Sentences with phrase «nuclear expansion»

Of course, one would hope that turning away from nuclear expansion would spur the growth of alternatives such as wind power and other forms of renewable energy.

This isn't true everywhere; in some countries, most notably China, today's nuclear technologies are competitive with both fossil and non-fossil alternatives, and there are ambitious plans for nuclear expansion.

Major nuclear expansions in China (which lifted a post-Fukushima nuclear moratorium in 2012) and India, along with smaller emerging markets like United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Poland, and Bangladesh, are driving most of the growth.

They certainly have the economic and technological potential to do so in the short to mid-term, and some marginal political groups already advocate nuclear expansion to respond to Pyongyang's provocations.

There have been several utility companies that have struggled with high cost nuclear expansions recently like SCANA.

Another factor was the interruption of China's nuclear expansion after the 2011 disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

CANE, Communities against Nuclear Expansion, said: «At a time when public confidence in our political process is at an all time low, government have decided to take to themselves more power to override people's wishes.»

A 2009 UCS report estimated that taxpayers could be on the hook for anywhere from $ 360 billion to $ 1.6 trillion if then - current proposals for nuclear expansion were realized.

The budget bill passed by Congress and signed by President Trump in the early hours of February 9 extends a host of tax credits for energy technologies, including provisions to help the Vogtle nuclear expansion in Georgia as well as U.S. carbon - capture projects.

Now it looks like the country may scale back its nuclear expansion plans, which in the short term will only increase its reliance on fossil fuels, which will in turn drastically limit Japan's ambitious plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Atomic humanists must take a page from South Korea — whose «citizen jury» decided to continue that country's nuclear expansion — and seek our saving power precisely where the danger lies.

«Global nuclear expansion is coasting to a halt,» he said, noting that the last nuclear rector was completed in the U.S. was in 1973 and that even under China's most ambitious targets for nuclear expansion, it would displace only 10 percent of the nuclear capacity that will soon go offline.

Oh, and I don't think that «environmentalists» per se are the biggest obstacle to nuclear expansion.

Maurice Strong grabbed the Corporation by the scruff of the neck, reduced the workforce by one third, stopped the nuclear expansion plans, cut capital expenditures, froze the price of electricity, pushed for sustainable development, made business units more accountable.»