Sentences with phrase «only nuclear plants»

All power plants require monitoring and maintenance but only nuclear plants attract the attention of policymakers and the media.

A different Connecticut proposal, designed to secure power purchase agreements to rescue the 2,111 - MW Millstone Nuclear Power Station, the state's only nuclear plant, has faced stiff opposition, and Dominion Energy is weighing its options for the plant absent financial aid.

AmerenUE, the owner of Missouri's only nuclear plant, is pursuing a license to construct a new nuclear plant adjacent to the Callaway plant, which was completed in 1984 and produces about 13 percent of Missouri's electricity.

Not exact matches

The country's nuclear power plants have been shuttered with only part of the capacity replaced by wind and solar.

Commissioner Neil Chatterjee, who has pushed for immediate aid to struggling coal and nuclear plants, signed off on the order and said in an opinion that he expected the decision to be «only the first step in a more systematic effort by the Commission» to address resilience.

As cheap natural gas squeezes the margins of nuclear generators, there's only one company currently building reactors in the country — Southern Co., at its Vogtle plant in Georgia.

This radioactive isotope of hydrogen is only manufactured in nuclear power plants and would cost any fusion generator $ 100 million per week.

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

The only nuclear power plant being built in the US (Vogtle in Georgia) is costing $ 7 per watt, and eventually perhaps more.

«Close only counts for horseshoes, not for nuclear plants.»

At the Ginna nuclear plant near Rochester, for example, the PSC ordered subsidy payments to keep Ginna running - but only for 18 months while the local utility finishes building a transmission line to bring in power from elsewhere.

The desalination plant would be sited only 3.5 miles downstream from the aging Indian Point nuclear plant, which is increasingly leaking radioactive tritium and strontium - 90 into the river.

Indeed, my goal here is to recount only one of a number of heroes to the East End who played a vital role in stopping the nuclear plant — the late Riverhead Councilman Antone Regula.

«I say only if a tsunami could make its way... up New York Harbor and the Hudson River, somehow avoid New York City, and drench our plant,» Jim Streets, director of communications at Entergy Nuclear Northeast, said.

He noted that though the nuclear power plant is known for high energy density without green house gases emissions and Few Recourse limitations, it can not compare to the safe, efficient newly invented (Green) «EX5» solar Quantum physics energy generator (nuclear replacement plant) which only needs a solar panel for 8seconds.

The plan the PSC initially released did not favor subsidies for the state's only profitable nuclear power plant, Indian Point nearby New York City.

Currently, Indian Point is the only one of the four nuclear power plants in the state not to have been cleared for continued operation.

Come late September New York State will be the only place in America with a nuclear power plant operating without a license.

(Only federal authorities have the power to license or unlicense nuclear facilities, but states can make it difficult for plants to operate profitably through aggressive regulation.)

Those two plants could be the only nuclear facilities left upstate if the FitzPatrick plant in Oswego County, owned by Entergy, closes early next year as planned.

Each day, some two billion gallons of water are pumped from Long Island Sound into the Millstone Power Station in Waterford, Conn. — that state's only nuclear power plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating reactors.

[3][5] This was compared to only 4 Labour party and 2 Liberal Democrat candidates, with the number of Green candidates being put down to the proposal for a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point.

«No matter what, this fund is to only be used in the event the plant is actually shut down, a process closely monitored by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission,» said spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

It is only in the cafeteria of the former nuclear power plant, while we sit with the other workers eating their free lunch, that we look around, noticing faces that register, well, nothing.

But the computer modeling only analyzed catastrophic failure at one reactor at each of these nuclear power plants, despite the fact that Peach Bottom and Surry each have two reactors on site.

In 1980, American nuclear power plants were generating electricity only 56 percent of the time because they frequently needed special maintenance or repair.

Thousands of plant species have had their genomes sequenced, but without organelle genomes, nuclear genomes are only one piece of the DNA puzzle.

Taking into account that wind turbines produce electricity only about a third of the time, that's roughly the equivalent of building one standard one - gigawatt nuclear power plant a year.

Further, she points out, the Bungo Channel area today has much sensitive and critical infrastructure, including the only nuclear power plant on the island of Shikoku.

In contrast, plants with a modified nuclear genome expressed much less dsRNA and only slightly slowed down the beetles» growth.

In the short term, new gas - fired power stations can help cut emissions, but only if they replace existing coal - fired power stations rather than nuclear plants or renewable energy sources.

So far 70,000 people have been evacuated from a 20 - kilometre - radius zone centred on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant — but that may only be the beginning.

The only firm rule, he says, appears to be not attacking nuclear plants.

Moreover, the authors suggest that states that provide subsidies to uneconomical nuclear reactors within their borders could also play a constructive role by making those subsidies available only for plants that agreed to carry out expedited transfer of spent fuel.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.

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.

In their analyses of the beaches, the scientists detected not only cesium - 137, which may have come from the Dai - ichi plant or from nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and1960s, but also cesium - 134, a radioactive form of cesium that can only come only from the 2011 Fukushima accident.

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.

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

«The only way to get a real story, the closest we can get, is to sequence nuclear genomes from orchids,» says Victor Albert, a plant geneticist at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

In addition to the potential passenger dangers, he says that pilots could only fly a limited number of flights to prevent overexposure to nuclear radiation, noting that after a few flights, they would have been exposed to far more radiation than nuclear power plant workers.

In December 2014, the North's attackers hit desktop computers in a South Korean nuclear plant with wiper malware that destroyed not only the data on hard drives, but also the master boot record startup software, making recovery more difficult.

Even though federal laws limit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to be used only for defense transuranic (plutonium - contaminated) waste from nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed actions to expand WIPP to three additional missions in 2012 - 2013.

The world's only deep underground nuclear waste dump is in New Mexico, and efforts of many New Mexicans to prevent high - level waste disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) have had an effect on the state's decisions (page 5).

NAC is well positioned to not only support the storage initiative, but also to support the shipments of the used fuel from nuclear plant sites with its dual purpose solution design, transportation cask availability, and transportation experience.

From developing the first accelerator mass spectrometer for use in the biology field to tracking radionuclides from the Dai - ichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster, the Laboratory's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (CAMS) has spent 25 years in the spotlight of not only dating ancient artifacts...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn — The oceans hold more than four billion tons of uranium — enough to meet global energy needs for the next 10,000 years if only we could capture the element from seawater to fuel nuclear power plants.

SMR - 160 is the only nuclear power plant in the world — operating or proposed — to both limit the spent fuel volume to such a small inventory and protect it with the containment, while assuring unlimited cooling.

The SMR - 160 is advanced only in the sense that it exploits gravity to drive passive plant cooling to levels of safety unattainable by large conventional nuclear power plants.

A lot of people miss that point by arguing about only the carbon savings, because the nuclear plant does not directly release carbon in its operation.