Sentences with phrase «of nuclear plants»

If something needs to be done about CO2, then the next generation of nuclear plants needs to be developed!

Another hypothesis might be that the closure of nuclear plants resulted in higher energy prices.

This already poses problems for the safety of nuclear plants, and is only going to get worse.

Responsible for completing electrical maintenance projects and over 3000 preventive maintenance tasks to ensure critical operation of nuclear plant equipment.

Do I think we will have to swallow a bunch of nuclear plants as part of the grand bargain to make this all possible and that other countries will build most of these?

The number of nuclear plants under construction is dropping steadily as projects are completed or abandoned while hardly any new ones take their place.

The German grid is undergoing dramatic changes caused by the shutdown of its nuclear plants and its fast - rising reliance on wind and solar power.

It stands to reason that a new fleet of nuclear plants must incorporate a solution to the waste problem well before they get off the drawing board.

If left up to the market, many of these nuclear plants would retire, which would be beneficial for merchant generators.

How this gets implemented will depend on how the regulations are written but may include improving the efficiency of existing plants or increasing the output of nuclear plants.

There was a wave of nuclear plant construction from the late 1960s to about 1990.

He says he is not against nuclear power or natural gas extraction, but is concerned about the close proximity of the nuclear plant and the gas pipeline.

It might have something to do with the fact that the majority of those nuclear plants were built long time ago when nuclear power was still deemed of strategic importance.

Again, we have been hearing a lot of optimistic statements from the nuclear engineering community about new types of nuclear plants for decades, with no real developments.

· Demand for nuclear energy globally is low, and the new reactors being built may not keep up with the closure of nuclear plants around the world.

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

The analysis is of nuclear plants expected to be in commercial operation by 2030, and only counts reactors being built outside of the vendor nation.

Sometimes, when the operator of a nuclear plant announces a closure, the workers just give up.

But they're still pretty challenging for nuclear overall around the country; at least this kind of nuclear plant.

Take the entire energy cycle of a nuclear plant into consideration, however, and the low carbon picture is not so clear.

And 75 % of the French fleet of nuclear plants were constructed in just 7 years!

We'll need coal plants as a feed source for the output of a nuclear plant.

Over the last two years, as I've travelled around the world speaking out in defense of nuclear plants at risk of being replaced by fossil fuels, I am invariably asked two questions.

So, for example, this analysis excludes Russia's extensive build - out of nuclear plants within its borders.

If the nuclear power plant lifetimes were extended as briefly planned in 2010, the retiring fossil fuel plants could more easily be replaced by renewable energy sources, followed by a replacement of the nuclear plants with renewables as well.

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.

«If nuclear received a fraction of those subsidies, there would be no risk of nuclear plants closing in California or anywhere else.»

We've seen a lot of the nuclear plants in the United States have had their licenses extended.

There were sheep dotting the hills — but also something else: huge, concrete towers of nuclear plants rising up through the morning mist.

It also triggered the meltdowns at Fukushima and the evacuation of 150,000 people from within 20 kilometers of the nuclear plant as well as from areas beyond that were hard hit by fallout.

Visibly angry, according to Indian press reports, Rao called instead for a review of nuclear plant safety, adding: «There should be reviews; only foolish people don't want reviews.

The second tranche of nuclear plants took an average of 10.5 years to build, and the third tranche nearly 12 years.

So you know, naturally occurring neutrinos, byproducts of nuclear plants, and then specifically created neutrinos to be able to study them, are all being chased and hunted down by these physicists to solve the mysteries associated with them.

Slovakia is expected to sign the Vienna Convention, which absolves builders of nuclear plants from liability for accidents.

«In the case of nuclear plants air emissions are released to the air in the form of iodine cloud and cesium - 137.

In fact, it was such commonplace knowledge that the New York Times reported on its front page that coal's death toll would rise to 56,000 if coal instead of nuclear plants were built.

Almost everything anti-nuclear groups have said about the cancellation of nuclear plants in Ohio turns out to be false.

To give one example, China's now planning to build dozens of nuclear plants where hundreds of millions of people live.

The study finds each kilowatt hour of electricity generated over the lifetime of a nuclear plant has an emissions footprint of 4 grammes of CO2 equivalent (gCO2e / kWh).

The US could lose half of its nuclear plants within a decade.

Norway and Sweden are worried about the threat posed by radioactive leaks from sunken nuclear - powered submarines and nuclear waste off the Kola Peninsula, as well as the safety of the nuclear plants there.

· The U.S. nuclear industry and USNRC should strengthen their capabilities for assessing risks from events that could challenge the design of nuclear plant structures and components and lead to a loss of critical safety functions.