Sentences with phrase «of nuclear power plant construction»

While some may disagree with Lester Brown's cost comparison between wind power and nuclear power, it's harder to dispute his numbers on the rising costs of nuclear power plant construction.

Not exact matches

CB&I received no upfront payment for the sale of the nuclear construction business, but stood to receive earnouts based on the progress of the completion of two U.S. projects by Stone & Webster: a nuclear power plant in Georgia for Southern Co and two reactors in South Carolina for SCANA Corp (scu).

Particularly controversial are the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the UK (currently under construction and controversial because of security concerns) and the Toulouse airport in France (a Chinese consortium purchased a majority stake but was relegated to a minority stake after French government intervention).

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Southern has struggled over the past few years with cost over runs from the construction of two new nuclear power plants (Vogle and Kemper).

Science has created a map that provides a snapshot of the number of nuclear reactors in operation and under construction worldwide, locations of power plants in relation to seismic hazard zones, and reactions to events in Japan in some countries.

I was encouraged by President Obama's calls for the construction of more nuclear power plants, as well as for increased offshore exploration of oil and natural gas, and the further development of clean coal technologies.

It's likely that the construction of at least one new nuclear power plant will be initiated by the end of this year, ending a two - decade drought in new nuclear plant construction.

Those figures, say the authors of the report, an update on a similar report in 2003, mean that «even if all the announced plans for new nuclear power plant construction are realized, the total will be well behind that needed for reaching a thousand gigawatts of new capacity worldwide by 2050.»

Across the East China Sea, west of Japan and its ongoing crisis, sits the growing Qinshan nuclear power plant, where four new pressurized - water reactors are under construction in addition to the five already operating on - site.

Four such reactors are currently under construction in the country — now the only actual construction of such advanced nuclear power plants anywhere in the world.

The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

The cutting - edge, 1,600 - megawatt nuclear power plant, Olkiluoto 3, which its French maker Areva boasted as the most advanced safety design of the time, is still under construction today.

A falloff in construction of new nuclear power plants will make climate change requirements harder to meet

She also has held senior project managerial positions on an oil refinery project in Thailand, a coal seam gas to liquid natural gas plant in Queensland, Australia, and roles in construction field engineering on a variety of nuclear power projects.

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 Laborapower 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 LaboraPower 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.

Small modular reactors - which are approximately one - third the size of current nuclear power plants - have compact, scalable designs that are expected to offer a host of safety, construction and economic benefits.

«The Atomic States of America»: In 2010, the United States announced construction of the first new nuclear power plant in more than 32 years.

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.

Southern has struggled over the past few years with cost over runs from the construction of two new nuclear power plants (Vogle and Kemper).

Because of inflation in the 1970s and more stringent safety regulation on nuclear power plants placed shortly before and after the Three - Mile Island accident in 1979, US nuclear plant construction times increased from around 7 yr in 1971 to 12 yr in 1980.

The time between planning and operation of a nuclear power plant includes the time to obtain a site and construction permit, the time between construction permit approval and issue, and the construction time of the plant.

Nevertheless, based on the most optimistic future projections of nuclear power construction times of 4 — 5 yr and those times based on historic data, we assume future construction times due to nuclear power plants as 4 — 9 yr.

Officials, however, are still pursuing the seemingly quixotic construction of the country's first nuclear power plant, along with the controversial hydroelectric Ilısu Dam project.

The collapse of Toshiba will result in the halting of all new nuclear power plant construction by its US - based subsidiary, Westinghouse.

The cost of finding, evaluating, and receiving approval of a site for nuclear power plant construction easily runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Requiring a repository as a prerequisite for nuclear power would allow Brown's anti-nuclear allies, Ralph Nader, Sierra Club, and Natural Resources Defense Council, to prevent the construction of nuclear power plants merely by then blocking the waste repository, as has now been the case for over forty years.

Jerry Brown addresses a crowd of nearly 30,000 people at a «No Nukes» Rally in San Luis Obispo, promising to oppose construction of diablo canyon nuclear power plant

As President of the sierra club, Will sierra supported construction of diablo canyon nuclear power plant as a way to preserve the coastal landscape.

Elsewhere, the construction of a 8 GW, 60 - billion - yuan nuclear power plant in Jiangxi province is expected to begin soon.

Given the nuclear solution requires new reactor designs yet to be built even for demonstration and test purposes, and then the complexities of siting nuclear power plants near the calling water they need while defending them against flood waters makes construction of tested designs take a decade.

