Sentences with phrase «nuclear power stations on»

The two Dungeness nuclear power stations on Romney Marsh in Kent are on a gravel spit.

In light of the Fukushima disaster, an obvious move might now be to recommend placing the backup generators for nuclear power stations on higher ground to guard against tsunamis or floods.

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulation invited energy companies to come forward with proposals for new nuclear power stations on January 10th.

The same goes for the major nuclear power station on the island at Wylfa, which is nearing the end of its life.

Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones has been criticised for failing to state definitively whether he supports plans to replace the Wylfa nuclear power station on Anglesey.

Not exact matches

Hinkley Point B nuclear power station, operated by Electricite de France's (EDF), left, stands near to groundworks for Hinkley Point C near Bridgwater, U.K., on Dec. 17, 2015.

Located on the southeastern coast of Kent, Dungeness is a somewhat desolate landscape that is home to two nuclear power stations and a small estate.

Ontario has already wasted billions on natural gas - fired power plants that were never built and could potentially squander billions more refurbishing aging nuclear stations in a bid to prop up the province's atomic industry.

Japan is asking for the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone to be classified as a no - go area for Pokémon after the discovery of at least one of the game's characters on a power station's site.

If that's not the case, then none of the Nuclear power stations here on Earth would work either.

I'm all for more infrastructure spending on road and rail (though very sceptical indeed about HS2), nuclear power stations, and airports - though the big decision on the latter has been postponed until after 2015.

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.

Nick Clegg and the other Lib Dem negotiators called for a «a commitment not to raise the cap on tuition fees» (a watered - down version of their manifesto pledge to phase out tuition fees over six years), a cut in the number of government ministers, a four year fixed - term parliament and «a commitment to no public subsidy for nuclear power stations».

Cheltenham MP Martin Horwood suggested his party's decision to abstain on a nuclear vote in the Commons, allowing the Conservatives» support for new power stations to go ahead without undermining the coalition government's unity, could prove academic.

«If you look at the economics of nuclear power and the commitment the coalition has made not to subsidise it, and then you reflect on the fact not a single nuclear power station has been built anywhere in the world without public subsidy, maybe, just maybe the issue won't arise,» he said.

On Sunday, the Lib Dem delegates flouted party history and voted in favour of building more nuclear power stations — energy secretary Ed Davey having told them this is vital to fight climate change — and also voted to support fracking, albeit with an amendment to ensure pollution levels were closely monitored and those local to fracking sites were properly consulted.

On the environment, the Lib Dems wanted no new nuclear power stations and to increase the proportion of energy from renewables from 15 % to 40 % by 2020.

A national policy statement on new nuclear power stations - the most controversial part of the proposals - will be published in the autumn, Mr Miliband said.

3 The Lib Dems called for «a commitment not to raise the cap on tuition fees», a cut in the number of government ministers, a four - year, fixed - term parliament and «a commitment to no public subsidy for nuclear power stations».

Mr Alexander is expected to announce a new social house - building programme, as well as offshore wind farms and progress on nuclear power stations.»

On the latter, of course, Mr Cameron will see that as an easy «give», since Labour broadly supports replacing antiquated nuclear power stations, so they will get built, whatever the Lib Dems say.

On some issues, the two parties have fudged differences by setting up reviews, independent commissions or agreeing that the Lib Dems will be free to abstain — a decision that will ensure that measures such as new nuclear power stations can be built without Clegg's party endorsing them.

«Complex and detailed» discussions are ongoing on financing the new Wylfa nuclear power station.

Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns restated the UK government's view on its potential cost: «As the business secretary said last week, the Swansea proposal is more than twice as expensive as Hinkley nuclear power station, so we will continue discussions with the Welsh Government to look at the affordability of the case and do everything possible to make it a reality.

Most of the UK's nuclear power stations are on the coast, and although those coastlines are stable now, they may not remain so.

In order to run the turbines of atomic power stations that will eventually bring us our light and internet connections, nuclear power relies on a complicated interplay of atomic interactions, all initiated by the introduction of one neutron into an already stuffed nucleus.

«It is difficult to see how any safety case presented from now on that relies in any way upon the UK VPF, whether on the roads, the railways or in the nuclear industry, such as the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C in Somerset, could stand up to test in court.

When projects on the scale of a nuclear power station or THORP are concerned, or the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment, to give another example, it is not possible to model them fully in the laboratory using traditional trial - and - error methodology.

A typhoon killed 17 people in Japan on Wednesday, most on an offshore island, but largely spared the capital and caused no new disaster as it brushed by the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power station, the plant's operator said.

These salps became so abundant that they blocked the seawater intake of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, located on the California coast east of Station M.

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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.

A barrage across the Severn estuary on the UK's west coast could provide as much energy as a second nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk in eastern England, we explained.

Once a player inserts a quarter and presses start, a typo - filled and grammatically hilarious introduction quickly fills us in on the game's events, about how an explosion at a nuclear power station turned a coal miner into «Invincible Warrier Chelnov».

On Friday the artist will sign a contract to buy the Mülheim - Kärlich reactor, a decommissioned nuclear power station near Koblenz, Germany.

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»

This meant that nuclear power station could be more likely to be located on the coast in the future.

A solar - powered car wash popped up in California, we peeked in on a near nuclear meltdown in Sweden, and, in Japan, they were generating electricity from train station ticket gates.

The levels of exposure to radiation following the leaks and explosions at the earthquake - damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in 2011 were so low that they led today to this important conclusion from experts convened in Vienna by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effect of Atomic Radiation:

In hindsight it appears impossible to believe that nuclear power stations were located on a shoreline without recognizing the engineering difficulties attending prolonged immersion by a large tsunami.

During a peak viewing time when most sets are on, such as the Super Bowl, TVs in the state collectively suck up the equivalent of 40 % of the power generated by the San Onofre nuclear power station running at full capacity.

Government can place two or three nuclear reactors on each power station site, depending on the type and configuration it chooses.

Countries such as Germany, which has received praise from ecologists for its promise to phase out nuclear power stations and construct large number of wind parks on land and sea are finding that they do not solve the power problem.

The UK police hijacked a Diesel Tanker on the motorway and had the driver deliver it to a nuclear power station that had an electrical switching problem.

Meanwhile, Germany, once Europe's climate tub - thumpers - in - chief, is in a messy transition on climate policy as it burns ever more coal, while shutting down its fleet of low - carbon nuclear power stations.

After the 2011 disaster in Fukushima, Japan, the Chinese government put the brakes on building nuclear power stations in the west of the country, as this is an area prone to earthquakes.

These would produce enough power to replace five large nuclear power stations, tellingly at about the same time as the first of the much - touted new generation of reactors is likely to come on stream.

The study, which was compiled for the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, found that technology such as solar panels and wind turbines on buildings could produce as much energy a year as five nuclear power stations.