Sentences with phrase «nuclear reactor construction»

It is pretty clear why 2020 was chosen — that is when the current wave of nuclear reactor construction completes.

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CB&I received no upfront payment for the sale of the nuclear construction business, but stood to receive earnouts based on the progress of the completion of two U.S. projects by Stone & Webster: a nuclear power plant in Georgia for Southern Co and two reactors in South Carolina for SCANA Corp (scu).

The idea is basically the same; there are a huge number of nuclear reactors under construction around the world, and major suppliers of their fuel are slashing production.

China has 26 operational reactors with 24 large modern reactors under construction, nuclear output is expected to treble by 2020.

In the attempt to put a stop to further reactor construction, the antinuclear movement may be tempted to constipate the system — to plug up the radwaste outlet for the nuclear industry — hoping thereby to force a shutdown of electrical power generation.

While nuclear reactors do not emit carbon dioxide at the point of power generation, the nuclear fuel chain is responsible for carbon emissions during mining, milling, enriching, construction, transportation, and decommissioning.

Science has created a map that provides a snapshot of the number of nuclear reactors in operation and under construction worldwide, locations of power plants in relation to seismic hazard zones, and reactions to events in Japan in some countries.

And while Germany is phasing out nuclear power, five new reactors are under construction in the U.S., adding to its existing fleet of 99 commercial reactors.

Nuclear power has attracted new interests in the U.S.. Two reactors under construction near Waynesboro, Ga., will be the first built here in 30 years.

But there are currently 53 new nuclear reactors under construction or planned around the globe for 2020, capable of producing 42 gigawatts of electricity.

The situation is no better in Europe, according to Steven Thomas, a professor of energy studies at the University of Greenwich in London: Finland can not complete its new reactor; the U.K. has yet to get started on any projects; and a new nuclear reactor in France, after 18 months of construction, is 20 percent overbudget and requires complete subsidy by the French government.

This month, Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor was supposed to begin generating power, a tangible sign of the revival of the nuclear industry outside of Asia after nearly 30 years of no new construction because of accidents, cost - overruns and other issues.

McCain would subsidize the construction of 45 new nuclear reactors, costing upward of $ 270 billion and taking 20 years to complete.

In the U.S., since 2003, 17 applications for 26 new reactors have been filed with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but not one is yet under construction.

Financing the construction of a capital - intensive nuclear facility such as a commercial reactor or enrichment plant, however, is a challenging enterprise even in good economic times.

Nuclear power is in the midst of a resurgence in the U.S. — the first application for a new reactor in more than 30 years was filed in September 2007 — and a construction boom of new reactors is underway around the world.

Across the East China Sea, west of Japan and its ongoing crisis, sits the growing Qinshan nuclear power plant, where four new pressurized - water reactors are under construction in addition to the five already operating on - site.

That means China is building nearly half of all the nuclear reactors under construction worldwide, according to the World Nuclear Assocnuclear reactors under construction worldwide, according to the World Nuclear AssocNuclear Association.

In the U.S. the five new nuclear reactors under construction will replace the four aging reactors that closed in 2013, but as older reactors like Oyster Creek in New Jersey and Vermont Yankee continue to shut down, the number of reactors in the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as well.

China has become the nuclear industry's living laboratory for new reactor designs and the learning that comes from actual construction.

Four such reactors are currently under construction in the country — now the only actual construction of such advanced nuclear power plants anywhere in the world.

«In comparison with countries like the U.S.A. and France, this number is very small, [but] we are first in the world in the construction of new nuclear reactors.»

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The DoE issued $ 6.5 billion in loan guarantees for two new Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors already under construction at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia in February.

The Prime Minister replied that the proposed investment of about # 177 million to complete the construction of two 440 - megawatt Soviet - designed VVER 213 reactors at Mochovce will be the first nuclear project financed by an international financial institution.

Updates to the map will also reflect the construction and decommission of nuclear reactors as appropriate.

Energy company SCANA subsidiary South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G) plans to add two AP - 1000 reactors to its nuclear power plant near Jenkinsville, S.C., by 2016 and 2019, whereas the Tennessee Valley Authority will finally complete Watts Bar Unit 2 near Chattanooga, Tenn. — more than 30 years after construction began, including a nearly two - decade hiatus — next year.

On the plus side, for instance, the U.S. is benefiting from a true nuclear boom abroad, with at least 60 reactors under construction worldwide; Southern and SCANA have picked up engineering and construction practices from the ongoing rapid construction of four AP - 1000 reactors in China over the past two years, for example.

Nuclear Elec - tric, which regularly assesses the level of neutron damage at its stations by monitoring the condition of samples of construction materials placed in the reactor, decided to shut down the plant's two reactors to investigate what was happening more thoroughly.

The United Kingdom, which last year promised to make it easier for nuclear reactors to be built but also said that it wouldn't provide any money for their construction, today announced a new nuclear safety review in light of the events in Japan.

If everything goes according to plan the first of two AP1000 reactors will go online in 2016 at Plant Vogtle in Burke County, Ga., marking the first U.S. nuclear construction project to break ground since the 1970s; the second is set to go online in 2017.

Areva's third - generation nuclear reactor, EPR, is now under construction at four sites: two in China, one in France and one in Finland.

Much of nuclear's revival hinges on the ability of new reactors to outshine those of yore in terms of safety, economics, construction time and life span.

We are pleased to announce that URS Nuclear, a unit of URS Corporation's (URS) Energy & Construction Division, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Holtec International that gives URS an important role in the development of Holtec's small modular reactor, the SMR - 160.

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.

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Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has invited small modular reactor project proponents to evaluate the construction and operation of a demonstration SMR project at a site it manages.

It should be possible to reduce the cost of nuclear power via modular standard reactor design, but governments need to provide a regulatory environment that supports timely construction of approved designs.

Small modular reactors - which are approximately one - third the size of current nuclear power plants - have compact, scalable designs that are expected to offer a host of safety, construction and economic benefits.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide.aspx says: «Nuclear power capacity worldwide is increasing steadily, with over 60 reactors under construction in 15 countries.»

To my mind, the Fukushima failure also builds the case for the kind of push under way in China, which is moving forward with construction of the first two of a new generation of nuclear reactors — cooled by helium, not water, and designed in a way that can not produce a meltdown of the fuel.

However, projected costs for new nuclear reactors have historically been underestimated and construction costs of all new energy facilities have recently risen.

Construction of a large number of nuclear power stations using the latest reactor designs.

And, despite having more than 30 new nuclear reactors under construction, China's new nuclear capability was still a fraction of new coal energy.

With the AP - 1000, the idea was that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) would license the plant and reactor design just once, giving its owners the security of moving forward with construction plans without fear that their design would be rejected by NRC.

While the cost of building nuclear plants rose when it switched designs, construction costs fell when it built the same reactor on the same site using the same team.

Given the nuclear solution requires new reactor designs yet to be built even for demonstration and test purposes, and then the complexities of siting nuclear power plants near the calling water they need while defending them against flood waters makes construction of tested designs take a decade.

The nuclear reactors whose construction was halted in South Carolina last Monday would likely produce electricity for the same or less than wind and solar, a new Environmental Progress analysis finds.

Currently, China has 38 operational nuclear power reactors, with another 19 under construction.

One wonders what it is going to take in order to get the Georgia Public Service Commissioners» attention when it comes to the two under - construction nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle?