Sentences with phrase «operations at the nuclear plant»

Another seems right out of the movies: The computer program also secretly recorded what normal operations at the nuclear plant looked like, then played those readings back to plant operators, like a pre-recorded security tape in a bank heist, so that it would appear that everything was operating normally while the centrifuges were actually tearing themselves apart.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday in Oswego, N.Y., Gov. Cuomo announces that operations will continue at the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba.

Some 16 months after meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operations to remove the nuclear fuel rods from the site have finally begun

Moscow's intentions, announced this month by Armen Abagyan head of the All - Russia Institute for the Operation of Nuclear Power Stations, contrast starkly with Ukraine's decision this week to close its remaining reactors at Chernobyl and replace them with gas - fired plants.

«Restoring normal operations at the National Nuclear Security Administration can take more than a week and labs and plants are likely to have lost at least three weeks of mission work, or about 6 percent of the year's productivity, due to the shutdown.»

The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will double the pay of contract workers as part of a revamp of operations at the station, after coming under criticism for its handling of clean - up efforts.

On the other end of the scale, looking at the record of quality control problems in the construction and operation of bulk nuclear plants, I think they're too complex to be operated by the kind of people we have available in the quantities needed to build and operated them, when combined with the relatively serious mess they make when somebody inevitably makes a mistake.

All of those groups support subsidizing wind at 2.3 cents / kWh, but complained mightily over supporting the continued operation of Illinois» distressed nuclear plants — until market conditions change — at just 1 cent / kWh.

Over the past six months, at least four major nuclear power plants have been slated for shutdown, including the last one in operation in California.

A moderate cost reduction rate of 10 % per doubling of capacity would see the cost of electricity from small nuclear at half that from new coal plants (in Australia, or new gas in USA) when 200 GW are in operation.

The major accidents at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and Chernobyl in the then - Soviet Union show that human error is the biggest risk in the operation of nuclear plants.

In 1986, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensed the first dry storage installation at the Surry Nuclear Power Plant in Virginia, and more nuclear plant owners followed suit, armed with a 20 - year license, along with expectations that Yucca Mountain would soon begin operNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensed the first dry storage installation at the Surry Nuclear Power Plant in Virginia, and more nuclear plant owners followed suit, armed with a 20 - year license, along with expectations that Yucca Mountain would soon begin operNuclear Power Plant in Virginia, and more nuclear plant owners followed suit, armed with a 20 - year license, along with expectations that Yucca Mountain would soon begin operatPlant in Virginia, and more nuclear plant owners followed suit, armed with a 20 - year license, along with expectations that Yucca Mountain would soon begin opernuclear plant owners followed suit, armed with a 20 - year license, along with expectations that Yucca Mountain would soon begin operatplant owners followed suit, armed with a 20 - year license, along with expectations that Yucca Mountain would soon begin operations.

Another consideration, as Rita Sipe, manager of Duke Energy's Nuclear Fleet Communications, in February told POWER, is that used fuel pools and dry cask storage sites, which Duke has located at five of the company's six operating nuclear plants, require operations and maintenance (see sidebar, «The Dry Cask Boom&rNuclear Fleet Communications, in February told POWER, is that used fuel pools and dry cask storage sites, which Duke has located at five of the company's six operating nuclear plants, require operations and maintenance (see sidebar, «The Dry Cask Boom&rnuclear plants, require operations and maintenance (see sidebar, «The Dry Cask Boom»).

However, I must add (as an undergraduate nuclear engineer who later taught nuclear plant operations in the Navy and who took a a master's in engineering management while working at the Hanford nuclear reservation, before becoming an attorney) that the discussion of nuclear power needs significant expansion to address a key issue, one that you clearly recognize as critical when discussing other forms of energy.