Sentences with phrase «over nuclear power plants»

He contrasted the advantages of renewables over nuclear power plants as their ease of decommissioning: there is no long - lived radioactive waste to deal with, and upgrading, for example, offshore wind turbines, is cost - effective because the foundations and infrastructure are already built.

Not exact matches

Separately, the Nikkei reported over the weekend that Hitachi will ask the UK government to take a direct stake in the company that is set to build and operate a nuclear power plant in Wales.

After the 2011 event caused massive damage at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Japan is understandably on edge over undersea earthquakes.

The closure of Hydro - Quebec's Gentilly - 2 nuclear power plant temporarily lowers Quebec's fiscal capacity, as measured under the Equalization program, which in turn lowers Ontario's Equalization entitlement over a three - year period.

Southern has struggled over the past few years with cost over runs from the construction of two new nuclear power plants (Vogle and Kemper).

Wildfire Burns in Fukushima «No - Go Zone,» Sparking Fears of Airborne Radiation EcoWatch A wildfire broke out in the highly radioactive «no - go zone» near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant over...

The battle is heating up over a statewide electric rate increase to subsidize upstate nuclear power plants that pits Governor Andrew Cuomo against a coalition of «good - government groups.»

Astorino, speaking with reporters on Monday after addressing the Conservative Party's annual confab in Albany, pointed to a federal law that gives the Department of Energy authority over the closure of nuclear power plants.

The decision also is partly about saving jobs, as Cuomo told power plant workers at the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego during a visit over the summer.

Fresh off his re-election loss to Democratic state Senator George Latimer, Republican Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino is dropping his two lawsuits over the closing of Indian Point nuclear power plant.

Questions continue in Albany over a proposed subsidy that would keep upstate nuclear power plants open — including the James FitzPatrick Plant in Oswego.

Gov. CUomo this week rejected a plea for the New York Power Authority to take over the soon - to - close FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant.

The 650 - megawatt CPV plant in Orange County has already received a series of approvals from the Cuomo administration over the years, and is viewed by officials as key if the governor is to realize his long - term goal of shutting down the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County and replacing the energy it generates with other sources.

The city of Yonkers will pay an extra $ 3 million to keep its lights on over the next 12 years, according to a study of utility costs linked to a controversial Cuomo administration plan to bail out three upstate nuclear power plants.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressed doubt about a proposed plan for New York state to take over the financially impaired FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County.

Exelon has agreed to take over the FitzPatrick nuclear power plant from Entergy for at least another 12 years, «and keep it producing nuclear power for years and years to come,» Cuomo announced outside the Central New York facility as workers cheered.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) says the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County performed safely over the past year.

Lib Dem ministers face renewed pressure from their activists over a series of U-turns, particularly on university tuition fees and a new generation of nuclear power plants.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is «furious» with Entergy Corp. over its decision to close the James A. FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Oswego County, and plans to appeal today to the company's chief executive to find a way to keep the plant operating.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday he does not want the New York Power Authority to take over FitzPatrick nuclear plant, rejecting one of the last best hopes of people who are trying to prevent the money - losing plant from closing six months from now.

The governor has clashed with Entergy over the company's effort to extend the life of its profitable Indian Point nuclear plant, the other facility it acquired in 2000 from the power authority.

Cuomo's push to shut down Indian Point contrasts with the up to $ 7 billion ratepayer subsidy nuclear power plants in upstate New York are set to receive over 12 years, though the move likely figured into Indian Point's closure.

Hawkins has held news conferences all over the state on such topics as shutting down nuclear power plants and banning the planting of genetically modified crops.

These electrical surges infiltrated power grids all over North America and northern Europe, and even destroyed a transformer at a nuclear power plant in New Jersey.

The crisis at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is far from over.

LONDON (Reuters)- Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars.

Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars

In less than two weeks, it will be five years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami killed over 15,000 people and crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

These include the behaviour of the Italian government in the aftermath of Chernobyl, the basis of decision - making in civil nuclear power in Switzerland and France, and the controversy over the supposed effects of radiation doses to fathers on their offspring at Sellafield (a large case control study, which has recently been published, contradicts the views in the book), and the Black enquiry into childhood leukaemias in the vicinity of the plant.

Legal battles have already been fought in the US over scarce water resources in regions with nuclear power plants, including the Catawba river basin in the Carolinas and the Apalachicola / Chattahoochee / Flint river basin in Georgia, Florida and Alabama.

Over the next few months, suppliers of radiation monitoring systems will be asked to tender for a «gamma curtain'to surround these nuclear power plants.

What power does the IAEA have over nuclear plant operations?

But the issues thrown up are still arousing passions today, as witnessed by further arguments in favour of using tidal power in the Severn and debate over the UK government's recent go - ahead for the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in Somerset.

also, they should be pushing hard to shut down the nuclear power plants... once the chaos or environmental catastrophes hit the them it is ALL OVER....

After Dr. Wilson spoke to over 3,000 doctors on adrenal fatigue in Japan after the tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown in 2011, the Japanese government declared adrenal fatigue an illness in its own right.

tryin'to remove more omega 6 from my sweet pots... peel»em deeply... cut»em thin... soak in distilled (thirsty... negatively charged water)... it bonds with inorganic positively charged minerals and almost all toxins are positively charged... fukushima daiichi fallout (plus the over 2000 nuclear weapons which have been tested and all the power plant leaks and meltdowns etc.)... anyway... i soak the super thin sweet potato pieces dump the hopefully filled up with toxins soak water... then boil my thin sweets in new distilled water... hope this is removing a bunch of the omega 6... not sure however... anyway... no regular potatoes for me... just sayin.

Southern has struggled over the past few years with cost over runs from the construction of two new nuclear power plants (Vogle and Kemper).

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And the conventional nuclear power plants currently under construction are, as always, way over budget and way behind schedule and fraught with problems.

If you had veto power over a nuclear plant proposed to be built a mile from your home, would you veto the plant or allow it to be constructed?

Most scientists agree that we can reduce our carbon emissions over time by using everything from solar energy to carbon sequestration, from windmills to nuclear power plants, from hybrid autos to those powered by fuel cells.

200 nuclear power plants would eliminate over 50 % of U.S. carbon emissions as well as produce enough hydrogen capacity to replace all oil imports and related automobile emissions.

Then O'Brien travels up the Hudson to the Indian Point nuclear power plant to examine the debate over efforts by its owner, Entergy, to renew the plant's license for another 20 years.

Requiring a repository as a prerequisite for nuclear power would allow Brown's anti-nuclear allies, Ralph Nader, Sierra Club, and Natural Resources Defense Council, to prevent the construction of nuclear power plants merely by then blocking the waste repository, as has now been the case for over forty years.

Here is how we could fix the costs, but admittedly it will take decades for all the impediments we» cve imposed over the past 5o years to be washed out of the cost of nuclear power plants.

Consider that the share of electricity the world gets from clean sources of energy over the last 10 years declined by the equivalent of 21 Bruce nuclear power plants, which powers Toronto, which produces about the same amount of electricity as 900 Topaz solar farms.

While geothermal projects require significant up - front capital investments, especially for exploration, drilling, and power plant construction, the typically low operation cost — including zero expense for fuel — means that over their lifetimes geothermal power plants are often cost - competitive with fossil fuel or nuclear power plants.

Finishing the reactors would be more expensive than building new gas - fired power plants, but averaged over the 60 - year service life, the costs will be right in line with renewables, about $ 60 to $ 80 per MWh — except nuclear produces reliably, where wind energy is fundamentally unreliable and chaotic.

Instead, it intensified the dispute over the construction of the plant and over nuclear power in general, while it undermined the legitimacy of traditional channels for resolving conflict.»

Earlier in January, California regulators approved Pacific Gas & Electric's application to retire the Diablo Canyon plant by 2025, following a protracted battle over the generating station that pitted local economic interests against environmentalists and other opponents of nuclear power.