Sentences with phrase «nuclear power industry»

The US Navy was actually central to the development of the civilian nuclear power industry in the US due to its reactor designs for nuclear powered submarines and ships.

Comprehensive knowledge of nuclear power industry, power systems, and procurement of nuclear power plant components

The hope is that these new approaches will finally erase the memory of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and eliminate some of the political opposition that has stymied the American nuclear power industry for three decades.

At the leading edge of U.S. nuclear technology development, Centrus is dedicated to the long - term growth of the commercial U.S. nuclear fuel supply and the expansion of the commercial nuclear power industry worldwide.

Iran does have genuine reasons for developing a civilian nuclear power industry.

Last March, after the Sendai earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the aftershocks of the disaster seemed to put the worldwide nuclear power industry on shaky ground.

Republican state lawmakers in the Senate are pushing a $ 100 million bailout of the state's nuclear power industry using funds from a climate change program meant to cut greenhouse gases from power plants.

Bigger, but not cheaper In the face of delays the U.S. government recently put money forward to try to jump - start the domestic nuclear power industry.

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: June 17, 2008 - In an ironic twist, concern over the environment — global warming and greenhouse gas emissions — may help revive the long dormant nuclear power industry in the United States.

In a nutshell, the only barriers to thorium - based power are politics, red tape, and the inertia of the current nuclear power industry.

Due to the country's desire to enhance its energy security, Japan has developed a large nuclear power industry.

Because of a tightly regulated nuclear power industry and lack of government support for development of new nuclear technologies, most power plants in the US were built between 1970 and 1990 and are based on technology that is just as old.

I would note that if we let the fossil and nuclear power industries not count their externalized costs they come up with much higher EROEI's than is realistic.

For example, concentrated wealth greatly, greatly prefers the horrendously inefficient US nuclear power industry over any other sets of more efficient, more productive, and cheaper alternatives (including conservation), but then, the profits aren't so easily controlled and costs not so easily lied about and then later increased and shifted to taxpayers, which is the way it works here.

Readers interested in learning more about nuclear energy from the inside should take a look at RadDecision, a techno - thriller novel about the American nuclear power industry.

Westinghouse said in a statement Friday that it was «confident in the AP1000 design and its passive safety features, as it is one of the most studied, reviewed and analyzed nuclear power plant designs in the history of the commercial nuclear power industry.»

President Obama seized a key Republican energy initiative as his own Tuesday, promising $ 8.33 billion in federal loan guarantees for a pair of Georgia reactors that he said would give new life to the U.S. nuclear power industry and create a surge of high - skill jobs.

The nuclear power industry, another area on which Hitachi has set its sights, is still recovering from the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that was triggered by the massive Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

«It is still too early to tell what impact this incident will have on the nuclear power industry,» said one CEO.

Moog's technology chief George Small said the aerospace industry, like other highly regulated sectors such as the medical and nuclear power industries, was expending considerable effort on tracking parts across the supply chain to keep up with quality and regulatory demands.

Today, he runs the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and compares banking to the nuclear power industry.

by Jason Smith Blue Sky Uranium finds cause for optimism in Argentina Uranium prices have plummeted in recent years, as Japan's nuclear power industry has continued to recover very slowly from the Fukushima disaster in 2011.

The UK is also seen as offering a welcome to infrastructure investment that delivers stable long - term returns that continues to be of great interest to China from projects regarded as too sensitive for foreign involvement by other states, such as the nuclear power industry.

Doubtless Labour, whose support fell by five points, will argue that it had its own particular local difficulties in Copeland — the party's leader, Jeremy Corbyn, used at least to be antipathetic to the nuclear power industry, on which the constituency is heavily dependent.

Senior military and intelligence figures are said to have warned Ministers about the prospect of China getting a big stake in Britain's nuclear power industry.

And 83 per cent agree that there should be a significant expansion of the nuclear power industry.

The surprise discovery about this important bonding relationship — between a metal ion and a coordinated group known as a ligand — from a team led by Professor Steve Liddle, has potential implications from cancer treatments to the nuclear power industry.

In the 20 years since one - hit wonder Timbuk 3 made nuclear science the pop cliché for career promise, the nuclear power industry has fallen on hard times.

In the 26 years since Chernobyl, the nuclear power industry has strengthened its safety practices, yet Fukushima demonstrates the fragility of the civil nuclear enterprise.

Small may be beautiful for the nuclear power industry So argue a host of would - be builders of novel nuclear reactors.

Small reactors in kit form are the latest idea aimed at reviving the fortunes of the nuclear power industry

«The nuclear power industry in Europe is in the midst of the same kind of regulatory and financial uncertainty that makes the future of the industry murky at best in this country,» Thomas said during a conference call with reporters.

The conventional industry comprises the petroleum industry the gas industry the electrical power industry the coal industry, and the nuclear power industry.

For example, the U.S. government has given the nuclear power industry about $ 145 billion in support over the last 50 years.

For all their appeal, micro nukes carry some of the same drawbacks that have paralyzed the nuclear power industry in this country.

One metric ton of yellowcake becomes roughly 255 pounds (115 kilograms) of uranium hexafluoride enriched to contain as much as 5 percent U235, suitable for fuel; the remaining 2,500 pounds (1,135 kilograms) of depleted uranium is waste, according to David McIntyre, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the federal agency with oversight of the nuclear power industry.

This is recognised by the nuclear power industry and its regulators, whose aim is to make the risk of accidents as low, and thus the reactors as safe, as is reasonably achievable.

In Germany, where public opinion is generally opposed to nuclear power, Chancellor Angela Merkel suspended for 3 months a newly enacted law covering the country's nuclear power industry.

When Japan's Kashiwazaki - Kariwa Nuclear Plant was damaged by an earthquake in 2007, again the IAEA's assessment of the situation was seen as appeasing the nuclear power industry and the government.

This has been helpful in improving the nuclear power industry's overall safety.

The government's review of the nuclear power industry, scheduled for 1994, will have to consider what to do with Britain's unwanted plutonium mountain.

Advancing Safety As the economic performance of the nuclear power industry has improved over the past 20 years, so too has its safety performance.

HMD delivers approximately 300 weldments each year to the nuclear power industry around the world.

As much as good rehabilitation gives us a licence to operate, so too does the nuclear power industry need to be able to talk about its licence to operate - and our behaviour, as their suppliers, is key to their message,» he said.

Commenting on the NuHub partnership and the earlier Savannah River accord, Holtec's President & CEO stated: «The SMR - 160 is a «game changer» for the nuclear power industry: relying solely on gravity as its motive force, it is intended to rehabilitate the public perception of the commercial nuclear industry in the aftermath of Fukushima as an unconditionally safe source of environmentally benign energy.»

Traditionally, NRC Commissioners and staff are people who have been involved in the nuclear power industry.