Sentences with phrase «nuclear power plants running»

Unfortunately, all of his well - intentioned efforts will soon be for naught if he fails to take strong action to keep New York's nuclear power plants running.

Curiously, there are lots of nuclear power plants running safely in France without massive fear on the part of the French public.

Not exact matches

More likely, there are still nuclear plants running, and there may even be some natural gas plants lingering in the system — not running at full capacity, but they have the ability to power up quickly when there's not a lot of sun or wind.

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.»

Southern has struggled over the past few years with cost over runs from the construction of two new nuclear power plants (Vogle and Kemper).

At the Ginna nuclear plant near Rochester, for example, the PSC ordered subsidy payments to keep Ginna running - but only for 18 months while the local utility finishes building a transmission line to bring in power from elsewhere.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - Entergy Corp. plans to shut down its money - losing FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Oswego County after the reactor runs out of fuel next year.

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.

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky has scored a victory in his long - running battle against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, thanks to a federal appeals court that reversed a lower court ruling on the commission's responsibility to involve and notify the public before exempting the Hudson Valley nuclear power plant from health and safety requirNuclear Regulatory Commission and Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, thanks to a federal appeals court that reversed a lower court ruling on the commission's responsibility to involve and notify the public before exempting the Hudson Valley nuclear power plant from health and safety requirnuclear power plant from health and safety requirements.

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.

In the case of the Ginna nuclear plant in Wayne County, the PSC's review concluded that Rochester - area utility customers should subsidize the plant for 18 months to keep it running long enough to develop alternative power sources.

New York's Indian Point Unit 3 nuclear power plant is back up and running after a refueling and maintenance outage.

But for 50 or so nations currently running or constructing nuke plants, the calamity was an incentive to take a moment to run some stress tests and review the safety manuals before reaffirming their support for nuclear power.

Aaron Kreider, a Web developer in Philadelphia who runs a site called the Energy Justice Network, a nonprofit group that supports clean energy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United States.

In April 2014 the government released its first post-Fukushima strategic energy plan, which called for keeping some nuclear plants as baseload power sources — stations that run consistently around the clock.

RUSSIA is ignoring Western calls for the immediate shutdown of its oldest nuclear power plants, and will keep them running into the next century.

They envision zero - carbon power plants that run on fuel made from hydrogen isotopes in seawater and produce less waste than today's nuclear power plants.

Even though a supporter of nuclear power, Charpak was one of three signatories to an editorial in the French daily Libération in August that called for a halt to the building of the experimental fusion reactor ITER in the south of France because the cost of the project has running out of control and the plant will be «unusable.»

Davis — Besse is running again, generating 7.7 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity in 2007, with a new reactor head scavenged from an uncompleted nuclear power plant in Michigan.

If Topfer's draft becomes law, the companies that run Germany's 21 nuclear power plants would have to shoulder the costs of disposing of waste, decommissioning, and research and development.

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.

Fuel to power the nuclear plant's generators and water pumps is running low, it said.

The first commercial 12 - module power plant, which will be owned by Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and run by an experienced nuclear operator, Energy Northwest, is planned for construction on land owned by the US Department of Energy at the Idaho National Laborapower plant, which will be owned by Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and run by an experienced nuclear operator, Energy Northwest, is planned for construction on land owned by the US Department of Energy at the Idaho National LaboraPower Systems and run by an experienced nuclear operator, Energy Northwest, is planned for construction on land owned by the US Department of Energy at the Idaho National Laboratory.

Consumer grade OS is not secure enough to run nuclear power plants.

For example, the nuclear operations group — which supplies critical nuclear components to the nuclear power plants onboard U.S. navy ships — spends about 5 to 9 years building a component which is then installed and run by the navy for more than 30 years before being retired.

Southern has struggled over the past few years with cost over runs from the construction of two new nuclear power plants (Vogle and Kemper).

But the document and the news release from the office of Rep. Jeff Denham, the Republican of California running the session, made little reference to the importance of investing in strengthening schools, hospitals and many other critical structures (nuclear power plants were discussed).

Developing countries now are much more capable of building and running nuclear power plants than US, UK, France, Germany, Russia were 50 years ago, or even 30 years ago.

The cost of finding, evaluating, and receiving approval of a site for nuclear power plant construction easily runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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However, if you plan to build new power plants to match supply to demand at all times, you're running into the same problems: it takes too much resources, money and time to go nuclear at such a scale.

Increasingly dependable and emitting few greenhouse gases, the U.S. fleet of nuclear power plants will likely run for another 50 or even 70 years before it is retired — long past the 40 - year life span planned decades ago — according to industry executives, regulators and scientists.

Nuclear power plants in the US run around 90 percent of the time, so they have a 90 percent capacity factor.

For example, nighttime energy demand is much lower than during the day, and yet we waste a great deal of energy from coal and nuclear power plants, which are difficult to power up quickly, and are thus left running at high capacity even when demand is low.

Nuclear power plants typically run either at full capacity or not at all.

For something as complicated as climate science, the long run is longer than for making a bomb and nuclear power plant after the discovery of fission, which itself was a long time coming after the discovery of radioactivity.

While I do remember one unusually cold winter in the last 10 years when we had snow on the ground until the end of March because it just wouldn't get warm enough to thaw (France actually ran out of power for their electrical heating that year, leading to huge imports from Germany, because nuclear plants just don't adapt well to demand), normally we should be in spring by now.

In this situation it is unlikely that we will get loads of nuclear power plants in the short run.

They lead off with an energy map of nuclear power generation — and India has 52 plants with 6,780 MW capacity either up and running or under construction.

Plug - in hybrids or hydrogen - powered fuel cells would allow us to run our cars using renewable sources such as solar and wind, other clean and abundant sources like nuclear and even coal - preferably from power plants employing advanced clean coal technologies that I hope will soon be the norm.

In the U.S. there is some, from my understanding there are some nuclear power plants that are still running despite the fact that the safety regulations are outdated.

Nuclear power plants and run - of - the - river hydro facilities with little or no storage capabilities provide a constant and steady output of electricity, 24 hours a day.

Some of these plants, often nuclear plants, are kept running continuously to meet «baseload» demand i.e. the minimum level of demand, while other plants are kept ready to ramp up to full power to meet the daily peaks in demand.

CAISO data shows that during the hours that solar is being curtailed on a system - wide basis, the state continues to not only to run hydroelectric generation, but to import power, and the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant runs on a 24 - hour basis.

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.

The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant (tan) continued to run full bore, producing another 2.3 GW continuously.

For one billion dollars they could secure America's electric grid with solar flare proof transformers, preventing every nuclear power plant in America from melting down during a Carrington level solar flare, which is overdue to happen and will cause a nuclear holocaust guaranteed due to the fact that they take years to cool off even after cold shutdown, they'll run out of deisel after a few days, the pumps don't work when there's no power.

That means living completely on the power budget we get from renewables for everything - taking all the coal and gas plants off the grid, running all of transportation, heating, manufacturing etc with whatever solar, wind, hydro and nuclear we can cobble together.

There are roughly 224 million of these boxes in use in America and together they consume as much energy as produced by four giant nuclear power plants, running 24 hours a day.