Sentences with phrase «old reactors»

With all due respect to your efforts and experience, no one is suggesting new 50 - year old reactor builds.

Next generation reactors we are building right now can burn fuel more efficiently and produce less waste — and even burn the waste from older reactors.

Building them could displace new coal plants or relieve the pressure to extend the life of old reactors that should instead be retired.

It says only that «there might be a problem some time after 2010» if old reactors are not replaced by other «non-CO2 emitting generators».

In the U.S. the five new nuclear reactors under construction will replace the four aging reactors that closed in 2013, but as older reactors like Oyster Creek in New Jersey and Vermont Yankee continue to shut down, the number of reactors in the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as well.

The disadvantages of any remaining emissions should be balanced against the risks of «operational incidents», and the «environmental drawbacks» of decommissioning old reactors and managing radioactive waste.

More clarity on Japan's nuclear future came today as the first unit slated for restart gained technical approval, while two further older reactors were announced for retirement rather than being put through the restart process.

Donald Trump just sat down for dinner with a lobbyist to make you pay to keep dangerous old reactors (and coal!)

Nuclear power would have been the natural fallback as Germany switched from fossil fuels, but after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered eight of the country's oldest reactors shut down and the rest phased out by 2022.

«You need an organization somewhere that's providing central support and stewardship for a national program,» says John Root, director of the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre in Chalk River, Ontario, which relies on the 60 - year - old reactor.

The reactor has a slightly smaller footprint compared with an older reactor that only produced about half the amount of electricity, says Jeff Benjamin, senior vice president, nuclear power plants at Westinghouse.

The plan that was announced yesterday doesn't mandate a shut - by date for specific reactors, but says that the country's seven oldest reactors, taken off - line after Fukushima, should stay shut down, along with an eighth that was already shut because of safety issues.

Now, some of France's reactors are showing wrinkles — France's oldest reactor, Fessenheim 1, started operations in 1977 — and officials need to decide whether to invest in costly safety upgrades to keep them operating or to decommission them, another expensive prospect that leaves open the possibility that fossil fuels may rise to meet the shortfall.

Merkel said at a press conference this afternoon that she would meet tomorrow morning with state leaders to discuss concrete steps, including taking some of the oldest reactors offline.

She also noted, however, that shutting down several of the country's oldest reactors would not cause any electricity shortages.

Now, some of France's reactors are showing wrinkles — France's oldest reactor, Fessenheim 1, started operations in 1977 — and officials need to decide whether to invest in costly safety upgrades to keep them operating or to decommission them, another expensive prospect that leaves open the possibility that fossil fuels may rise to meet the shortfall.

In case of a major earthquake, these old reactors have increasingly been identified as major hazards for the 20 - 30 or so million people living in Tokyo.