Sentences with phrase «planned nuclear stations»

HONG KONG (Reuters)- Japan is sitting on enough untapped geothermal power to replace all its planned nuclear stations over the next decade.

Not exact matches

While all variations of the plan envision the relicensing of the company's four existing nuclear units at the Surry and North Anna stations, none calls for a third reactor at North Anna, which Dominion has been contemplating.

Governments realise that the only practicable way to provide this is by nuclear power, and so many more power stations are being planned, using new designs that are even safer and more economical than those presently in operation [2].

Lib Dems permitted to retain objections to nuclear power while allowing national planning statement which authorises the building of more power stations.

China itself is planning a rapid growth in its nuclear power sector and any possibility of cost reductions in the building of nuclear power stations would be welcome.

ConservativeHome predicts that plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations may be the straw that breaks the back...

At the same time, Parliament's energy and climate change committee has warned that failure to build new nuclear will make it much harder and more expensive for us to meet our climate change targets, that government appears to be «crossing its fingers that private companies will deliver» and that a Plan B is required in case new nuclear stations are not built on time...

Conservatives, by contrast, are committed to allowing the replacement of existing nuclear power stations provided they are subject to the normal planning process for major projects (under a new national planning statement) and provided also that they receive no public subsidy.

Under the terms of the coalition agreement the Lib Dems will abstain when the government brings forward a national planning statement outlining plans for a new nuclear power station.

Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones has been criticised for failing to state definitively whether he supports plans to replace the Wylfa nuclear power station on Anglesey.

David Tillman, a spokesman for Exelon, which operates the Nine Mile Nuclear Power Station, said the company has offered to provide Fitzpatrick's fuel at cost so it can remain open while state officials work out the plan for how to achieve Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal to get 50 percent of state energy from renewable sources by 2030.

Namely that they will abstain over Tory plans to recognise marriage in the tax system; and will continue to argue against new nuclear power stations.

In April 2014 the government released its first post-Fukushima strategic energy plan, which called for keeping some nuclear plants as baseload power sources — stations that run consistently around the clock.

Tokyo Electric Power Co must give a fuller account of the Fukushima disaster and address its «institutionalized lying» before it can expect to restart another nuclear station, the world's largest, said a local government official who holds an effective veto over the utility's revival plan.

And while last year saw the biggest ever annual surge in global greenhouse gas emissions (see «Huge rise in emissions as world economy de-greens»), even Germany is planning to shut down its nuclear power stations.

The government plans to re-commission several retired coal power stations, and build more in the coming decade, with the remaining increase in capacity expected to come from new nuclear power plants.

Even if the government» s nuclear plans remain intact, it could be at least 10 years before the first new nuclear station is ready.

Not proceeding with this procurement also represents a missed opportunity to mitigate the risks and uncertainties associated with the costs and timing of the Pickering Generating Station operating licence extension, Ontario's ambitious nuclear refurbishment plan, and the uncertainty of supply from outside of the province.

John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace, said: «The EU needs to adopt a science - based cap on emissions, ditch plans for dirty new coal plants and nuclear power stations that will give tiny emission cuts at enormous and dangerous cost, end aviation expansion and ban wasteful products like incandescent lightbulbs.»

Once the coal miner's were defeated she proceeded to remove her support for the planned ’10 further nuclear power stations» (and so only Sizewell B was built) and opted for the City financiers inspired «dash for gas» option instead.

To be sure, not all power stations entered into various queues will be installed and constructed, but with new planned nuclear and coal units virtually eliminated, it's clear there are massive changes underway in the electric markets.

Given the evident concern about nuclear waste, it will be interesting to see if there is any reactions from young people to the governments recent admission that, on current NDA plans, the proposed Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) is not expected to be available to take spent fuel from new nuclear power stations until around 2130, which they note «is approximately 50 years after the likely end of electricity generation for the first new nuclear power station».

A greenfield nuclear generation station would take around 10 years to plan, design, site, permit, and build.

Author and blogger Chris Goodall estimates that if the planned construction of new nuclear power stations in the UK stalls in response to the crisis, the result will be an increase of 9m tonnes of carbon dioxide for every year we delay».

In other words, the station blackout that occurred at Fukushima Dai - ichi was a prescribed event for which TEPCO should have had in place procedures and countermeasures - obviously, adequate plans and countermeasures were not in place so, in this respect, the nuclear safety culture at Fukushima Dai - ichi was fundamentally flawed».

, new nuclear power stations in the UK, such as the planned Hinkley Point C plant, would be the world ’s

Richard Griffiths is acting for NuGeneration with regards to the environmental and planning aspects of the development of a new nuclear station and all related infrastructure in Cumbria.