Sentences with phrase «nuclear plant issue»

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- As nuclear plant issues arise in Japan those who live near the Indian Point power plant can't help but wonder if it could happen here.

Mr. Matthews periodically speaks at industry conferences regarding nuclear asset transfer issues, new nuclear plant issues and FOCD issues, including conferences hosted by the American Nuclear Society, the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and the International Nuclear Lawyers Association (INLA).

Not exact matches

Schneider confirmed that the incident had occurred and that it had issued a security alert to customers of the technology, which cyber experts said is widely used in the energy industry, including at nuclear facilities, and oil and gas plants.

He says the NRC is considering how the baffle bolt issue could be impacting other nuclear plants and has been in discussion with plant owners on the matter.

While Graham and others questioned the PSC's ability to arbitrate environmental rather than utility issues, the commission's lawyers questioned whether the plaintiffs had legal standing since the organizations fighting the subsidy were mostly from the lower Hudson Valley, which is some four hours away from the nuclear plants.

Federal officials have accepted Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's petition to correct fire safety issues at the Indian Point nuclear plant in Westchester County.

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.

The owner of FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County has issued no news to the public or its employees this weekend about whether the plant will shut down next year or continue to operate.

Other issues still on the table include: education spending, college affordability, raise the age, water infrastructure spending, workers comp reform and subsidies for three upstate nuclear plants.

One issue not referenced by Cuomo in his remarks was the plan to close the Indian Point nuclear plant.

As the Green Party candidate, a party founded on environmental issues, Levy says he wants a ban on nuclear power plants in New York and also wants to see affordable housing and other buildings in New York made with eco-friendly and sustainable materials and practices.

As the relicensing process for New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant crawls forward, federal regulators have issued decisions on contentions raised by the state and an environmental group.

His campaign issued a statement saying, in part, that «the Governor has led the nation in combating climate change», including, closing down the «dangerous» Indian Point nuclear power plant and implementing the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution.

Federal agencies are weighing in on how a new designation recently issued for the sturgeon habitat near Indian Point impacts the Westchester nuclear power plant that is set to close by 2021.

The issues that lead to the closure of Pilgrim, which is the last nuclear plant operating in Massachusetts, are very similar to those affecting FitzPatrick, Twomey said.

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.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - The owner of FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County has issued no news to the public or its employees this weekend about whether the plant will shut down next year or continue to operate.

New York lawmakers should use all tools available to fight this issue head on through legislation, such as S. 4417, introduced by Senator Tony Avella, which would direct the state PSC to repeal any electric rate increase «where such increase is a subsidy to upstate nuclear power plants.»

The Indian Point 2 nuclear power plant recently came back online following a shutdown June 26 after an issue with a water pump.

The safety of deep pools used to store used radioactive fuel at nuclear plants has been an issue since the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in March.

The meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant last spring cast the issue of nuclear safety in stark relief.

But it did list more than a half - dozen issues that could jeopardize the plant if it were confronted with the kind of chain reaction of unexpected and unplanned - for calamities that struck the Fukushima nuclear complex.

As Garfield notes, last summer many nuclear power plants remained closed — and electricity rationing is still a major issue.

In a separate article in the same issue of the journal, Synolakis critically assesses the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident in Japan and concludes it was due to the cumulation of a number of scientific, engineering and management blunders that could and should have been prevented.

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.

But the issues thrown up are still arousing passions today, as witnessed by further arguments in favour of using tidal power in the Severn and debate over the UK government's recent go - ahead for the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in Somerset.

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).

Mr. Fertel has almost 50 years of experience working with the electric utility industry on issues related to designing, siting, licensing and managing both fossil and nuclear plants.

