Sentences with phrase «of nuclear power projects»

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.

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(In September, the Trump administration made a conditional loan to help finish the construction of a languishing nuclear power project in Georgia.)

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

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).

Clients who have become friends tell countless tales of meeting him at the end of one of his 12 - hour seminar days — Robbins exhausted from giving out as much energy as a nuclear power plant to a room of thousands of acolytes — because he wanted to help with a project or problem, even at 2 a.m. «The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business,» says Guber.

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

Within a few months it took a 30 % + plunge due to cost overruns on its new Nuclear Power Plant project and than abandonment due to the bankruptcy of Westinghouse.

While EDF, which is 85 % owned by the French government, is due to contribute two - thirds of the projected # 18bn cost of the project, the final third would come from the Chinese General Nuclear Power Group — a deal inked by David Cameron and President Xi Jinping during last October's state visit, following groundwork laid by George Osborne when chancellor.

The UK is also seen as offering a welcome to infrastructure investment that delivers stable long - term returns that continues to be of great interest to China from projects regarded as too sensitive for foreign involvement by other states, such as the nuclear power industry.

Gardiner has been a supporter of China in his shadow portfolios, in particular surrounding the development of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, opposing inner - party disputes over criticism of Chinese involvement in the project, despite military and intelligence figures warning ministers that such involvement posed a threat to national security.

Ghana currently has a prototype nuclear power plant and is opened to nuclear investors for the development of high tech nuclear power plants for a West Africa Electric Power Pool propower plant and is opened to nuclear investors for the development of high tech nuclear power plants for a West Africa Electric Power Pool propower plants for a West Africa Electric Power Pool proPower Pool project.

Per the site map of SEZ and Anator Holding Co. Ltd Projects, also in possession of this paper, the project will have at least 25 facets including a Nuclear Power Plant covering about 50,000 acres of land.

In a press release, they say that investing in energy efficiency and by completing ongoing projects the state should be able to provide enough energy to make up for the loss of the nuclear power plant.

It's hoped that energy generated from the project could, in part, replace the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

Conservatives, by contrast, are committed to allowing the replacement of existing nuclear power stations provided they are subject to the normal planning process for major projects (under a new national planning statement) and provided also that they receive no public subsidy.

At 11 a.m., elected officials from across New York state will come together to ask Cuomo to halt the projected $ 7.6 billion bailout of three upstate nuclear power plants, outside Senate chambers, 3rd Floor, State Capitol, Albany.

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.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is working to increase the amount of nuclear power in India's grid, but a nuclear power project with the U.S. was scrapped because of safety fears, the International Business Times reported.

Contracting woes may cause further delays for $ 19.4 - billion ITER, a project designed to show the feasibility of nuclear fusion as a power source

Germany has also decided to give up nuclear power,» a Jiangmen resident said in a post on the Jiangmen government's page on the popular social networking site Weibo, under registered name of «YOoUuNnGg», in reaction to its decision to scrap the uranium processing project.

When projects on the scale of a nuclear power station or THORP are concerned, or the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment, to give another example, it is not possible to model them fully in the laboratory using traditional trial - and - error methodology.

Even though a supporter of nuclear power, Charpak was one of three signatories to an editorial in the French daily Libération in August that called for a halt to the building of the experimental fusion reactor ITER in the south of France because the cost of the project has running out of control and the plant will be «unusable.»

A consortium of 16 power companies announced last week that it will help to underwrite a $ 100 million project to design a standardised advanced nuclear reactor.

Poll, head of technology for the British government — funded Omega Project, a division of Manchester Metropolitan University that partners with industry to study the environmental impact of aviation and offer possible solutions, pointed out the need for nonkerosene - powered aircraft «I think nuclear - powered airplanes are the answer beyond 2050,» he said, concluding, «If we want to continue to enjoy the benefits of air travel without hindrance from environmental concerns, we need to explore nuclear power.

At the ITER project in Cadarache, France, scientists are trying to generate power from nuclear fusion, which requires heating plasma to many millions of degrees.

«We've been worried since 9/11 about how to protect against bad guys hijacking an aircraft and crashing it into a nuclear power plant upwind of a heavily populated area,» says David Lochbaum, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists's Nuclear Safety Project, a group that monitors the performance of nuclear plants and the NRC, which regulatenuclear power plant upwind of a heavily populated area,» says David Lochbaum, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists's Nuclear Safety Project, a group that monitors the performance of nuclear plants and the NRC, which regulateNuclear Safety Project, a group that monitors the performance of nuclear plants and the NRC, which regulatenuclear plants and the NRC, which regulates them.