In addition, the Senate bill would provide greater incentives for construction of nuclear power plants and for low - emissions transportation systems, an aide working on the measure said.

Instead, it intensified the dispute over the construction of the plant and over nuclear power in general, while it undermined the legitimacy of traditional channels for resolving conflict.»

In addition to all this, in August investor - owned Duke Energy, the state's second largest utility, announced a proposed settlement with consumer, environmental and public interest groups that entails scrapping plans to complete construction of the Levy nuclear power plant without customers or the state having to pay for any more costs incurred.

Just 4 % of Indians prefer nuclear power, despite there being 21 such generating plants now in operation, six facilities under construction and 22 planned.

A new fleet of coal - fired power plants and a revival of nuclear construction after three decades are both looking tougher lately.

Nuclear power provides 60 percent of US carbon - free electricity generation, but existing plants are aging and only one is under construction.

It is not surprising that there are many skeptics who like I am, are very knowledgeable in many of the over lapping fields, of gas chromatography, anthropology, radio graphics of X-ray and particle physics, biological plant and animal processes, agriculture, high power radio transmission and reception, and its attendant multiplexing of signals, mining, reforestation plans and progress realities, nuclear, gas, and coal power plant construction techniques, organic gardening, astronomy, stellar physics, global circulation pattern drivers, and have also spent considerable time out doors in a tent and sleeping bag.

Natural gas power plants are replacing nuclear and coal - fired power plants where there is pipeline capacity, but proponents of a carbon - free grid are already attempting to prevent the construction of natural gas power plants because they use methane, a GHG, and emit CO2.

Riverkeeper retained Synapse to assess the potential impacts to energy reliability and electric power sector air emissions associated with the construction and operation of a closed - cycle cooling system as the «best technology available» (BTA) for the Indian Point nuclear power plant, in order to inform the analysis being conducted by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) under the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA).

So premise of such study would be the fact that that government would waving these environmental laws and also be looking a way to streamline governmental approval, so that it's the actual construction time which is the limiting factor and not the court cases, approval process which adding all the time to building nuclear power plants.

Nuclear power has multiple subsidies in the form of: - direct payments for new nuclear plants of 2.3 cents per kWh generated for the first ten years (in the US), — this is US$ 2 billion for a 1000 MW plant after ten years operation, - complete indemnity under the Price - Anderson Act for harm caused by a radiation release (above a modest insured amount), - changes to safety regulations to allow continued operation, - new plant construction loan guarantees, - direct subsidies for existing plants to keep operating as a jobs - protection program, and Nuclear power has multiple subsidies in the form of: - direct payments for new nuclear plants of 2.3 cents per kWh generated for the first ten years (in the US), — this is US$ 2 billion for a 1000 MW plant after ten years operation, - complete indemnity under the Price - Anderson Act for harm caused by a radiation release (above a modest insured amount), - changes to safety regulations to allow continued operation, - new plant construction loan guarantees, - direct subsidies for existing plants to keep operating as a jobs - protection program, and nuclear plants of 2.3 cents per kWh generated for the first ten years (in the US), — this is US$ 2 billion for a 1000 MW plant after ten years operation, - complete indemnity under the Price - Anderson Act for harm caused by a radiation release (above a modest insured amount), - changes to safety regulations to allow continued operation, - new plant construction loan guarantees, - direct subsidies for existing plants to keep operating as a jobs - protection program, and others.

The first generation of nuclear power plants proved so costly to build that half of them were abandoned during construction.

They lead off with an energy map of nuclear power generation — and India has 52 plants with 6,780 MW capacity either up and running or under construction.

Richter said the world is in the midst of a nuclear renaissance with 60 nuclear power plants in planning stages, 28 under construction, and 150 under discussion around the world.

cited construction of nuclear power plants as one of the areas that «we might be able to work on together.»

Included in these will be the «timely launch» of new nuclear power plant construction projects in China's eastern coastal region.

Indeed, only four out of more than two dozen applications for new nuclear power plants have begun construction after receiving a federal license to do so.

The first is that countries shut down their nuclear power plants or stop the construction of new ones, and switch instead to fossil fuels.

Strides are being made: some of the huge wind farm complexes under construction in China will each produce as much electricity as several nuclear power plants, and an electrified transport system supplemented by the use of bicycles could reshape the way we think about mobility.