Sentences with phrase «nuclear operations in»

For Entergy's nuclear operations in the Northeast, pink slips will go out at Westchester County - based Indian Point, Pilgrim, and Vermont Yankee.

Not exact matches

«If you can conform to the quality specs of nuclear, that helps your entire operation improve in quality, so that is a good thing,» says Carlberg.

North Carolina gets 32 percent of its total electricity from five nuclear reactors currently in operation in the state.

A Chinese Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Type 054 frigate and a Shang - class nuclear - powered attack submarine were used in the operation, distinguishing the incident from prior incursions in two ways.

At the time, Uranium One's two licensed mining operations in Wyoming amounted to about «20 percent of the currently licensed uranium in - situ recovery production capacity in the U.S.,» according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

In 2007, the success of Israeli Air Force's Operation Orchard against a Syrian nuclear installation was largely attributed to effectiveness of the Israeli Electronic Warfare platforms that supported the air strike and made the Syrian radars blind: some sources believe that Operation Orchard saw the baptism of fire of the Suter airborne network system against Syrian radar systems.

These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

After the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the United States, messages were continually available on computer bulletin boards like «emergency hotline,» «emergency planner information,» and «operations and maintenance information,» and many others.

Governments realise that the only practicable way to provide this is by nuclear power, and so many more power stations are being planned, using new designs that are even safer and more economical than those presently in operation [2].

America should seek the agreement of other powers for such operations but not fear unilateral action under exceptional circumstances — in the case of Iran's nuclear program, for example.

Having gained strategic depth in Afghanistan, Iran has developed asymmetrical capability to disrupt U.S. operations or retaliate against American troops, should Iran's nuclear facilities be attacked.

[111] Alex Salmond said it would be «perfectly feasible» to join NATO while maintaining an anti-nuclear stance and that Scotland would pursue NATO membership only «subject to an agreement that Scotland will not host nuclear weapons and NATO continues to respect the right of members to only take part in UN sanctioned operations».

Cuomo's aides were involved in developing the eventual policy that the PSC approved in August to subsidize the upstate nuclear plants and negotiated directly with the plant's owners, former state operations director Jim Malatras told the Syracuse Post-Standard.

As a former chairman of New York Public Service Commission, I believe the continued operation of all of our nuclear plants — and specifically the FitzPatrick plant in Oswego County — is essential to meeting our energy and clean energy needs as well as to the economy of Oswego County and Upstate New York.

Exelon has agreed to assume ownership and management of operations of FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant in Scriba, the company announced this morning.

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.

Currently, Indian Point is the only one of the four nuclear power plants in the state not to have been cleared for continued operation.

«I, personally, am quite positive about Chinese investment in the UK and in this particular case the Chinese are not involved in the operations side of nuclear power — it's the funding.

On Tuesday in Oswego, N.Y., Gov. Cuomo announces that operations will continue at the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba.

The Fukushima cleanup operation is likely to resemble the protracted cleanup at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania, where one reactor experienced a partial meltdown in 1979.

Science has created a map that provides a snapshot of the number of nuclear reactors in operation and under construction worldwide, locations of power plants in relation to seismic hazard zones, and reactions to events in Japan in some countries.

(There are 104 nuclear power plants currently in operation in the United States.)

Researchers had begun testing nuclear devices at the Nevada Test Site in 1951; this latest series of blasts was codenamed Operation Julin, and the final two tests of the series — dubbed Hunters Trophy and Divider — took place on 18 September and 23 September, respectively.

«Governments and regulators should exercise great care in permitting any extension of the operating life of the oldest nuclear power plants still in operation that were built to the easier safety standards,» the letter says.

While in operation, the camp housed 85 to 200 soldiers and was powered by a nuclear reactor.

That trial centers on a phone call Bertolaso made to a local official in setting up the commission's meeting, in which he said he was sending the experts to L'Aquila on a «media operation» to reassure the public and «shut up» a technician in the nearby Gran Sasso nuclear physics laboratory who had allegedly made a series of alarming predictions of imminent strong earthquakes.

Next year, when two nuclear reactors near Syracuse, N.Y., are shut down for normal refueling operations, technicians will enter their cavernous containment structures looking for signs of aging in the thick steel walls surrounding shrouds of concrete.

