• As of September 2023[update], the International Atomic Energy Agency reported there were 410 nuclear power reactors in operation in 31 countries around the world, and 57 nuclear power reactors under construction. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nuclear reactors usually rely on uranium to fuel the chain reaction. (wikipedia.org)
  • In contrast, boiling water reactors pass radioactive water through the steam turbine, so the turbine is kept as part of the radiologically controlled area of the nuclear power station. (wikipedia.org)
  • It consists of four APR-1400 nuclear reactors (three operating, one undergoing post-construction testing). (wikipedia.org)
  • Barakah was chosen as the site to build four APR-1400 nuclear reactors successively, with the first scheduled to start supplying electricity in 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • The records describe the design, construction, operation, and decommission of one of the earliest power generating nuclear reactors in the United States. (thehenryford.org)
  • When the connection to the external power line was cut, the plant's emergency diesel generators automatically started operating to provide the six reactors with the electricity they need for cooling and other essential safety functions, the IAEA said in a statement. (rferl.org)
  • Despite heroic efforts by plant workers, three reactors sustained severe damage to their radioactive cores and three reactor buildings were damaged by hydrogen explosions. (popsci.com)
  • Nuclear power plants can generate bountiful, carbon-free electricity, but their solid fuel is problematic, and aging reactors are being shut down. (businessinsider.com)
  • Nuclear reactors, on the other hand, fit the bill: They're dense, reliable, emit no carbon, and - contrary to bitter popular sentiment - are among the safest energy sources on earth. (businessinsider.com)
  • All six reactors at the plant are shut down but they still require electricity for cooling and other safety functions. (scrippsnews.com)
  • In a statement Sunday, they said the two nuclear reactors in Taishan are both operational, adding that Unit 2 had recently completed an "overhaul" and "successfully connected to the grid on June 10, 2021. (cnn.com)
  • That's because nuclear reactors don't release carbon emissions. (npr.org)
  • On March 28, 1979, the core of one of Three Mile Island's nuclear reactors partially melted down. (npr.org)
  • At a time when many other countries are turning away from nuclear power, the British government is looking to build two new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point. (cnduk.org)
  • This month has seen hundreds of protesters converge on the proposed site of two new nuclear 'mega-reactors' at Hinkley Point in Somerset. (cnduk.org)
  • Britain's hopes of a nuclear renaissance looked further off than ever on Tuesday after the Government abandoned its longstanding ambition to have 16 gigawatts of new reactors running by 2025. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Two of its six reactors are currently operating and Ukraine has said Russia is trying to reconnect the power plant to occupied Crimea and shut off electricity supply to towns held by Kyiv. (theguardian.com)
  • Nuclear experts fear fighting might damage the plant's spent fuel pools or the reactors, although the concrete walls of key areas are designed to withstand substantial impacts. (theguardian.com)
  • #IndianPoint #nuclear reactors contaminate #NewYork groundwater. (inquisitr.com)
  • The Indian Point plant currently operates two nuclear reactors and boasts 40 monitoring wells. (inquisitr.com)
  • The Entergy Nuclear subsidiary owns, operates, supports, and provides management services to a fleet of 11 reactors in nine locations in the U.S. FitzPatrick is expected to close in late 2016 or early 2017. (powermag.com)
  • Since the Fukushima nuclear disaster forced the closure of all nuclear reactors in 2011, Japan has mostly used fossil-fueled power plants to generate roughly 70% of the nation's total electricity. (upi.com)
  • Many of the shuttered reactors remain offline as they have been unable to meet tougher safety standards that were implemented following the meltdown at Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant which was triggered by an earthquake. (upi.com)
  • The new regulations limited nuclear reactors to 40 years of service, and up to 60 years if certain safety upgrades were put in place. (upi.com)
  • Under the new law, nuclear reactors would not have inactive years applied against their total time of service, which would substantially stretch the expected lifetime of the facilities. (upi.com)
  • Under the coming regulations, Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority will be accountable for monitoring the condition of reactors, especially those that are more than 30 years old. (upi.com)
  • The government plans to set upgrade standards for facilities before the law takes effect, while critics continued to express uncertainty about the overall safety of long-haul nuclear reactors. (upi.com)
