"Nuclear generators" refers to devices or power plants that generate electricity through a process called nuclear fission, which involves splitting atoms of radioactive elements. This produces a large amount of heat, which is then used to create steam, spin turbines, and generate electricity.
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The payments would've bolstered the economics for coal and
nuclear generators who've seen their profits and market share squeezed by cheap gas and renewables.
Denault today also blamed the design of New York's wholesale power market, saying it does not adequately compensate
nuclear generators for providing carbon - free electricity.
As cheap natural gas squeezes the margins
of nuclear generators, there's only one company currently building reactors in the country — Southern Co., at its Vogtle plant in Georgia.
Our take: A fascinating book that carefully evaluates a myriad of energy sources ranging
from nuclear generators to windmills.
Facing closures from the Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear power plants, the state government passed a $ 235 million annual subsidy for
nuclear generators in a Future Energy Jobs Act last December.
The growth of wind energy has an order of magnitude smaller cumulative effect and is only statistically significant for
nuclear generators located in the western portion of the PJM region (in proximity to vast majority of installed wind capacity in the region).
What we have instead is a stealth tax which will do little to change investment decisions, will load high costs onto consumers and produce windfall profits for
existing nuclear generators.
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.
Most people in England and Wales buy their power from regional electricity companies (RECs) which, in turn, buy it from fossil - fuel and
nuclear generators at market price.
For existing
commercial nuclear generators (and for any new facilities built in other countries), we should stick to the so - called «once through» fuel cycle, with direct disposal of spent fuel, and strongly encourage other countries to do likewise.
In 2000, under then - Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Germany's first center - left coalition of Social Democrats (SDP) and the Green Party implemented a nuclear phase - out with the passage of Atomausstieg, a controversial policy change that
stymied nuclear generators» unlimited lifetime licenses and strong legal guarantees.
Exelon, the nation's
largest nuclear generator, urged FERC to direct grid operators to do fuel security studies, work with federal agencies to develop a «design basis threat» on fuel resilience, and «explicitly clarify» that operators should consider resilience in grid planning.
Instead, the ISO has floated a dirty energy path: paying many millions of dollars to uneconomic oil or
nuclear generators not to retire, on top of its previous calls to construct new gas pipelines in the region.
Under the plan, Illinois utilities
pay nuclear generators for the ZECs, and pass those costs on to their ratepayers in ancillary services.
States with pending nuclear retirements have taken two approaches to address this threat to their baseload generation:
subsidize nuclear generators, or embrace substitute fuel types.
Wouldn't relatively - small, easily - refueled,
modular nuclear generators, sited below ground near point of use and augmented with rooftop solar in warm climes, enable «mini-grids» to power sub-communities and small towns without extensive transmission lines?
While not scientific by any means my impression is that it is still the other way including such things as Fraking, coal mining, offshore oil drilling, probably the Keystone pipeline which rumor has it is going forward and Fukishama
type nuclear generators being built in the US.
The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), a group that represents the bulk of
U.S. nuclear generators, said that damage payments average $ 2.2 million per day — or about $ 800 million per year.
The retirement of four
nuclear generators decreased the amount of operational capacity in extended outage, which had elevated outage levels throughout 2012.
While the senator did not comment on a long - term waste management effort, his spokesperson noted that in May 2017, Markey sponsored the Dry Cask Storage Act, a bill that would essentially allow the NRC to
give nuclear generators grants from interest earned from the Nuclear Waste Fund to transfer SNF from pools to dry storage under NRC - approved plans.
This is the case at Bruce Power Inc., Canada's first
private nuclear generator located on the shores of Lake Huron in southwestern Ontario.
To estimate economic impacts, the report uses publicly available economic data from announced pipeline projects, energy demand forecasts, and announced retirements
of nuclear generators.
It allowed those hefty allowances to be sold or transferred to other power plants for a profit, however, ameliorating protests
from nuclear generators — particularly newly born E.ON, which amassed ownership of 12 of the 19 reactors after the merger of Germany's biggest utilities, Veba and Viag.
After being rebuked by FERC and in the run up to bankruptcy declaration, FirstEnergy's generation arm appeals to DOE to use emergency authority to grant subsidies to all coal and
nuclear generators in PJM.
A market design that fails to «recognize or adequately compensate»
nuclear generators for the benefits provided, such as fuel diversity, climate - related advantages, grid reliability, and large - scale energy generation.
Coal and
nuclear generators would be uniquely suited because, unlike gas plants, they aren't fed by pipelines.
Followinig a directive from Cuomo, New York's Public Service Commission last year approved payments to
nuclear generators to prevent financially stressed Upstate nuclear plants from shutting down.
A report by the Commons» energy and climate change committee published today warns that government proposals will effectively provide subsidies to
nuclear generators - despite the coalition agreement only permitted new nuclear power stations «provided they receive no public subsidy».
Based on building materials used in the Arctic at the time, the authors speculate the site contains polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pollutants toxic to human health, along with an unknown volume of low - level radioactive coolant from
the nuclear generator.
And within a century after that, melting could begin to release waste stored at the camp, including sewage, diesel fuel, persistent organic pollutants like PCBs, and radiological waste from the camp's
nuclear generator, which was removed during decommissioning.
Voyager 1 has enough power in
its nuclear generator to send dispatches until the mid-2020s.
If they closed, that huge decommissioning liability would have to be shown on
the nuclear generator's balance sheet — figures that would soon overtake the net worth of the company, thus making it technically bankrupt.
This nuclear generator releases 100 watts of power by means of the heat generated by the radioactive decay of plutonium.
You may think a uranium miner is off - limits because it supplies fuel to
nuclear generators.
What amount of planning calls batteries with a life of eight hours a back - up plan for cooling
a nuclear generator?
In addition,
nuclear generators are discussing the potential retirements of several more.
There is no evidence in the record to suggest that temporarily delaying the retirement of uncompetitive coal and
nuclear generators would meaningfully improve the resilience of the grid.
It would forget about wind turbines, simply build more gas, coal and
nuclear generators, to generate reliable, affordable, sustainable electricity — and apply the same laws fairly and equitably to all energy sources.
Nuclear generators have noted a 25 % jump in fuel costs during the past decade.
This study estimates benefits and costs of DOE's proposed profit guarantee for coal and
nuclear generators.
The plan proposed a $ 3.7 billion handout for coal and
nuclear generators — both of which have been struggling financially against competition from renewable energy.
Adding enough LNG import capacity in the next few years, combined with a sufficiently - low Federally imposed carbon cap in the US and Canada, could head hundreds of new coal and
nuclear generators off at the climate pass *.
Last year, New York and Illinois enacted a new policy of Zero Emissions Credits (ZECs) which are available for
nuclear generators.