case new nuclear stations are not built on time...

A $ 110 million agreement will transfer ownership and operation of the James FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego from Entergy Corp. to Exelon Generation, company and state officials announced on Tuesday.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

Entergy Corp. cranked up the heat Friday in its negotiations with the state on the future of the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County, telling investors that the plant is such a money - losing stinker that the nuke is worth almost $ 1 billion less than what it showed on the company books.

The Energy Department focuses on the next generation of energy technologies — from advanced nuclear reactors to algae biofuels — conducting basic research in its network of 17 national laboratories, and aiding private companies struggling to bring risky new technologies to market.

The PSC, after all, regulates New York's power companies and has been on point in the governor's determined, but misguided, efforts to shut the Indian Point nuclear reactor.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to overhaul its licensing protocol for obtaining radioactive materials, citing a recent report that a fictitious company got a license for enough material for a dirty bomb.

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulation invited energy companies to come forward with proposals for new nuclear power stations on January 10th.

CNN: U.S. slaps sanctions on companies working with Iran The United States is imposing sanctions against seven companies for working with Iran in the energy sector, part of an effort to suppress Tehran's nuclear program, the State Department said Tuesday.

The parent company of New York's Indian Point nuclear plant and utility workers union have agreed on a four - year contract.

During his final year, Bourtourault did a short research project on the detection of ozone, a second one on the storage of nuclear waste, and a 4 - month internship at the state - owned Aérospatiale company, where he worked on nonpolluting anticorrosion treatments.

Even if INL can persuade energy companies to sign on, long construction times guarantee that the nuclear renaissance will be gradual.

In theory, this means that there will always be enough generators, portable pumps, batteries, compressors and debris clearing equipment to «mitigate the effects of any extreme event», Stephen Kuczynski, CEO of Southern Nuclear, a nuclear power company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, told a meeting of the American Physical Society in Boston on 1Nuclear, a nuclear power company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, told a meeting of the American Physical Society in Boston on 1nuclear power company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, told a meeting of the American Physical Society in Boston on 1 March.

There is also little incentive for companies to try to license and develop new low - level waste sites, because nuclear plants, which generate most of that waste, have managed to dramatically reduce their volume and store more on site, according to Todd Lovinger, executive director of the Low - Level Radioactive Waste Forum, a nonprofit that is helping state compacts comply with the low - level waste law.

The state - owned company expects the Sizewell B nuclear reactor on the Suffolk coast to begin producing electricity before Christmas.

And one of the founders of that company, who used to be a nuclear physicist working on weapons, and now makes cartoons, actually took his doctorate with Louis de Broglie, and if that name means something to you, then you'll know how knocked out of my socks I was when I heard that.

By JUAN MATTHEWS and COLIN ENGLISHSafety inspectors threatened to close down the oldest commercial nuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on wnuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on wNuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on working.

Safety inspectors threatened to close down the oldest commercial nuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on wnuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on wNuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on working.

«We sign contracts with companies based on the cost needed to carry out a task,» Masayuki Ono, a general manager for nuclear power at Tepco, told Reuters.

And we've tried out more designs, more nuclear powered designs in this one company than in all of the history of mankind put together, because we just happen to be out in front on, «Oh, change the fuel rod this way.»

In the U.S. the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Thursday said it was canceling next week's meeting to discuss the restart of Progress Energy's Crystal River plant (pdf) on Florida's west coast after the company reported problems with repair work on a containment wall.

The regulators, sitting on one side of a long conference table, and the company officials, on the other side, share an overriding goal — maintaining safeguards that can prevent an incident or error from triggering a nuclear reactor emergency that could jeopardize the industry's future.

The attack on the nuclear facility took place about a month after North Korea attacked Sony Pictures with wiper malware that zapped over 4,000 of the company's desktop computers and servers.

If they closed, that huge decommissioning liability would have to be shown on the nuclear generator's balance sheet — figures that would soon overtake the net worth of the company, thus making it technically bankrupt.

Los Alamos National Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, a team composed of Bechtel National, the University of California, BWXT Government Group, and URS, an AECOM company, for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.

With Southern Company's board voting today to green light the completion of the Vogtle nuclear power plant, the prospect that Georgia utility customers may be on the hook for many billions for a plant that...

Several nuclear utility companies then pursued consolidated storage on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah.

Rock Creek Innovations (RCI) is an engineering company serving the nuclear industry with particular focus on innovative digital solutions.

We are pleased to announce that the Company has partnered with NuHub, a collaborative group of public, private, academic, and community development groups working to maximize the economic and job creation impact of the nuclear renaissance on the Midstate of South Carolina, to compete for one of two federal grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for small modular reactor (SMR) development.

Using nuclear power to generate electricity provides many benefits: it's low carbon, it diversifies our electricity supply, it operates reliably on a constant basis, and it provides substantial economic benefits in communities where plants operate and to U.S. companies who supply the global nuclear industry.