Sentences with phrase «nuclear plant construction»

Where Boeing is making 10 aircraft per month — allowing everyone involved to become more efficient and produce planes faster — it takes nuclear plant construction companies up to 10 years to build one plant.

The reason is clear: those nations offer low - cost loans to nations seeking to finance nuclear plant construction.

Nations must work together to develop a long - term plan for new nuclear plant construction to achieve economies of scale.

New nuclear plant construction is also well behind target and global biofuel production stalled in 2012.

This explains why nuclear plant construction is now concentrated in countries like Russia and China where nuclear development is state - controlled.

Rod Adams, «South Korean Citizen Panel Supports Nuclear Plant Construction.

There was a wave of nuclear plant construction from the late 1960s to about 1990.

These people are very poor, it's very cruel to discriminate against them while we waste so much energy and don't even try to ratify Kyoto or make a dent in our greenhouse emissions by nuclear plant construction.

Because of inflation in the 1970s and more stringent safety regulation on nuclear power plants placed shortly before and after the Three - Mile Island accident in 1979, US nuclear plant construction times increased from around 7 yr in 1971 to 12 yr in 1980.

Assuming Southern successfully completes the two nuclear plant construction projects, the stock price will likely rise.

It's likely that the construction of at least one new nuclear power plant will be initiated by the end of this year, ending a two - decade drought in new nuclear plant construction.

Assuming Southern successfully completes the two nuclear plant construction projects, the stock price will likely rise.

As Scana struggled with new nuclear plants construction and shares plummeted, Dominion saw an opportunity to grow its business.

Not exact matches

CB&I received no upfront payment for the sale of the nuclear construction business, but stood to receive earnouts based on the progress of the completion of two U.S. projects by Stone & Webster: a nuclear power plant in Georgia for Southern Co and two reactors in South Carolina for SCANA Corp (scu).

Particularly controversial are the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the UK (currently under construction and controversial because of security concerns) and the Toulouse airport in France (a Chinese consortium purchased a majority stake but was relegated to a minority stake after French government intervention).

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Southern has struggled over the past few years with cost over runs from the construction of two new nuclear power plants (Vogle and Kemper).

1) Repeal the Triborough Amendment; 2) State pick - up of Medicaid costs from counties; 3) Roll - back of Medicaid entitlements / coverages to median national levels; 4) Major reform of SEQR process which blocks projects Upstate; 5) Repeal NY's participation in RGGI; 6) Cut 50 percent of staff at DOE, DOH, DEC in order to let the other half do their jobs, which means serving the people instead of feeding the bureaucratic monster; 7) Support expansion of nuclear plants at Oswego, construction of new plants elsewhere; 8) Tort reform to allow doctors to practice medicine, instead of fleeing NY; 9) Use the bully pulpit to support natural gas drilling and tell the envirowackos to grow up.

Among the issues Boak highlighted on environmental policy, she pointed to pushing back against the construction of the Algonquin Pipeline and backing the effort to close the Indian Point Nuclear Plant in Westchester County.

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.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) this week granted a licence to allow construction of a plant that uses a controversial uranium enrichment process — one that critics fear could pose a serious nuclear - proliferatioNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) this week granted a licence to allow construction of a plant that uses a controversial uranium enrichment process — one that critics fear could pose a serious nuclear - proliferationuclear - proliferation risk.

I was encouraged by President Obama's calls for the construction of more nuclear power plants, as well as for increased offshore exploration of oil and natural gas, and the further development of clean coal technologies.

The study estimates that new nuclear plants carry a heavy risk premium because of uncertain construction costs.

The license allows for construction of a plant that uses a process that critics fear could pose a serious nuclear - proliferation risk

Those figures, say the authors of the report, an update on a similar report in 2003, mean that «even if all the announced plans for new nuclear power plant construction are realized, the total will be well behind that needed for reaching a thousand gigawatts of new capacity worldwide by 2050.»

Once the construction costs of a nuclear plant are amortized, its operating costs are less than those of any fossil fuel — fired plant, including coal.

Financing the construction of a capital - intensive nuclear facility such as a commercial reactor or enrichment plant, however, is a challenging enterprise even in good economic times.

In contrast, a conventional nuclear plant requires several years of customized design and construction, and at the end of its life several years more are needed to dismantle it and decontaminate the massive site around it.

Weightman's conclusions differ markedly, however, from those of other countries such as Germany, where an ethics panel has recommended shutting all plants by 2021, Italy, where new plant construction is on indefinite hold, and the United States, where the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has deemed it too early to make any firm conclusions.

Across the East China Sea, west of Japan and its ongoing crisis, sits the growing Qinshan nuclear power plant, where four new pressurized - water reactors are under construction in addition to the five already operating on - site.

Four such reactors are currently under construction in the country — now the only actual construction of such advanced nuclear power plants anywhere in the world.

The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

The cutting - edge, 1,600 - megawatt nuclear power plant, Olkiluoto 3, which its French maker Areva boasted as the most advanced safety design of the time, is still under construction today.

The DoE issued $ 6.5 billion in loan guarantees for two new Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors already under construction at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia in February.

Considering nuclear power plants already have problems with construction cost overruns, any additional costs are likely to meet resistance.

Energy company SCANA subsidiary South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G) plans to add two AP - 1000 reactors to its nuclear power plant near Jenkinsville, S.C., by 2016 and 2019, whereas the Tennessee Valley Authority will finally complete Watts Bar Unit 2 near Chattanooga, Tenn. — more than 30 years after construction began, including a nearly two - decade hiatus — next year.

Nuclear Elec - tric, which regularly assesses the level of neutron damage at its stations by monitoring the condition of samples of construction materials placed in the reactor, decided to shut down the plant's two reactors to investigate what was happening more thoroughly.

If everything goes according to plan the first of two AP1000 reactors will go online in 2016 at Plant Vogtle in Burke County, Ga., marking the first U.S. nuclear construction project to break ground since the 1970s; the second is set to go online in 2017.

A falloff in construction of new nuclear power plants will make climate change requirements harder to meet

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

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.

She also has held senior project managerial positions on an oil refinery project in Thailand, a coal seam gas to liquid natural gas plant in Queensland, Australia, and roles in construction field engineering on a variety of nuclear power projects.

The first commercial 12 - module power plant, which will be owned by Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and run by an experienced nuclear operator, Energy Northwest, is planned for construction on land owned by the US Department of Energy at the Idaho National Laboratory.

Small modular reactors - which are approximately one - third the size of current nuclear power plants - have compact, scalable designs that are expected to offer a host of safety, construction and economic benefits.

«The Atomic States of America»: In 2010, the United States announced construction of the first new nuclear power plant in more than 32 years.

Construction of the two new nuclear units at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle, among the first to be built in the United States in more than three decades, is also progressing well.

Southern has struggled over the past few years with cost over runs from the construction of two new nuclear power plants (Vogle and Kemper).

DOE also claims 6 years lead time for nuclear; at a round table discussion with utility CEOs (from a business site I didn't bookmark and cant find), one of them said jestingly that a new nuclear plant takes 15 years — 5 for design & permitting, 5 for litigation, and 5 for construction.

I am not against nuclear, but looking at the plants currently under construction and their escalating cost and slipping schedules, I have pretty much lost faith in the nuclear industry to make any noticeable contribution towards solving this problem.

The time between planning and operation of a nuclear power plant includes the time to obtain a site and construction permit, the time between construction permit approval and issue, and the construction time of the plant.