Sentences with phrase «nuclear stations»

It is likely that further financial support will need to be provided by taxpayers or energy consumers before private investors are willing to commit to new nuclear stations.

That could cause serious problems for power plants, particularly nuclear stations along waterways.

Entergy has not commented, but most observers including Wall Street analysts assume the company sought some concession from Cuomo for its profitable Indian Point nuclear station in Westchester County.

Exelon Corporation says its Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station in Scriba is losing money and it is hoping for financial assistance from New York state in the near future.

The impact of existing nuclear stations on the UK's emissions is significant.

Many observers speculate that Entergy sought a compromise that would allow it to operate the profitable Indian Point nuclear station for a defined period in returning for keeping FitzPatrick open.

«You wonder,» says Andrew St Joseph, «about the wisdom of building two or three nuclear stations at Sizewell, on a shifting spit that is likely to erode over the coming decades.»

20 percent of the country's power This strange situation means that if the Government is successful in its policy of building eight new large nuclear stations, Britain will be getting almost half its electricity from nuclear power — something it has never told parliament or discussed as part of its energy policy.

■ New Jersey expects Exelon's 625 - MW Oyster Creek nuclear station in Ocean City to close in 2019.

Japan is sitting on enough untapped geothermal power to replace all its planned nuclear stations over the next decade.

HONG KONG (Reuters)- Japan is sitting on enough untapped geothermal power to replace all its planned nuclear stations over the next decade.

Green Party of Ontario Leader Mike Schreiner called the Quebec deal a step in the right direction, but said the province should not extend the life of the Pickering nuclear station or rebuild the reactors at the Darlington station.

Ontario has already wasted billions on natural gas - fired power plants that were never built and could potentially squander billions more refurbishing aging nuclear stations in a bid to prop up the province's atomic industry.

Happily, life extensions can go some way to alleviating the immediate problem, and at the end of 2012 it was announced that Hinkley Point B and Hunterston B nuclear stations would now be expected to remain operational until at least 2023, an additional seven years.

«Progressive energy policies will help ensure that Exelon's upstate nuclear stations can continue delivering zero - carbon electricity and driving local economies for many years to come,» said Joe Dominguez, Exelon's executive vice president of governmental and regulatory affairs and public policy, in a statement.

The owner of the FitzPatrick Nuclear Station in Scriba issued a threat in September that it may close next year, taking with it more than 600 good - paying jobs and $ 17 million in annual property tax revenue in Oswego County.

The company's three Upstate reactors - two at Nine Mile Point and one at the Ginna nuclear station - face the same financial challenges that sank FitzPatrick.

The governor still hopes to close Indian Point, a Downstate nuclear station.

If the Nuclear Regulatory Commission grants required approvals, the reactor, with its «passive» safety engineering, would be installed at the Vogtle nuclear station in Georgia as the first new unit built in the United States in a generation.

At Duke Energy's Oconee Nuclear Station in South Carolina, pumps that would be used to remove water from auxiliary buildings in a flood could not be used because the plugs did not fit any outlets in the area.

At that Pennsylvania nuclear station in 1979 a cooling malfunction combined with worker error led to a partial meltdown — about half of the reactor core melted and formed a radioactive puddle at the bottom of the steel pressure vessel.

In January, Lake Norman near Charlotte, N.C., dropped to 93.7 feet, less than a foot above the minimum allowed level for Duke Energy's McGuire Nuclear Station.

The South Carolina units will arrive later, being constructed at South Carolina Electric and Gas's V. C. Summer Nuclear Station.

Experts agree that any long - term effects are most likely to be seen in the workers battling the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear station.

EDF's existing nuclear stations produce nearly 20 percent of the country's electricity.

In two earlier posts I addressed potential replacement of New York's Indian Point nuclear station power using new projects that are licensed or under construction suggested by the Governor and the alternative use of renewables and energy efficiency as proposed by environmental organizations.

The economic viability of the Millstone nuclear station in Waterford, the largest power plant in New England and a crucial factor in Connecticut's commitment to reduce greenhouse gases, is about to become a major issue in Hartford.

The two clean energy procurements will help Massachusetts deal with the coming closure of aging generation facilities like the 1,530 MW Brayton Point coal plant and the 690 MW Pilgrim nuclear station, Haddad said.

As Ontario's Clean Air Alliance pointed out, that's lower than what a re-built Darlington Nuclear Station is expected to cost, assuming it doesn't go over budget (and history says it likely will).

The action starts with a dozen «next generation» nuclear stations proposed for South Africa, and accelerates toward 300 new nuclear generation plants

In the 1990s, leaks from the Braidwood nuclear station in Illinois contaminated local wells, and owner Exelon Corp. had to provide a new municipal water system.

I have worked as a contracted electrical supervisor and inspector for the United States Department of Defense in the Middle East and most recently as a technician at Duke Energy Catawba Nuclear Station; both jobs entailing rigorous safety and quality regulations.

Despite this hurdle, EDF still plans to build new nuclear stations in Somerset and in Suffolk, England, although the decision to go ahead has been postponed several times.

LONDON — The UK Government has been telling its parliament and the public that because eight large nuclear stations are scheduled to close over the next 10 years, the country needs urgently to build some new ones to keep the nation's lights on.

At the Indian Point nuclear station in Westchester County, just north of New York City, Entergy makes plenty of money but faces broad opposition.

They passed a motion on a green stimulus for the economy earlier this afternoon that included an amendment saying the government should «introduce a windfall tax on operators of existing nuclear stations, recovering through taxation the profits they make solely as a result of the introduction of the carbon floor price from April 2013».

A modern nuclear plant would operate in the 650MW area, so 2005 saw wind capacity additions that would be the rough equivalent of 14 brand new nuclear stations in terms of peak cumulative output.

On current lifetimes by 2023 all our nuclear stations, with the exception of Sizewell B in Suffolk, will have ceased operating.

The IDA's ads also will run in Westchester County, the site of Entergy Corp.'s Indian Point nuclear station.

And George Osborne expects me to deliver our agreement on nuclear power, which is that there is an important place for new nuclear stations in our energy mix as long as there is no public subsidy.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - In response to entreaties from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, officials at Nine Mile Point nuclear station have said they would pay for fuel to keep the neighboring FitzPatrick plant operating through at least the end of 2018 if FitzPatrick officials agree, an administration source said today.

At the same time, Parliament's energy and climate change committee has warned that failure to build new nuclear will make it much harder and more expensive for us to meet our climate change targets, that government appears to be «crossing its fingers that private companies will deliver» and that a Plan B is required in case new nuclear stations are not built on time...

In response to entreaties from Cuomo, officials at Nine Mile Point nuclear station have said they would pay for fuel to keep the neighboring FitzPatrick plant operating through at least the end of 2018 if FitzPatrick officials agree, an administration source said.

Exelon Corp., the owner of Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, is in talks to buy and continue operating the adjacent FitzPatrick plant, which will shut down six months from now if the deal fails.