Sentences with phrase «there nuclear plans»

Would bombing Iran hinder there nuclear plans?

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Recently the Philippines has legislated a law declaring that those who bring nuclear weapons into the territory of the Philippines will be imprisoned for a sentence of at least six years and up to a maximum of thirty, and that all airplanes or ships carrying nuclear bombs will be arrested.4 There have been indications that the United States has explored plans to relocate the United States military from the Philippines to Taiwan.

For instead of foresight and planning, there is only reaction, and the great problem is that it is never possible to know in advance when it will be too late to react to a calamitous environmental change — especially in a nuclear age!

Although Pyongyang said it would abolish its nuclear test site, there is no indication it is planning to get rid of its existing weapons.

There are currently 19 nuclear power plants operating in the UK, with plans to increase their numbers by 2025 to meet the country's growing energy needs.

The government denies plans to delay a decision on a replacement for the Trident nuclear deterrent - as a Channel 4 News FactCheck analysis finds there would be extra costs involved if it were to do so.

A New York state senator from the Hudson Valley believes there has been little progress regarding an action plan for the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

There are plans for car - sized, nuclear powered rovers, robotic mining platforms, and sample - return missions, and Tremblay hopes to be part of it.

But there are currently 53 new nuclear reactors under construction or planned around the globe for 2020, capable of producing 42 gigawatts of electricity.

Ramesh feels that «there has been huge drop in public confidence in nuclear energy,» and as a consequence setting up large nuclear energy parks of 10,000 MW capacity, as has been planned, needs a «relook.»

Dear EarthTalk: I've heard that there are plans to build a large repository for nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain in Nevada, but that plans have been slow and are very controversial.

The Obama administration has lowered the number of nuclear warhead types to 12, from 23 in 1990, and there are plans to take another 50 % cut over the next decade.

French President Emmanuel Macron is urging U.S. President Donald Trump to stick with the Iranian nuclear accord, arguing that there's no «Plan B».

But there's little celebration or even mention of its accomplishment: that is because it was achieved through the «dirty and dangerous» nuclear power, and France itself is now acting under a new post-Fukushima plan that would vitiate this achievement, cutting nuclear by a third unless it is reversed.

Lara Uselding, a spokeswoman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, called the leaks «unprecedented,» and said there was no plan for when the plant might be allowed to restart or what fixes would have to be made before then.

Situated on the coast of the Black Sea, Sinop was chosen as the site for this year's Ecotopia because of plans to build a nuclear power plant there.

Germany and France will heavily shape future European and even global energy and environmental policies — Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium and other nations may also phase out their nuclear plants — but to date there has been little investigative reporting on the planned shift from nuclear energy to fossil fuels and renewables.

Just 4 % of Indians prefer nuclear power, despite there being 21 such generating plants now in operation, six facilities under construction and 22 planned.

A string of new nuclear plants were being planned and there were loan guarantee programs in place from the federal government to make their construction possible.

It is not surprising that there are many skeptics who like I am, are very knowledgeable in many of the over lapping fields, of gas chromatography, anthropology, radio graphics of X-ray and particle physics, biological plant and animal processes, agriculture, high power radio transmission and reception, and its attendant multiplexing of signals, mining, reforestation plans and progress realities, nuclear, gas, and coal power plant construction techniques, organic gardening, astronomy, stellar physics, global circulation pattern drivers, and have also spent considerable time out doors in a tent and sleeping bag.

In addition to units currently planning to retire in 2018 or later (about 6.9 GW; 67 % coal, 20 % nuclear), there are between 108 and 118 units representing 22.9 to 30.7 GW of capacity at risk of retirement.

What «Planning Engineer» never mentions is that there is not a Utility on the face of this Planet that would build a nuclear unit to meet its peaking load requirement (i.e., concept of capacity factors and costs per kWh).

But there's one major flaw in Bernie's plan: Sanders is calling for a total phaseout of nuclear energy.

To be sure, not all power stations entered into various queues will be installed and constructed, but with new planned nuclear and coal units virtually eliminated, it's clear there are massive changes underway in the electric markets.

Given the evident concern about nuclear waste, it will be interesting to see if there is any reactions from young people to the governments recent admission that, on current NDA plans, the proposed Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) is not expected to be available to take spent fuel from new nuclear power stations until around 2130, which they note «is approximately 50 years after the likely end of electricity generation for the first new nuclear power station».

In the coming years, there are plans to retire the two largest coal - fired power plants in the region, as well as one of the region's nuclear units.

Their current 5 - year plan is full of action to develop knowledge and products that are based on the view that there will be a huge global market demand for new energy technology, rail transport, ice breaking ships, nuclear power, etc..

However, the primary reason there isn't such a consensus is the anti-nuclear lobby's insistance that any such plan is unworkable, because nuclear waste is infinitely dangerous.

It is not «hysterical», for example, to point out that there is still no concensus on a long term plan for the disposal of the nuclear waste that is guaranteed to be both safe and affordable.