Sentences with phrase «nuclear electric generators»

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All but two of the 440 or so commercial nuclear reactors operating are thermal, and most of them — including the 103 U.S. power reactors — employ water both to slow neutrons and to carry fission - created heat to the associated electric generators.

Instead, for decades electric companies have built coal, nuclear, natural gas and oil - fired generators close to customers.

I am interested that Nuclear Electric thinks that in three years» time, in 1996, it can overtake PowerGen to become the second largest generator in Britain.

Yes, for the individual owner it maybe does, but that at the cost of the rest of the world, because electric energy still comes mostly from coal / oil / nuclear power generators for one, with correspondent pollution and infrastructure load.

The above chart of American Electric Power (AEP), an Ohio - based electricity generator and distributer that runs the gamut from coal to hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, and wind sources, might explain why traders sometimes bypass utilities.

When finally completed, it will stand as the world's largest generator of hydro - electric power, with a yearly output equal to that of fifty million tons of coal or fifteen nuclear power plants.

Why do we need the sun to produce electric power when safe, local, nuclear electric power generators are possible.

Of the country's 6,000 coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar electric - generating facilities, a small sub-group of mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report found.

While many electric utilities have built their capital intensive infrastructure around the availability of fossil energy to drive their generators, utilities have had the choice to lead the transition to a zero net emissions energy system via the use of renewable and nuclear energy to generate electricity.