  • On delivery to Atomenergomash by the end of next year the barge will weigh 9549 tons and when fitted out with two RITM-200S pressurised water reactors and all the equipment it needs to function as a power plant it will weigh some 19,088 tons. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • This is based on two KLT-40S reactors generating 35 MWe each, which are similar to those used in a previous generation of nuclear powered icebreakers. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • So-called 'modernised floating nuclear power plants' like the ones for Cape Nagloynyn feature reactors from the new RITM series, as used in the latest generation of icebreakers. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • No specific name was given to the new barge, and the overall project comprising four floating power plants and eight reactors is known simply as Cape Nagloynyn. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • Therefore, significantly increased levels compared to background may be seen in the aquatic environment of nuclear reactors. (lu.se)
  • Speakers include: Caroline Lucas MP, Kate Hudson (CND), Amrit Wilson (South Asia Solidarity Group), Dr Frank Boulton (Medact) and a speaker from People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy, Kudankulam (via internet). (cnduk.org)
  • This happened despite delays being mooted in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster . (wikipedia.org)
  • As unfortunate as it was, the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster near Harrisburg, in early 1979, finally forced the media to start to inform the American public of the dangers of nuclear power. (projectcensored.org)
  • Moscow and Kyiv have traded blame for months over shelling near the facility that has sparked fears of a nuclear disaster. (rferl.org)
  • The 2011 disaster delivered a devastating one-two punch to the Fukushima plant. (popsci.com)
  • The company that owns the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, site of the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history, announced that it plans to shutter the facility in 2019 unless the state of Pennsylvania steps in to keep it open. (npr.org)
  • The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is seeking to inspect the plant, has warned of a possible nuclear disaster unless fighting stops . (theguardian.com)
  • A power plant leaking radioactive water in New York is sparking nuclear disaster concerns. (inquisitr.com)
  • Workers demolish old storage tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant following a disaster in 2011, which led the government improve standards that shuttered nearly all nuclear facilities in the country for more than a decade. (upi.com)
  • The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) surrounds the center of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. (cdc.gov)
  • International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi says power has been restored at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine after the second outage in five days highlighted the 'precarious' situation concerning the station's nuclear safety and security functions. (rferl.org)
  • Grossi met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on October 11 as part of efforts by the IAEA to prevent an accident and Grossi's push to establish a safety and security zone around the plant. (rferl.org)
  • The IAEA chief is due to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on October 13 for further talks regarding the power plant, the agency's statement said. (rferl.org)
  • Plant engineers have begun work to repair the damaged power line and the plant's generators - not all of which are currently being used - each have sufficient fuel for at least 10 days, the IAEA said. (scrippsnews.com)
  • The resumption of shelling, hitting the plant's sole source of external power, is tremendously irresponsible,' IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said. (scrippsnews.com)
  • While in Kudankulam, India - a tsunami- and earthquake-prone zone - a non-violent mass movement continues to resist the commissioning of a nuclear power plant which violates the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safety guidelines. (cnduk.org)
  • We would like to seek the assistance and support of the IAEA for the development of two full scale 1,000 megawatt nuclear power plants for the generation of electricity," Isoun was quoted as saying at a dinner on January21, Reuters reported. (bellona.org)
  • Formally IAEA cannot reject Nigeria s request as the world s nuclear watchdog was established to promote peaceful nuclear energy. (bellona.org)
  • The battle is going on in the town of Enerhodar and on the road to the ZNPP [Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant] site," the regulator told the IAEA, adding that the situation was "critical. (kpbs.org)
