Sentences with phrase «nuclear plants going»

You have me, (the humble engineer that keeps pacemakers and nuclear plants going) flumoxed.

In New York state government, lawmakers return for the busiest month of the legislative session and a plan to shutter Indian Point nuclear plant goes under the microscope.

In January, the region faced issues when the Pilgrim nuclear plant went offline unexpectedly, causing localized reliability issues.

Not exact matches

I love that AWS going down means like... someone's smart egg tray can't order more eggs and someone else's nuclear power plant doesn't work.

Electricité de France, which operates 58 nuclear power plants, has been an exemplar in this area: It goes beyond regulatory requirements and religiously tracks each plant for anything even slightly out of the ordinary, immediately investigates whatever turns up, and informs all its other plants of any anomalies.

For example, she waited many months before giving the go - ahead to the $ 7 billion Hinckley Point nuclear plant funded by Chinese investments, a first for any Western nation.

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Cuomo addressed that seeming contradiction in a briefing at Indian Point on Sunday, saying the difference is that the Westchester nuclear power plant is near one of the world's largest population centers, and logistically, there can be no safe way to evacuate people if something major goes wrong.

Upstate electricity prices will go «materially higher» by the summer of 2017 if both the FitzPatrick and Ginna nuclear plants shut down as expected, a Wall Street analyst predicts.

Enough plutonium to make seven or eight nuclear bombs went «missing» from Sellafield nuclear plant last year, new figures suggest.

And if a consortium wanted to build new nuclear plants «that will, in all probability go ahead», he said.

«New York City and the surrounding area is the number - one terrorist target in the world with Indian Point sitting right here, a nuclear power plant, and having these vessels that are going to be coming in from the Atlantic and from wherever right up the shoreline to dock here, that is something that we should all be concerned about,» says Astorino.

If I want 8 terawatts from nuclear, say, you're going to have to build a new nuclear power plant every 1.4 days for the next 40 years.

James added, «The real question is how fast we can build nuclear plants, not whether we can build them, and when the sequestration technology is going to be available.»

It's not just spent nuclear fuel but all the radioactive waste from a nuclear power plant that has no place to go

«Of 104 nuclear power plants in this country, 94 have no other place to go but Utah.»

South Korea has warned of serious power shortages this week amid an expected rise in summer temperatures and as the resources - starved country struggles to keep up with demand after six nuclear plants have gone off - line.

On Earth, this radiation shows up in the reactor pools of certain types of nuclear power plants, sparked by high - speed atomic fragments that go shooting through the water.

It is a far cry from the standard nuclear plant — the size of a small town, cranking out enough electricity to power a major city — not to mention the even bigger plants going up in China and France.

To speed things up further, NuScale is initially marketing its micro nukes in bundles of 12 set up to replace existing nuclear power plants — which means that the company will not have to wait for approval of specific sites, since the go - ahead will already be in place.

Places like the Indian Point nuclear power plant, 35 miles north of Times Square, would dump radioactivity into the Hudson long after the lights went out.

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania went into partial meltdown after someone spilled a cup of water.

This already poses problems for the safety of nuclear plants, and is only going to get worse.

«If you build a nuclear power plant and operate it well, it's going to produce a steady stream of income,» Moniz noted.

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.

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.

We are inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, driving by one of the three reactors that went into meltdown following the earthquake and tsunami that struck north - eastern Japan on 11 March 2011.

An example of what's going on in the world affecting us is the rise in the global uranium spot prices - the price per pound of uranium used in nuclear power plants - and how it relates to work we do, especially regarding proposed uranium mining in New Mexico (pages 8 - 9).

68) «Atomica» Smart Rating: 15.75 Release date: Friday, March 17, 2017 Genre: Science fiction, thriller Starring: Dominic Monaghan, Sarah Habel, Tom Sizemore Description: In the near future, when communications go offline at a remote nuclear power plant isolated in the desert, a young safety inspector, Abby Dixon (Sarah Habel), is forced to fly out to bring them back online.

15 years after an accident at a Japanese nuclear power plant, Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston, Argo) goes back to investigate the cover up and discovers that a monster is waking there.

After getting his GED and leaving the life of a professional horse trainer, Brian went to work at a nuclear plant, and then a convenience store, a gas -LSB-...]

On SCG, per CEO they would only go forward if the state lets them recover the cost of failed SCG Nuclear plant, otherwise no deal.

Many dogs that eat small fish and sardine and herring oil appear to have elevated levels of strontium, a radioactive element that has been released in large quantities from the nuclear power plant involved in the Fukushima disaster, which is still going on.

The mission soon turns in a fight for survival as the rescue mission turns into a search and destroy mission where players must plant a nuclear bomb and make it back to their dropship before the bomb goes off.

We need to take the shackles off building nuclear power plants and other means of electricity production besides coal and gas or we're never going to beat this, if it even needs to be beat.

When climate scientists start acting as advocates for some specific technology, writing letters demanding the nuclear power plants stay open, when many other experts in the energy field have well - developed reasons for closing them and going with wind / solar / storage instead, it doesn't do climate activism any good.

As a starting point for that piece, I'm going to pop down to Indian Point, my local nuclear power plant just nine miles from home, on the way to Pace University.

In it, he called for international intervention before the Tokyo Electric Power Company began to move fuel rods from the spent fuel pool for reactor unit 4 and urged the four climate scientists who recently called for a big push to advance safer nuclear power plant designs to go to the site.

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.

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.»

Dave wrote in Comment 9: ``... they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create waste that can't be disposed of» and «Wind / Solar et al. is nice but is getting no funding and going nowhere fast right now, not to mention the fact that it might not do us much good anyway on the kind of unsustainable economic scales we (at least Americans) want to live at.»

But there's no reason for all the FF & nuclear plants serving an area to go off - line at the same time.

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.

There are plenty of important questions about nuclear technology going forward, but to my mind responsible operation of existing plants is one of those green acts.

Where the idea of going nuclear remains unpalatable we see for example that Germany may be the first of the EU countries to begin the abandonment of the global warming house of cards in favor of coal and gas - fired power plants.

The nuclear power plant would go forward with the tacit blessing of one of the most powerful organizations in California.

The prospect for civilian nuclear cooperation between China and the U.S. could get pretty interesting, but it is also worth asking what on earth is going fuel all these nuclear plants.

Not to be left out, Hubei (4GW and 50 billion yuan) and Zhejiang (26 billion yuan 2 GW expansion of existing plant) are going nuclear as well.

Thanks to the efforts of Brown and the Sierra Club, California's emissions are two and a half times higher than they would have been had he allowed the nuclear plants to go forward.

Since then, U.S. nuclear plants have gone from producing power about half the time to producing power 92 percent of the time.