Sentences with phrase «said nuclear plant operators»

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Most of the nuclear facilities currently operating in America don't have them, and few of the operators of the older plants would opt to build them because of the cost, N.R.C. spokesman Neil Sheehan said.

Federal regulators say the owner of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County failed to amend a reactor operator's license when the man developed sleep apnea.

Transfers of casks from operating reactors could follow, and the report authors said that would help resolve a long - running court dispute over payments nuclear plant operators are required to make to the federal government in return for federal storage of the spent fuel — a bargain the federal government has not kept.

EDF Energy has been incorporating extra checks into its strategy for its ageing nuclear plants since it inherited them from previous operator British Energy, she said.

A typhoon killed 17 people in Japan on Wednesday, most on an offshore island, but largely spared the capital and caused no new disaster as it brushed by the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power station, the plant's operator said.

Meserve said he urged the panels to strengthen Japan's regulatory oversight of nuclear power, making nuclear safety the highest priority for plant operators, above cost and power production.

But there has already been a core damage event in the U.S. nuclear industry — TMI Unit 2 — «so we've already blown the goal,» says Rick DeVercelly, a former operator at the Vermont Yankee and James A. Fitzpatrick (near Oswego, N.Y.) nuclear plants, and now a trainer at the NRC.

Task force member Gary Holahan, deputy director of NRC's Office of New Reactors, said yesterday that the group concluded that action was needed to remedy the kinds of inconsistent performance by nuclear plant operators where safety measures covering extreme hazards were covered by voluntary guidelines.

Hindering that process were a lack of regulations as well as «a collusion between the government, the [nuclear] regulators and [plant operator] Tepco and the lack of governance by said parties ``, Kurokawa's panel said in an English - language summary.

The PJM independent system operator (ISO) said there is no imminent danger to the grid when it was asked about the First Energy bankruptcy filing and First Energy's request of FERC for cost recovery for its nuclear and coal - fired power plants.

PJM vice president Stu Bresler said the plan described in the grid operator's November 15 report was in the works well before the Department of Energy proposed rules to guarantee cost recovery for coal and nuclear plants in the PJM region and certain other competitive markets.

Which specifies that in the event of a nuclear accident the operators of said plant can be held liable up to 650 million dollars.