Sentences with phrase «nuclear fueled power plants»

Utilities prefer wind energy because the intermittent production at the wrong time of the day becomes a token excuse to build more fossil and nuclear fueled power plants.

Not exact matches

Perry has repeatedly said that storing fuel on site makes coal and nuclear plants less prone to shutdowns than other power generators in the event of disasters and attacks.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature retirement of baseload power plants that provide nonstop power, like those fired by coal and nuclear fuel.

Plutonium and uranium are converted into chemical compounds called oxides, and mixed together in fuel rods for civilian nuclear power plants.

To use MOX fuel rods, civilian power plants would have to modify their reactors, requiring lengthy relicensing by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Russia has built the Busher nuclear power plant in Iran partially at her own expense on the promise by Iran that they will be buying nuclear fuel from Russia for this plant to operate.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - Entergy Corp. plans to shut down its money - losing FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Oswego County after the reactor runs out of fuel next year.

There is currently no approved national repository to begin removing it from temporary spent fuel pools located on - site at Indian Point and other U.S. nuclear power plants across the country.

And he argued the nuclear plants» output is needed as a bridge fuel to help the state reach a goal of half of all New York's power coming from renewable sources by 2030.

The Indian Point nuclear power plant has a long history of accidental radioactive leaks and spills: spent fuel pools at the plant housing toxic nuclear waste have been leaking since the 1990s; corroded buried pipes have sprung radioactive leaks; tanks have spilled hundreds of gallons radioactively contaminated water; and malfunctioning valves and pumps have leaked radionuclide - laden water.

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

At the time of the agreement, Cuomo and the commission argued that the nuclear plants provide a clean bridge fuel while reaching the state's goal of getting 50 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2030.

However, at least two of the state's nuclear reactors are in danger of closing within the next few years and would significantly increase air pollution because they would be replaced by fossil - fuel burning power plants in the near future.

The deal, long in the making after Entergy signaled it would shutter the FitzPatrick plant in 2017, comes after state regulators put the final approval on new subsidies for renewable fuels, including nuclear power, potentially worth millions of dollars.

In recent years, historically low natural gas prices have driven down wholesale electricity costs as plant owners switched to that fuel, making nuclear power less competitive financially.

New York utility regulators have approved the sale of an upstate nuclear power plant, part of the state's strategy of investing in nuclear energy while weaning itself off of fossil fuels.

Officials at the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant near Oswego are investigating why fuel rods in the reactor's core are leaking radiation and while not considered an emergency, it could potentially spread contaminated water to other parts of the pPlant near Oswego are investigating why fuel rods in the reactor's core are leaking radiation and while not considered an emergency, it could potentially spread contaminated water to other parts of the plantplant.

According to a study by The Brattle Group, funded by Exelon and other nuclear supporters, the three reactors in Oswego County and another in Wayne County eliminate nearly 16 million tons of carbon dioxide a year that would otherwise be emitted by fossil fuel power plants.

The James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant will close at the end of its current fuel cycle, at the end of 2016 or early 2017.

Three months after its meltdown, the stricken nuclear power plant continues to struggle to cool its nuclear fuel — and cope with growing amounts of radioactive cooling water

Of all the terrible news from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, reports about the spent fuel storage pool for reactor # 4 may be among the most disconcerting for scientists.

After all, no one has ever died in a commercial nuclear power accident on American soil; in contrast, emissions from fossil - fuel plants kill 24,000 Americans each year, according to a 2004 report commissioned by the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental group.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

For the future, look to radical solutions like glucose - based fuels, smart storage, or tiny mass - produced nuclear power plants.

That makes it likely that other groups will be able to quickly follow their lead to make a wide array of high - strength stainless steel parts for everything from fuel tanks in airplanes to pressure tubes in nuclear power plants.

The research may eventually help lead to ways to safely dispose of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel that is stored now at commercial nuclear power plants.

Aaron Kreider, a Web developer in Philadelphia who runs a site called the Energy Justice Network, a nonprofit group that supports clean energy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United States.

The new UK power stations will all be either nuclear or offshore wind farms, though there may also be some carbon capture from fossil fuel plants by the late 2020s.

Once the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant eases, authorities will begin plotting the endgame: how to dismantle the contaminated complex and dispose of its nuclear fuel.

It's not just spent nuclear fuel but all the radioactive waste from a nuclear power plant that has no place to go

At the end of 2016 Japan had 14,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel stored at nuclear power plants, filling about 70 percent of its onsite storage capacity.

Uranium, the radioactive element that fuels nuclear power plants and occurs naturally in the Earth's crust, is typically mined from large sandstone deposits deep underground.

After all, once operating, nuclear power plants burn nothing and therefore emit no carbon dioxide as fossil fuel — burning power plants do.

Some 16 months after meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operations to remove the nuclear fuel rods from the site have finally begun

Although nuclear power plants require large up - front investments, their operational and fuel costs are competitive and predictable.

Meeting coal demand in Japan Indonesian coal is also expected to help fuel a surge in fossil power generation in Japan after that country shuttered its nuclear plants in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor meltdown in 2011.

That helps explain why such a large earthquake was unexpected in the region, resulting in catastrophic consequences that included more than 24,000 people dead or missing and fuel meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the coast.

The spent fuel produced by nuclear power plants will emit harmful radiation for hundreds of thousands — even millions — of years.

Sometimes what the scientists have written has been political satire, like Leo Szilard's The Voice of the Dolphins or OR Frisch's charming little thought experiment On the Feasibility of Coal - burning Power Stations, in which he applied to fossil - fuel power generation the strictures imposed on nuclear plPower Stations, in which he applied to fossil - fuel power generation the strictures imposed on nuclear plpower generation the strictures imposed on nuclear plants.

The concentration of this isotope must therefore be boosted in natural uranium before it can function as nuclear power plant fuel.

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

Shocks to ratepayers In fact, Japan's electricity prices are now among the highest in Asia, a condition created partly by high - priced renewables, but also by its heavy reliance on imported energy fuels following the closure of its nuclear plants, which provided 26 percent of the country's power before 2011.

They envision zero - carbon power plants that run on fuel made from hydrogen isotopes in seawater and produce less waste than today's nuclear power plants.

«New nuclear fuel - rod cladding could lead to safer power plants.»

In the interim — which could stretch for a century — used fuel rods will remain where they are: at nuclear power plants themselves either in spent fuel pools or in giant concrete casks on pads.

«Hydropower plants and thermoelectric power plants — which are nuclear, fossil -, and biomass - fueled plants converting heat to electricity — both rely on freshwater from rivers and streams,» explains Michelle Van Vliet, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, who led the study.

Egged on by a friend, he was attempting to blow up British Nuclear Fuels» model of a power plant.

This happened in 1986 when a nuclear power plant at Chernobyl caught fire and exploded, showering surrounding territory with radioactive particles and threatening to let molten uranium fuel seep deep into the ground.

On September 15, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission affirmed its expert opinion that spent nuclear fuel could be safely stored on nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.Nuclear Regulatory Commission affirmed its expert opinion that spent nuclear fuel could be safely stored on nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.nuclear fuel could be safely stored on nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.»

THE world's oceans are thought to contain about 4.5 billion tonnes of uranium, enough fuel to power every nuclear plant on the planet for 6500 years.