Sentences with phrase «nuclear processing facilities»

It was undisputed that the request was justified from a public policy perspective, as concern had been expressed regarding risks to public health in the area, arising from operations at the nearby firing range, decommissioned nuclear reactor and nuclear processing facilities.

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As much as Australia might benefit from a cut in official interest rates, it would definitely benefit from encouraging a new industry, such as the nuclear - fuel processing facility being championed by the South Australian government, and supported by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Truck shipments carrying high - level liquid nuclear waste over the Peace Bridge and across Western New York's highways en route to a South Carolina processing facility could start as early as September, though a lawsuit aims to stop that.

Employees at the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant have taken the facility offline to begin the refueling process, a reality that seemed almost impossible one year ago.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office had raised the issue during the ongoing relicensing process and appealed the initial decision, saying there needed to be a new analysis of the impacts caused by potential severe accidents at the Buchanan nuclear facility and potential upgrades to protect the public against such accidents.

In the short term, the Federal government can encourage increased use of nuclear energy by streamlining the permitting process and by backing necessary financing to get new facilities online.

The former nuclear weapons facility at Savannah River, Ga. — also part of the Manhattan Project — has been successfully vitrifying weapons waste for years, but only one fuel separation process was used there.

In ENUSA we manufacture nuclear fuel in our Juzbado facility (Salamanca), where the activities focus on procurement of the uranium and components required for the process and on the engineering and manufacturing of fuel assemblies for Spanish and European nuclear power plants, using the most innovative technologies and latest market advances.

Which is a far cheaper process across the board than nuclear facilities when all costs are considered.

(Sec. 242) Requires the Secretary to establish a program to make monetary awards to encourage the owners and operators of new and existing electric energy generation facilities or thermal energy production facilities using fossil or nuclear fuel to use innovative means of recovering thermal energy that is a potentially useful byproduct of electric power generation or other processes to: (1) generate additional electric energy; or (2) make sales of thermal energy not used for electric generation, in the form of steam, hot water, chilled water, or desiccant regeneration, or for other commercially valid purposes.

-- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall establish standards for protection against radiation (including occupational exposures) resulting from activities at facilities that use an advanced fuel recycling process, including facilities to fabricate fuel enriched with actinide elements other than uranium.

Hanford was a plutonium production complex with nine nuclear reactors and associated processing facilities which played a pivotal role in US defence for more than 40 years starting.

Outside of New York and Illinois, which passed laws subsidizing ailing nuclear facilities in 2016, Connecticut's governor last year signed a bill allowing Dominion's Millstone plant to participate in its clean energy procurement process, and New Jersey's lawmakers are poised to vote on a zero - emission credit (ZEC) program today, Korsnick said.

«The House passed a bill Thursday that seeks to move forward a process toward building the Yucca Mountain facility in Nevada that would store the nation's radioactive nuclear waste.»

While used in thousands of factories for legitimate manufacturing processes, the Siemens controllers targeted by Stuxnet were also used to enrich uranium at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility.