Sentences with phrase «nuclear reactor designers»
Despite the severity of the accident at the Fukushima I plant, nuclear reactor designers don't expect the same type of backlash against the nuclear industry as occurred a generation ago after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
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Nuclear reactor designers say that the reactors being built or planned today are quite different — and they say much safer — than those that are still smoldering in Japan.
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Westinghouse, General Electric and other companies are major designers and suppliers of components for nuclear reactors.
The project has been plagued by billions of dollars in cost overruns, stagnant demand for electricity, competition from cheap natural gas plants and renewables, and the bankruptcy of Westinghouse Electric, the lead contractor and the designer of the AP1000 reactor that was supposed to be the foundation of a smarter, cheaper generation of nuclear power plants.
The NRC's July 1986 «Statement of Policy for Regulation of Advanced Nuclear Power Plants» encourages reactor designers to discuss licensing issues with the agency before submitting a full license application.
1983: Davis Polk successfully defends Babcock & Wilcox, a designer and manufacturer of nuclear reactors, in a $ 4 billion suit brought by General Public Utilities as a result of the Three - Mile Island accident.