Sentences with phrase «nuclear facilities as»

It's another acknowledgement of the tough operating environment for nuclear facilities as gas - fired and renewable energy sources continue to grab more power generation market share in an era of lower electricity costs and slowing demand for electricity.

The first, simply called Rosatom, reveals the location of each Russian nuclear facility as well as radiation monitors across the country that would pick up any potential leaks.

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As much as Australia might benefit from a cut in official interest rates, it would definitely benefit from encouraging a new industry, such as the nuclear - fuel processing facility being championed by the South Australian government, and supported by Prime Minister Malcolm TurnbulAs much as Australia might benefit from a cut in official interest rates, it would definitely benefit from encouraging a new industry, such as the nuclear - fuel processing facility being championed by the South Australian government, and supported by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbulas Australia might benefit from a cut in official interest rates, it would definitely benefit from encouraging a new industry, such as the nuclear - fuel processing facility being championed by the South Australian government, and supported by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbulas the nuclear - fuel processing facility being championed by the South Australian government, and supported by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

South Australian Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell injected $ 2.5 million in funds into the Beston dairy facilities on Wednesday and said he didn't think there would be any compromising of the state's «clean and green» premium food and wine image if it eventually pursued an underground nuclear waste facility in the desert lands in the north of the state, as recommended by a nuclear Royal Commission.

As Entergy Corp. moves to close the FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant in Oswego County, the area's two House members are urging the state to reconvene negotiations to keep the facility open.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

William Hague, in his brief stay in the Foreign Office, had to deal with a major foreign policy crisis as Israel carried out military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities.

«There will be relatively high costs in developing this new nuclear facility but broadly comparable with other low carbon technologies such as offshore wind, and, potentially, carbon capture and storage applied to gas and coal fired power stations.

The proposal comes as nuclear facilities across the country feel the financial pressure of cheap natural gas produced by the fracking boom and after Entergy has already decided to close its Vermont Yankee facility for economic reasons.

He said Indian Point is fully licensed and should not be considered as separate under the plan from other nuclear facilities.

The administration policy will prolong the life of nuclear facilities for a few years, to serve as a bridge to the cleaner - energy options.

Utilities and other energy companies, such as energy service companies, will purchase power from nuclear facilities.

The administration's treatment of nuclear facilities could serve as a national model for other states, where nuclear plants are also struggling to compete against cheaper power sources.

Cuomo has said the nuclear power produced at those facilities is preferable to coal or natural gas as the state transitions to renewable energy.

Cuomo's nuclear gambit comes as he has tried, so far unsuccessfully, to convince Entergy Corp., owners of the money - losing James A. FitzPatrick nuclear plant near Oswego, to shutter the 40 - year - old facility by January.

Truck shipments carrying high - level liquid nuclear waste over the Peace Bridge and across Western New York's highways en route to a South Carolina processing facility could start as early as September, though a lawsuit aims to stop that.

Exelon has agreed to take over the FitzPatrick nuclear power plant from Entergy for at least another 12 years, «and keep it producing nuclear power for years and years to come,» Cuomo announced outside the Central New York facility as workers cheered.

Nuclear facilities are struggling to compete as the market is glutted with cheap natural gas.

Those two plants could be the only nuclear facilities left upstate if the FitzPatrick plant in Oswego County, owned by Entergy, closes early next year as planned.

Stone highlighted the planned construction, beginning in 2018, of the Iranian Light Source Facility (ILSF), which would be the country's first synchrotron and its «biggest basic science project ever,» as «a testament to the country's determination to do science in spite of turmoil, political interference, and the viselike grip of economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies to block Iran's suspected effort to develop nuclear weapons.

The current environment has made initiatives, such as the federal loan guarantee program, even more critical to the successful development of nuclear facilities.

Financing the construction of a capital - intensive nuclear facility such as a commercial reactor or enrichment plant, however, is a challenging enterprise even in good economic times.

In the aftermath of Yucca's mothballing, the DOE has pursued a diverse strategy of nuclear waste management that includes tentative plans for consolidated interim storage facilities, tests of deep boreholes as another possible long - term storage technique, and the development of «consent - based» siting protocols to gain support from municipal and state governments.

The U.S. continues to observe a moratorium on nuclear testing, so scientists, particularly at government facilities such as LLNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), develop ways to detect these events without creating an explosion themselves.

For example, «Iran will convert its sensitive Fordow uranium enrichment facility into an international «nuclear, physics, and technology centre,» allowing it to remain open as a research lab.

But the AAAS panel found that substantial upgrades to the current infrastructure would be needed anyway to carry out the RRW program, including at least a doubling of the current assembling and disassembling work at the Pantex nuclear weapon assembly facility as well as a significant increase in the amount of plutonium pits produced at the TA - 55 facility.

The point was to prove that a nuclear power facility could be built as cheaply as a coal - fired power plant, and the key to that was a smaller safety system.

The M.I.T. report predicts that even if the world's fleet of more than 400 nuclear power plants grew to be 4,000 such plants that then operated for a century, the cost of the electricity from those facilities would rise by a mere 1 percent as a result of the increased demand for uranium.

The research, described in a paper to be published as an Editor's Suggestion in Physical Review Letters, is only possible at RHIC, a 2.4 - mile circular particle collider that operates as a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory.

