Sentences with phrase «nuclear fleet»

But when you add up all these expansion plans, while also accounting for the expected retirement of much of the existing nuclear fleet as it reaches end of life, the nuclear role in carbon mitigation can be expected to grow only slowly in the coming decades.

You and your fellow teutonic climate vandals want them to shut down their nuclear fleet while at the same time you point out they lack reliable generation capacity in winter.

«You can't get to the type of carbon emissions people want to get to... unless you continue to use aggressive nuclear policy and have the nuclear fleet continue to function,» said former Sen. Judd Gregg (R - NH), now co-chair of industry advocate Nuclear Matters.

Moreover, I'm not sure that building a large nuclear fleet at the global level is even reasonably feasible — I'm skeptical that there are enough skilled personnel to do the building on the scale that would be needed.

I doubt that more than 20 % of our present nuclear fleet will be operating a decade from now.

The first is focused on preserving the operating nuclear fleet by working to ensure nuclear power attributes are valued properly, which could help stem the tide of premature retirements.

The six - day legislative session that concludes Thursday marks the company's third major push for a measure to support its nuclear fleet, and the bill in current configuration has gone through at least 27 rounds of changes.

Only a few energy bills have been introduced, with the greatest focus being on one permitting Xcel Energy to spend more than $ 1 billion on its nuclear fleet with only limited regulatory oversight of expenditures.

While «a significant part» of the nuclear fleet has settled their lawsuits with the government, the settlements only cover a certain amount of time, NEI's Rod McCullum told POWER.

The cost pressures are rising at the province completes the closing of its coal - fired plants while its nuclear fleet -LSB-...]

After the Fukushima accident in Japan, Germany began mothballing its entire nuclear fleet, but some of its citizens fear they could still be at risk from nuclear accidents across the border with Belgium.

Over the last 12 months, the nation's nuclear fleet had a 92 % capacity factor and produced more than 800 million MWh.

Flat or declining Illinois electricity demand has resulted in an electricity oversupply thanks to Exelon's 11 - plant nuclear fleet, Dynegy and NRG coal fleets, existing, retrofitted, and new natural gas facilities, and a growing wind portfolio, according to Learner.

Exelon, ComEd's parent company, also has a plan (HB 3293), designed to be complementary with its subsidiary's and protect its aging nuclear fleet from becoming unprofitable.

Although I definitely prefer nuclear to fossil fuels, I'm cautiously supportive of the Bowland drilling as it could mean less of our money will be going Gazprom's way in the short term (ie until we can expand our nuclear fleet).

2016 brought the potential for a financial boon in the form of zero emissions credits (ZEC) to a fraction of the nation's struggling nuclear fleet.

EEI also called for a wider range of emissions reduction measures and a bigger role for the «existing nuclear fleet.»

A full clean - up is expected to take at least four decades, after a catastrophe whose lessons still affect the management of the US nuclear fleet.

If after 18 months these fuels have performed as expected, they should be subsidized across the U.S. nuclear fleet.

Simply put, there's no realistic way of eliminating fossil fuels as quickly as science demands without maintaining or increasing our nuclear fleet.

But Germany is also building more coal plants while shutting down its nuclear fleet, leaving its CO2 emissions relatively flat for now.

It means that during the second quarter 91 per cent of electricity generated by OPG was free of greenhouse gases and other smog - causing emissions, thanks to our hydroelectric and nuclear fleet.

Some of the more - advanced reactors now being built are seeing cost overruns and schedule delays of a year or more, so the nuclear fleet in 2020 may be even further from the official goal.

Fourth, Exelon's management of the Illinois nuclear fleet under deregulation has yielded benefits for air quality and decarbonization that dwarf those of the subsidized Illinois renewables sector.

And over one - fourth of our existing nuclear fleet is in danger of going bankrupt.

At present, around the third of France's nuclear fleet is currently off - line as safety experts inspect small cracks in containment vessels.

One would assume that we already have enough enrichment facilities to provide for our 30 year old civilian nuclear fleet.

They will be exposed to risks posed by the largest merchant nuclear fleet in the United States, even more than they are today.

The strength of this approach is evident from the historical capacity factor of the Finnish nuclear fleet which is one of the highest in the world - over 90 %.

If these projections are achieved by 2020, technically, renewables could exceed the roughly 140 TWh generated by Germany's operational nuclear fleet in 2010.

Major political parties, including the Green party of the coalition - government have recently strongly advocated for a policy to decommission the Swedish nuclear fleet prematurely.

This would help clarify (e.g. for policy makers) the degree to which coastal infrastructure (e.g. sewerage systems, petro refineries, nuclear fleet), all of which in themselves could give rise to serious issues under compromise conditions, may require SOC - informed protection strategies.

With extensive experience on large complex projects and the benefit of years of experience on management processes, High Bridge along with affiliate Work Management, Inc. has been the difference in achieving a successful project as demonstrated in the successful turnaround and completion of Watt Bar 2, the most recent addition to the US nuclear fleet.

The failure of Congress to reach agreement on climate and energy legislation has left the future of U.S. new nuclear projects up in the air, focusing more attention on the possibility and the challenges of further extending the life expectancy of the current nuclear fleet, industry officials say.

This compares with EDF's average load factor for its French nuclear fleet of 73 percent in 2013, which is also down from its highest level of 77.6 percent in 2005, the company's 2013 results show.

Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars

LONDON (Reuters)- Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars.

With nuclear safety in the spotlight since the 2011 reactor meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant - which in turn prompted Germany to call time on its entire nuclear fleet - operators can take no chances with their elderly plants, but the outages get longer and more difficult.

British utility Centrica, which owns 20 percent of EDF Energy's nuclear fleet, said on Monday the reduction in output would reduce its earnings per share by around 0.3 pence this year.

The proposed Calvert Cliffs 3 reactor was conceived as a joint venture between Constellation and EDF, France's government - backed utility and nuclear fleet operator.

But shrinking the company's nuclear fleet means that overhead costs are spread across fewer facilities, reducing profits.

«As part of the shift to 50 percent renewables and emissions reductions, New York must use all of its existing carbon free power sources, including our upstate nuclear fleet, to continue our progress on climate change,» Kauffman wrote.

The state's nuclear fleet is struggling to compete against an influx of cheap natural gas, largely from neighboring Pennsylvania.

The irony is that modernising our nuclear fleet is only going to make us more outdated in our ever - changing world.

Canada can export abundant uranium for use in India's and China's growing nuclear fleets, clean hydropower to the United States, and a wealth of other clean technology expertise.

Exelon, headquartered in Chicago, is a $ 31 billion energy services and wholesale power firm with one of the nation's largest nuclear fleets, as well as extensive holdings in natural gas, wind and hydropower generation assets.

Not exact matches

Russia has said it plans to add several subs to its Black Sea fleet, which is a point of focus for Moscow — along with the Northern fleet, which has Russia's sea - based nuclear forces and is based close to NATO territory in Norway.

North Korea's hidden artillery pieces have managed to deter outside invaders for decades, but with Kim scrambling to perfect his fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles and top US officials viewing Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions like a ticking time bomb, the use of the US's most advanced aircraft in exercises signals the US is serious about the possibility of war.

While Russia has a number of nuclear submarines still in active service, like the Oscar, Delta III, and the famous Typhoon class - submarines, the Borei II - class submarines are expected to be the backbone of Russia's SSBN fleet.

Kim has repeatedly proclaimed his intention to field a fleet of nuclear - tipped ICBMs as a guarantor of his regime's survival.