Sentences with phrase «nuclear plants needs»

Ewing's belief that it would take 50 years to build the 3,500 nuclear plants needed to make an impact on emissions is wrong, as if we decide now to to do that it would take not more than 10 years.

The small nuclear plants need to have good quality control so they need to be factory built, shipped to site, installed, run for life on a single fuel load or returned to factory for refuelling (e.g. once a decade or so).

(It's also larger than the $ 5 - 15 per megawatt - hour subsidies Bloomberg reckons nuclear plants need to break even.)

Nuclear plants need water, or air cooling but that is the only real constraint on their location.

Not exact matches

One of Yoh's hires, a Ph.D. in education, recognized that power operators at electric - and nuclear - power plants had the same need to get it right 100 % of the time; he was right.

At the same time, Cuomo's administration has supported a ratepayer - backed bailout for three upstate nuclear power plants, pointing to the need to keep their emission - free power on the grid in order to reach the state's pollution - cutting goals.

Paving the way for Indian Point's termination, the state Legislature last month passed legislation making it easier to site new nuclear plants, which conceivably might be needed to replace power lost by Indian Point's closure.

And he argued the nuclear plants» output is needed as a bridge fuel to help the state reach a goal of half of all New York's power coming from renewable sources by 2030.

Cuomo has earmarked billions in state dollars to keep upstate nuclear plants open, saying workers needed the jobs while the state transitions to renewable fuels.

There are currently 19 nuclear power plants operating in the UK, with plans to increase their numbers by 2025 to meet the country's growing energy needs.

There's also longer - term logistics to consider: The process of taking a nuclear plant offline, particularly one capable of meeting 25 percent of the energy needs of the nation's largest metropolitan area, is extensive and requires a series of steps to avoid rolling blackouts and skyrocketing bills.

As a former chairman of New York Public Service Commission, I believe the continued operation of all of our nuclear plants — and specifically the FitzPatrick plant in Oswego County — is essential to meeting our energy and clean energy needs as well as to the economy of Oswego County and Upstate New York.

Off - topic questions covered Governor Cuomo's efforts at closing the Indian Point nuclear power plant, NYPD Commissioner Bratton's recent statements on the need for additional police officers for anti-terror efforts and the closing of a specific health clinic in Chelsea.

«The experts testified that New York has the resources to replace these nuclear plants; now the decision makers need the will to make it happen,» said Assemblymember James Brennan, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions.

He argued that since an inventor nation as Germany as commence processes to shut down the rest of their nation's nuclear plants following that nation's research based discoveries warranting the need for plants elimination, it would be suicidal for Nigeria to consciously delve in this obvious calamity.

He noted that though the nuclear power plant is known for high energy density without green house gases emissions and Few Recourse limitations, it can not compare to the safe, efficient newly invented (Green) «EX5» solar Quantum physics energy generator (nuclear replacement plant) which only needs a solar panel for 8seconds.

The state's highest court will hear arguments tomorrow on whether Indian Point, the nuclear power plant 40 miles from New York City, needs a new state coastal zone permit.

In a letter to the PSC, Carlucci said the plan to invest $ 965 million into the state's nuclear plants in the first two years of the program will cause a spike in consumer energy bills and needs to be reconsidered.

New York lawmakers say if the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant and its 615 jobs are to be saved, they just need to keep it open long enough to benefit from nuclear plant subsidies that are currently under consideration, but its owner Entergy has repeatedly said it is not interested in that state sNuclear Power Plant and its 615 jobs are to be saved, they just need to keep it open long enough to benefit from nuclear plant subsidies that are currently under consideration, but its owner Entergy has repeatedly said it is not interested in that state supPlant and its 615 jobs are to be saved, they just need to keep it open long enough to benefit from nuclear plant subsidies that are currently under consideration, but its owner Entergy has repeatedly said it is not interested in that state snuclear plant subsidies that are currently under consideration, but its owner Entergy has repeatedly said it is not interested in that state supplant subsidies that are currently under consideration, but its owner Entergy has repeatedly said it is not interested in that state support.

«We have other options, we don't need these nuclear plants.

The recent accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant reinforces the need for renewed thinking about nuclear - waste storage and disposal.

