Sentences with phrase «nuclear generation plants»

The action starts with a dozen «next generation» nuclear stations proposed for South Africa, and accelerates toward 300 new nuclear generation plants

In the traditional model of a national electricity system — widely used for more than 50 years — large conventional gas, coal and nuclear generation plants supply large centres of demand.

Not exact matches

A nuclear power generation company, for instance, had Tyco install surveillance equipment in irradiated areas of its plant.

Your major account lead generation company develops a lead for you with ABC Power Services, Inc. which is a multi-million dollar company creating nuclear power plants worldwide.

The contrast between the Chinese program to build the next generation of nuclear plants, and Bush's energy plan, shows the «pro-nuclear» label to be a fraud.

State officials argued that nuclear plant closures would prompt an increase in fossil fuel generation, in conflict with Cuomo's goal to reduce carbon emmissions 40 percent by 2030.

In August Governor Andrew Cuomo announces that Exelon Generation has agreed to assume ownership and management of the James A. FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Scriba, N.Y..

A $ 110 million agreement will transfer ownership and operation of the James FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego from Entergy Corp. to Exelon Generation, company and state officials announced on Tuesday.

Even with the caveat of building a new generation of nuclear plants in «limited» circumstances, this was a big policy U-turn for the party, which has long preferred to favour renewable energy resources.

The New York Independent System Operator released a report analyzing the retirement of the Indian Point nuclear plant, concluding that system reliability criteria can be met with one or more types of solutions including generation, transmission, energy efficiency, and demand response measures.

Lib Dem ministers face renewed pressure from their activists over a series of U-turns, particularly on university tuition fees and a new generation of nuclear power plants.

While Cuomo has seized upon every hiccup at the Indian Point nuclear plant downstate to amplify his calls for its closure, he has touted the benefits of the FitzPatrick plant and other upstate nuclear power generation.

Part of the reason is obvious: It needs the expertise to improve and maintain the nation's nuclear weapons stockpiles, and it needs people to replace the first generation of nuclear plant operators and engineers, many of whom are now retiring.

This risk factor pushes the «levelized» or all - in price of nuclear power from new units to 8.4 cents per kilowatt - hour, the MIT study concludes, versus 6.2 cents for coal - fired plants and 6.5 cents for natural gas generation (if gas is priced at $ 7 per million British thermal units, or roughly 1,000 cubic feet of flowing gas).

The Obama administration would like to see more nuclear power plants, among other forms of new electricity generation

Despite the severity of the accident at the Fukushima I plant, nuclear reactor designers don't expect the same type of backlash against the nuclear industry as occurred a generation ago after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

Worldwide, nuclear energy accounts for about 15 percent of electricity generation; Japan gets nearly 30 percent of its electricity from its nuclear plants.

Abagyan told New Scientist that Russia will let its 12 first - generation nuclear plants run for their «design lives» of thirty years.

The newest generation of nuclear power plants builds on a foundation of excellence spanning decades and supported by significant improvement in plant efficiency.

More than 100 gigawatts of geothermal power (one tenth of the current U.S. electrical generation) could be developed for $ 1 billion during the next 40 years — at the full cost of one carbon - capturing coal - fired power plant or one - third the cost of a new nuclear generator.

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.

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 plants.

Plans to build a new generation of nuclear reactors in Italy have run aground following the accident at the Fukushima plant in Japan last month.

Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?

A 1000 - megawatt plant would take three years and cost 500 billion pesetas — around half the price of Spain's first - generation nuclear power stations of similar output.

Across the U.S. nuclear energy sector, plant owners are seeking — and gaining — NRC approval to run first - generation plants for 20 years beyond the original license period.

«Once you build the power plants, it just keeps producing energy,» Judge said, noting the potential benefits of electricity generation from nuclear fission.

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«The people who were involved in building the first generation of nuclear plants, for example in France in the 1980s, are on the point of retiring.»

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In 2015, coal - fired plants accounted for 39 % of electricity generation, gas - fired plants contributed 30.3 %, and nuclear plants contributed 19.0 %.

Combinations of high gas prices and significantly lower capital costs could make nuclear plants competitive with fossil fuel plants, but the bottom line is that in the current economic climate, commercial nuclear generation is not even close to being competitive with fossil - fueled plants and there is no easy path to a competitive market for new nuclear plants.

GE Hitachi Successfully Completes First Pressurized Water Reactor Outage with Exelon Generation at Ginna Nuclear Power Plant

Chris is the health and safety training manager of a large electric power generation company operating nuclear power plants throughout North America.

• Two new nuclear plants, called Vogtle 3 & 4, in Georgia (47 % ownership) • A new - technology coal gasification generation facility called Trig in Mississippi

The collective Don't Follow the Wind, whose inaccessible, Fukushima - based 2015 group exhibition has been written about before in these pages, is now made accessible via A Walk in Fukushima, 2016 — 17, a 360 - degree video experience of what has been, since the 2011 nuclear - plant disaster, an uninhabitable area, with crafty headsets made in collaboration with artist Bontaro Dokuyama and three generations of a Japanese family who live in a zone deemed «safe to live» by the government but still subject to restrictions due to its proximity to a radioactive locale.

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

To pave the way for a new generation of nuclear power plants, we must provide greater certainty on issues from licensing to responsible management of spent fuel.

Others seek renewable - energy breakthroughs or a new generation of nuclear power plants.

And the best case is that we have our pilot plant built by 2023, and that by 2030, this fourth - generation inherently safe design with all sorts of nice characteristics, including cost, becomes the standard for all nuclear builds from that point forward.

This EPR plant represents the «new generation» of nuclear power plants that would supposedly be faster and cheaper to build, and free of the problems that plagued previous designs, and has been touted by the industry as the foundation of its «revival».

Four climate scientists, three of whom have published in peer - reviewed literature on energy issues (a sampler from Wigley, Hansen and Caldeira), are pressing the case for environmental groups to embrace the need for a new generation of nuclear power plants in a letter they distributed overnight to a variety of organizations and journalists.

To approximate our current coal generation capacity would require increasing the global complement of nuclear plants from some 500 to at least 4,000 units.

China is closing many of their dirtiest coal power plants, and they are building much clean nuclear and wind generation.»

Nonetheless, the film's sections exploring how nuclear technology became demonized, from the abandonment of the completed Shoreham plant on Long Island to the shutdown of government research on a next generation of plant designs, are informative and convincing.

The «fourth generation» nuclear power plants that nuclear proponents love to talk about are science fiction.

I think a comprehensive (and honest) assessment of alternatives to coal generation will include not only the hypothetical scaling issues of wind and direct solar generation but also will address what we know of the operating record of nuclear plants and what we can expect as we attempt to further scale nuclear power.

All the same, unless nuclear plants can be vastly simplified or the quality of assembly and operation enormously improved it's only a matter of time until we have the next nuclear power generation PR fiasco emerge.

«Ultimately the things that will generate electricity in the developing world and here will be the same,» Rucker said, highlighting the next generation of nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams as particularly applicable in parts of Africa.

Off - grid solar is already providing electricity to communities in rural Africa, India, the Caribbean and elsewhere who will never get access to grid power from nuclear or any other form of large, centralized generation, because the resources to build either the grids or the giant power plants do not exist, nor do those communities have the wealth to purchase grid power.