  • As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a generator that produces electricity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Despite some spectacular catastrophes, nuclear power plants are among the safest mode of electricity generation, comparable to solar and wind power plants. (wikipedia.org)
  • The first time that heat from a nuclear reactor was used to generate electricity was on December 21, 1951, at the Experimental Breeder Reactor I, feeding four light bulbs. (wikipedia.org)
  • On June 27, 1954, the world's first nuclear power station to generate electricity for a power grid, the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, commenced operations in Obninsk, in the Soviet Union. (wikipedia.org)
  • The world's first full scale power station solely devoted to electricity production-Calder Hall was also meant to produce plutonium-the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, United States-was connected to the grid on December 18, 1957. (wikipedia.org)
  • For the currently operating nuclear fleet, DTs are reducing the operational risks, increasing plant availability, increasing energy capability, and reducing electricity production costs. (ornl.gov)
  • Nuclear power generates about 10 percent of the world's electricity (TWh = terawatt-hours). (popsci.com)
  • Combined with an increasingly deregulated, "market-driven" power industry-which is interested in monopolizing existing nuclear power plants because they produce electricity so efficiently, but little interested in expending the capital and risk to build new ones-White House policy is aimed toward building a molehill, of perhaps two or three new nuclear plants by 2015 or so. (larouchepub.com)
  • Recent exclusive reliance on new natural gas-fired turbine plants, most of which add only "part-time power," is lowering the efficiency and raising the cost of producing more electricity. (larouchepub.com)
  • Furthermore, since Ohio's legislature in 2000 adopted the cutthroat "electricity deregulation" regime, Cinergy is demanding a rate increase of 5% from its customers to pay for the plant, before it builds it. (larouchepub.com)
  • The state has only one operating nuclear plant, the 1,200-megawatt Perry unit near Cleveland, and depends almost entirely on coal and natural gas-fueled electricity capacity. (larouchepub.com)
  • In the UK we currently generate around 15 to 20 per cent of our electricity from nuclear energy. (geoconnexion.com)
  • This is the first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years and will provide low-carbon electricity for around six million homes. (geoconnexion.com)
  • Tuesday's announcement highlights the challenges to the nuclear power industry - which "faces slowing demand for electricity, and competition from cheaper natural gas and renewables," as StateImpact Pennyslvania's Marie Cusick has reported . (npr.org)
  • The company is still in talks with ministers to agree a long-term contract guaranteeing it a so-called "strike price" for electricity from the plant, to be paid for through levies on consumer energy bills. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • The 688- MW plant generates enough electricity to meet nearly 10 percent of the electrical demand in Massachusetts. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • Nigeria has asked the world's nuclear watchdog for help in building two atomic power plants to supply electricity to the energy-starved oil exporting nation. (bellona.org)
  • The Zaporizhzhia plant provides a quarter of Ukraine's electricity. (kpbs.org)
  • Each nuclear power plant creates radioactive waste that will remain deadly for thousands of years. (commondreams.org)
  • The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is a nuclear-friendly fox guarding the radioactive chicken coop. (commondreams.org)
  • It also destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and released radioactive materials over a large area. (popsci.com)
  • The substances produced in the nuclear fission (fission products) are radioactive, i.e. they decay into other elements. (stuk.fi)
  • The risks to the environment associated with nuclear power plant accidents arise almost entirely from the radioactive fission products that accumulate in the reactor. (stuk.fi)
  • The power of the residual heat decreases over time as the amount of radioactive fission products resulting from the decay decreases. (stuk.fi)
  • As is well known, a nuclear reactor releases radioactive gases like tritium, argon, xenon, carbon14 and iodine, regularly during normal operations, mainly through its 100 meters high stack. (countercurrents.org)
  • Operating nuclear power plants (NPPs) contain large volumes of radioactive gases at high pressures and temperatures. (countercurrents.org)
  • The Indian Point nuclear plant leak happened after a drain overflowed when maintenance workers were transferring water with "high levels of radioactive contamination," according to Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) representative Neil Sheehan. (inquisitr.com)
  • A statement about the radioactive leak at the Indian Point plant issued by the Entergy corporation said that the elevated tritium levels found in the three monitoring wells were not in "accordance" with company standards. (inquisitr.com)
