Sentences with phrase «of nuclear generators»

To estimate economic impacts, the report uses publicly available economic data from announced pipeline projects, energy demand forecasts, and announced retirements of nuclear generators.

As cheap natural gas squeezes the margins of nuclear generators, there's only one company currently building reactors in the country — Southern Co., at its Vogtle plant in Georgia.

Too many times I have had litigators assure me that after the jury has heard two weeks — or two months — of testimony, they will fully comprehend how the microchip works or the structure of a nuclear generator or whatever the highly complex subject of the litigation is.

Not exact matches

Perry has repeatedly said that storing fuel on site makes coal and nuclear plants less prone to shutdowns than other power generators in the event of disasters and attacks.

This radioactive isotope of hydrogen is only manufactured in nuclear power plants and would cost any fusion generator $ 100 million per week.

And nuclear reactors are uninsurable so that there is a cap on the liability of the generator.

A recent freedom of information request has revealed that the government plans to place over # 1 billion of orders on equipment such as nuclear reactors to propel the new submarines, hydraulics, air purifiers, turbo - generators and bits of the hull prior to the Main Gate report.

In theory, this means that there will always be enough generators, portable pumps, batteries, compressors and debris clearing equipment to «mitigate the effects of any extreme event», Stephen Kuczynski, CEO of Southern Nuclear, a nuclear power company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, told a meeting of the American Physical Society in Boston on 1Nuclear, a nuclear power company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, told a meeting of the American Physical Society in Boston on 1nuclear power company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, told a meeting of the American Physical Society in Boston on 1 March.

The terrifying meltdowns and hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in the days following 11 March 2011 made the importance of backup electricity generators painfully clear.

In light of the Fukushima disaster, an obvious move might now be to recommend placing the backup generators for nuclear power stations on higher ground to guard against tsunamis or floods.

All but two of the 440 or so commercial nuclear reactors operating are thermal, and most of them — including the 103 U.S. power reactors — employ water both to slow neutrons and to carry fission - created heat to the associated electric generators.

More than 100 gigawatts of geothermal power (one tenth of the current U.S. electrical generation) could be developed for $ 1 billion during the next 40 years — at the full cost of one carbon - capturing coal - fired power plant or one - third the cost of a new nuclear generator.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.

Based on building materials used in the Arctic at the time, the authors speculate the site contains polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pollutants toxic to human health, along with an unknown volume of low - level radioactive coolant from the nuclear generator.

«Utilities today see no problem in swapping out steam generators or reactor cooling pumps,» said Brian Sheron, director of NRC's Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.

The restoration of nuclear power also won't solve Japan's long - standing transmission problems, which continue to hamstring the ability of power generators and utilities to move power from where it's produced to where it is most needed, experts say.

In the aftermath of Japan's earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was initially driven into shutdown by the magnitude 9.0 quake; its emergency generators then failed because they were inundated by the tsunami.

«The tubes in the steam generators were susceptible to cracking,» says Ken Karwoski, senior level advisor for steam generators and material inspection at the NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

If they closed, that huge decommissioning liability would have to be shown on the nuclear generator's balance sheet — figures that would soon overtake the net worth of the company, thus making it technically bankrupt.

Our proposal has been prepared with substantial assistance from PSEG Power, which is New Jersey's largest power generator and the operator of the Salem and Hope Creek nuclear plants in the southern part of the state.

At Sandia National Laboratory, Myers works on the Z machine, the world's most powerful pulsed - power facility and x-ray generator, which produces high energy density plasmas that are used to study fusion and the physics of nuclear weapons.

For existing commercial nuclear generators (and for any new facilities built in other countries), we should stick to the so - called «once through» fuel cycle, with direct disposal of spent fuel, and strongly encourage other countries to do likewise.

Yes, for the individual owner it maybe does, but that at the cost of the rest of the world, because electric energy still comes mostly from coal / oil / nuclear power generators for one, with correspondent pollution and infrastructure load.

More than 90 % of this unit's profit comes from critical nuclear components such as: core barrels, reactor vessels, closure heads, steam generators, and pressurizers.

The above chart of American Electric Power (AEP), an Ohio - based electricity generator and distributer that runs the gamut from coal to hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, and wind sources, might explain why traders sometimes bypass utilities.

When finally completed, it will stand as the world's largest generator of hydro - electric power, with a yearly output equal to that of fifty million tons of coal or fifteen nuclear power plants.

What amount of planning calls batteries with a life of eight hours a back - up plan for cooling a nuclear generator?

