Sentences with phrase «nuclear power station there»

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There are immense commercial opportunities for companies ready to build the new nuclear power stations.

There has been a stagnation in the building of nuclear power stations in Europe as fears concerning safety have mounted, especially in the wake of the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, and the problem of the disposal and storage of radioactive waste materials has not been solved.

There was a framework to seal nuclear weapon technology, engage in economic development and trade, and support civilian power stations.

Then there is the Conservative Party's apparent shift on the nuclear issue, with Tory energy spokesman Alan Duncan openly voicing his «suspicion» of the case for a new generation of nuclear power stations.

And George Osborne expects me to deliver our agreement on nuclear power, which is that there is an important place for new nuclear stations in our energy mix as long as there is no public subsidy.

«There will be relatively high costs in developing this new nuclear facility but broadly comparable with other low carbon technologies such as offshore wind, and, potentially, carbon capture and storage applied to gas and coal fired power stations.

The new UK power stations will all be either nuclear or offshore wind farms, though there may also be some carbon capture from fossil fuel plants by the late 2020s.

Obviously there are threats from the nuclear power station, but they are limited and they are quantifiable.

TOKYO — On the 4th anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, there is one bit of reassuring news: A new study concludes that contaminated food was likely kept out of the market.

On April 26th 1986 there was an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, reactor number four spewed out huge amounts of radiation contaminating soil, water and atmosphere with the radiation A new show The Unseen: The Red Forest opens at the end of the month at the Continue Reading»

There is a whole section dedicated to «dirty, dangerous nuclear power», and the scenario includes a complete phase - out of new nuclear globally, with no stations built after 2008.

EDF are currently have 1/3 of there Nuclear power stations shut down because it is too hot in France.

Meanwhile, the north of China famously struggles with a lack of water, something nuclear power stations require plenty of to keep reactors cool, and the east coast, where there is plenty of water, is home to China's most developed cities, which are increasingly turning to NIMBY - ism.

Unlike fossil - fuelled, or nuclear, power stations, once the wind farm is built there are, of course, no further costs for fuel; the capital cost is by far the greatest cost of wind power.

Consequently, there are now 17 nuclear power stations around the earthquake - prone Japanese archipelago, comprising 54 nuclear reactors that provide 30 percent of Japan's total electricity generating capacity.

Interesting that there was the cause and effect here, that if you close nuclear power stations you will need something to replace them, and there is a consequence to that.

That is because there may not be enough stream flow for hydroelectric stations, and coal and nuclear power plant may not be able to get enough water through the cooling systems to keep generating at peak capacity, especially in the summer months.

To be sure, not all power stations entered into various queues will be installed and constructed, but with new planned nuclear and coal units virtually eliminated, it's clear there are massive changes underway in the electric markets.

There, we could find dirty energy power stations (nuclear, coal, oil, gas, hydraulic megacentrals...) according to world productions, which would be removed and replaced by renewable energy (solar, wind, biomass, geothermal...), according to some questions we were asking to people.

Given the evident concern about nuclear waste, it will be interesting to see if there is any reactions from young people to the governments recent admission that, on current NDA plans, the proposed Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) is not expected to be available to take spent fuel from new nuclear power stations until around 2130, which they note «is approximately 50 years after the likely end of electricity generation for the first new nuclear power station».

There are some advantages (and disadvantages) in using thorium to fuel a nuclear power station rather than uranium.

Nuclear power stations take around fifteen years to build, even longer when there is determined local opposition, and are cripplingly expensive to clean - up at the end of their useful life.

I'm a fan of nuclear, then, but I don't think there's an emergency about coal, and no need to suddenly shut down all coal - fired power stations.

Sure, there have not been huge numbers of accidents at nuclear power stations, but the consequences of such accidents are catastrophic and the true death toll will nOt be known for many years.