«Now in China we have 13 nuclear power reactors in operation,» said Zhang Guobao, former vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission — the government agency charged with setting energy and industrial policy — via a translator during a visit to NDRC headquarters in Beijing this past November.

Olkiluoto 3, Finland's third nuclear power plant, expected to enter operation in 2016 In a review of Finnish energy policies, the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlights some of the country's efforts to decarbonizin 2016 In a review of Finnish energy policies, the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlights some of the country's efforts to decarbonizIn a review of Finnish energy policies, the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlights some of the country's efforts to decarbonize.

«Other nuclear power plants in Japan are in normal operations or safely shutdown,» the JAIF reported Thursday.

Networks are used in electrical power grids, nuclear power plants, financial systems, transportation systems, health care systems, identification systems (including the new biometric chips in U.S. passports), and U.S. federal agencies» operations and assets.

We have a pretty good track record for nuclear power plant operation in the U.S. and that has to continue.

The scientists at Troitsk were not specialists in the design and operation of nuclear reactors, says Smirnov, but many were summoned into the contaminated zone to apply their theoretical knowledge to the problem of containing the disaster.

The six - person Near - Term Task Force that dived into the implications of Japan's nuclear disaster concluded in its July 12 report that «continued operation and continued licensing activities do not pose an imminent risk to public health and safety.»

The first seismic waves generated by temblors and explosions — those from mining operations as well as underground nuclear tests — are sharp and distinct, says Göran Ekström, a seismologist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.

The most logical solution, experts say, would be to send the 9700 kilograms of LEU to Russia for conversion into fuel rods for Iran's Russian - built Bushehr nuclear reactor, in operation since 2011.

The nuclear spent fuel produced during 14 years of operation at Rancho Seco was kept cool in a water pool on site and is now in protective dry storage.

«This designation from the ANS recognizes HFIR's role in the history of the nuclear age, but it also speaks to the excellence of its design and operation,» ORNL Director Thom Mason said.

«We are fully committed to moving the industry forward, and by pursuing this goal together, we are best able to leverage our combined strengths in research and commercial operations to bring advanced nuclear technology to market,» he said.

About 70,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel has been generated from the 104 licensed commercial nuclear plants and from 11 others no longer in operation.

On the other hand, the last unit to enter commercial operation was TVA's Watts Bar Unit 1 in June 1996, and the last successful order for a U.S. commercial nuclear power plant was in 1973.

The Portland, Oregon - based company said that, once approved, global demand for its plants will create thousands of jobs during manufacturing, construction and operation, and «re-establish US global leadership in nuclear technology», paving the way for NRC approval and subsequent deployment of other advanced nuclear technologies.

It is designed to provide an unfailingly safe and economical source of clean energy from nuclear fission, SMR - 160 incorporates passive features in its operation to ensure utmost safety and reliability.

A lot of people miss that point by arguing about only the carbon savings, because the nuclear plant does not directly release carbon in its operation.

In our testbed, we will demonstrate the capability to detect the operations of nuclear reactors at significant distances, using antineutrino emissions.»

Executive Chairman Mr. Beckman has forty - five years of experience in the management, operation, maintenance, design, and regulation of nuclear power plants, spent nuclear fuel and nuclear waste, and US Department of Energy nuclear research and defense facilities.

Waste material originating from historical operations and generated as CNL revitalizes Chalk River Laboratories and closes the Whiteshell Laboratories and Nuclear Power Demonstration sites will be emplaced in the facility.

CNL's RFEOI was launched following the release of the nuclear research and technology organisation's long - term plan, which set out a vision for the future of Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario after the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor closes down on 31 March 2018 after 60 years of operations.

In just a little over a year of operation, Ames Laboratory's dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) solid - state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer has successfully characterized materials at the atomic scale level with more speed and precision than ever possible before.

As the principal associate director, Wisoff will continue to be responsible for ensuring the safe operation of NIF as a world - class user facility in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Stockpile Stewardship mission; partnering with Laboratory capabilities to establish leadership in Stockpile Stewardship science associated with inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics; overseeing the development of advanced laser systems, related optical and target systems, control systems and systems engineering capability for research, commercial and government agencies; and maintaining close partnerships with the Department of Energy / NNSA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Homeland Security, academia and private industry.