Sentences with phrase «reactor projects on»

Not exact matches

CB&I received no upfront payment for the sale of the nuclear construction business, but stood to receive earnouts based on the progress of the completion of two U.S. projects by Stone & Webster: a nuclear power plant in Georgia for Southern Co and two reactors in South Carolina for SCANA Corp (scu).

May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

Nor is this a UK phenomenon: the Finnish reactor is running a year behind schedule and the World Bank will no longer lend on nuclear projects.

But those two Texas reactors, as well as several other high - profile nuclear power projects, had been on the ropes long before Fukushima.

But Southern Co., the primary developer, is permitted to recapture costs during construction, and another project partner has a «hell or high water» sales contract requiring customers to keep paying down on the project's debt even if the reactors can't be completed.

The situation is no better in Europe, according to Steven Thomas, a professor of energy studies at the University of Greenwich in London: Finland can not complete its new reactor; the U.K. has yet to get started on any projects; and a new nuclear reactor in France, after 18 months of construction, is 20 percent overbudget and requires complete subsidy by the French government.

And DOE was told not to spend more than $ 115 million on the U.S. contribution to ITER, the international fusion reactor being built in France, until ITER officials present a new schedule for the troubled project.

Hundreds of scientists and engineers at the world's biggest fusion reactor, the Joint European Torus (JET) at Culham near Oxford, will be laid off later this year unless a solution is found to a long - running dispute over the treatment of Britons working on the project.

The leader of a proposed compact fusion reactor project says that Lockheed Martin's decision to lift the lid on its secret effort is an attempt to build a scientific team and find partners.

* Update, 28 February, 3 p.m.: The executive summary of the report on management of the international ITER fusion reactor project was published today by The New Yorker.

Work began on a pair of dedicated, Mo -99-producing reactors, but the project was abandoned by 2008.

The government has already spent about $ 4 billion on the project, Scott noted, which is supposed to help convert 34 metric tons of weapons - grade plutonium from the former Soviet Union and elsewhere into fuel pellets for commercial reactors.

American builders could base their estimates on reactors built recently in Asia, but no one really knows how a project in Texas or Florida might compare with one in Japan or South Korea.

As the international ITER project to develop an experimental nuclear fusion reactor eats into research budgets around the world, an advisory panel to the US Department of Energy recommends mothballing at least one of three major experiments and focusing on research necessary to bring ITER online.

Last week, defense firm Lockheed Martin revealed a few details on a secret project: building a «compact fusion reactor,» a working reactor about 1/10 the size of current efforts.

Joint projects with Russian nuclear scientists began to ebb soon after President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, and reached a nadir last October when Russia suspended an agreement with the United States on nuclear R&D cooperation and terminated another on retooling Russian research reactors to no longer run on weapons - grade uranium fuel.

The technology is proven, PRISM's simplified reactor design will speed construction, and GEH's technical and operational expertise has proven our ability to consistently deliver on time and on budget nuclear power projects anywhere in the world.

He leads the Fuel Material and Chemistry Focus Area of the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub, as well as Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) projects on plasma surface interactions and fission gas behavior in nuclear fuel.

A fourth generation reactor designed by GEH, PRISM incorporates the groundbreaking features of the Argonne Laboratory's project, representing a technological leap that could power the UK or similar countries for hundreds of years with used nuclear fuel that is already on hand.

Mindful of the public mood, the government of Shinzo Abe has completely given up on the country's dream of nuclear self - sufficiency, and pulled the plug in December on the $ 8.5 billion experimental reactor project at Monju.

I will tell you about another scientist from an earlier time, Her name was Leona Woods Libby, she was the only woman that worked on the manhattan project, she was accomplished in developing the first nuclear reactor; after the war she went into the science of climate change based on natural cycles.

Subtitle C: Next Generation Nuclear Plant Project -(Sec. 641) Instructs the Secretary to establish the Next Generation Nuclear Plant Project consisting of design, construction, and operation of a prototype plant, including a nuclear reactor: (1) based on Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems Initiative research and development; and (2) used to generate electricity or produce hydrogen, or do both.

But construction on the two new US reactors is moving ahead, though most other utilities are waiting to see if these projects can come in on time and on budget.

Experimentally, solar reactors range from 1 meter to 5 meters to demonstrate the concept or as pilot projects, depending a little on the technology.

The federal government would bear most of the risk, facing potentially large losses if borrowers defaulted on reactor projects that could not be salvaged.

Georgia's double - reactor Vogtle project has been sold on the basis of federal loan guarantees.

American utilities have taken a very short - term view on project pay - back and cite $ 7,500 + per - kW prices on new reactors and outlandish per - kWh costs to customers (Lovins has a piece denouncing nuclear because of this, but he doesn't take into consideration that its been done much cheaper elsewhere).

n guarantees were approved at the end of 2007, making U.S. taxpayers the co-signers on l... s for new reactors and uranium enrichment projects, half of which are predicted to default.

This ruling allows regulators to «avoid careful consideration of serious environmental and human health impacts associated with a plan to build new nuclear reactors at the Darlington site on Lake Ontario — including the consequences of a major nuclear accident — during the project's environmental assessment.»