Sentences with phrase «plant reactor unit»

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A number of coal - and oil - fired power plants will likely be retired, and while Virginia's four existing nuclear units will remain in use, plans for a fifth reactor remain shelved, for now.

Depending on the substrate, loading rates of up to 10 — 15 kg COD / m3 per day and high biogas production rates per unit reactor volume can be obtained in RAPTOR ™ plants.

Cuomo said the state learned yesterday that hundreds of faulty bolts were discovered within the reactor at the Indian Point Unit 2 Plant — «the latest in a long series of incidents that raise deep concerns about the management, maintenance and equipment standards» there.

The number of degraded bolts at the Indian Point unit 2 reactor was the largest seen to date at a reactor in the United States, so the NRC is closely monitoring the plant to return it to service in the near future, officials said.

Indian Point operator Entergy had successfully fought to delay those tests to once every 15 years for the plant's Unit 2 reactor, but the state had challenged that, arguing they should be conducted once a decade.

And there is some somewhat alarming language that talks about, and I'll just quote «the IAEA tells us the earthquake triggered a power failure at the Fukushima Daiichi unit 2 nuclear power plant, and then when a backup generator also failed, the cooling system was unable to supply water to cool the reactor.

Although the utility managed to safely remove all 1,533 fuel bundles from the plant's unit No. 4 reactor by December 2014, it still has to do the same for the hundreds of rods stored at the other three units.

Much of the 4200 - square - kilometer zone was evacuated after the nuclear plant's unit 4 reactor exploded in 1986, sending a radioactive plume over Europe.

Energy company SCANA subsidiary South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G) plans to add two AP - 1000 reactors to its nuclear power plant near Jenkinsville, S.C., by 2016 and 2019, whereas the Tennessee Valley Authority will finally complete Watts Bar Unit 2 near Chattanooga, Tenn. — more than 30 years after construction began, including a nearly two - decade hiatus — next year.

(Tokyo Electric Power Company, the plant operator, later suggested that the hydrogen that had exploded had come not from exposed spent fuel but from the melted reactor core in the adjacent Unit 3.)

And gas plants can be built in small units in only three or four years, as compared with six or eight for mammoth reactors.

The unit is expected to become the fifth Japanese reactor to resume operation under new safety standards introduced following the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

In it, he called for international intervention before the Tokyo Electric Power Company began to move fuel rods from the spent fuel pool for reactor unit 4 and urged the four climate scientists who recently called for a big push to advance safer nuclear power plant designs to go to the site.

The pressure vessel head has been installed at one of the two high - temperature gas - cooled reactor units that make up the demonstration HTR - PM plant under construction at Shidaowan in China's Shandong province.

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The loan guarantees announced Tuesday would sharply lower borrowing costs to finance new reactors at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in eastern Georgia near the South Carolina border, where two units are being operated by the Atlanta - based Southern Co., a large utility.

Under existing policy, owners of nuclear power plants pay a premium each year for $ 375 million in private insurance for offsite liability coverage for each reactor unit.