Sentences with phrase «nuclear plants now»

This would create the critical mass to attract additional proposed nuclear plants now being actively considered for highly - populated areas of Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam and Singapore.

Right behind them are 12 more scheduled to be closed unless a buyer or bailout emerges, including the Davis - Besse, Perry, and two Beaver Valley nuclear plants now owned by a FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiary, FirstEnergy Solutions.

Will all of the nuclear plants now in operation continue?

Investing in new nuclear plants now is part of a viable clean - energy portfolio that will grow the state's economy and protect the environment for generations to come.

With the massive, 2,250 megawatt nuclear plant now retired, Southern California Edison (SCE) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) have both requested another 500 MW of new natural gas.

Not exact matches

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

Known as the man who reversed the fortunes of Hitachi, Hiroaki Nakanishi is now preparing the Japanese conglomerate, which makes everything from elevators to nuclear plants, for its next challenge.

A number of coal - and oil - fired power plants will likely be retired, and while Virginia's four existing nuclear units will remain in use, plans for a fifth reactor remain shelved, for now.

By that time, nuclear power plants will be spread throughout the world, and it is predicted that more than 35 countries will possess nuclear weapons (as opposed to seven now).

Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association and a former LIPA chief, said the bigger commitment to wind could prove helpful now that the state has reached an agreement to shutter the 2,000 - megawatt Indian Point nuclear power plant.

Now we have to pay for upstate nuclear plants that are not economically feasible.

Julia Walsh, with Frack Action, says she hopes that the governor will now act to stop the expansion or building of new gas pipelines in Westchester County, near the Indian Point Nuclear power plant, and upstate across Schoharie, Albany and Rensselaer counties.

Part of the program includes a multi-billion dollar subsidy to Exelon, the company that now runs two upstate nuclear power plants, Nine Mile Point in Oswego and Ginna near Rochester, and is hoping to run a third plant, FitzPatrick, also in Oswego.

«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.

She said Cuomo has been a «huge part» of where the state is now: Indian Point's owner Entergy is now considering selling the FitzPatrick plant in Oswego County to Exelon, which owns the nearby Nine Mile Point and Ginna nuclear facilities.

«Indian Point has been something that's been difficult for the governor, but given where we are now, I would have to say I want to give him an even bigger thank you for looking at the bigger picture knowing that it's important to making sure we keep 615 jobs at that facility [FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant],» said state Sen. Patty Ritchie (R - Owegatchie).

Exelon Corp., the owner of Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, is in talks to buy and continue operating the adjacent FitzPatrick plant, which will shut down six months from now if the deal fails.

In exchange, Exelon — the company that now owns all of the plants — agreed to drop closure threats to two of the nuclear reactors and keep them running for another 12 years.

Part of the program includes a multi-billion-dollar subsidy to Exelon, the company that now runs two upstate nuclear power plants — Nine Mile Point in Oswego and Ginna near Rochester — and is hoping to run a third plant, FitzPatrick, also in Oswego.

Part of the program includes a multi billion dollar subsidy to Exelon, the company that now runs two upstate nuclear power plants, Nine Mile Point in Oswego and Ginna near Rochester, and is hoping to run a third plant, FitzPatrick, also in Oswego.

«Now this isn't just any old nuclear plant,» said Galef.

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.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday he does not want the New York Power Authority to take over FitzPatrick nuclear plant, rejecting one of the last best hopes of people who are trying to prevent the money - losing plant from closing six months from now.

In the midst of a slew of bad job news in Upstate New York — the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant potentially closing in Oswego County, Alcoa leaving Massena — the New York State Labor Department is trying to pair job seekers with companies that are hiring right now.

With the plant's potential dangers now in focus because of the nuclear disaster in Japan, that's probably a battle he'll be happy to wage.

In exchange Exelon, the company that now owns all of the plants, agreed to drop threats to two of the nuclear reactors and to keep them running for another 12 years.

