Sentences with phrase «nuclear plant generates»

This is because the same capacity nuclear plant generates three times more power than a wind turbine.

Ohio's nuclear plants generate 90 percent of Ohio's clean power, and could soon close prematurely because they are excluded from generous federal subsidies and state electricity mandates.

Nuclear plants generate a lot of power and most of them seem likely to outlive their originally planned operational lifetime.

Where nuclear plants generate power for over 90 percent of the year, solar and wind farms do so for 20 - 40 percent of the year.

Nuclear plants generate around 20 percent of U.S. electricity and more than 50 percent of the country's zero - carbon power, avoiding the annual emission of at least 400 MMtCO2e.

Nuclear plants generate a lot of power, and so there's a lot of money to be made by the energy companies that replace them.

WHEREAS, America's 99 commercial nuclear plants generate 20 percent of the Nation's electricity with remarkably high levels of efficiency and reliability while producing zero emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases; and WHEREAS, the U.S. Congress enacted the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 and directed the Department of Energy (DOE)...

Not exact matches

The idea is that utilities generate large amounts of clean power in remote, large power plants in much the same way that natural gas, coal, and nuclear power are generated today.

In the US, for instance, a proposal to force California's two nuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in Nonuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in NoNuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in November.

We will trust ourselves more to build our own cars, transform our subsistence farming to profitable and industrial agriculture, and even build nuclear power plants to generate electricity.

In the intervening years, the energy policy would give utilities an incentive to use power generated by nuclear plants, which are considered clean sources, though not renewable.

While it's true that, unlike other types of power plants, nuclear reactors do not emit carbon dioxide (C02), the life cycle of generating nuclear power — from mining to refining to transportation to storage — requires an enormous amount of energy.

Thanks to our nuclear power plants, greenhouse gas emissions from New York's electric generating plants are just one fourth (per capita) of what is produced on average across the U. S.

It's hoped that energy generated from the project could, in part, replace the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

The 650 - megawatt CPV plant in Orange County has already received a series of approvals from the Cuomo administration over the years, and is viewed by officials as key if the governor is to realize his long - term goal of shutting down the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County and replacing the energy it generates with other sources.

A generating plant at the Indian Point nuclear facility in Westchester County shut down last night, prompting an immediate investigation.

During nearly two hours of testimony in Oswego City Hall Tuesday, community leaders and Nine Mile Point Nuclear Plant employees begged staff from New York's Public Service Commission to support the proposed «clean energy standard» under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal to generate half of the state's energy from renewable sources, like wind and solar, by 2030.

ALBANY — The fate of a struggling Oswego County nuclear plant that employs hundreds and generates hundreds of millions of dollars in annual economic activity is now in the hands of the Cuomo administration.

With four years to plan for the nuclear plant's closure, some of those reliability issues may be resolved as other electricity generating resources come online.

In 1980, American nuclear power plants were generating electricity only 56 percent of the time because they frequently needed special maintenance or repair.

Among the surprising conclusions: the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts.

The current cost of delivering nuclear - generated electricity is low in part because many plants were paid for long ago, Lovins notes.

THE world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

There is also little incentive for companies to try to license and develop new low - level waste sites, because nuclear plants, which generate most of that waste, have managed to dramatically reduce their volume and store more on site, according to Todd Lovinger, executive director of the Low - Level Radioactive Waste Forum, a nonprofit that is helping state compacts comply with the low - level waste law.

For example, he points out that the proportion of electricity to be generated by nuclear power plants in the year 2000 will, at 34 per cent, be almost double the previous forecast made less than three years ago.

Nuclear generating plants are generally the largest on our system because of the necessary economies of scale.

For one thing, a bundle of micro nukes would collectively produce just as much nuclear waste as a conventional plant generating the same amount of power.

The world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

As in a conventional fossil fuel or nuclear power plant, that steam spins turbines, which generate electricity.

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 first «turnkey» plant, Oyster Creek nuclear generating station in New Jersey was sold for less than $ 100 million in 1964 — a price well below what it would ultimately cost to build the reactor.

The knowledge gained from such research could inform the design, selection, and improvement of adsorbent materials and membranes for capturing gases such as radioactive krypton and xenon generated by nuclear power plants.

The team then used their best transplastomic tobacco plant line to introduce an additional set of genes into its nuclear genome, generating the COSTREL lines.

Today's nuclear power plants use the heat from uranium fission reactions to do nothing more complicated than boil water, making pressurized steam that spins turbines to generate electricity.

Davis — Besse is running again, generating 7.7 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity in 2007, with a new reactor head scavenged from an uncompleted nuclear power plant in Michigan.

Germany is the largest country to announce that it will forgo generating nuclear power in the aftermath of the disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan.

Wavering solar and wind power don't play well with baseload nuclear plants that prefer to run at full blast, so the French must find a way to cope with this imbalance if they are to meet the European Union's directive to generate 20 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2020.

The largest solar farm in the world, in China, generates almost as much electricity as a large nuclear power plant

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.

Using nuclear power to generate electricity provides many benefits: it's low carbon, it diversifies our electricity supply, it operates reliably on a constant basis, and it provides substantial economic benefits in communities where plants operate and to U.S. companies who supply the global nuclear industry.

But what made the district almost recession - proof in 1991 is what lands it in a predicament today: a nuclear - power plant that generated lots of tax revenue.

Once units 3 and 4 join the existing two Vogtle units already in operation, Plant Vogtle is expected to generate more electricity than any other U.S. nuclear facility, enough to power more than 1 million homes and businesses.

Ramping that up significantly requires years of lead time to build factories & equipment... I've never seen a study that didn't betray an obvious bias, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that the time & cost to do all this, and get say 100 GWatts of solar panels out there generating power, is going to be much different from that needed to build 100 nuclear plants.

By the time that new nuclear power plants can even begin to generate any «carbon free» electricity, we can build and deploy hundreds of gigawatts of wind and solar generating capacity — and that's with today's mainstream, already commercialized technology, let alone the innovations like thin - film solar that are just beginning to enter the market.

Industry records show that our abilities are highly strained by the complex engineering and fastidious attention required for safe nuclear generating plant construction and operation.

Ramping that up significantly requires years of lead time to build factories & equipment... it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that the time & cost to do all this, and get say 100 GWatts of solar panels out there generating power, is going to be much different from that needed to build 100 nuclear plants.»

Build infrastructure: Build Nuclear power plants to generate electricity.

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

There have been a host of efforts to describe Japan's earthquake and nuclear emergency, ranging from volumes of helpful graphics generated by The Times and other media to freelance efforts, including the «sonification» of a month of earthquake activity surrounding the great quake off Japan by Paul May and a chart by Randall Munroe comparing human radiation exposure from an array of sources — ranging from a banana to a mammogram to a leaking nuclear plant and «A Layman's Intro to Radiation» by Ellen McManis, who operates a research reactor at Reed College.

«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.