Sentences with phrase «nuclear plants age»
But as nuclear plants age, performance can suffer, and outages - both scheduled and unplanned - rise.
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Those plants are aging, and if we replace them with new nuclear plants they would struggle to compete against the shrinking costs of wind and solar.
In 1972, at age 15, he was involved in a community group that opposed a nuclear power plant proposed for two miles north of New York City (a proposal that the utility company quickly withdrew).
Ontario has already wasted billions on natural gas - fired power plants that were never built and could potentially squander billions more refurbishing aging nuclear stations in a bid to prop up the province's atomic industry.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-- The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that it is entering negotiations with General Electric's nuclear division on a proposal to replace an aging uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky with a new facility.
Tony Blair has given the strongest hint yet that the government will be replacing Britain's ageing nuclear power plants.
Skeptical lawmakers will take another look today Cuomo's plan to invest billions of dollars of ratepayer money into aging nuclear power plants.
Cuomo's massive ratepayer subsidy of aging upstate nuclear power plants would be significantly modified under a bill just introduced by Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan.
In 2017, Governor Cuomo made the controversial decision to spend over $ 7 billion in taxpayer money to bail out three aging nuclear plants.
«Amazingly, though, the governor is simultaneously pursuing a plan to waste billions of dollars on a corporate bailout to keep aging, unprofitable nuclear plants open upstate.»
Making the final comments before an amendment was withdrawn to help the aging Millstone nuclear power plant, State Representative and House Minority Leader Themis Klarides (R) argues for a full debate for the controversial amendment on the final day of the legislative session.
The desalination plant would be sited only 3.5 miles downstream from the aging Indian Point nuclear plant, which is increasingly leaking radioactive tritium and strontium - 90 into the river.
Governor Andrew Cuomo, D - N.Y., confirmed that Entergy Corp. will shut down the aging Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester by 2021.
The government's energy review is due to report back this summer, but Tony Blair has already made clear he believes replacing Britain's ageing nuclear power plants is a vital part of the future energy mix, along with renewables and energy efficiency.
Indian Point, the Westchester County - based nuclear plant on the Hudson River, is running a series of 60 - second radio spots in the wake of the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami that again raised concerns over safety at the aging facility.
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.
«Amazingly though, the governor is simultaneously pursuing a plan to waste billions in a corporate bailout to keep aging, unsafe, and unprofitable nuclear plants open upstate.»
The state has authorized up to $ 7.6 billion in ratepayer subsidies to keep three aging upstate nuclear plants operating.
BUCHANAN, N.Y. >> The aging Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County will close within about four years under a deal with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who long has argued it should be shuttered to protect the millions of people living nearby.
Governor Andrew Cuomo's massive ratepayer subsidy of aging upstate nuclear power plants would be significantly modified under a bill just introduced by Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan.
Their analysis includes recent unplanned shutdowns at Entergy's aging Indian Point nuclear plant, which Cuomo has questioned keeping open.
Indian Point Energy Center, the more than aging nuclear power plant in Westchester County that's just a short trip up the Hudson River from America's most populous city, will fully close by 2021.
On that basis, environmentalists like Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group observed that, «These charges are essentially a tax to keep aging nuclear power plants online.»
Lawmakers will also dig into a proposal to close Indian Point nuclear power plant, a plan that delights critics of the aging facility and worries others concerned about lost jobs and power.
The nuclear industry's decline was hastened by the cheap price of natural gas and costly repairs to aging power plants.
The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.
NIF has three purposes: To further our basic understanding of stars, to determine how the United States» aging nuclear weapons are holding up without engaging in underground testing, and to explore the enormous potential of nuclear fusion power plants.
EDF Energy has been incorporating extra checks into its strategy for its ageing nuclear plants since it inherited them from previous operator British Energy, she said.
LONDON (Reuters)- Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars.
Though the EU has conducted risk and safety tests on the bloc's nuclear plants, environmental campaigners say the tests failed to address risks associated with ageing technology, among other things.
Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars
Leaks, burst cooling pipes, faulty controls, misplaced fuel rods and engineers» warnings about design flaws have done little to slow down approvals for continued operation of the nation's aging nuclear plants
Part of this strategy includes saving aging nuclear plants from shutting down and may lead to building new ones.
In the Internet age, in which the Chinese public is becoming increasingly vocal about their rights and mobilizing on social networks, popular protests like the demonstrations in the city of Jiangmen against the processing plant suggest a wider backlash against nuclear power.
London insists it needs new nuclear power plants to replace aging ones, but is also granting extended operating permits to those older units
At age 15, when she realized just how close the bay was to the Oyster Creek Generating Station, the nation's oldest nuclear power plant, she swung into action.
Blakeslee, a former Exxon research scientist from San Luis Obispo with a Ph.D. in earthquake studies, authored a bill in 2006 requiring the state to assess the vulnerability of the state's nuclear plants to a major disruption, either from an earthquake or plant aging.
But aging nuclear power plants may make that goal impossible.
Ageing nuclear power stations and coal power plants need to be replaced by lower carbon forms of power.
As New York's aging Indian Point nuclear power plant comes up for relicensing, a new report shows that its electricity simply isn't needed.
This is an extraordinarily important failure of a nuclear plant and the inadequate design — which utterly discounted tsunami risks, for instance — raises big questions about how best to manage the world's aging fleet of older nuclear plants — including the one here on the Hudson River — going forward.
Read «Nuclear Agency Is Criticized as Too Close to Its Industry,» by Tom Zeller, Jr., to see how routine approval of safety exemptions sought by the owners of aging plants has led to significant problems.
Some new analysis done by Synapse Energy Economics, at the request of NRDC and Riverkeeper, shows that the state of New York could close the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the pPlant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the plantplant.
The document also indicates that Trump advisers want to keep aging U.S. nuclear power plants active.
The report calls for ageing fossil fuel and nuclear power plants to be replaced by renewable generation when they reach the end of their operational lives.
Ageing nuclear and coal plants will be shut, and EU energy systems and markets must accommodate growing shares of variable renewable energy.
But old nuclear plants have to be retired and replaced at some point, simply due to age, economics, and updated environmental challenges.
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Nuclear power provides 60 percent of US carbon - free electricity generation, but existing plants are aging and only one is under construction.
The aging 2,000 megawatt nuclear power plant, located 25 miles north of New York City, has presented numerous threats to the safety of over 20 million residents and the environmental health of the area.