It is now clear that at least one reactor at Fukushima experienced a full core meltdown, so what does that mean for similar nuclear power plants in the U.S.?

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.

A top U.S. nuclear regulator has now given a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis, saying that radiation from uncovered spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns there

The research may eventually help lead to ways to safely dispose of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel that is stored now at commercial nuclear power plants.

COPENHAGEN — Revolutionizing the energy industry to achieve a target concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of no more than 450 parts per million (ppm) would require building 17 nuclear power plants a year between now and 2030; 17,000 wind turbines a year; or two hydropower dams on the scale of Three Gorges Dam in China, according to the International Energy Agency.

Now engineers are planning the links that could eventually grow into an international network, distributing power from the rainforests of Borneo and the geothermal rocks of Iceland, the Zaire river and France's nuclear power plants.

The TEPCO operators of the stricken nuclear power plant — a minimal staff of 50 as all non-essential personnel have been evacuated — now face a balance between venting the steam building up in the reactor (since the main danger for a widespread release of radioactive material is steam bursting the thick steel container holding the reactor) and keeping any radioactive materials inside the power plant itself.

Now protected from humans, elk and other mammals flourish near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, researchers say.

Four such reactors are currently under construction in the country — now the only actual construction of such advanced nuclear power plants anywhere in the world.

Moreover, puffer machines, which can also be configured to search for narcotics, are now popping up in many places outside of airports: nuclear power plants, correctional facilities, courthouses, and even the Statue of Liberty.

Shocks to ratepayers In fact, Japan's electricity prices are now among the highest in Asia, a condition created partly by high - priced renewables, but also by its heavy reliance on imported energy fuels following the closure of its nuclear plants, which provided 26 percent of the country's power before 2011.

Spurred by a series of nuclear - power mishaps, starting with 2011's disaster at Fukushima, large - scale solar and wind plants now dot the country.

«Despite their good intentions, the senators ignored the fact that we have a problem right now with how nuclear plant owners store this highly radioactive waste,» Lochbaum said.

But there has already been a core damage event in the U.S. nuclear industry — TMI Unit 2 — «so we've already blown the goal,» says Rick DeVercelly, a former operator at the Vermont Yankee and James A. Fitzpatrick (near Oswego, N.Y.) nuclear plants, and now a trainer at the NRC.

«I'm pleased to say I played a role in the last round of nuclear power plant development, and I'm really pleased to be involved,» the chairman said, calling to mind a graying astronaut who walked on the moon years ago and now wanted to do it again.

Now, the 240 physicists working with the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant and two neighboring plants in Da Peng, China, have measured the last of the three mixing angles, known as θ13.

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

Originally developed to detect and remove errors in software that keeps aircraft aloft and nuclear power plants safe, the technique is now widely used to eliminate bugs in commercial software, such as Microsoft's Windows packages.

Deceived by the Justice Department's cover - up, relying on false assurances that Rocky Flats wasn't as contaminated as everyone had thought, public officials now plan to open the former nuclear weapons plant to recreation.

«We can now think about building other small detectors that can then be used, for example to monitor the neutrino flux in nuclear power plants.

Now get on the bus with American art student Emily Maloney for a class excursion to a Japanese nuclear plant.

The collective Don't Follow the Wind, whose inaccessible, Fukushima - based 2015 group exhibition has been written about before in these pages, is now made accessible via A Walk in Fukushima, 2016 — 17, a 360 - degree video experience of what has been, since the 2011 nuclear - plant disaster, an uninhabitable area, with crafty headsets made in collaboration with artist Bontaro Dokuyama and three generations of a Japanese family who live in a zone deemed «safe to live» by the government but still subject to restrictions due to its proximity to a radioactive locale.

(2013) centers around the historic Asahiza cinema, built in 1923 in the town of Minamisoma, which now finds itself within the 30 - kilometer evacuation zone surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics have now discovered that plants themselves produce methane and emit it into the atmosphere, even in completely normal, oxygen - rich surroundings.