Insiders say the most vulnerable are the National Accelerator Centre near Cape - town, home to a number of particle accelerators, including a powerful cyclotron used for medical, biological and physical research; Mossgas, the multi-billion rand project set up to beat oil sanctions by pumping natural gas ashore from beneath the Indian Ocean; and the Koeberg nuclear power plant at Melkbosstrand.

Due east along Guangdong's coastline, one of the region's most sophisticated technological projects, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Complex, is also the stage for a cutting - edge experiment in high - energy physics: measuring the proportion of electron antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed throughNuclear Power Complex, is also the stage for a cutting - edge experiment in high - energy physics: measuring the proportion of electron antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed throughnuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed through space.

In a statement the NNSA said that, before the first loading of materials, it had conducted a five - year safety review of the Taishan nuclear power project and dispatched on - site supervisors for the entire construction process.

According to the international AeroCom project, climate models underestimate the spread of emissions from the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, particularly in areas further away from the nuclear power plant.

Since that time, he has held positions of increasing responsibilities within Holtec International's Site Services and Project Management groups of the Nuclear Power Division.

He has held positions of increasing responsibilities within Holtec International's Site Services and Project Management groups of the Nuclear Power Division.

A South Carolina - based utility voted Monday to pull out of a $ 14 billion nuclear power project, marking another rough week for the nuclear industry.

A fourth generation reactor designed by GEH, PRISM incorporates the groundbreaking features of the Argonne Laboratory's project, representing a technological leap that could power the UK or similar countries for hundreds of years with used nuclear fuel that is already on hand.

Within a few months it took a 30 % + plunge due to cost overruns on its new Nuclear Power Plant project and than abandonment due to the bankruptcy of Westinghouse.

Municipal issuers have a key role to play in terms of: • Low - carbon technologies • Pollution control • Climate adaptation, such as disaster prevention and recovery We will seek to avoid purchasing the relatively few government - issued bonds that are explicitly issued to finance the development of projects, such as nuclear power plants or casinos, which are fundamentally misaligned with our investment objectives Sovereign Debt National governments around the world issue bonds (debt) to finance a wide variety of public goods including education, infrastructure, national defense, the judiciary and social welfare.

The National Atomic Testing Museum details America's nuclear history, from the Manhattan Project, the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan during World War II and the use of nuclear power as an energy alternative.

Chernobyl VR Project is a first - person virtual tour of the abandoned city of Pripyat and the neighboring Chernobyl Power Plant, a place known for a massive nuclear disaster a few decades ago.

Bellas Artes Projects's Bataan campus at Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar is a perfect site for this work given the World War II history of this region — including the Battle of Bataan (Japanese three - month invasion) that resulted in the unforgettable Bataan Death March (April 9, 1942)-- and the 1984 completed but never activated Bataan Nuclear Power Plant visible on the adjacent peninsula.

The world's second fastest - growing source of energy is projected to be nuclear power, with consumption increasing by 1.5 % per year over that period.»

«Experts project that by 2010 the number of solar water heaters installed in China will equal the thermal equivalent of the electrical capacity of 40 large nuclear power plants.»

To illustrate this, could you imagine if during the effort to convince the U.S. government to embark on the Manhattan Project, the word «physics» was hardly ever used by the advocates of atom bomb development (who were simply known in this alternate reality as «nuclear * scientists *»), to such an extent that many well - placed non-physicists didn't even realize that the claims of destructive power were based on it?

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.

Lochbaum, the director of the nuclear safety project at the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group, said the challenge of replacing Indian Point had more to do with transmission of existing power than generating power.

Tanaka said concerns about the safety of nuclear energy, if they derailed nuclear power projects, would also hurt efforts to limit carbon emissions and contain global warming.

In the case of nuclear power, the only new commercial energy generation technology to emerge and scale up significantly in the 20th century, government insurance, liability limitation, and loan guarantees have allowed private financiers the certainty and stability to invest in nuclear energy projects, which typically have high up - front capital cost and long life spans.

Reduce dependency on (imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years

A South Carolina - based utility voted Monday to pull out of a $ 14 billion nuclear power project, marking another rough week for the nuclear industry.

-- Instruct the new Energy Secretary to work with oil and gas industry to put together and implement an energy independence plan, with the clear goal of making the USA a net exporter of energy products within four years, at the same time creating millions of new jobs — Instruct the EPA Director to work with coal burning companies to encourage «clean coal» projects (eliminating pollution), by offering tax incentives for those who invest in these projects — Instruct the new Energy Secretary to set up a special task force to encourage the expansion of nuclear power and ease the permit procedure for new or expanded plants, with the goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 20 % to 25 % within four years

His experience includes coal, oil, gas, hydro, geothermal, nuclear power plants, nuclear waste disposal, and a wide range of energy and end use management projects.