Sentences with phrase «reactors after»

People raised a concern over the safety of nuclear reactors after the Fukushima disaster.

Although a reactor can hold several years of fuel, operators choose to refuel their reactors after approximately 18 or 24 months of full power operation.

It allowed those hefty allowances to be sold or transferred to other power plants for a profit, however, ameliorating protests from nuclear generators — particularly newly born E.ON, which amassed ownership of 12 of the 19 reactors after the merger of Germany's biggest utilities, Veba and Viag.

In 2016, the Tennessee Valley Authority turned on its Watts Bar 2 reactor after work had been suspended in 1985.

They just fired up their first Fast Fission reactor after a LOT of process development, 100 times less spent fuel, 100 times greater fuel burn, they are probably ahead of everyone in future energy solutions.

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Adams says the last time Ontario experienced such rate hikes was after Darlington Nuclear Generating Station's four reactors entered service in the early 1990s massively over budget.

For context, a submarine assigned to Britain's Royal Navy narrowly avoided a complete reactor meltdown in 2012 after the power sources for its coolant system failed.

Its conglomerate period began in 1945, after World War II, when the company expanded its plastics business and became, over time, a major player in jet engines, nuclear reactors, computers, missiles, satellites, and other widely diverse businesses.

The reactors — six - foot - tall metal and glass boxes that glow seafoam green when at work — mimic what happens to carbon after millennia of pressure, but faster, with less human labor and a carbon - neutral footprint.

After the leak of heavy water at the Wolsong nuclear power plant, South Korea is reconsidering its plan to import an additional Candu - 9 model pressurized heavy - water nuclear reactor from Canada.

The state - run nuclear power plant operator was preparing for further cyber-attacks after its data was leaked on a blog and to a Twitter account under the profile «president of anti-nuclear reactor group.»

Harry previously worked in the publishing industry for Cowles Media and Thomson Corporation, after finishing his assignment in supervising nuclear reactor overhaul procedures for the Department of Defense.

After studying in depth the neurosis schizoid reactors that affect each one of us, it's difficult to take your position.

At DTI, our Littleford horizontal reactor capabilities are highly sought after by our customers.

Japan declared a nuclear emergency after attempts to cool off a reactor in Fukushima failed.

Just weeks after taking power Theresa May has landed her first major diplomatic row — with the Chinese government going nuclear over plans to pause the new reactor at Hinkley Point.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - Entergy Corp. plans to shut down its money - losing FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Oswego County after the reactor runs out of fuel next year.

The submarines» nuclear reactors produce enough power to supply a small town and need to be refueled only after years of operation.

The reactor with the smallest overrun was Torness, where the excess was a confidence - sapping 35 per cent in real terms (after allowing for inflation).

Even the Finnish reactor - much touted by the prime minister - has a guaranteed price for its output and a taxpayer commitment to deal with all waste after 60 years and with any overrun costs of decommissioning.

Resource - poor Japan has long been interested in tapping Africa's vast natural resources, even more so since dependence on oil and natural gas imports jumped after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster shut almost all of Japan's nuclear reactors.

ALBANY — A fire - suppression system at one of Indian Point's nuclear reactors was temporarily shut down last December after it had deteriorated and malfunctioned, according to a federal report released Wednesday.

The Indian Point 2 nuclear reactor will reopen late next month in time for the summer's peak energy season after a longer - than - expected shutdown because of deteriorating bolts critical to the plant's safety.

[11] It was signed in the wake of North Korea's 90 - day advance notification of its intended withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (which North Korea «suspended» after 89 days), a U.S. military buildup near the country, and U.S. plans to bomb the active Yongbyon nuclear reactor.

The PSC, after all, regulates New York's power companies and has been on point in the governor's determined, but misguided, efforts to shut the Indian Point nuclear reactor.

The Nine Mile Point Unit 2 reactor was shut down just after 2 p.m. Wednesday.

BUCHANAN, N.Y. (AP / WCBS 880)-- The Indian Point nuclear power station was entirely off the grid Friday after a non-radioactive leak forced operators to close the only reactor that was running.

FitzPatrick, which employs more than 600 people, will shut down by early 2017, after the nuclear fuel in the reactor is depleted.

After the closures of Vermont Yankee, Pilgrim and FitzPatrick, Entergy Wholesale Commodities will have just three merchant reactors left - two at Indian Point and one in Michigan.

After the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island — a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania — stricter regulations driven by public fear prompted TVA to shut down its two nuclear reactors.

After two nuclear reactors in Tennessee were temporarily shut down in the 1980s, coal - fired power plants picked up various amounts of the slack.

Zerbo negotiated agreements to share data after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan.

Much as what unfolded during the crisis in Japan, the computer modeling suggested that fuel in one of the two reactors on the Peach Bottom site would begin to melt as soon as nine hours after a loss of cooling water flow.

For 36 hours after Chernobyl's RBMK - 1000 reactor let loose a radioactive cloud, Soviet officials said nothing.

After a few adjustments to the bus's faulty video player, a small monitor begins to display gruesome scenes of the aftermath of the fire at the reactor.

In 2006, 20 years after reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was encased in cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposed.

The meltdown started when water to cool the reactors fell to dangerously low levels four hours after the fourth - largest recorded earthquake rattled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

After that I wanted to do something very practical so I switched to work on magnetic confinement fusion, as part of the ongoing effort to develop fusion reactors.

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.

Meanwhile, the shutdowns of the Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex and other nuclear plants after the earthquake have led to electricity shortages in Tokyo and neighbouring prefectures, where temporary outages are planned every day.

A first - stage reactor breaks down the stuff with heat and pressure, after which the pressure rapidly drops, flashing off excess water and minerals.

Just after the 11 March disaster, much of the radioactive contamination from the reactor complex was swept out to sea.

A few days after the nuclear crisis began to unfold at the Fukushima power station in Japan, Singh, who also serves as minister in charge for atomic energy, ordered a safety review of all 20 nuclear power plants and a half dozen research reactors owned and operated by the government.

Despite the severity of the accident at the Fukushima I plant, nuclear reactor designers don't expect the same type of backlash against the nuclear industry as occurred a generation ago after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

Six years after the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan, radioactive material is leaching into the Pacific Ocean from an unexpected place.

A broader concern is Germany's decision to order the phased closure of its reactor network, which it took in answer to rising public concern after Fukushima.

After the meltdowns at Fukushima, Japanese utilities shut down their 50 intact reactors one by one.

This week, EDF Energy took offline three of its nuclear reactors at its Heysham 1 and Hartlepool plants in Britain for inspection which are both 31 years old, after a crack was discovered on a boiler spine of another Heysham 1 reactor with a similar boiler design, which had already been taken offline in June.

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.

Pressure in the suppression pool — a doughnut - shaped water vessel below the reactor — dropped after the explosion, indicating that the containment vessel had been compromised.