Sentences with phrase «nuclear plants under»

They also have 28 new nuclear plants under construction, more than any other country.

And it would apply to proposed subsidies for FirstEnergy's nuclear plants under a bill introduced in October after earlier «zero - emission nuclear» bills stalled.

The number of nuclear plants under construction is dropping steadily as projects are completed or abandoned while hardly any new ones take their place.

Not exact matches

The closure of Hydro - Quebec's Gentilly - 2 nuclear power plant temporarily lowers Quebec's fiscal capacity, as measured under the Equalization program, which in turn lowers Ontario's Equalization entitlement over a three - year period.

Particularly controversial are the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the UK (currently under construction and controversial because of security concerns) and the Toulouse airport in France (a Chinese consortium purchased a majority stake but was relegated to a minority stake after French government intervention).

The state - run nuclear power plant operator was preparing for further cyber-attacks after its data was leaked on a blog and to a Twitter account under the profile «president of anti-nuclear reactor group.»

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.

ALBANY, N.Y. — The controversial Indian Point nuclear power plant would close by 2021 under a pending agreement between plant owner Entergy Corp. and the state of New York.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

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.

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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.

The agency agreed to purchase zero emissions credits to subsidize the upstate nuclear power plants, although NYPA is not under the authority of the Public Service Commission which mandated other power providers buy the credits.

During nearly two hours of testimony in Oswego City Hall Tuesday, community leaders and Nine Mile Point Nuclear Plant employees begged staff from New York's Public Service Commission to support the proposed «clean energy standard» under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal to generate half of the state's energy from renewable sources, like wind and solar, by 2030.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - Supporters of the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County are planning a rally Monday to show support for the facility, which is under review for possible closure by its owner, Entergy Corp..

Under the guise of promoting renewable energy, Cuomo is attempting an end run around the legislature to impose a rate hike on state utility consumers in order to bail out four failing nuclear plants in the state, all of which are coincidently owned by the same corporation.

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.

Science has created a map that provides a snapshot of the number of nuclear reactors in operation and under construction worldwide, locations of power plants in relation to seismic hazard zones, and reactions to events in Japan in some countries.

The extra electricity, which can increase by as much as a gigawatt — or the output of a large nuclear power plant — in under an hour, must be quickly sold to other utilities or in many cases it is wasted.

Massive protests broke out in Hong Kong in the 1980s when China announced its plan to build the Daya Bay nuclear plant just across the border from the city, then under British rule.

Climate change was a key focus for the nuclear industry under the Obama administration, including treatment under U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan and ongoing studies at DOE on how plant closures would affect U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Until the Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently decided that space is not under its purview, astronauts were officially classified as radiological workers, a category that also includes employees of nuclear power plants.

After a 30 - year hiatus, there is a greater push for more nuclear power plants, with 22 new reactors under review.

Across the East China Sea, west of Japan and its ongoing crisis, sits the growing Qinshan nuclear power plant, where four new pressurized - water reactors are under construction in addition to the five already operating on - site.

The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will double the pay of contract workers as part of a revamp of operations at the station, after coming under criticism for its handling of clean - up efforts.

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.

The cutting - edge, 1,600 - megawatt nuclear power plant, Olkiluoto 3, which its French maker Areva boasted as the most advanced safety design of the time, is still under construction today.

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.

Even before the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi could be brought under control and investigated, Germany earlier this week said it would shut down seven of its nuclear power plants built before 1980.

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Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) has secured fuel reloads up to 2034 for its Cooper nuclear power plant under a newly signed contract with Global Nuclear Fuelsnuclear power plant under a newly signed contract with Global Nuclear FuelsNuclear Fuels (GNF).

Under a Westinghouse contract, NAC provided comprehensive services to transport irradiated fuel from Exelon's Braidwood nuclear power plant (Illinois) to the Studsvik hot cell in Sweden for post-irradiation examination.

Under terms of the contract, as amended in 1996, United States Enrichment Corporation (i) purchased the enrichment portion of the blended - down material and sold it to its electric utility customers for use in fabricating fuel for their commercial nuclear power plants, and (ii) transferred to TENEX a quantity of natural uranium equal to the natural uranium component of the low enriched uranium.

It provides stable long - term nuclear core cooling and plant recovery under all design basis accident conditions and also provides severe accident mitigation for low probability beyond design basis accidents.

In this made - for - TV movie, a potentially dangerous explosion at a nuclear power plant is kept under control.

I am not against nuclear, but looking at the plants currently under construction and their escalating cost and slipping schedules, I have pretty much lost faith in the nuclear industry to make any noticeable contribution towards solving this problem.

And the conventional nuclear power plants currently under construction are, as always, way over budget and way behind schedule and fraught with problems.

I don't see a nuclear power plant getting built in Guinea any time soon, yet students there still have to hike to an airport parking lot to do their homework under the only electric lights for miles around.

We are watching that process play out, for instance, and the Vogtle plant, currently under construction in Georgia — where, with the familiar pattern of cost overruns, and construction snafus, it seems possible that taxpayers will be taking yet another bath, courtesy of the nuclear industry.

And the waste will bouy under ground 500m and will keep 600 years to loose their radiation emission, could you want nuclear power plants» waste burning under your backyard?

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.

The site itself is just under 4 000 hectares in size, of which about 50ha will be used for the nuclear plant.

What makes EP's investigation even more significant is the crucial role Brown played in legitimizing anti-scientific anti-nuclear ideology, and creating the anti-nuclear movement — one which has replaced nuclear plants with fossil fuels (under the guise of renewable energy promotion) in Germany, Vermont, Japan, Taiwan, and other nations around the world.

Under that law, the country's 19 then - operational nuclear plants were allotted a specific amount of electricity (2,623 billion kWh, or an average of 32 years) of lifetime production that they could feed to the grid before mandatory shutdown.

In fact Utilities operating nuclear plants have managed to come up with design solutions to greatly increase the storage capacity of the on site facilities — due to the failure of the federal government to meet their legal obligation under US law to provide a repository for spent fuel.

EPA's «Goal Computation Technical Support Document» (TSD) accompanying the Federal Register Notice allows generation from «under construction» and «at risk [of retirement]» nuclear plants to count against the affected generation (in the denominator, as indicated in the equation below) used to compute the emission rate goals for each state.24

Generation from «new» nuclear plants not already under construction is not presented as affected generation (i.e., the denominator of the average CO2 intensity rate formula).

While these sections are relatively clear in describing how generation from nuclear plants is accounted for in the emission rate goals, other parts of the EPA proposal suggest the possibility that «new» nuclear plants beyond those currently under construction may play a role in state compliance planning.

As such, under this rule, nuclear plants would likely be favored ahead of both coal and natural gas plants.

EPA focuses on what it regards as the two most promising sources of additional nuclear output: 1) plants currently under construction, and 2) preservation of existing plants that might otherwise be retired, 5.7 GW of capacity, or roughly 6 % of the share of nuclear capacity termed «at risk of retirement.»