Sentences with phrase «nuclear units»

However, I am confident that, once finished, the plant will be one of the safest and most sophisticated nuclear unit in the world.

Note that those projections assume no changes in the upstate nuclear units.

The plant's nuclear units use ocean water for cooling.

The auction of the prized asset is essential to Toshiba's plans to cover multi-billion writedowns at U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse that have plunged it into crisis.

The investment is a bet by Baupost's chief executive, Seth Klarman, that Toshiba, which has been rocked by accounting scandals as well as the financial demise of its bankrupt U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse Electric Corp, will stand by its pledge to pay out these claims.

While all variations of the plan envision the relicensing of the company's four existing nuclear units at the Surry and North Anna stations, none calls for a third reactor at North Anna, which Dominion has been contemplating.

Construction of the two new nuclear units at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle, among the first to be built in the United States in more than three decades, is also progressing well.

In addition, Ohio power company FirstEnergy in March said its competitive arm would close four uneconomic nuclear units in PJM with generation capacity of 4 GW by year - end 2021.

The chart shows total daily nuclear unit outages since 2007 based on data available from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

The first truly large - scale nuclear unit — a 428,000 - kilowatt installation at San Onofre, Calif. — was licensed for construction as recently as February 24, 1964, and announcements of commercial nuclear power projects did not begin to gain momentum until the fall of 1965; yet by the summer of 1966 nuclear power had drawn abreast of fossil power in the utility marketplace.

Since then, over 20 nuclear units utilize the FHD including Chernobyl in Ukraine and Sizewell B in the U.K.

The NuScale Power Module's cost per kWh is competitive with other sources of base load electricity generation, and less than the cost per kWh of large nuclear units.

Having fingered brother Ben (Corey Stoll in present day, Tye Sheridan in 1985) for the murder of her entire nuclear unit, Libby lives in a prison of her own making.

«At once tragic and madcap, Sharpe's second novel offers an acidly funny portrait of a «diminished nuclear unit» coping with its patriarch's pharmacologically induced stroke.»

A December report from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) said U.S. power generation from renewable sources, along with natural gas, would produce enough electricity to offset retirements of U.S. coal and nuclear units over the next 10 years.

EIA also considered a case in which new nuclear units not already under construction were treated for compliance purposes similar to other non-carbon (i.e., renewable) generation.

Duke Energy Corp. continues to pursue the federal license to build and operate nuclear units in Cherokee County, near the North Carolina border, spokesman Ryan Mosier said.

The report reviews publicly available data on energy and capacity prices and nuclear unit costs from the Nuclear Energy Institute for 2013 through 2017.

The nation's first ZEC programs began in New York and Illinois and require load - serving entities (e.g. electric utilities) to purchase ZECs from specified, in - state nuclear facilities (note: only certain nuclear units in New York and Illinois qualify).

Dominion failed to get Connecticut lawmakers to adopt a Millstone subsidy similar to what Illinois and New York adopted to keep marginal nuclear units able to bid into the competitive capacity markets.

Phasing out the United States» entire nuclear power supply by 2030 would increase the country's carbon dioxide emissions by at least 5 % and as much as 13 %, depending on what mix of power plants replace the aging nuclear units.

Korsnick specifically pointed to Ohio and Pennsylvania, which, without policy intervention, are poised to lose power from four uneconomic nuclear units owned by a bankrupt FirstEnergy subsidiary.

Baseload generators, like nuclear units, typically have high capacity factors, while peaking generators like natural gas - fired combustion turbines have low capacity factors.

State incentives could «discourage premature retirement» and «encourage deployment of nuclear unit designs that reflect advances over earlier designs,» wrote the EPA in its proposed carbon dioxide rule, issued by the Obama administration on Monday.

A number of coal - and oil - fired power plants will likely be retired, and while Virginia's four existing nuclear units will remain in use, plans for a fifth reactor remain shelved, for now.

Toshiba is depending on the sale of the unit, the world's second - largest NAND chip maker, to cover billions of dollars in cost overruns at its now - bankrupt U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse.

Toshiba is seeking a minimum of $ 18 billion for the world's second - biggest producer of NAND chips and wants to get the deal done as quickly as possible to help it cover billions of dollars in cost overruns at now - bankrupt nuclear unit Westinghouse.

«We continue working very closely with all stakeholders to finalize a CES that properly values upstate nuclear units for their clean energy and reliability attributes.

«They're asking the DOE to declare that not just their power plants but every coal and nuclear unit in PJM should be given a profit guarantee,» said Dick Munson, director of Midwest Clean Energy for the Environmental Defense Fund.

The program is currently supporting construction of new nuclear units that add emissions free electricity capacit to our grid, and help strengthen our diversity.

The bean - counters wanted to probe the previous financial year at Westinghouse, the U.S. nuclear unit that is now in bankruptcy protection, sources have told Reuters — something Toshiba opposed.

The Japanese company has been in flux, after delaying its financial reports and struggling to sell its nuclear unit.

Laurie Penny's article on p22 shows the progress made in political circles to accept different kinds of families - although MPs will argue that the Kelly report marks a large step backward for keeping a nuclear unit together.

Just as importantly, the law effectively creates a market for offshore wind at a time when many of the aging coal, oil and nuclear units that underpinned New England's electric grid are retiring (Climatewire, May 30).

Though the Royal Family and those closest to them are not always in agreement with one another, there's a balance to their nuclear unit which strengthens the Wakandan throne.

Here he presents the nuclear unit as having lost all of its meaning, just as the body becomes disassociated from the soul.

«Assuming marginal load growth as the economy grows,» he said, «and taking out all the once - through cools, except the nuclear units, you have approximately 4,600 megawatts of ramping resources that you need by 2020.»

This is about the price paid to coal and nuclear units, which run almost all the time.

In Finland, used fuel management is currently handled by Posiva, a company mutually owned by the operators of the existing nuclear units.

Natural gas accounted for 59 % of net generation in 2013, and 3,940 MW of new natural gas capacity came online in 2013, which will help address some of the reserve capacity needs for balancing renewables, as well as replace some of the baseload power that was lost when two of the state's four nuclear units were retired in 2012.