It is seriously vulnerable there, as the Fukushima accident demonstrated, and so the academy panel recommends that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and nuclear plant operators beef up systems for monitoring the pools and topping up water levels in case a facility is dNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and nuclear plant operators beef up systems for monitoring the pools and topping up water levels in case a facility is dnuclear plant operators beef up systems for monitoring the pools and topping up water levels in case a facility is damaged.

As a result, many European nuclear physicists will have no machine to work on when the Nuclear Structure Facility (NSF) at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire closes this nuclear physicists will have no machine to work on when the Nuclear Structure Facility (NSF) at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire closes this Nuclear Structure Facility (NSF) at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire closes this spring.

The letter warned that the state may have difficulty disposing of the drilling waste, that thorough testing will be needed at water treatment plants, and that workers may need to be monitored for radiation as much as they might be at nuclear facilities.

«The sensing skin could be used for a wide range of structures, but the impetus for the work was to help ensure the integrity of critical infrastructure such as nuclear waste storage facilities,» says Dr. Mohammad Pour - Ghaz, an assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the work.

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Eastern Finland have developed new «sensing skin» technology designed to serve as an early warning system for concrete structures, allowing authorities to respond quickly to damage in everything from nuclear facilities to bridges.

The revelations about Iran's apparent electronic prowess come as the US, Israel, and some European nations appear to be engaged in an ever - widening covert war with Iran, which has seen assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, explosions at Iran's missile and industrial facilities, and the Stuxnet computer virus that set back Iran's nuclear program.

Recommendation: To improve DOE's management and oversight of the WTP project, the Secretary of Energy should not resume construction on the WTP's pretreatment and high - level waste facilities until critical technologies are tested and verified as effective, the facilities» design has been completed to the level established by nuclear industry guidelines, and Bechtel's preliminary documented safety analyses complies with DOE nuclear safety regulations.

As above any nuclear facility in Germany, there is a flight restriction above BER II to approximately 700 metres altitude.

The Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC), Nuclear / PET ICANL (formerly the ICANL) offers accreditation as an increasingly renowned method for Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology and PET facilities to evaluate and demonstrate the level of patient care they provide.

«Through the enrichment of the curriculum of schools, the employment of students through co-op programs and summer jobs, by enabling post-doctoral research, or by providing access to our unique facilities and expertise in events such as the «ZED - 2 School,» CNL is helping to inspire young researchers and develop young professionals interested in a career in nuclear technology.»

Serving as the basis for the accreditation program, the Standards are the extensive document defining the minimal requirements for Nuclear / PET facilities to provide quality patient care.

Orrvilon is a 325,000 ft2 fabrication and testing facility that is vertically integrated for the manufacture of specialty materials such as METAMIC ® HT and Classic METAMIC ® used for reactivity control in nuclear plants.

The school will be structured around lectures delivered by members of CNL's research team and external experts in the mornings, followed by demonstrations and practical sessions in the afternoons during which students will spend time at the Zero Energy Deuterium (ZED - 2) reactor, as well as several other nuclear facilities located on the campus.

«In naming the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility as a Historic Physics Site, the American Physical Society took into consideration the half century of nuclear and atomic physics research performed there, as well as the scores of scientists who performed experiments with its unique capabilities,» Greene said.

SCIENTISTS at the University of Huddersfield have been using world - class new facilities to carry out experiments that could aid the development of nuclear fusion reactors, widely regarded as the «Holy Grail» solution to future energy needs.

The PRISM reactor would use recycled nuclear fuel from a reprocessing facility known as the Advanced Recycling Center (ARC).

Our staff members have expertise spanning the environmental, geological and materials sciences, as well as the engineering disciplines needed to evaluate safety and environmental compliance of nuclear facilities.»

It's just one of the specialized facilities that will be used as part of the WSU - PNNL Nuclear Science & Technology Institute.

Waste material originating from historical operations and generated as CNL revitalizes Chalk River Laboratories and closes the Whiteshell Laboratories and Nuclear Power Demonstration sites will be emplaced in the facility.

As the AX Division Leader, Verdon was responsible for the management of a scientific effort that is at the core of the Secondary Nuclear Design Program and the scientific grand challenge effort of achieving ignition at the National Ignition Facility.

As the principal associate director, Wisoff will continue to be responsible for ensuring the safe operation of NIF as a world - class user facility in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Stockpile Stewardship mission; partnering with Laboratory capabilities to establish leadership in Stockpile Stewardship science associated with inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics; overseeing the development of advanced laser systems, related optical and target systems, control systems and systems engineering capability for research, commercial and government agencies; and maintaining close partnerships with the Department of Energy / NNSA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Homeland Security, academia and private industrAs the principal associate director, Wisoff will continue to be responsible for ensuring the safe operation of NIF as a world - class user facility in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Stockpile Stewardship mission; partnering with Laboratory capabilities to establish leadership in Stockpile Stewardship science associated with inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics; overseeing the development of advanced laser systems, related optical and target systems, control systems and systems engineering capability for research, commercial and government agencies; and maintaining close partnerships with the Department of Energy / NNSA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Homeland Security, academia and private industras a world - class user facility in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Stockpile Stewardship mission; partnering with Laboratory capabilities to establish leadership in Stockpile Stewardship science associated with inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics; overseeing the development of advanced laser systems, related optical and target systems, control systems and systems engineering capability for research, commercial and government agencies; and maintaining close partnerships with the Department of Energy / NNSA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Homeland Security, academia and private industry.