Nuclear plant fuel managers; dry fuel storage project managers; used fuel cask designers; utility licensing and compliance personnel; used fuel storage, transportation, decommissioning and disposal consultants; NDE vendors; architect engineers; pool - to - pad services companies; hardware suppliers; government agency managers, technical experts, contractors, stakeholders and international experts responsible for used nuclear fuel management and decommissioning Nuclear plant fuel managers; dry fuel storage project managers; used fuel cask designers; utility licensing and compliance personnel; used fuel storage, transportation, decommissioning and disposal consultants; NDE vendors; architect engineers; pool - to - pad services companies; hardware suppliers; government agency managers, technical experts, contractors, stakeholders and international experts responsible for used nuclear fuel management and decommissioning nuclear fuel management and decommissioning issues.

Municipal issuers have a key role to play in terms of: • Low - carbon technologies • Pollution control • Climate adaptation, such as disaster prevention and recovery We will seek to avoid purchasing the relatively few government - issued bonds that are explicitly issued to finance the development of projects, such as nuclear power plants or casinos, which are fundamentally misaligned with our investment objectives Sovereign Debt National governments around the world issue bonds (debt) to finance a wide variety of public goods including education, infrastructure, national defense, the judiciary and social welfare.

After the Great East Japan Earthquake caused the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown, nuclear issues became important themes for her.

News around the world continue to broadcast the countless aftershocks and the ongoing nuclear power plant issue, and yet, the two began their Tokyo residency since early April.

To pave the way for a new generation of nuclear power plants, we must provide greater certainty on issues from licensing to responsible management of spent fuel.

And yes central power will be another piece (nuclear is great for baseload power... it operates at 90 % capacity factors even if the price of building a new plant has risen by 130 % since 2000) Centralized wind and solar will mature but then there's the transmission issue...

Four climate scientists, three of whom have published in peer - reviewed literature on energy issues (a sampler from Wigley, Hansen and Caldeira), are pressing the case for environmental groups to embrace the need for a new generation of nuclear power plants in a letter they distributed overnight to a variety of organizations and journalists.

One major issue with nuclear plants (as well as coal and all other thermal power plants) is the fresh water wasted in heat rejection.

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.

I think a comprehensive (and honest) assessment of alternatives to coal generation will include not only the hypothetical scaling issues of wind and direct solar generation but also will address what we know of the operating record of nuclear plants and what we can expect as we attempt to further scale nuclear power.

(Keep in mind that even if you hate existing or planned nuclear plants, this energy source is still advancing in many countries, so discussing issues related to safety and security, as well as cost, would seem wise.)

Robert Pollard, a nuclear engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, which focuses on energy and environmental issues, said that valves, cables and wiring at the plant and others like it have never been tested under conditions simulating emergencies.

I leave this space open to your civil, constructive input on the future of nuclear power given the issues that made these Japanese plants glaringly vulnerable to the crisis that has unfolded in the aftermath of the great earthquake and resulting tsunami.

Proliferation has zero bearing on the issue of constructing and operating nuclear plants in the US.

Nuclear to start, comes in large lumps and has a long time between when you issue the bonds to build, spend the money to build and the plant comes on line and starts trading electrons for cash to pay the bonds.

Five of the six regional grid operators and companies outside the coal and nuclear sector argued FERC should not issue a «universal resilience standard» or direct changes to plant compensation, instead allowing grid operators to identify and address resilience challenges independently with FERC guidance.

Scientist James Conca said Southern California electric ratepayers should not have to pick up the $ 830 million net cost of permanently closing the San Onofre nuclear power plant because it is still operable without any safety issues.

Gov. Phil Murphy seems to have painted himself into a corner on the issue of subsidizing the three nuclear generating plants in Salem County, soon to be the only ones left in New Jersey.

In particular, it details two emerging issues, the benefits of soil carbon, and the decommissioning of nuclear power plants.

Theresa may has shown little interest in green issues to date.she is keen for the deal with the Chinese to go through regarding nuclear power plants but I suspect that it will be decades before they come to fruition.

The Department of Energy recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on grid resiliency that would have guaranteed cost - plus - profit returns to generators that store 90 days of fuel on - site — coal and nuclear plants.

If a corporation were to create a front group to take a pro-environmental stand on an issue because it would help them financially, for instance if a utlity that had a lot of nuclear power plants and therefore would benefit from a carbon cap were to create a front group, that would be unethical also.