Sentences with phrase «nuclear power stations around»

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.

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories is a leader in sciences that are foundational to reactor safety — including the ability to predict the lifetimes of critical components used in nuclear power stations around the world, especially those in CANDU reactors.

Not exact matches

The trucks were used to evacuate people during the Boston Marathon bombings, are stationed at nuclear power plants around the world, and are used by the State Department in hostile regions.

The endlessly repeated arguments against nuclear power, namely the disposal of nuclear waste, leukemia clusters around nuclear power stations, the cost of decommissioning and the shortage of uranium have all been conclusively refuted or put into proper proportion [1].

Elevated radiation levels have been detected at and around the stricken nuclear power station in Japan, but the Chernobyl accident remains far more catastrophic

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.

A 1000 - megawatt plant would take three years and cost 500 billion pesetas — around half the price of Spain's first - generation nuclear power stations of similar output.

As examples of the issues involved, the CCC points out that if new nuclear power stations are built around the coast, they must be protected against sea - level rise well beyond their operational lifetime.

Each nuclear power station that fails due to some unplanned - for event and lays waste to hundreds of square miles around it is another nail in the coffin of nuclear energy.

The main reason why very few new nuclear power stations opened around the world after the mid-1980s was cheap natural gas (plus double - digit interest rates, which favoured quick - to - build gas - fired power stations against slower - to - build nuclear and coal), not Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

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».

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.

To repeat my comment when I was 11 years of age, after being shown around Hunterston nuclear power station..

One coal power station is around a billion dollars, and a nuclear a lot more.