Sentences with phrase «reactors at»

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.»

After a scenario of unique failures within several reactors at once, is the prospect of a dozen or more interrelated small modular reactors on one site still as attractive?

The Fukushima disaster has inconveniently shown a problem inherent to installing multiple reactors at one plant.

Last week, Southern Company announced that it would continue its project to build two AP1000 reactors at Plant Vogtle in Georgia.

Before the 2011 accident, in which a tidal wave caused three of the six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to go into meltdown, Japan only got 62 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels.

According to NHK World, Chubu Electric Power Company is considering whether or not to decommission the number 1 and 2 nuclear reactors at its power plant:

Another NGO, the Citizens» Nuclear Information Center, an anti-nuclear public interest organization dedicated to securing a safe, nuclear - free world, wants all reactors at Hamaoka to be closed.

Currently before Congress, the Senate version of the Energy Bill could authorize the Department of Energy to hand out what the musicians call a «virtual blank check» for funding new nuclear reactors at taxpayer expense.

This, in combination with the automatic trip of the two nuclear reactors at San Onofre Generating Station, drove up real - time, wholesale prices in SP - 15 (the southern portion of the north - south transmission backbone in California), San Diego Gas and Electric (San Diego Metro Area), and SoCal Edison (Los Angeles area) zones at the same time.

Our work against nuclear power helped shut down reactors at Diablo Canyon and San Onofre and helped cancel both the MidAmerican Energy and V.C. Summer nuclear projects.

When David Brower to found Friends of Earth in 1969, one of his principal concerns revolved around the construction of nuclear reactors at Diablo Canyon.

Friends of the Earth has reached an agreement with Pacific Gas & Electric to shut down the two reactors at Diablo Canyon and replace them with renewable energy, efficiency and energy storage.

Here in the UK we are reaping the nuclear industry's harvest as our government plans a whole new fleet of nuclear reactors at the expense of technologies that have the capacity to support us in our fight against climate change.

Working with Pacific Gas and Electric, Friends of the Earth reached an agreement to shut down the two reactors at Diablo Canyon and replace them with renewable energy, efficiency and energy storage.

«Japan is simply too quake bound to operate nuclear plants,» and there were calls for the closure of the reactors at Hamaoka - directly above a geologically active fault 60 miles West of Tokyo.

EDF plans to extend the life of four nuclear power plants in the UK and said that it was close to announcing a decision on its investment in two new reactors at Hinkley Point.

[1] In Eastern Europe, a number of long - established projects are struggling to find finance, notably Belene in Bulgaria and the additional reactors at Cernavoda in Romania, and some potential backers have pulled out.

According to a 2011 report from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that was made public in 2012, there are nearly three dozen nuclear reactors at risk of being flooded due to dam failure.

Via: http://energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/production Using captured CO2 to enhance the growth of algae biofuels (like in the above reactors at Arizona State University) would get a $ 35 / t tax credit under the Heitkamp - Whitehouse CCUS proposal in the Senate.

Since 2010, California closed one nuclear plant (2,140 MW installed capacity) while Germany closed 5 nuclear plants and 4 other reactors at currently - operating plants (10,980 MW in total).

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.

And two proposed reactors at the South Texas Project are among plans for more than 25 new reactors throughout the country.

In early 2012, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved construction permits for four 1,100 - megawatt reactors at two existing nuclear plants in the southeastern states of Georgia and South Carolina, the first permits for new plants since 1978.

One wonders what it is going to take in order to get the Georgia Public Service Commissioners» attention when it comes to the two under - construction nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle?

From the standpoint of cost - effective climate policy, then, completing the reactors at V.C. Summer still makes great sense.

In 1979, when I was seven, the anti-nuclear Hollywood blockbuster «China Syndrome» was released just 12 days before one of the reactors at Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania melted down.

The two reactors at California's troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station will be permanently shut down, the plant's owners said Friday.

This is the latest headline hype in coverage of efforts to control the damaged reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power complex in northern Japan.

Engineers use a flying drone to peer into the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

In our testbed, we will demonstrate the capability to detect the operations of nuclear reactors at significant distances, using antineutrino emissions.»

«Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda says the crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been successfully brought to a state of cold shutdown.

The flexible way to greater energy yield: Feeding biogas reactors at longer intervals produces more biogas Biogas is an important energy source that plays a central role in the energy revolution.

Japanese scientists using extremely sophisticated equipment have documented plutonium on land near the reactors at levels one million times lower than cesium in the same sample.

A company formed by Electricite de France (EDF), France's state - owned generator, and its Slovak counterpart SEP has applied to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a loan to upgrade and operate two partly - built nuclear reactors at Mochovce in Slovakia.

One important question left unanswered is whether upgrading reactors at Mochovce is the best investment for Slovakia to make in order to solve its energy problems.

His company has decided it can make two of the reactors at Mochovce safe without major changes to the design, or adding more containment.

The second reason is that it costs a minimum of # 2 billion ($ 3.14 billion) to decommission a nuclear reactor, according to the European Union, and there are two reactors at each of these EDF stations.

But neither the South Texas facility nor the applications for new reactors at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland and the Shearon Harris nuclear plant outside Raleigh, N.C., have completed the NRC's long design safety and feasibility evaluation, which could take years to complete.

Among the pending applications: a plan to build two additional boiling - water reactors at the South Texas Project power plant near Houston.

The commission does not expect to complete its review of the new reactors at the South Texas plant before 2011, according to NRC spokesman Scott Burnell.

To nail down the last angle, researchers studied electron antineutrinos produced by the six 2.9 - gigawatt reactors at the site.

You say that a tsunami damaged emergency generators that would have provided power to keep the nuclear reactors at Fukushima...

Boiling water reactors This is the next most common type, used in countries including the US, Sweden and Japan — the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi are ageing examples.

Then the task force followed with a dozen major recommendations, some of which would order nuclear plant operators to strengthen defenses against extreme flooding or earthquakes when necessary and to harden vents that would carry away explosive hydrogen gas from damaged reactor cores in the two types of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

That analysis was carried out for two reactors at a plant in Ohi on the Japan Sea coast and submitted for review to Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), which concluded they had passed.

Nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi station in Japan are critically endangered but have not reached full meltdown status.

The Prime Minister replied that the proposed investment of about # 177 million to complete the construction of two 440 - megawatt Soviet - designed VVER 213 reactors at Mochovce will be the first nuclear project financed by an international financial institution.

During the 2003 heat wave in Europe, reactors at inland sites in France were shut down or had their power output reduced because the water receiving the discharge was already warmer than environmental regulations allowed.

«Our [eight diesel generators] are protected from the seismic and hydrology hazards expected in the area,» in addition to being buried in hardened facilities, says TVA spokesman, Terry Johnson, which operates three such boiling - water reactors at Browns Ferry.

CATASTROPHIC meltdowns of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had less to do with the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March last year, and more to do with the plant owners» and government's failure to anticipate and prepare for emergencies on such an epic scale.