Sentences with phrase «of nuclear plant operators»

The IAEA should consider a system of compulsory peer reviews of nuclear plant operators and national nuclear regulatory organizations, they add.

Part of the reason is obvious: It needs the expertise to improve and maintain the nation's nuclear weapons stockpiles, and it needs people to replace the first generation of nuclear plant operators and engineers, many of whom are now retiring.

Not exact matches

One of Yoh's hires, a Ph.D. in education, recognized that power operators at electric - and nuclear - power plants had the same need to get it right 100 % of the time; he was right.

The state - run nuclear power plant operator was preparing for further cyber-attacks after its data was leaked on a blog and to a Twitter account under the profile «president of anti-nuclear reactor group.»

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted Entergy, the owner / operator of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan permission to extend the frequency of the containment integrated leak rate test from once every 10 years to once every 15 years on a permanentNuclear Regulatory Commission granted Entergy, the owner / operator of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan permission to extend the frequency of the containment integrated leak rate test from once every 10 years to once every 15 years on a permanentnuclear power plant in Buchanan permission to extend the frequency of the containment integrated leak rate test from once every 10 years to once every 15 years on a permanent basis.

Most of the nuclear facilities currently operating in America don't have them, and few of the operators of the older plants would opt to build them because of the cost, N.R.C. spokesman Neil Sheehan said.

Federal regulators say the owner of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County failed to amend a reactor operator's license when the man developed sleep apnea.

The operator of New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant and a local union have reached a contract agreement for security workers.

Nuclear power plant operators would purchase and store portable equipment that could be used to provide additional means of cooling the reactor, a plan that could be in place as soon as 2015.

In the US, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is giving plant operators in central and eastern parts of the country 18 months to revise their hazard assessments, following a new report reconsidering the risks posed by the region's geological faults.

Transfers of casks from operating reactors could follow, and the report authors said that would help resolve a long - running court dispute over payments nuclear plant operators are required to make to the federal government in return for federal storage of the spent fuel — a bargain the federal government has not kept.

LONDON (Reuters)- Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars.

Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars

The TEPCO operators of the stricken nuclear power plant — a minimal staff of 50 as all non-essential personnel have been evacuated — now face a balance between venting the steam building up in the reactor (since the main danger for a widespread release of radioactive material is steam bursting the thick steel container holding the reactor) and keeping any radioactive materials inside the power plant itself.

The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will double the pay of contract workers as part of a revamp of operations at the station, after coming under criticism for its handling of clean - up efforts.

Meserve said he urged the panels to strengthen Japan's regulatory oversight of nuclear power, making nuclear safety the highest priority for plant operators, above cost and power production.

Last Friday at 11 A.M., the operators of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vt., detected a leak.

Of all the failures, human error among the 50 to 55 reactor operators who staff a nuclear power plant control room in shifts looms largest, particularly in the case of the most notorious nuclear accident in U.S. history: Three Mile Island (TMIOf all the failures, human error among the 50 to 55 reactor operators who staff a nuclear power plant control room in shifts looms largest, particularly in the case of the most notorious nuclear accident in U.S. history: Three Mile Island (TMIof the most notorious nuclear accident in U.S. history: Three Mile Island (TMI).

Task force member Gary Holahan, deputy director of NRC's Office of New Reactors, said yesterday that the group concluded that action was needed to remedy the kinds of inconsistent performance by nuclear plant operators where safety measures covering extreme hazards were covered by voluntary guidelines.

Then the task force followed with a dozen major recommendations, some of which would order nuclear plant operators to strengthen defenses against extreme flooding or earthquakes when necessary and to harden vents that would carry away explosive hydrogen gas from damaged reactor cores in the two types of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Hindering that process were a lack of regulations as well as «a collusion between the government, the [nuclear] regulators and [plant operator] Tepco and the lack of governance by said parties ``, Kurokawa's panel said in an English - language summary.

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.

NuScale Power has created a new kind of nuclear power plant - a smaller, scalable pressurized water reactor with passive safety features, allowing shutdown and self - cooling, with no operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external water.

The first commercial 12 - module power plant, which will be owned by Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and run by an experienced nuclear operator, Energy Northwest, is planned for construction on land owned by the US Department of Energy at the Idaho National Laboratory.

