Sentences with phrase «whether the plant continues»

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The owner of FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County has issued no news to the public or its employees this weekend about whether the plant will shut down next year or continue to operate.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - The owner of FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County has issued no news to the public or its employees this weekend about whether the plant will shut down next year or continue to operate.

Following on this study, I plan to continue investigating whether gaseous mercury is also a dominant source of pollution in other remote lands, and the mechanism of plant mercury uptake, which may be the main pathway for atmospheric mercury deposits to land.

The National Science Foundation's oversight board is discussing whether to continue featuring advances in clean energy technologies, such as this parabolic trough solar power plant, in its periodic statistical tome.

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.

We will continue to study whether pathogens are exploiting mechanisms evolved to support symbionts and, hopefully, this will allow us to establish future crop plants that both benefit from symbionts whilst remaining more resistant to pathogens.

Vidal continued to feel this way all through Phillips Exeter Academy, and even after his World War II experiences, which planted the first seeds of doubt as to whether those images on screen were reflecting anything resembling real life.

Any financial assistance to existing nuclear power plants should not dilute or otherwise come at the expense of incentives for energy efficiency, grid modernization, or renewable resources such as wind and solar, and should include provisions to periodically assess whether continued support is necessary and cost - effective.

So I think, around the carbon budgets, a question that I would like to see more clarity on is whether land - based vegetation will continue to absorb carbon dioxide at the rate it currently is, or whether in a future climate, that drawdown of carbon by plants on land will change.

The observation that «renewables continue to far outpace coal - fired power plant development» does not indicate whether coal will be employed for district heating in the future once present installations have been retired.

«Wind energy's major cost declines have, and will continue to be, critical to opening up new opportunities throughout Canada — whether it is to support the coal phase - out, or to fill an emerging power supply gap as nuclear power plants are refurbished in Ontario, or to help the northeast United States reduce its reliance on fossil - fuel powered generation through clean electricity imports from Quebec or Atlantic Canada.

Second, we have seen continued pressure, more veiled than overt, on the coal industry by the EPA as the agency weighs whether to use its legal authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

One has to wonder whether this deeply flawed and misleading study is part of the administration's continued attempts to prop up the coal industry at all costs, especially after FERC rejected the DOE's fact - free proposal to bail out coal and nuclear plants late last year.