Sentences with phrase «nuclear reactors in»

And though the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently approved the first new nuclear reactors in decades, the projects have been plagued by delays and high costs.

Of all the 52 active nuclear reactors in Japan experts agree that the 5 reactors in Hamaoka are the most dangerous.

Enter Areva SA, a power developer largely owned by the French government, which has signed an agreement with the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group to build nuclear reactors in California's Central Valley.

Or believe it or not, there could have been a complete meltdown of several nuclear reactors in an earthquake and tsunami - hit region...

China has at least four next generation nuclear reactors in the works, including one financed by Bill Gates, who is expected to put millions and perhaps billions of his own money into the joint venture.

The post, «Germany's Solar Panels Produce More Power Than Japan's Entire Fukushima Complex,» implies that solar PV may be an adequate substitute for aging nuclear reactors in both Germany and Japan.

Deaths in the US from the operation of commercial nuclear reactors in the past five decades: 0.

Great Britain is planning to build several new nuclear reactors in Wales, which could be online by the mid-2020s.

BTW, you'll also find some references to Small Nuclear Reactors in my other posts that may be of interest.

I guess some more nuclear reactors in the US would help and I am on - board with that.

Many nuclear reactors in the U.S. are on the brink of closing due to their lack of price competitiveness compared to natural gas.

In response to former Australian Prime Minister John Howard's ambition to construct nuclear reactors in undisclosed locations in Australia, several commentators pointed out some interesting specifics about the most recent reactors constructed around the world.

During a brief building period that lasted less than 40 years, electricity production from nuclear reactors in the U.S. increased from zero to 800 billion kilowatt - hours per year.

Several U.S. states have passed, or are mulling, programs that expand state aid to financially distressed nuclear reactors in a bid to keep them open for economic and environmental reasons.

State legislatures in New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania are exploring similar options to support troubled nuclear reactors in their state.

Also, power stations may go offline due to insufficient water available for cooling — 25 % of nuclear reactors in the US are already affected.

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.

China already has 26 nuclear reactors in the works, with an additional 60 planned, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute.

Sierra Club Canada works to encourage Canada to follow the lead of other nuclear dependant countries, such as Germany and Belgium, that have legislated the planned phase - out of their nuclear reactors in favour of green energy options and energy efficiency.

The total market for nuclear reactors in Canada is small.

The device will be used to calibrate safety detectors at nuclear reactors in the United Kingdom.

: A plan to upgrade two nuclear reactors in Solvakia may force Western governments to stop dithering over nuclear safety in Eastern Europe.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection has assembled a special team to assess the risk of water pollution and to investigate potential problems at the undisclosed number of nuclear reactors in Sichuan, where uranium fuel is produced.

Soviet scientists made redundant by the end of the Cold War want to earn a living by incinerating toxic chemicals and old nuclear reactors in underground nuclear blasts.

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).

FIERCE criticism is being directed from all quarters at the proposal by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to finish building two Soviet - designed nuclear reactors in Slovakia.

«There are 440 operational nuclear reactors in the world, with approximately one - half situated along the coastline,» the study's authors wrote.

Plans to build a new generation of nuclear reactors in Italy have run aground following the accident at the Fukushima plant in Japan last month.

China pauses its plans to build the most new nuclear reactors in the world in the wake of the accident at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan — but will not halt them

At present, 30 countries include nuclear reactors in their power portfolio.

The neglect stems not only from technical challenges, he explains, but also from political reluctance to put nuclear reactors in space.

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.

After two nuclear reactors in Tennessee were temporarily shut down in the 1980s, coal - fired power plants picked up various amounts of the slack.

The three nuclear reactors in Oswego County provide more than 1,500 high - paying jobs, millions of dollars in property tax payments, and hundreds of millions of dollars in annual economic activity.

The former national - security adviser worked on, but allegedly failed to disclose, a plan to work with Russia to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East.

India's foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment on Russia's ties with Pakistan, but has previously said that its own relations with Moscow have stood the test of time, and that the two nations are building up defense and energy relations, including collaboration on nuclear reactors in India.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A plan to temporarily store tons of spent fuel from U.S. commercial nuclear reactors in New Mexico is drawing fire from critics who say the federal government needs to consider more alternatives.

May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

Not a single nuclear reactor in this country has ever been built on time or to budget.

The party's comments come in the wake of the decision to upgrade the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan to level seven - the same as the Chernobyl disaster.

When the Iraqis tried to build a nuclear reactor in 1981, the Israelis, perhaps out of fear that it could be used to develop nuclear weapons, bombed it.

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.

But the furor that began last year over leakage of radioactive tritium from underground pipes into the groundwater around the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vernon, Vt., illustrated how concerns about reactor safety could suddenly swamp relicensing plans.

David Hahn, nicknamed Glow Boy by his high school friends, tried to build a nuclear reactor in a potting shed in his backyard — and came shockingly close to succeeding.

US spy satellites had identified only one small nuclear reactor in China capable of making the material for a bomb, and the report concluded that it could not produce enough until 1965.

The meetings are meant to prepare for next year's closure of Canada's National Research Universal nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont.

After his retirement from Tohoku University in 2012, he moved to Maui to complete a 60 cm telescope moving the project from Tohoku University's Iitate observatory, which has been contaminated with radiation by the accident of nuclear reactor in March 2011, to Haleakala summit.

Most of the story is set at a small nuclear reactor in California and centers on a free - wheeling cameraman, the chief engineer at the reactor, a man who truly believes that nuclear energy is a safe and efficient form of power, and a female reporter who is trying to prove that she is better suited to hard news than the never - ending stream of fluff pieces she is handed.

None of the timelines function well on their own — the setting furthest in the future, in which Tom Hanks plays a tribesman in distant - future Hawaii after the fall, is least convincing, but Halle Berry as a journalist snooping around a nuclear reactor in «70s California is nearly as bad — but the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts.

YA / General Interest: Eclectic teens with an eye for the extraordinary will love this tale of one of their ilk who tried to assemble a breeder nuclear reactor in his backyard.