These can be more costly to
operate than other plants.
Not exact matches
«We
operate three nut - free facilities —
other than the confection
plant,» Loepfe explains.
We employ over 73,500 employees and
operate more
than 165 breweries, malteries, cider
plants and
other production facilities in more
than 70 countries.
Those nuclear ties have also come with some significant campaign contributions from Exelon Corp., the Chicago - based company that
operates more nuclear
plants than any
other single company.
Even when the
plants do a Fukushima (an exceedingly rare occurrence and the frequency per unit of electricity produced is decreasing), the fatalities and health consequences are negligible and, properly normalised for the amount of electricity they supply, are less
than any
other electricity generation technology
operating routinely.
We know how to
operate nuclear
plants safely and they need no more regulation
than any
other industry.
Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger
than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily
planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still
other attractive directions for upgrading to a new
operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»
Now that Ohio - based utility First Energy has declared bankruptcy, there is the possibility that its three nuclear
plants could be purchased by Exelon, which has proven capable of
operating its
plants at a cost that is roughly one - quarter less
than other nuclear operators.
To date all
operating nuclear power
plants were developed by state - owned or regulated utility monopolies [2] where many of the risks associated with construction costs,
operating performance, fuel price, and
other factors were borne by consumers rather
than suppliers.
Other plants may also
operate less efficiently
than if wind were not on the system — burning more fuel instead of less, and burning it with more emissions.
Ohio - based AEP owns and
operates more coal - fired
plants than any
other U.S. utility.