Sentences with phrase «plant age»

Those two questions — safety and economics — lie at the heart of the research agenda now under way on plant aging.

Onshore wind turbines represent a relatively mature technology, which ought to have achieved a satisfactory level of reliability in operation as plants age.

The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.

But as nuclear plants age, performance can suffer, and outages - both scheduled and unplanned - rise.

Maybe some grandma planted it ages ago and it still pops up here and there.

Jaimin Pate, Shouan Zhang, and Maria Costa de Novaes of the University of Florida discovered several solutions to this challenging problem in their research on the effect of basil plant age and fungicide applications to control downy mildew.

Resource Title Plants Age / Year Group Early Years and Key Stage 1 Total Pages in download ❤ 49 File Type PDF Resource Content Since this unit of work is for the Early Years, the majority of learning takes place via circle time, outdoor exploring and through the use of flashcards but the little ones shouldn't miss out on building their own flower or copying sentences about the cycle that takes place from seed to plant!

But in the long run, as the U.S. and the world double down on fighting climate change, renewable and more - local power sources are expected to multiply as traditional fossil fuel plants age out.

As existing large hydropower plants age, questions about refurbishment will continue to arise.

Their primary concern is that a great deal of new gas capacity will be built: 8GW are already under way and their modelling suggests another 17GW will be built as existing plants age and coal plants look more likely to be shut down early.

The report addressed seismic and plant aging vulnerabilities of California's in - state nuclear plants - Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Diablo Canyon Power Plant and Southern California Edison's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station - including reliability concerns as well as concerns over safety culture, plant performance, and management issues at San Onofre.

U.S. nuclear power plant owners are gaining regulatory approval to run aging reactors longer but, as the power plants age, the need for rigorous safety supervision steadily mounts

«The effect of plant age and ASM on number of leaves was significant, whereas the effect of interaction between plant age and ASM on number of leaves was non-significant.»

Blakeslee, a former Exxon research scientist from San Luis Obispo with a Ph.D. in earthquake studies, authored a bill in 2006 requiring the state to assess the vulnerability of the state's nuclear plants to a major disruption, either from an earthquake or plant aging.

As the plants age, the need for rigorous safety supervision steadily mounts, industry experts stress.

The plants age faster, lose their leaves and produce less fruit,» says Ulla Bonas.