Sentences with phrase «reactors in»

At one time, Mr. Whitfield served as a Special Assistant to Admiral H.G. Rickover, Director of the Division of Naval Reactors in the Department of Energy.

And though the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently approved the first new nuclear reactors in decades, the projects have been plagued by delays and high costs.

Major Assumptions Calculating Carbon Emissions: Emissions Factors Coal: 0.795 tons C02 / MWh LNG: Total: 0.474 tons / MWh Combustion: 0.362 tons / MWh Transportation: 0.106 tons / MWh (This includes both liquification and regasification of LNG) Japan's current total carbon emissions: 1,222 million metric tons Japan's total nuclear production in 2009 was calculated by summing yearly generation from each of Japan's reactors in 2009.

Following the Fukushima disaster, public opposition to reactors in China's earthquake - prone inland provinces grew, prompting officials to put off consideration of proposed reactors in non-coastal provinces until 2015 at the earliest.

(Where reactors in different categories are close together on the map above, their bubbles can overlap and the colours can become mixed.

to Fukushima by accelerating its plans to phase out nuclear power, closing eight reactors in 2011.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered the restart of two idle nuclear reactors Saturday amid widespread public opposition, more than a year after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai - ichi Power Plant, and halted all 50 reactors in Japan...

Operators of an additional 38 reactors in 23 states are facing decisions on whether to extend operating licenses.

The Senate's previous hearing was held by the Environment and Public Works Committee, where the chairwoman, Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, expressed anxiety about the vulnerability of reactors in her seismically active state.

Extending operating licenses for reactors in a safe and reliable way is a smart move, as they are a «near carbon - free source of energy,» according to the APS report.

Of all the 52 active nuclear reactors in Japan experts agree that the 5 reactors in Hamaoka are the most dangerous.

Enter Areva SA, a power developer largely owned by the French government, which has signed an agreement with the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group to build nuclear reactors in California's Central Valley.

Or believe it or not, there could have been a complete meltdown of several nuclear reactors in an earthquake and tsunami - hit region...

If the issue at hand is the role of breeder reactors in the international (not national) solution of the climate change and energy problems then there are four items that have significant downside risk and the potential to disrupt any nuclear program.

The US could lose half of our reactors in the next 13 years, and yet many of the institutions that should be fighting the hardest to save nuclear plants are doing remarkably little.

China has at least four next generation nuclear reactors in the works, including one financed by Bill Gates, who is expected to put millions and perhaps billions of his own money into the joint venture.

In fact,... it would've taken 140 reactors in the 1980s to produce as much electricity as our reactors do today,» she said.

Experimentation will be performed for the non-optimized and the optimized solar chemical reactors in the high - flux solar simulator (HFSS) at ETH.

The post, «Germany's Solar Panels Produce More Power Than Japan's Entire Fukushima Complex,» implies that solar PV may be an adequate substitute for aging nuclear reactors in both Germany and Japan.

Since 2007 when the public first learned about the proposed reactors in Green River, Utah, HEAL has opposed this venture at all opportunities.

Deaths in the US from the operation of commercial nuclear reactors in the past five decades: 0.

Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance, «Reactors in the Red: Financial Health of the US Nuclear Fleet,» July 7, 2016

Bloomberg New Energy Finance recently published a major new report, «Reactors in the Red: Financial Health of the US Nuclear Fleet,» showing that 55 percent of America's nuclear plants are losing money and are at serious risk of being replaced by fossil fuels.

Great Britain is planning to build several new nuclear reactors in Wales, which could be online by the mid-2020s.

With its nuclear power reactors in the process of being shut down by government decree (done in a hysterical state of mind in the wake of Fukushima), Germany now needs to find an alternative supply for electricity, and real soon.

Despite these issues, Orbach offered some technical solutions to improve safety at similar reactors in other parts of the world.

Whether leaving the reactors in place indefinitely can truly be called «decommissioning» is highly questionable.

BTW, you'll also find some references to Small Nuclear Reactors in my other posts that may be of interest.

«Solar reactors in the past have had the problem of what you do at night when you don't have sun, or even when clouds go by,» said the paper's lead author, Justin Lapp, formerly of DLR, and now Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine.

I guess some more nuclear reactors in the US would help and I am on - board with that.

The United States proposes to store the radioactive waste from its 104 nuclear power reactors in the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, roughly 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

What level of cost - sensitive commerical power is contained within the 400 - odd commercial reactors in operation around the world.

«In 10 years, we will need to transport 25 gigawatts of renewable power from northern to southern Germany,» as atomic reactors in the south are closed, said Scheibner at the 50Hertz center.

Many nuclear reactors in the U.S. are on the brink of closing due to their lack of price competitiveness compared to natural gas.

«To provide [electricity] in today's world, an «advanced reactor» must improve over existing reactors in the following 4 - core objectives.

The US built 100 + reactors in about 25 years, so they are known.

In response to former Australian Prime Minister John Howard's ambition to construct nuclear reactors in undisclosed locations in Australia, several commentators pointed out some interesting specifics about the most recent reactors constructed around the world.

During a brief building period that lasted less than 40 years, electricity production from nuclear reactors in the U.S. increased from zero to 800 billion kilowatt - hours per year.

With Diablo Canyon nuclear to close the reactors in 2024 and 2025, that gives PG&E an opportunity to obtain approximately 2,200 MW of power from renewable sources.

Several U.S. states have passed, or are mulling, programs that expand state aid to financially distressed nuclear reactors in a bid to keep them open for economic and environmental reasons.

State legislatures in New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania are exploring similar options to support troubled nuclear reactors in their state.

Three new nuclear reactors were connected to the grid in 2013 and four were permanently shut down, dropping the total number of reactors in operation around the world to 436 with an installed capacity of 372 GW.

Each year, the 104 reactors in operation around the country supply almost 75 percent of the country's clean electricity.

Four reactors in Texas prevented 30 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere last year, the equivalent of taking almost one million cars off the road.

Also, power stations may go offline due to insufficient water available for cooling — 25 % of nuclear reactors in the US are already affected.

Hear from Piers Corbyn about his take on what is going on with the nuclear reactors in Japan and the danger to the West Coast of the United States.

China already has 26 nuclear reactors in the works, with an additional 60 planned, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute.

But if President Sarkozy goes, then many French nuclear plants will join the 17 German reactors in closure.

Sierra Club Canada works to encourage Canada to follow the lead of other nuclear dependant countries, such as Germany and Belgium, that have legislated the planned phase - out of their nuclear reactors in favour of green energy options and energy efficiency.

By 2020, Sweden will have decommissioned four reactors in five years, reducing nuclear's total generating capacity in the country by 2.7 GWe net.