Sentences with phrase «nuclear operating license»

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Entergy had been seeking a renewal of its expired federal licenses to operate Indian Point's two nuclear reactors, which Cuomo's administration and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had opposed.

While it is up to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to determine whether plants are licensed to operate, the state licenses the facilities» use of river water for operations, and can theoretically put a halt to operations by withholding or limiting permission on the basis of concerns over water quality.

The Indian Point Nuclear power pant, owned and operated by Entergy, arecurrently under review by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel pending the renewal of its operating license for the next 20 years.

Come late September New York State will be the only place in America with a nuclear power plant operating without a license.

(Only federal authorities have the power to license or unlicense nuclear facilities, but states can make it difficult for plants to operate profitably through aggressive regulation.)

The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy this month won a legal contention from the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board against Southern Nuclear Operating's Vogtle reactor license application for Georgia.

In the wake of radioactive releases from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, critics are saying a California nuclear plant's susceptibility to earthquakes and tsunamis could affect its chances of renewing its operating license.

The memorandum of understanding signed by GEH and Southern Nuclear Operating Company subsidiary Southern Nuclear Development also sees the companies agreeing to work together in future US Department of Energy advanced reactor licensing programs.

In May, DTE Energy received the first - ever ESBWR - based combined construction and operating license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

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The private facility would be licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), but unlike Yucca Mountain or WIPP, would not be owned or operated by DOE.

Subsequently, the two companies were unable to come to mutually agreeable business terms, and Entergy's nuclear organization asked the NRC to temporarily suspend certain review activities related to the construction and operating license application.

Providing a licensed nuclear site on which several nuclear reactors have been built and operated.

Response: Unlike currently operating nuclear reactors, SMR - 160 has been designed to store the used fuel produced over the entire operating lifetime of the plant in subterranean cavities (formally known as Holtec's HI - STORM UMAX system licensed by the USNRC), occupying a small parcel of land in the plant's backyard.

Shouldn't the license to build and operate a nuclear power plant demand that safety systems be designed around a WORST CASE SCENARIO?

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Throughout the short history of the U.S. nuclear power sector, 31 reactors licensed to operate have been permanently shut down — 11 between 1960 and 1980; four in the 1980s; and nine in the 1990s.

Duke Energy Corp. continues to pursue the federal license to build and operate nuclear units in Cherokee County, near the North Carolina border, spokesman Ryan Mosier said.

Most existing US nuclear power plants have licenses that would allow them to operate until the 2030 to 2050 timeframe.

Republicans want to keep the Millstone Nuclear Power Station through 2045 when the plants operating licenses expire.

But now cheap gas is also driving nuclear plants out of competitive energy markets, and some nuclear plants licensed to operate for several more decades could close before 2020, taking their low - carbon electricity with them.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission operating licenses for San Onofre Units 2 and 3 are set to expire in 2022, and for Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2, in 2024 and 2025, respectively.

New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance (NY AREA) is a New - York lobby group that has backed a bid for the renewal of the operating license for the Indian Point nuclear power plants.