Sentences with phrase «nuclear electricity generating»

France imports most of it's crude oil consumption and has vast idle off - peak nuclear electricity generating capacity.

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The Saudis have a legitimate reason to want nuclear power: Their domestic energy demand is growing rapidly, and burning crude oil is an expensive and inefficient way to generate electricity.

Last year, new photovoltaic panels installed in the U.S. had the capacity to generate up to 4.2 gigawatts of electricity, about as much as four nuclear reactors.

In the US, for instance, a proposal to force California's two nuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in Nonuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in NoNuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in November.

Nuclear energy may be used to make bombs or to generate electricity.

We will trust ourselves more to build our own cars, transform our subsistence farming to profitable and industrial agriculture, and even build nuclear power plants to generate electricity.

Iran had consistently declared that the nuclear programme would only be used to generate electricity and for other peaceful purposes.

With four years to plan for the nuclear plant's closure, some of those reliability issues may be resolved as other electricity generating resources come online.

One big benefit of nuclear power generally, and Indian Point specifically, is that all that electricity is generated carbon - free.

In 1980, American nuclear power plants were generating electricity only 56 percent of the time because they frequently needed special maintenance or repair.

People in Texas will plug in electric vehicles to their wind - powered grid, while Northeasterners might rely on nuclear - generated electricity.

In 2016, the nation's 25 reactors generated nearly one - third of its electricity and made it the world's fifth largest producer of nuclear energy, according to the World Nuclear Assocnuclear energy, according to the World Nuclear AssocNuclear Association.

The current cost of delivering nuclear - generated electricity is low in part because many plants were paid for long ago, Lovins notes.

THE world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

At the same time, nuclear reactors are still the only option for generating electricity on a large scale with no carbon emissions.

Late last month, the French industry minister, Dominique Strauss - Kahn, gave conditional backing to a plan devised by the nuclear industry to create what amounts to a politician's dream: a reactor that provides plenty of electricity without generating vast quantities of long - lived radioactive waste.

Most nuclear reactors, including those at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi generating station, are essentially high - tech kettles that efficiently boil water to produce electricity.

For example, he points out that the proportion of electricity to be generated by nuclear power plants in the year 2000 will, at 34 per cent, be almost double the previous forecast made less than three years ago.

Despite long - standing public concern about the safety of nuclear energy, more and more people are realizing that it may be the most environmentally friendly way to generate large amounts of electricity.

Any robotic explorers sent to initially scout out Titan would rely on nuclear power, harnessing radioactive decay to generate electricity and stay warm.

The world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

ITER seeks to demonstrate that nuclear fusion — the power source of the sun and stars — can be tamed on Earth to generate electricity.

As in a conventional fossil fuel or nuclear power plant, that steam spins turbines, which generate electricity.

He estimates that electricity from the process would cost around 3 pence per kilowatt - hour, comparable to the price of generating it from coal, gas and nuclear stations.

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.

2 Fusion On Tap Plasma physicist Eric Lerner has a dream: a form of nuclear energy so clean it generates no radioactive waste, so safe it can be located in the heart of a city, and so inexpensive it provides virtually unlimited power for the dirt - cheap price of $ 60 per kilowatt — far below the $ 1,000 - per - kilowatt cost of electricity from natural gas.

While France, which generates over 75 per cent of its electricity from nuclear sources, avoided blackouts, Italy did not.

Today's nuclear power plants use the heat from uranium fission reactions to do nothing more complicated than boil water, making pressurized steam that spins turbines to generate electricity.

Davis — Besse is running again, generating 7.7 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity in 2007, with a new reactor head scavenged from an uncompleted nuclear power plant in Michigan.

Currently 435 nuclear reactors operate around the world, with an electrical generating capacity of approximately 370 gigawatts (GW), providing about 17 percent of the world's electricity.

In contrast with electricity generated from coal or natural gas, nuclear power contributes little to greenhouse gas emissions and could therefore help in the effort to reduce global warming.

Wavering solar and wind power don't play well with baseload nuclear plants that prefer to run at full blast, so the French must find a way to cope with this imbalance if they are to meet the European Union's directive to generate 20 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2020.

Ann Wills reports a finding that nuclear power generates a third as much CO2 per unit of electricity as conventional...

The largest solar farm in the world, in China, generates almost as much electricity as a large nuclear power plant

«Despite that many believe our power is generated using fossil fuels from Alberta, most of Canada's electricity mix comes from hydropower and nuclear facilities,» Kennedy says.

«With a design that can extract energy from used nuclear fuel to generate electricity, our Prism advanced reactor technology is a game - changer,» he said.

«Manchester is a growing center of expertise for the civil nuclear energy sector, so we're delighted to work with them on PRISM, which we believe is the best way to manage the U.K.'s plutonium stockpile efficiently, securely and safely while generating low - carbon electricity at the same time.»

Unlike fossil fuels, nuclear energy does not create greenhouse gases when generating clean, reliable baseload electricity.

This would generate at least a hundred times more electricity from used nuclear fuel and decrease the long - term radiotoxicity of the remaining wastes.

«For more than 50 years GE has been at the forefront of energy innovation and nuclear technology and GE Hitachi's PRISM reactor offers an attractive solution to tackling the UK's plutonium management challenges while generating clean electricity,» said Mark Elborne, President and CEO of GE UK & Ireland.

That's because the cost of renewable energy has plummeted and in many cases is competitive with fossil fuel - and nuclear - generated electricity.

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.

If 15 per cent of the UK roofs had solar, they would generate as much electricity as six existing nuclear power stations.

In the UK, electricity is generated largely by coal and gas — around 40 per cent and 30 per cent respectively — followed by around 15 per cent nuclear and other sources in increasingly small percentages.

Once units 3 and 4 join the existing two Vogtle units already in operation, Plant Vogtle is expected to generate more electricity than any other U.S. nuclear facility, enough to power more than 1 million homes and businesses.

If / when oil gets over $ 100 / barrel and stays there, a combination of coal, nuclear, solar and wind will be used to generate electricity, and electric cars will become more common.

But energy stocks also include green energy: power from renewable resources like solar power, wind power, geothermal power, generating electricity from ocean waves, plus nuclear power.

The obvious alternative is natural gas, which will increasingly replace nuclear reactors for generating electricity.

Of course the CO2 emission reductions would be minor unless the electricity is generated by non-fossil (probably nuclear) means.

Using nuclear fuel of any type, on the scale where hundreds of thousands of megawatts in electricity are generated to significantly reduce CO2 emissions, human error will be inevitable, and statistically very, very relevant.