Years back, during the congressional hearings over the FPO (full power operation) permit for the Seabrook power plant on the east coast, I found out about a MOA (Memorandum of Agreement) between the US NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) and INPO (Institute of Nuclear Power Operations), which is a private corporation that can be hired by nuclear power operators for tasks such as investigating nuclear power plant safety deficiNuclear Regulatory Commission) and INPO (Institute of Nuclear Power Operations), which is a private corporation that can be hired by nuclear power operators for tasks such as investigating nuclear power plant safety deficiNuclear Power Operations), which is a private corporation that can be hired by nuclear power operators for tasks such as investigating nuclear power plant safety deficinuclear power operators for tasks such as investigating nuclear power plant safety deficinuclear power plant safety deficiencies.

In the aftermath of the 2010 Chilean tsunami (which reached Japan) and only three months before the March 2011 Japanese tsunami and nuclear accident, the operator of the Fukushima plant had completed an internal tsunami hazard study that concluded, «We assessed and confirmed the safety to the nuclear power plant.»

After the great 2011 earthquake and tsunami triggered leaks and explosions at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex (problems continue), pressures intensified on the operators of America's nuclear plants to demonstrate they can be run safely.

It was notable to see David Lochbaum, a longtime critic of Indian Point and its operators who works at the Union of Concerned Scientists, describe in The Times article the strain on the region's electric power transmission system without the nuclear plants:

Increasing nuclear power plant efficiency from 1980 to today came from two areas: first, improvements to how operators re-fuel reactors, and keep plants and their workers safe; second, increasing the heat and electrical generation of plants through «up - rates.»

Already by the early 1970s, U.S. nuclear plant operators were seeking to standardize nuclear plant design to reduce the time and cost of licensing and construction.

In the aftermath of the nuclear moratorium, the country's four major nuclear plant operators called foul, loudly.

The urgency of an accelerated grid expansion has been underlined several times since last May by individual grid operators — as well as by the Federal Grid Agency, which warned that nuclear plant closures had brought the nation's transmission grids «to the edge of their resilience.»

The NRDC cites the «2016 State of the Market» report by PJM, the largest grid operator in North America, as showing that «new entrant natural gas - fired combined cycle plants, combustion turbine plants, and solar are economical, but that new coal and nuclear plants are not.»

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.

Five of the six regional grid operators and companies outside the coal and nuclear sector argued FERC should not issue a «universal resilience standard» or direct changes to plant compensation, instead allowing grid operators to identify and address resilience challenges independently with FERC guidance.

The grid operator is also in the midst of a plan to let subsidized coal and nuclear plants leapfrog over competitors in bidding into that annual capacity auction.

Now that Ohio - based utility First Energy has declared bankruptcy, there is the possibility that its three nuclear plants could be purchased by Exelon, which has proven capable of operating its plants at a cost that is roughly one - quarter less than other nuclear operators.

Explore the economics of nuclear plants and discover how vendors and operators are changing them.

The PJM independent system operator (ISO) said there is no imminent danger to the grid when it was asked about the First Energy bankruptcy filing and First Energy's request of FERC for cost recovery for its nuclear and coal - fired power plants.

PJM vice president Stu Bresler said the plan described in the grid operator's November 15 report was in the works well before the Department of Energy proposed rules to guarantee cost recovery for coal and nuclear plants in the PJM region and certain other competitive markets.

The capacity market approach pays utilities and other operators billions of pounds to commit to keep their coal, gas, nuclear and hydro power plants open, for up to four years ahead, regardless of whether they were planning to do this anyway, and regardless of whether they generate any electricity.

Perry has filed a proposed rulemaking that asks the federal regulators (two of which are Trump appointees, with an additional two more pending Senate approval) to approve of the rule in order to allow power market operators to establish a new tariff for power plants that have a 90 - day fuel supply on site — a naked nod to coal and nuclear plants.

That's because the North Anna nuclear plants are only two out of more than 1,300 generating units (power plants) feeding a 13 - state portion of the transmission grid managed by independent operator PJM Interconnection.

Many countries have now liberalized the electricity market where these risks, and the risk of cheaper competitors emerging before capital costs are recovered, are borne by plant suppliers and operators rather than consumers, which leads to a significantly different evaluation of the economics of new nuclear power plants.

• 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 nature of the wind subsidy is such that it has required the main operator of Illinois» nuclear power plants to pay for the power surges created by wind turbines.

This insufficient provision for future liability can be considered a form of environmentally harmful indirect support to the owner / operators of French nuclear power plants.»

The story may sound familiar to many operators of industrial facilities: the nuclear power plant started operation and then found the endangered crocodiles had made a nest in their canals.

The operator of one of the robots that are being using in the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been blogging about his experience, until one day about a month ago, after the blog received more social media exposure, everything disappeared.

... The Market for Electricity is Rigged... The preferential dispatch system used by many RTO / ISO grid operators favors wind and solar to the exclusion of critical baseload power from fossil fuel and nuclear power plants.