Thousands of small generators, including rooftop solar panels and facilities that extract energy from garbage or sewage, could feed into the system, replacing or complementing big coal, nuclear or natural gas plants, they say.

Learn more: Historical average annual heat rates for fossil fuel and nuclear power plants Average annual heat rates for specific types of fossil - fuel generators and nuclear power plants

No matter what type of power generation there may be on a power grid, there must always be a fall - back available; all generators, including coal - fired and nuclear, fail from time to time.

It allowed those hefty allowances to be sold or transferred to other power plants for a profit, however, ameliorating protests from nuclear generators — particularly newly born E.ON, which amassed ownership of 12 of the 19 reactors after the merger of Germany's biggest utilities, Veba and Viag.

In 2000, under then - Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Germany's first center - left coalition of Social Democrats (SDP) and the Green Party implemented a nuclear phase - out with the passage of Atomausstieg, a controversial policy change that stymied nuclear generators» unlimited lifetime licenses and strong legal guarantees.

Of the country's 6,000 coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar electric - generating facilities, a small sub-group of mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report founOf the country's 6,000 coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar electric - generating facilities, a small sub-group of mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report founof mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report founof the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report found.

By necessity, conventional firm capacity generators: nuclear, biomass, natural gas, hydropower, etc. will remain the primary suppliers of electricity to the New England grid well into the future.

Two more U.S. nuclear power plants are facing early retirement, joining a string of generators whose fate was determined by market conditions, political pressure, or financial stresses assailing the sector.

In January, FERC, an independent regulatory government agency that is officially organized as part of the Department of Energy (DOE), thwarted a DOE proposal to require independent system operators and regional transmission organizations to establish «just and reasonable» rates for resilient and reliable plants, such as coal and nuclear baseload generators.

In my 11 January 2018 technical article titled, «Diablo Canyon Retirement» I note that a single California nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) generated 180 % of the power of ALL of California's 6,000 MW of wind generators for the half - year ending on 31 January 2017.

Meaning the grid's power is just an accumulation of all generators such as coal, nuclear, hydro, etc..

In addition, nuclear generators are discussing the potential retirements of several more.

Of course, lower wholesale electricity prices hurt gas - fired power plants as well, but the low prices are «most harmful to coal - based generators and to a lesser extent nuclear - based generators.»

«Lower natural gas prices have effectively driven down wholesale power prices for all generators, regardless of whether they are using natural gas, coal, nuclear power or renewable resources to generate their electricity.»

As well every CO of every military base in the world would give his left nut to have his own electrical grid not reliant on diesel fueled generators with a defensible small nuclear power plant.

The Department of Energy recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on grid resiliency that would have guaranteed cost - plus - profit returns to generators that store 90 days of fuel on - site — coal and nuclear plants.

The opportunity for the purchase was presented by a confluence of events — the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, the generous support for brown coal generators in the government's carbon pricing package, which will see Loy Yang A alone get more than $ 1.2 billion in cash payments and free permits, and the anticipated sharp cost increases for NSW black coal generators as their subsidized source of coal comes to an end.

«The introduction of legislation in Connecticut to put nuclear energy on a level playing field with other non-carbon emitting power generators is overdue but welcome news,» David Blee, executive director of the Nuclear Infrastructure Council, told The Daily Caller News Founnuclear energy on a level playing field with other non-carbon emitting power generators is overdue but welcome news,» David Blee, executive director of the Nuclear Infrastructure Council, told The Daily Caller News FounNuclear Infrastructure Council, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

While many electric utilities have built their capital intensive infrastructure around the availability of fossil energy to drive their generators, utilities have had the choice to lead the transition to a zero net emissions energy system via the use of renewable and nuclear energy to generate electricity.

Coal rose by 63 %, natural gas fuelled generators by 20 %, nuclear by 5.3 %, and various kinds of oil and, critically, duel fuel generators by 26 %.

On the charge of dormant Commerce Clause breach, the judges found the plaintiffs» argument failed to show how out - of - state nuclear plants were suffering from ZEC implementation and that coal and gas - fired generators» interests are not protected under the Clause as non-nuclear entities.

We spent, I mean, now it's in legal case, but the proposal is to spend $ 6.6 billion taking down a nuclear plant that could have run for 30 to 50 years more instead of just spending another 800 million on replacing the steam generators.

Traditional grids invented by Thomas Edison draw supplies from a handful of generators fueled mostly by coal, nuclear and natural gas plants, which can run around the clock.