Sentences with phrase «nuclear power projects»

The party notes that no British nuclear power project has been completed on time.

But economic factors have made nuclear power projects more challenging.

U.S. utility giant Southern Co. didn't get the extension it had been looking for that would've qualified its long - delayed nuclear power project in Georgia for a production tax credit.

«We will temporarily suspend approval for nuclear power projects,» the State Council said in a statement following a meeting on March 16.

Beijing plans to plough tens of billions of dollars into the construction of dozens of nuclear power projects across the country by 2020, as part of efforts to reduce its reliance on dirty coal - fired power and cut air pollution.

Putting the offshore wind prices in context, they are lower than the # 92.50 per megawatt hour for EDF's Hinkley Point C, a major new nuclear power project currently under construction.

(In September, the Trump administration made a conditional loan to help finish the construction of a languishing nuclear power project in Georgia.)

Theresa May puts the brakes on Hinkley Point nuclear power project amid security fears over China's involvement

The first truly large - scale nuclear unit — a 428,000 - kilowatt installation at San Onofre, Calif. — was licensed for construction as recently as February 24, 1964, and announcements of commercial nuclear power projects did not begin to gain momentum until the fall of 1965; yet by the summer of 1966 nuclear power had drawn abreast of fossil power in the utility marketplace.

But those two Texas reactors, as well as several other high - profile nuclear power projects, had been on the ropes long before Fukushima.

In a statement the NNSA said that, before the first loading of materials, it had conducted a five - year safety review of the Taishan nuclear power project and dispatched on - site supervisors for the entire construction process.

The technology is proven, PRISM's simplified reactor design will speed construction, and GEH's technical and operational expertise has proven our ability to consistently deliver on time and on budget nuclear power projects anywhere in the world.

Tanaka said concerns about the safety of nuclear energy, if they derailed nuclear power projects, would also hurt efforts to limit carbon emissions and contain global warming.

According to the AP, new tests have shown that the levels of tritium in the wells at the Vernon, Vermont site are more than three - and - a-half times the federal safety standard.This comes hot on the heels of President Obama's interest in nuclear power, which included a call for «building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants» in last week's State of the Union address, plus $ 54.5 billion earmarked for nuclear power projects.

She also has held senior project managerial positions on an oil refinery project in Thailand, a coal seam gas to liquid natural gas plant in Queensland, Australia, and roles in construction field engineering on a variety of nuclear power projects.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is working to increase the amount of nuclear power in India's grid, but a nuclear power project with the U.S. was scrapped because of safety fears, the International Business Times reported.

Many governments are suspending their nuclear power projects in response to the events in Japan.

A South Carolina - based utility voted Monday to pull out of a $ 14 billion nuclear power project, marking another rough week for the nuclear industry.

The administration has approved only one conditional loan guarantee for a nuclear power project and that went to a Georgia plant to be built by Southern Co., which under state law can begin to recover costs while the plants are under construction.

Why is nuclear power projected to decline so dramatically?

The first is of all nuclear power projects planned for completion by 2030, including ones EP deems unlikely to be completed by 2030, if ever.

A South Carolina - based utility voted Monday to pull out of a $ 14 billion nuclear power project, marking another rough week for the nuclear industry.

Seanna Adcox, «Billions lost in nuclear power projects, with more bills due,» The Washington Post, August 5, 2017

On April 26, 2017, the High Court ruled that the $ 76 billion nuclear power project was unconstitutional — a landmark legal victory that protected South Africa from an unprecedented expansion of the nuclear industry and production of radioactive waste.

On April 26, 2017, the Western Cape High Court ruled that the nuclear deal was unconstitutional, invalidating the agreement and stopping the $ 76 billion nuclear power project.