These kinds of estimates are of great importance for safety assessments for structures and buildings that need to hold up well for a very long time, or for structures where severe weather could pose a security risk, such as drilling platforms or nuclear power plants.

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

According to the Department of Energy, just to maintain nuclear's 20 percent share of the energy supply, the United States would need to add three or four new nuclear power plants a year starting in 2015.

Irradiated fuel from Nuclear Electric's advanced gas cooled reactors was expected to be processed at Sellafield, in the thermal oxide reprocessing plant, which still needs government approval to begin operating.

Part of the reason is obvious: It needs the expertise to improve and maintain the nation's nuclear weapons stockpiles, and it needs people to replace the first generation of nuclear plant operators and engineers, many of whom are now retiring.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

«We need 96 gigawatts of new nuclear, or 69 plants, to meet [U.S. CO2 - reduction legislation] commitments based on [Energy Information Administration] analysis,» Genoa says.

What is needed, Lyman says, is for nuclear energy firms to undertake a detailed threat analysis for each plant with «a set of severe accident scenarios» computer - simulated exhaustively for each.

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.»

The country has a demanding industrial sector that needs a large and stable electricity supply, and some doubted that this could be achieved in the long term without retaining nuclear or large fossil fuel plants.

London insists it needs new nuclear power plants to replace aging ones, but is also granting extended operating permits to those older units

The predictions also assume that the rising contribution of gas - fired and nuclear plants will reduce coal's contribution to 20 per cent of Britain's electricity needs by the end of the decade.

And cooling will need to continue at the Fukushima nuclear power plants for a long time to come.

Electricity needs to be made virtually emission - free, through the mass mobilization of solar and nuclear power and the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants.

In a study published in March, it compared three scenarios: completing Ukraine's partly built VVER nuclear plants; phasing out nuclear power and supplying Ukraine's expected power needs with conventional plants; and the same plan, but with investments in energy efficiency.

«Every robot needed differs according to its purpose and the damage,» says Tomohisa Ito, a spokesperson for the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning in Tokyo, a consortium of nuclear plant companies that aims to develop new technologies for cleaning up the FukushimaNuclear Decommissioning in Tokyo, a consortium of nuclear plant companies that aims to develop new technologies for cleaning up the Fukushimanuclear plant companies that aims to develop new technologies for cleaning up the Fukushima plant.

Chinese and South Korean companies will also compete There will be offshore wind opportunities also in Germany, which needs to increase its renewable energy output as it phases out all its nuclear power plants by 2022.

The reduced flow raised the specter that the Farley Nuclear Plant near Dothan, Ala., would need to shut down.

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.

A promising core strategy seems to be the following: Electricity needs to be made virtually emission - free, through the mass mobilization of solar and nuclear power and the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants.

Advanced nuclear power plants might be the best way to meet future energy needs without worsening global warming

The use of Solar and Wind energy is a great way to reduce the total need for nuclear plants.

Task force member Gary Holahan, deputy director of NRC's Office of New Reactors, said yesterday that the group concluded that action was needed to remedy the kinds of inconsistent performance by nuclear plant operators where safety measures covering extreme hazards were covered by voluntary guidelines.

By law, nuclear power plants must be periodically shut down for maintenance and inspection; utilities need national and local permission to restart operations.

Now, physicists working at a nuclear power plant in China have made the last measurement needed to describe those «neutrino oscillations.»

The letter warned that the state may have difficulty disposing of the drilling waste, that thorough testing will be needed at water treatment plants, and that workers may need to be monitored for radiation as much as they might be at nuclear facilities.

To enable such a system in plants, the re-designed receptors need to be targeted extracellularly and we need to address eukaryotic processes that are not fully understood, such as transmembrane signaling, signal - dependent nuclear translocation, and other signaling complexities.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn — The oceans hold more than four billion tons of uranium — enough to meet global energy needs for the next 10,000 years if only we could capture the element from seawater to fuel nuclear power plants.

Incorporating an interim fuel storage system (HI - STORM UMAX) into the base SMR - 160 plant offering is a first - of - a-kind feature for any nuclear power plant, and will eliminate the need for major subsequent plant modifications and upgrades later in plant life, typically in excess of $ 100M.