Sentences with phrase «nuclear power plants do»

The high temperatures and pressures typical of nuclear power plants do not occur.

Because this is not the case, our research reactor does not have a reactor pressure vessel as nuclear power plants do.

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.

How does this new UK nuclear power plant do in your calculations then?

Not exact matches

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If you had done your analysis right then it would have led you to believe that many of the largest companies in Japan, especially the owners of the nuclear power plant, would have seen a decrease in the value of their stock price.

New York State Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has proposed expanding the Long Island Pine Barrens by 800 acres around the decommissioned Shoreham nuclear power plant, but did not include saving a site in Mastic where a developer wants to build a solar farm.

While it's true that, unlike other types of power plants, nuclear reactors do not emit carbon dioxide (C02), the life cycle of generating nuclear power — from mining to refining to transportation to storage — requires an enormous amount of energy.

I'm also 100 % for riding the butts of the power companies that own the nukes — if they don't follow the safety rules / laws relating to nuclear power plants.

Maybe if there was an airport or amusement park or nuclear power plant nearby I might care more but there isn't and I don't.

After doing a round of hearings earlier this month, two Assembly Democrats say their preliminary findings suggest that shutting down the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant could be done with little impact on rate payers.

State lawmakers seeking to put the brakes on a plan by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to hike electric bills to keep open upstate nuclear power plants have introduced legislation calling for a moratorium on the plan as the Assembly considers a one - house budget bill that would do the same.

State Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, in an email to news media, said Friday that «we must be vigilant to assure that the facility does not transition from an operating power plant to a dormant nuclear waste dump.»

The plan the PSC initially released did not favor subsidies for the state's only profitable nuclear power plant, Indian Point nearby New York City.

«We must be vigilant to assure that the facility does not transition from an operating power plant to a dormant nuclear waste dump,» Cahill, a Democrat who represents Dutchess and Ulster counties, said in a statement.

Some central New York environmentalists don't want New York state to come to the rescue of the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego.

Senator Charles Schumer vows to do everything he can to stop the shutdown of the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego county.

The governor spoke at the site of the FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Oswego, where the previous owner also had said it would close the plant if the state did not step in.

Murphy says he was upset by what he did not hear regarding the closure by 2021 of Indian Point nuclear power plant, in his 40th state Senate District.

And while state officials are confident they'll hit federal emissions reduction goals far ahead of schedule, it will be harder to do so without the state's nuclear power plants.

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.

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.?

«Do you want to work at the nuclear power plant?»

Management of U.S. nuclear power plants has improved dramatically since Three Mile Island, and security has been tightened significantly since 9/11 (though more remains to be done).

On April 26, Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff did a safety «walkdown» of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster inNuclear Regulatory Commission staff did a safety «walkdown» of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster innuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster innuclear plant disaster in Japan.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

After all, once operating, nuclear power plants burn nothing and therefore emit no carbon dioxide as fossil fuel — burning power plants do.

Though it doesn't break out the nuclear data separately, statistics from Europe's electricity industry association Eurelectric show both planned and unplanned outages mostly increased at thermal power plants in eight European countries examined, and periods of energy unavailability increased from around 12.8 percent in 2002 to 18.3 percent in 2011.

«Sometimes we find reefs that are doing very, very well in places that you would least expect to find them,» says Gates — such as a reef off Taiwan that lies below the waste - water outfall pipe of a nuclear power plant and experiences temperature fluctuations of between 6 °C and 8 °C per day.

If you replace these power plants with modern, safe nuclear reactors you could do a lot of [pollution reduction] quickly.»

Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?

All nuclear power plants are designed to withstand a certain level of flooding based on historical data, but these figures do not take climate change into account.

Today's nuclear power plants use the heat from uranium fission reactions to do nothing more complicated than boil water, making pressurized steam that spins turbines to generate electricity.

«We don't believe that nuclear power is a religious thing, it's a business thing,» says Craig Nesbit, vice president of communications for Exelon, which owns 17 nuclear power plants, including Oyster Creek.

Neither of these problems affected the safety of the nuclear power plant, according to Williams, noting that the towers are primarily used to cool the water before it is put back in the Connecticut River so that it does not scald too many fish.

Does that mean we'll be turning the HEU in our warheads into fuel for nuclear power plants too?

Wavering solar and wind power don't play well with baseload nuclear plants that prefer to run at full blast, so the French must find a way to cope with this imbalance if they are to meet the European Union's directive to generate 20 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2020.

What power does the IAEA have over nuclear plant operations?

«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.

It doesn't take a lot of arithmetic to figure out that 2030 is the beginning of a big wave of retirements of nuclear power plants.

But that consensus did not influence seismic risk assessments, tsunami preparedness, or a review of the hardiness of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

In fact, according to quantum mechanics, the energy contained in all the power plants and nuclear weapons in the world doesn't equal the theoretical energy contained in the empty spaces between these words.

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).

Secretary Perry's attempts to tip the scale in favor of uneconomic coal and nuclear power plants to provide a «resilience» benefit that doesn't exist would have increased carbon emissions, raised costs to consumers, and distorted competitive markets.»

Response: SMR - 160 is a small modular pressurized water nuclear reactor power plant that does not rely on any pumps or motors to remove heat from the nuclear fuel, for all normal and accident scenarios.

What you don't want is sea weed harvested around a nuclear power plant or in a bay of the coast of an industrial zone.

Larger regions that have more to do include such areas as Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, the Springfield countryside and Krustyland.

I saw one episode of the Simpson's when Homer was actually working at home in front of his computer doing some nuclear power plant monitoring stuff.

If you had done your analysis right then it would have led you to believe that many of the largest companies in Japan, especially the owners of the nuclear power plant, would have seen a decrease in the value of their stock price.

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.