Sentences with phrase «nuclear power plants include»

Although regulations for the design of new nuclear power plants include safety features intended to avoid disasters, nuclear power will always be vulnerable to those highly unlikely occurrences that have big repercussions.

The time between planning and operation of a nuclear power plant includes the time to obtain a site and construction permit, the time between construction permit approval and issue, and the construction time of the plant.

Not exact matches

Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature retirement of baseload power plants that provide nonstop power, like those fired by coal and nuclear fuel.

Offices that will see deep cuts include those responsible for promoting energy efficiency, bringing carbon capture and storage to market, and extending the life of nuclear power plants.

According to the companies, EON buys RWE's shares in Innogy, a subsidiary with both a strong renewable energy portfolio and distribution grids and power retail, while RWE gets EON's renewable business, including minority interests in two nuclear power plants.

A long - term energy plan by the Cuomo administration that includes a nearly $ 8 billion subsidy to two upstate nuclear power plants is being challenged from both ends of the political spectrum, and a lawsuit has been filed to try to stop the deal.

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.

Per the site map of SEZ and Anator Holding Co. Ltd Projects, also in possession of this paper, the project will have at least 25 facets including a Nuclear Power Plant covering about 50,000 acres of land.

It will also include incentives for upstate nuclear facilities, which provide a significant source of carbon - free power, but are struggling financially against natural gas plants.

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.

Questions continue in Albany over a proposed subsidy that would keep upstate nuclear power plants open — including the James FitzPatrick Plant in Oswego.

Cuomo has been skeptical of nuclear power elsewhere in the state, including the Entergy - owned Indian Point facility in Westchester County, which the governor has urged federal regulators to deny a new license for the plant.

The deal, long in the making after Entergy signaled it would shutter the FitzPatrick plant in 2017, comes after state regulators put the final approval on new subsidies for renewable fuels, including nuclear power, potentially worth millions of dollars.

«The plan included the immediate permanent closure of six nuclear power plants that had been temporarily shut down for testing in March 2011, and two more that have been offline a few years with technical problems.

And upstate Republican lawmakers are cheering the adoption as well, given the standards include a system that would subsidize nuclear energy as Entergy Corp. seeks to sale central New York's FitzPatrick Nuclear Powernuclear energy as Entergy Corp. seeks to sale central New York's FitzPatrick Nuclear PowerNuclear Power Plant.

The state Senate's one - house budget resolution includes $ 100 million in funds to keep FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant from closing in Oswego County.

For years, the Cuomo administration, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and their hysterical and retrograde antinuclear allies, including Riverkeeper, have waged a shameless campaign of fear and loathing against the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

A long term energy plan by the administration of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that includes a nearly $ 8 billion dollar subsidy to two upstate nuclear power plants is being challenged from both ends of the political spectrum, and a lawsuit has been filed to try to stop the deal.

A group of energy companies and power plants are challenging New York's recently approved Clean Energy Standard (CES), which aims to reduce harmful carbon dioxide emissions in the state by subsidizing financially distressed nuclear power plants, including the FitzPatrick and Nine Mile Point plants in Oswego county.

His campaign issued a statement saying, in part, that «the Governor has led the nation in combating climate change», including, closing down the «dangerous» Indian Point nuclear power plant and implementing the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution.

A long - term energy plan by the Cuomo administration that includes a nearly $ 8 billion subsidy to upstate nuclear power plants is being challenged from both ends of the political spectrum, and a lawsuit has been filed to try to stop the deal.

Cuomo pushed an environmental agenda that included demanding the EPA pursue further dredging of PCBs from the Hudson River and environs, rejection of the Constitution Pipeline to transport fracked gas from Pennsylvania, and subsidies for Upstate nuclear power plants.

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.

Despite several attempts to secure financial assistance for the struggling FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant, no funding was included for it in New York state's next budget.

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.

Just more than a week after the state Public Service Commission approved a long - term clean, renewable energy standard that includes subsidies for nuclear power, the state on Tuesday touted Exelon's planned acquisition of the FitzPatrick nuclear plant from Entergy Corp..

Specific concerns included a broad range of uncertainties related to the quality of Hudson River water, prevalent among which was the proximity of the proposed plant to the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

As part of the restructuring, the power authority in 2000 sold its nuclear plants, including FitzPatrick, to private owner Entergy Corp..

The expansion includes property belonging to the Indian Point Nuclear power plant.

For Cuomo, triangulation includes supporting gay marriage, defending abortion and calling for the closing of a nuclear power plant, while pushing a property tax cap, blocking tax increases and making sure Long Island schools received greater shares of school aid in Republican districts.

In one arrangement, Bharara alleges Kelly channeled several hundred thousand dollars to Percoco and his wife in exchange for help building a power plant in upstate New York, and for other public assistance the company never received — including a guarantee the state would find a buyer for energy from the facility, and the closure of the controversial Indian Point nuclear plant in Westchester, which the governor has advocated for.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is demanding Senate hearings to insure proper safeguards at all nuclear power plants in the nation, including Indian Point.

Peculiarities of the electricity system in New York State, including its unusual independent status, would make it difficult and expensive to replace electricity from the Indian Point nuclear power plant if Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo succeeds in shutting it down, experts on the grid warn.

Plus, the expansion includes property belonging to the Buchanan - based Indian Point nuclear power plant.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed that the new standard include «zero emission credits» for Upstate nuclear plants to provide them with above - market compensation for producing power without carbon emissions.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

Further, she points out, the Bungo Channel area today has much sensitive and critical infrastructure, including the only nuclear power plant on the island of Shikoku.

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Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large animal farms, PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

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.

That helps explain why such a large earthquake was unexpected in the region, resulting in catastrophic consequences that included more than 24,000 people dead or missing and fuel meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the coast.

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.

These include the behaviour of the Italian government in the aftermath of Chernobyl, the basis of decision - making in civil nuclear power in Switzerland and France, and the controversy over the supposed effects of radiation doses to fathers on their offspring at Sellafield (a large case control study, which has recently been published, contradicts the views in the book), and the Black enquiry into childhood leukaemias in the vicinity of the plant.

«The energy payback time of a nuclear power plant is at present about 11 years compared with natural gas at half a year,» Storm van Leeuwen argues, when the full cost of decommissioning a nuclear power plant at the end of its useful life is included.

Networks are used in electrical power grids, nuclear power plants, financial systems, transportation systems, health care systems, identification systems (including the new biometric chips in U.S. passports), and U.S. federal agencies» operations and assets.

Energy company SCANA subsidiary South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G) plans to add two AP - 1000 reactors to its nuclear power plant near Jenkinsville, S.C., by 2016 and 2019, whereas the Tennessee Valley Authority will finally complete Watts Bar Unit 2 near Chattanooga, Tenn. — more than 30 years after construction began, including a nearly two - decade hiatus — next year.

«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.

Legal battles have already been fought in the US over scarce water resources in regions with nuclear power plants, including the Catawba river basin in the Carolinas and the Apalachicola / Chattahoochee / Flint river basin in Georgia, Florida and Alabama.

Insiders say the most vulnerable are the National Accelerator Centre near Cape - town, home to a number of particle accelerators, including a powerful cyclotron used for medical, biological and physical research; Mossgas, the multi-billion rand project set up to beat oil sanctions by pumping natural gas ashore from beneath the Indian Ocean; and the Koeberg nuclear power plant at Melkbosstrand.