Sentences with phrase «reactors operated that year»

American nuclear power reactors operated that year around the clock at about 90 percent capacity, whereas coal - fired plants operated at about 73 percent, hydroelectric plants at 29 percent, natural gas from 16 to 38 percent, wind at 27 percent, solar at 19 percent, and geothermal at 75 percent.»

Not exact matches

And on March 10, 2011, the NRC licensed the boiling - water reactor of similar design and vintage at Vermont Yankee to operate for another 20 years (pdf), just one day before the Fukushima crisis.

«GE reactors are safe, as proven by their successful 30 - year operating record in many nations around the world,» says company spokesman Lynn Wallis.

From a speech at Missouri State University in Springfield: «Every year, [the 104 operating nuclear] reactors alone spare the atmosphere from the equivalent of nearly all auto emissions in America.

But the absorption of ANSTO into the CSIRO could be used by the government to justify a compromise of refurbishing the old Lucas Heights reactor to keep it operating for another five or 10 years.

Canada's Chalk River complex contains the 60 - year - old National Research Universal reactor, the world's oldest operating nuclear reactor.

By JUAN MATTHEWS and COLIN ENGLISHSafety inspectors threatened to close down the oldest commercial nuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on working.

Safety inspectors threatened to close down the oldest commercial nuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on working.

Britain's state - owned nuclear industry had asked the government if it could pay to keep the reactor operating for a further three years out of its own budget.

And that is exactly what GEH has done to create PRISM, building on the EBR - II reactor, which operated successfully for 30 years.

The PRISM design has benefited from the operating experience of EBR - II, an integral fast reactor prototype, which was developed by Argonne National Laboratory, and operated for more than 30 years at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho.

We are pleased to announce that Holtec International's engineers and scientists have successfully modified the core of the Company's SMR - 160 small modular reactor to increase the cycle life (operating period between successive refuelings) to nearly 4 years from 3-1/2 years previously achieved using a conventional design.

Prism is a sodium - cooled fast neutron reactor design built on more than 30 years of development work, benefitting from the operating experience of the EBR - II prototype integral fast reactor which operated at the USA's Idaho National Laboratory — formerly Argonne National Laboratory — from 1963 to 1994.

The 60 - year - old reactor — the world's oldest operating research reactor — is slated to shut down in March 2018, after which Canadian and other scientists will no longer be able to use the highly specialized equipment in their experiments.

That amount increases by about 2,000 metric tons each year as fuel is unloaded from operating reactors.

The reactor was due to end its 40 - year operating period in September 2017 and could have applied to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) to extend its licence for a further 20 years.

The reactor vessel is subject to cumulative neutron fluence in 120 years of operation that is less than that has been experienced by presently operating reactors.

One theory, which has gained little support, claims that a natural uranium reactor, 5 miles in diameter, has been operating at the center of the earth for 4.5 billion years.

It eventually restarted in May 2010 but has not operated since refuelling equipment fell into the reactor vessel during a refuelling outage later that year.

GEH and ARC Nuclear have each developed advanced reactor designs based on the EBR - II, an integral sodium - cooled fast reactor prototype which was developed by Argonne National Laboratory and operated successfully for more than 30 years at Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Had shuttered nuclear reactors operated as planned, critics pointed out, and Energiewende not been instituted, Germany could have reduced its carbon emissions to an all - time low of 897 million tonnes per year.

We have 60 years of experience safely operating commercial nuclear plants and more than that operating naval reactors.

In return they got permission to operate reactors on average 12 years beyond 2021.

Diablo Canyon's two reactors are also California's last operating nuclear plants, following the closure many years ago of Rancho Seco near Sacramento, and more recently, the last of the San Onofre reactors.

Unless governments start routinely granting operating permits for reactors more than 40 years old, a half - century of growth in world nuclear generating capacity is about to be replaced by a long - term decline.

The average age of nuclear reactors operating today is 27 years; the 142 reactors that have already retired were just 23 years old on average when they closed.

Many nuclear reactors have been granted operating extensions, usually for 20 years, beyond their typical design lifetime of 40 years.

Couldn't come at the bloke [final speaker] who was quite sure that the number of operating reactors world wide would stay around the 440 mark in coming years.

The reactor's steel - clad metal - alloy fuel would remain in place for the design's 30 - year operating lifetime.

Last year, utilities permanently shuttered five more reactors, lowering the number of operating units in the United States to fewer than 100 for the first time in two decades.