Sentences with phrase «when nuclear plants»

As seen all too recently in Vermont, when nuclear plants close, fossil fuels are the predominant replacement.

When their nuclear plants were closed, the Japanese energy supply recarbonized immediately, and there is no doubt as to why.

The causal relationship between nuclear and changes to carbon intensity are further demonstrated when nuclear plants are closed, as they were in Japan following the 2011 Fukushima accident.

When all nuclear plants are replaced with solar energy, South Korea would need to build 4,400 solar farms the size of its largest solar farm in Shinan.

When nuclear plants are cancelled or closed, they are replaced almost entirely with fossil fuels, and so this is bad news for clean air and the climate.

The US Energy Information Administration, Environmental Progress, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have all done studies showing that when nuclear plants close, they are replaced overwhelmingly by coal and natural gas, which would also happen if New York closed its nuclear plants.

Not exact matches

She also toured Three Mile Island, walking viewers through how cheap natural gas is shutting that plant down when one of the worst nuclear accidents in history could not.

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

More likely, there are still nuclear plants running, and there may even be some natural gas plants lingering in the system — not running at full capacity, but they have the ability to power up quickly when there's not a lot of sun or wind.

In the US, for instance, a proposal to force California's two nuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in Nonuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in NoNuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in November.

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Investors felt the biggest shock waves when Japan's prime minister announced that radioactive material had leaked from the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima province and that more leaks were possible.

Family Roots December 9, 2014 A woman finds an unexpected new family when she adopts a son, a bad soldier learns to write from personal loss, and a man is working at a nuclear power plant when disaster strikes.

Cuomo has a much different attitude when it comes to the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

When Germany decided to close its nuclear power plants in the wake of the Fukushima, Swedish nuclear energy firm Vattenfall took them to an investor tribunal.

FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant employees and members of the public rallied to save the plant's jobs in October 2015 when Entergy was pondering whether or not to close the facility because of economic loPlant employees and members of the public rallied to save the plant's jobs in October 2015 when Entergy was pondering whether or not to close the facility because of economic loplant's jobs in October 2015 when Entergy was pondering whether or not to close the facility because of economic losses.

More important than his legacy of helping to spare us the Jamesport nuclear plant, and likely the others which were sure to dot the eastern Long Island landscape, was his inspiration for all of us, especially young people who seek role models for public service: that when you hold on to what you know is right and work hard, even struggle, to make the world a better place, you're more than just an idealist, you're someone who can make a real and lasting difference.

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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»

That was when McMahon heard about the governor's Clean Energy Standard which includes nuclear plants because they are carbon - free.

Brodsky met the 91 - year - old folk singer and environmentalist when he represented him in a successful lawsuit against the nuclear power plant Indian Point.

When the CEO of Entergy Corp. visited FitzPatrick nuclear plant Friday to talk with 600 employees about closing the facility, one of the workers drew attention to the executive's hefty compensation while asking him to be fair to the rank - and - file.

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.

Governor Cuomo has a much different attitude when it comes to the Indian Point nuclear power plant downstate, in Westchester County.

When it comes to the other nuclear power plant in New York, which is in the downstate region, Cuomo has taken the opposite stance.

«To be asked to dig deeper into the pockets of their constituents so a huge, profitable energy company can keep three outdated nuclear plants open is simply unfair and wrong - headed, especially when many areas of the state will not receive little, if any, of the energy produced by the plants.»

And the county faced a virtual calamity in late 2015 when the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant, which employs around 600 people, was headed for closure.

Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) said the renovation is a big step for the city as it prepares to lose millions in income and economic activity when the Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant closes in about a year.

When it comes to the other nuclear power plant in New York, located in the downstate region, Cuomo has taken the opposite stance.

He wishes the plan came along two years ago, when Upstate nuclear plants started struggling to compete with low - price power from natural gas plants.

When Entergy notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in November that it planned to close the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in about a year, it triggered a ninety - day study.

The original application for the GE Hitachi plant in 2009 set off a protracted debate over whether the NRC, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, sufficiently weighs proliferation risks when licensing new types of enrichment technology (See «Laser plant offers cheap way to make nuclear fuel»).

And there is some somewhat alarming language that talks about, and I'll just quote «the IAEA tells us the earthquake triggered a power failure at the Fukushima Daiichi unit 2 nuclear power plant, and then when a backup generator also failed, the cooling system was unable to supply water to cool the reactor.

The meltdown started when water to cool the reactors fell to dangerously low levels four hours after the fourth - largest recorded earthquake rattled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

In late April 1986, Sladek was hobbling around her home with a broken leg, the result of a skiing accident, when she heard a news report about an explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.

James added, «The real question is how fast we can build nuclear plants, not whether we can build them, and when the sequestration technology is going to be available.»

Some sources of pollution, such as nuclear power plants or oil tankers, can produce widespread and potentially hazardous releases when accidents occur.

Massive protests broke out in Hong Kong in the 1980s when China announced its plan to build the Daya Bay nuclear plant just across the border from the city, then under British rule.

WHEN the leaders of the world's seven richest nations meet in Nova Scotia next week, they will promise to help Ukraine close down the Chernobyl nuclear 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.

KIEV, Ukraine — In 1986 the worst nuclear accident in history took place when reactor No. 4 in the power plant at nearby Chernobyl exploded, spewing large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.

It is a new phase in a government and industry investigation into the possibilities of running the nation's 104 nuclear plants for as long as 80 years — twice their expected lifespans when they were originally licensed.

As Japanese officials consider whether and when to reactivate most of the country's 54 nuclear plants, a year after the Fukushima reactor disaster, they continue to face challenges to public confidence in the nuclear industry and its regulator.

At age 15, when she realized just how close the bay was to the Oyster Creek Generating Station, the nation's oldest nuclear power plant, she swung into action.

This happened in 1986 when a nuclear power plant at Chernobyl caught fire and exploded, showering surrounding territory with radioactive particles and threatening to let molten uranium fuel seep deep into the ground.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Fukushima task force has confronted the commissioners with a central quandary of their mission: When are nuclear plants safe Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Fukushima task force has confronted the commissioners with a central quandary of their mission: When are nuclear plants safe nuclear plants safe enough?

Then the task force followed with a dozen major recommendations, some of which would order nuclear plant operators to strengthen defenses against extreme flooding or earthquakes when necessary and to harden vents that would carry away explosive hydrogen gas from damaged reactor cores in the two types of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Robert Geller, a seismologist at the University of Tokyo, says the litmus test came earlier this month when the government rubber - stamped the restarting of a nuclear power plant in Oi, western Japan.

When nations acquire nuclear weapons, they usually develop dedicated facilities to produce fissile materials rather than collecting nuclear materials from civilian power plants.