Sentences with phrase «putting nuclear power plants»

And has anyone suggested putting nuclear power plants underground?

He's a fervent believer that open standards and open source are the way to go when it comes to alleviating risks, but he's also savvy enough to recognize that you're not going to put your nuclear power plant data on Amazon Web Services.

Don't put your nuclear power plant on Amazon and other thoughts on risks and security for the industrial internet

Not exact matches

Her decision to put on ice the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant on the eve of its contract signing sends a giant signal about her intent.

The deal, long in the making after Entergy signaled it would shutter the FitzPatrick plant in 2017, comes after state regulators put the final approval on new subsidies for renewable fuels, including nuclear power, potentially worth millions of dollars.

State lawmakers seeking to put the brakes on a plan by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to hike electric bills to keep open upstate nuclear power plants have introduced legislation calling for a moratorium on the plan as the Assembly considers a one - house budget bill that would do the same.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham wants to put a stop to Florida utility ratepayers paying for nuclear power plants that were never built or which never worked, or for paying for fracking exploration in Florida.

A third, which would expand a line that is near the Indian Point Nuclear Power plant, is still scheduled, but opponents are putting pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to use his persuasive powers with the federal government to stop the expansion.

[3][5] This was compared to only 4 Labour party and 2 Liberal Democrat candidates, with the number of Green candidates being put down to the proposal for a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point.

Ultimately, the replacement of old, highly polluting coal - fired power plants by nuclear reactors is essentially no different from deciding, after putting sentimental considerations aside, to replace your inexpensive and reliable — but obsolete — 1983 Olds Omega with a 2007 Toyota Camry or BMW 3 Series sedan.

Last March, after the Sendai earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the aftershocks of the disaster seemed to put the worldwide nuclear power industry on shaky ground.

With the governments of major economies like China, Russia and Japan putting support and cash into nuclear technologies, the power plants are here to stay, he believes.

Neither of these problems affected the safety of the nuclear power plant, according to Williams, noting that the towers are primarily used to cool the water before it is put back in the Connecticut River so that it does not scald too many fish.

Grand Central Blue is the Warmest Color star Lea Seydoux puts in her second turn against A Prophet «s Tahar Rahim in this French / Austrian production about a risky love affair set at the nuclear power plant where they both work.

Pooches that live at the nuclear power plant mostly interact with the workers, who feed and care for them since they were puppies, but this can easily put the workers at risk of being contaminated.

Since a reactor full fuel load is around 11 tons of 2 % U235 and 98 % U238, and one load lasts about 10 years, and what one coal fired power plant puts into the air and cinders fully fuels a nuclear power plant.

6/6/16 — As global agreements are putting pressure on the United States to reduce emissions of climate - changing greenhouse gases, some state and federal officials are looking for ways to help nuclear power plants, especially older ones, remain operating in the face of financial pressures.

But as long as the new generation of nuclear power plants is untried and untested, and the nuclear industry has atrophied skills, it would be imprudent to put any nuclear plants anywhere near where they can hurt people until they regain their spurs.

-- Instruct the new Energy Secretary to work with oil and gas industry to put together and implement an energy independence plan, with the clear goal of making the USA a net exporter of energy products within four years, at the same time creating millions of new jobs — Instruct the EPA Director to work with coal burning companies to encourage «clean coal» projects (eliminating pollution), by offering tax incentives for those who invest in these projects — Instruct the new Energy Secretary to set up a special task force to encourage the expansion of nuclear power and ease the permit procedure for new or expanded plants, with the goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 20 % to 25 % within four years

Some estimates claim Germany will add up to 40 million tons of carbon dioxide with (supposedly temporary) new fossil - fuel plants to replace its nuclear power — an increase «equivalent to the annual emissions of Slovakia,» as Reuters put it not long ago.

«Even if gas prices don't go lower, developments in storage, solar, and efficiency will put downward pressure on power prices and operational costs will continue to put upward pressure on nuclear plant costs.»

Much tougher nuclear power plant waste storage and disposal, plant decommissioning, and security standards (and, because of the security and waste disposal problems, zero net increase in nuclear usage — which puts Monbiot at odds with a large new group of pro-nuke environmentalists such as James Lovelock)

Since a reactor full fuel load is around 11 tons of 2 % U235 and 98 % U238, and one load lasts about 10 years, what one coal fired power plant puts into the air and cinders could fully fuel a nuclear power plant.

Coal fired power plants put 100 to 400 times as much radiation into the air and environment as nuclear power plants are allowed to.

Next to the solar plant, which was recently put online by Birdseye Renewable Energy and United Renewable Energy, towers the concrete ruins of a nuclear power plant which began construction in 1978.