Sentences with phrase «time at nuclear plants»

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On April 26, 1986, a radioactive release many times as large as the that of the Hiroshima bomb occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.

At the same time, subsidies and other support for renewable energy projects have boosted competition from wind and solar power and piled pressure on coal - fired and nuclear power plants.

One of Yoh's hires, a Ph.D. in education, recognized that power operators at electric - and nuclear - power plants had the same need to get it right 100 % of the time; he was right.

It ought to come as a surprise to no one, therefore, that from the time of the first splitting of the atom down through the destruction of Hiroshima and on to current controversies about nuclear weapons and power plants, Christian people have been involved individually and corporately at every level of the debate, not incidentally but specifically because of their Christian commitment.

At the same time, Cuomo's administration has supported a ratepayer - backed bailout for three upstate nuclear power plants, pointing to the need to keep their emission - free power on the grid in order to reach the state's pollution - cutting goals.

A formal announcement Monday about an agreement to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County by 2021 came at different times from the different parties involved.

At the time of the agreement, Cuomo and the commission argued that the nuclear plants provide a clean bridge fuel while reaching the state's goal of getting 50 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2030.

Dr. Stein said the Obama White House «has shown it has learned nothing» by promoting nuclear power plants at a time when much of the world is shifting away from them after the Read more»

At 7 a.m., Food and Water Watch, the New York Public Interest Research Group and activists and supporters of the Stop the Cuomo Tax campaign rally in Times Square, Penn Station and Grand Central against tax increase to support nuclear power plants in upstate New York, Grand Central Terminal by # 7 Train, Penn Station, LIRR area, and Times Square by Shuttle and 2 and 3 train tracks, Manhattan.

For the second time in less than a week, the Nine Mile Point Unit 2 nuclear power plant in Oswego County experienced an automatic shutdown, due to a problem at the plant.

PSC Chair Audrey Zibelman said at the time that nuclear plants are unique and that requiring a formal notice of closure would magnify the likelihood that a nuclear plant would close before subsidies could be negotiated.

The former EPA administrator also commented on Governor Cuomo's energy plan, to get 50 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2030 as a «step in the right direction,» but she disagrees with an $ 8 billion plan to finance upstate nuclear power plants, while Cuomo is at the same time pushing to close the downstate Indian Point nuclear power plant.

The U.S. government finds that many U.S. nuclear plants would fail to face multiple challenges at the same time as happened at Fukushima Daiichi

After the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, Germany adopted a policy of phasing out nuclear energy by 2022 and ensuring that 80 percent of the country's electricity supply comes from clean energy by 2050, or more than three times the level of 2010.

The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

With nuclear safety in the spotlight since the 2011 reactor meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant - which in turn prompted Germany to call time on its entire nuclear fleet - operators can take no chances with their elderly plants, but the outages get longer and more difficult.

And cooling will need to continue at the Fukushima nuclear power plants for a long time to come.

Just after 6 AM local time on Tuesday in Japan, a sound like an explosion was heard near the suppression pool of reactor No. 2 at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

When the head of the Atomic Energy Commission at the time, Lewis Strauss, infamously quipped in 1954 that electricity would become «too cheap to meter,» he was likely referring to nuclear fusion, not nuclear fission, the atom - splitting reaction that powers conventional nuclear power plants today.

«The energy payback time of a nuclear power plant is at present about 11 years compared with natural gas at half a year,» Storm van Leeuwen argues, when the full cost of decommissioning a nuclear power plant at the end of its useful life is included.

That means large quantities of nuclear waste will remain at nuclear plants for a long, long time — and three quarters of it is currently crammed in cooling pools rather than stored in dry casks, which are safer.»

At the same time, the Chinese have taken the lead in producing clean energy — from topping the world in the production and installation of solar power to building an entire new series of nuclear power plants, making use of the latest technology.

The Site services group has carried out over 100 significant projects at nuclear plants around the world without a single lost time injury — a stunning record of safety!

At the same time, OSU was gaining international recognition for its work in the development of passive safety systems that use natural circulation to provide cooling for nuclear plants.

As the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, Chernobyl drove the city of Pripyat, Ukraine (the U.S.S.R. at the time), into an overnight dystopian empire that's become a haunting landscape of ruins that time gnaws on.

Working for Novosti Press Agency (APN) at the time, Kostin was one of only five photographers who covered the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on the day it actually happened (April 26, 1986), with his aerial shot of the buckled plant becoming one of the most notable around the world.

