Sentences with phrase «nuclear reactor takes»

Whereas the typical Chinese nuclear reactor takes roughly six years to build, a wind farm can be completed in a matter of months.

simply saying that germany is building coal - fired plants to replace NUCLEAR REACTORS taken offline and consequently will produce more co2... how does that refute that solar can replace fossil fuel sources?

Not exact matches

In two weeks, it will be 26 years since Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded on April 26, 1986, so we thought it time to take another look at Suess's photos.

Just weeks after taking power Theresa May has landed her first major diplomatic row — with the Chinese government going nuclear over plans to pause the new reactor at Hinkley Point.

But Mr. Cuomo has taken an opposite stance on Entergy's Indian Point nuclear plant in Westchester County, which has two reactors.

But community groups are concerned about the potential for accidents, and environmentalists about the toll nuclear takes on water resources and the wildlife killed when reactors use river or lake water for cooling — particularly at Indian Point, less than 30 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River.

They are unlikely to have to resort to the desperate measures taken at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, where a reactor exploded and burned 25 years ago.

This week, EDF Energy took offline three of its nuclear reactors at its Heysham 1 and Hartlepool plants in Britain for inspection which are both 31 years old, after a crack was discovered on a boiler spine of another Heysham 1 reactor with a similar boiler design, which had already been taken offline in June.

With nuclear safety in the spotlight since the 2011 reactor meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant - which in turn prompted Germany to call time on its entire nuclear fleet - operators can take no chances with their elderly plants, but the outages get longer and more difficult.

The chemical tests often involve dedicated analytical laboratories, even nuclear reactors, and take place months or years after an archaeological site has been excavated.

That element is produced in small amounts in nuclear reactors and has a half - life of less than a year, which means it takes years to build up enough for an experiment.

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

On 14 March, engineers decided they had to take further steps to cool the reactor vessel down, and so began pumping sea water into the vessel along with boron, an element that dampens nuclear reactions by soaking up the neutrons which drive them.

KIEV, Ukraine — In 1986 the worst nuclear accident in history took place when reactor No. 4 in the power plant at nearby Chernobyl exploded, spewing large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.

Proving that this grass actually uses nitrogen excreted from the bacteria took some clever experiments, a global collaboration and a nuclear reactor.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA Take a tour of the National Ignition Facility, a huge new nuclear fusion reactor.

The IAEA took possession of the fuel in Iraq's two research reactors in mid-1991, after the UN inspected Iraqi nuclear facilities in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

The first new nuclear reactor ordered in the U.S. in roughly three decades is beginning to take shape in the red clay near Augusta, Ga..

Chelyabinsk was the site of a massive explosion in 1957, and is the probable destination of fuel taken by the UN from nuclear reactors in Iraq (This Week, 19 June).

That may mean that several of the country's 17 nuclear reactors will be taken offline in the coming weeks.

«We're going to take plutonium oxide that's a powder, turn it into fuel form, put it in the reactor, make it more radioactive, and then put that into the ground,» Loewen admits, which would also render it unfit for nuclear weapons.

A new era for nuclear power is taking shape as third - generation reactors, designed to be simpler and safer, inch through the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) design certification pnuclear power is taking shape as third - generation reactors, designed to be simpler and safer, inch through the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) design certification pNuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) design certification process.

But neither the South Texas facility nor the applications for new reactors at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland and the Shearon Harris nuclear plant outside Raleigh, N.C., have completed the NRC's long design safety and feasibility evaluation, which could take years to complete.

TKF: Let's take a moment to consider that most of the gold, silver and platinum in our valuable jewelry, as well as the uranium in our nuclear reactors, was created when mind - bogglingly dense neutron stars crushed into each other at incredible speeds.

«What it does is it takes different sorts of fuel materials such as plutonium or used nuclear fuel, it casts that into a metallic fuel, it puts it in a reactor that has liquid sodium as a coolant — and if you have liquid sodium as a coolant then the energies of the neutrons are higher so you can use a different fuel source.

Now, they are wielding a nuclear weapon with a 6 - mile blast radius, the core reactor taken from a sustainable energy source that Wayne's company had quietly been developing with guidance of board member Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard).

The first map heading the pack is Core which takes place in the Gobi desert around a destroyed nuclear reactor.

While right now wind power has overtaken nuclear in China, and wind should keep growing rapidly, it takes a lot longer to build a reactor than a wind turbine, so these number will likely look different over time.

Nuclear helps reduce emissions, but building 1000 reactors (+ political debate + licensing) will take several decades, at least.

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.

Hear from Piers Corbyn about his take on what is going on with the nuclear reactors in Japan and the danger to the West Coast of the United States.

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?

This takes a certain amount of thermal heat from the nuclear reactors.

The US representative took the opportunity to plug nuclear energy, rather laughably since the US hasn't commissioned a new reactor since 1978, the year before Three Mile Island.

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Aging nuclear reactors will soon enough be taken offline for refurbishment or decommissioning.

But more recently, solar reactors have taken up this research into thermochemistry, based on solar heat rather than nuclear.

Without the federal government capping nuclear industry liability (i.e. Price Anderson Act), signing contracts to take custody and dispose of spent nuclear fuel (i.e. Nuclear Waste Policy Act), bankrolling civilian and military atomic research and development for light water and breeder reactors (i.e. Atomic Energy Act), and other programs, the industry would notnuclear industry liability (i.e. Price Anderson Act), signing contracts to take custody and dispose of spent nuclear fuel (i.e. Nuclear Waste Policy Act), bankrolling civilian and military atomic research and development for light water and breeder reactors (i.e. Atomic Energy Act), and other programs, the industry would notnuclear fuel (i.e. Nuclear Waste Policy Act), bankrolling civilian and military atomic research and development for light water and breeder reactors (i.e. Atomic Energy Act), and other programs, the industry would notNuclear Waste Policy Act), bankrolling civilian and military atomic research and development for light water and breeder reactors (i.e. Atomic Energy Act), and other programs, the industry would not exist.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation told the same committee it could take up to six years just to approve the design of the reactors.

ELPC has fought to halt construction, and close down, Illinois nuclear reactors, for over 20 years, and takes money from fossil and renewable energy companies that stand to benefit from the closure of Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear plants.

Coal to gas switching would have resulted in lower emissions except for the fact that Germany took nuclear reactors off - line.

I do tend to agree with your take on the nuclear option, particularly the new «fast» sodium reactors.

• The restructuring of the former Areva into Framatome and Orano is complete, with the world's largest nuclear plant operator EDF taking ownership of Framatome, which focuses on reactors, fuel fabrication and services.

The UK's only new nuclear reactor in planning, at Hinkley Point, is likely to take longer than that to build.

Renewables are intermittent and take up a lot of space: generating a gigawatt of electricity with wind takes hundreds of square kilometres, whereas a nuclear reactor with the same capacity will fit into a large industrial building.

American utilities have taken a very short - term view on project pay - back and cite $ 7,500 + per - kW prices on new reactors and outlandish per - kWh costs to customers (Lovins has a piece denouncing nuclear because of this, but he doesn't take into consideration that its been done much cheaper elsewhere).

Is that a rational balancing of concerns or are those voices so ignorant of the progress being made by engineers in South Africa, China, France and elsewhere to take the pebble bed nuclear reactor to the commercial deployment stage in this next decade.

Modern reactors are much, much safer, but nuclear safety is still not something to take lightly.