DOE also claims 6 years lead time for nuclear; at a round table discussion with utility CEOs (from a business site I didn't bookmark and cant find), one of them said jestingly that a new nuclear plant takes 15 years — 5 for design & permitting, 5 for litigation, and 5 for construction.

Our seas will need to have tens of thousands to these wind turbines deployed at several per week to do the job in time and only shallow offshore is viable at the present time and that is inline with existing baseload fossil fuel coal and gas fired power plants along with existing nuclear ones to.

I recall rushing to the Indian Point nuclear power plants to assess whether security measures had been tightened (big dump trucks had been parked across the entrance), then picking up my younger son, three years old at the time, at daycare.

But there's no reason for all the FF & nuclear plants serving an area to go off - line at the same time.

The Wall Street Journal and New York Times have pieces painting a convincing picture that officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company, reluctant to wreck a huge investment, hesitated to flood overheating parts of the damaged nuclear plant complex with corrosive seawater even though that step was clearly laid out in emergency plans.

There have been a host of efforts to describe Japan's earthquake and nuclear emergency, ranging from volumes of helpful graphics generated by The Times and other media to freelance efforts, including the «sonification» of a month of earthquake activity surrounding the great quake off Japan by Paul May and a chart by Randall Munroe comparing human radiation exposure from an array of sources — ranging from a banana to a mammogram to a leaking nuclear plant and «A Layman's Intro to Radiation» by Ellen McManis, who operates a research reactor at Reed College.

In 2011, Gallup conducted its annual Environment poll a few days before the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan, and at that time, 57 percent of Americans were in favor of nuclear energy.

It was notable to see David Lochbaum, a longtime critic of Indian Point and its operators who works at the Union of Concerned Scientists, describe in The Times article the strain on the region's electric power transmission system without the nuclear plants:

The nuclear bill extends subsidies to plants for three years at a time and would be contingent on plant owners opening their books to state auditors to confirm the existence of revenue shortfall.

Arguing his point further in defense of nuclear energy, Kakodkar said that environmental radiation that people are exposed to even in normal rooms is 100 times higher than the radiation at the fence post of a nuclear plant.

However, if you plan to build new power plants to match supply to demand at all times, you're running into the same problems: it takes too much resources, money and time to go nuclear at such a scale.

From my perspective, we can reduce the emissions intensity of electricity by around 90 % by rolling out nuclear power using the types of plants that are best fit for purpose at the time.

a. (i) The perceived safety risks attaching to nuclear power (including the prospective leakage of hazmat now or at some unspecified time into the future and the associated legacy question, localised epidemiology, catastrophic plant failure, work - based OH&S, prospective terrorist attack, hazmat spillage in transit through populated or environmentally sensitive areas, ecological damage form uranium mining)

-- Instruct the new Energy Secretary to work with oil and gas industry to put together and implement an energy independence plan, with the clear goal of making the USA a net exporter of energy products within four years, at the same time creating millions of new jobs — Instruct the EPA Director to work with coal burning companies to encourage «clean coal» projects (eliminating pollution), by offering tax incentives for those who invest in these projects — Instruct the new Energy Secretary to set up a special task force to encourage the expansion of nuclear power and ease the permit procedure for new or expanded plants, with the goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 20 % to 25 % within four years

If policymakers provide financial assistance to existing nuclear plants, they should at the same time strengthen policies such as renewable electricity standards (RES) that stimulate the growth of low - carbon renewable energy as well as energy efficiency programs and policies.

At the same time, the government plans a program of building nuclear plants that would roughly triple capacity by 2024 and supply one - quarter of the country's electricity needs by 2050.

He noted that nuclear energy isn't dependable, with regular down time for maintenance and said that it took two weeks to get nuclear plants up running at full speed after northeastern blackout.

At the same time, we are troubled by your efforts to close the Indian Point nuclear plant and to exclude it from the CES.

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Though modern reactors are operationally 10 to 100 times safer than the designs at Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, he says, nuclear power plants were not built with terrorists in mind.

In the wake of the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan is looking to harness more of its offshore wind, a resource plentiful enough to meet national electricity needs nearly three times over.

«Japan is to resume the use of nuclear power for the first time since last year's triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi power plant after the government on Saturday approved the restart of two idled reactors»

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.