  • Jaffee said that she was not only worried about safety in communities surrounding the Buchanan nuclear facility but also about the impact the radioactive water could have on the environment. (inquisitr.com)
  • In a later development at a Friday news conference, the chief of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog said there had been no release of radioactive material at the plant. (kpbs.org)
  • MHLW was primarily responsible for securing food and water safety by establishing a monitoring system for food, setting provisional regulation values of radioactive materials in food in accordance with the Food Sanitation Act, adopting the indices for limits on food and drink ingestion established by the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, 2 and regularly inspecting radioactivity levels in tap water to restrict the intake of contaminated water. (who.int)
  • As reliability improves along with an increasing demand for low-carbon energy, it is likely that the lifespan of nuclear plants can, and will, be extended. (smartgrowthamerica.org)
  • Government initiatives such as the Civil Nuclear Credit Program 1 (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, 2021) and the Zero-Emission Nuclear Power Production Credit 2 (Inflation Reduction Act, 2022) have been established to support the extended operation of existing nuclear plants. (smartgrowthamerica.org)
  • The fact that the plant's external power was lost because of an incident far away shows how vulnerable it is with only one power line connecting it to the grid,' Grossi said in the statement . (rferl.org)
  • The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant's link to a 750-kilovolt line was cut. (scrippsnews.com)
  • EDF holds a 30% stake in the power plant's owner and operator, TNPJVC - a joint venture with state-owned China General Nuclear Power Group. (cnn.com)
  • During the attack, security footage from the plant's main gate, geolocated by NPR, had showed what appeared to be Russian troops at the entrance of the power plant, engaged in active combat on the site. (kpbs.org)
  • The treated effluent is piped from the 91st Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plant in Phoenix to Palo Verde, where it is further treated and recycled to meet the nuclear energy plant's cooling needs. (reliableplant.com)
  • In fact, the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters both pushed Bataan out of favor just when prospects for the nuclear power plant were just looking up. (discovermagazine.com)
  • It was Corazon C. Aquino, who toppled Mr. Marcos in the "people power" revolution, who decided to mothball the plant after Chernobyl. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Based on the sitcom Chernobyl and the stories of Svetlana Aleksiévitch's book, Tchernobyl voices, about the Pripyat's nuclear accident in 1986, this article discusses aspects related to the work relations and conditions that are evoked by the scenes. (bvsalud.org)
  • External Cesium-137 doses to humans from soil influenced by the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear power plants accidents: a comparative study. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, has been a flashpoint in Russia's military campaign in Ukraine. (rferl.org)
  • Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy , has said that Russian soldiers who shoot at or from Europe's largest nuclear power station are "special targets" for Ukrainian forces, amid warnings that the Kremlin may falsely claim Kyiv has directly struck the critical site. (theguardian.com)
  • Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant , the biggest in Europe, has lost its last remaining external power source as a result of renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Saturday. (scrippsnews.com)
  • In a possible attempt to secure Moscow's hold on newly annexed territory, Russian forces seized the head of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant. (scrippsnews.com)
  • The presence of Russian military forces at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant prevents the operator and the Ukrainian authorities from fulfilling their nuclear and radiation safety obligations," they said in a statement. (theguardian.com)
  • Video footage showed a fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after it came under Russian shelling Thursday. (kpbs.org)
  • Rafael Mariano Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said a Russian projectile had hit a structure at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southeast Ukraine that was not part of the reactor, injuring two people. (kpbs.org)
  • Earlier Friday, Mayor Dmytro Orlov of Enerhodar, the town closest to the Zaporizhzhia plant, posted a message on his Telegram account saying the flames had been extinguished. (kpbs.org)
  • Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters on Friday that China will continue to follow developments at the Zaporizhzhia plant in the city of Enerhodar and "calls on all parties concerned to maintain calm and restraint, prevent further escalation of the situation and ensure the safety of the nuclear facilities concerned," according to The Associated Press. (kpbs.org)
  • Nuclear power plants have a carbon footprint comparable to that of renewable energy such as solar farms and wind farms, and much lower than fossil fuels such as natural gas and coal. (wikipedia.org)
  • The conversion to electrical energy takes place indirectly, as in conventional thermal power stations. (wikipedia.org)
  • For instance, U-235 is fissile which means that it is easily split and gives off a lot of energy making it ideal for nuclear energy. (wikipedia.org)
  • In December 2009, Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) awarded a coalition led by Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) a $20 billion bid to build the first nuclear power plant in the UAE. (wikipedia.org)
  • In early March, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said Iran would build nuclear power plants on its own. (globalsecurity.org)
  • In the next 25 years, Iran plans to meet 10% of its energy needs through nuclear energy. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Aghazadeh said: "The Bushehr NPP project and nuclear energy supplies are rooted to political problems. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The nuclear digital twin (DT) is the virtual representation of a nuclear energy system across its lifecycle. (ornl.gov)
  • International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi speaks to reporters after visiting the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant last month. (rferl.org)
  • The facts all point to this 'inconvenient truth' -- the time has come to shut down California's two nuclear power plants as part of a swift transition to an energy policy focused on clean and green renewable sources and conservation. (commondreams.org)
  • In the wake of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown, we need a basic rethinking of the USA's nuclear energy use and oversight. (commondreams.org)
  • An International Atomic Energy Agency investigator examines Reactor Unit 3 at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant, May 27, 2011. (popsci.com)
  • The 2005 energy legislation just passed by Congress, initially the work of Dick Cheney's oil dollar-hungry "energy task force," gives the power industry protection against long regulatory delays, for only six prospective new nuclear plants. (larouchepub.com)
  • The only technology capable of large-scale additions to continuous baseload power generation, highly efficient and energy-dense, safe, and pollution-free, is nuclear power. (larouchepub.com)
  • The reference energy generation is the energy that could be produced if the unit were operated continuously at full power under reference ambient conditions. (europa.eu)
  • The available energy generation is the energy that could have been produced under reference ambient conditions considering only limitations within control of plant management, i.e. plant equipment and personnel performance, and work control. (europa.eu)
  • Last August, two out of eight committee members asked Taiwan Power Company to correct some flaws before the end of this year, otherwise it would ask the government-level Atomic Energy Commission to suspend work on the plant. (planetsave.com)
  • NuScale Power and Prodigy Clean Energy announced on October 26 that they have developed a conceptual design for a transportable, marine-based small modular reactor. (ans.org)
  • Nuclear powerplant siting and licensing : hearings before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, Ninety-third Congress, second session on H.R. 11957, H.R. 12823, H.R. 13484, and S. 3179. (upenn.edu)
  • In a nuclear power plant, the thermal energy needed to steam water is generated by the fission or fission reaction of atomic nuclei, whereas in conventional steam power plants, the heat is generated by the combustion of a fuel such as oil or coal. (stuk.fi)
  • The warning included an accusation the Chinese safety authority was raising the acceptable limits for radiation detection outside the plant in order to avoid having to shut it down, according to a letter from French firm Framatome to the US Department of Energy, obtained by CNN. (cnn.com)
  • Today is a difficult day, not just for the 675 talented men and women who have dedicated themselves to operating Three Mile Island safely and reliably every day, but also for their families, the communities and customers who depend on this plant to produce clean energy and support local jobs," Exelon CEO Chris Crane said in a statement . (npr.org)
  • Exelon has been seeking the same kind of subsidies from Pennsylvania, which it provides to solar, wind and hydro energy power sources. (npr.org)
  • Opponents of the subsidies say nuclear energy is risky and more expensive than alternative forms of power. (npr.org)
  • Exelon said Pennsylvania "has an opportunity to take a leadership role by implementing a policy solution to preserve its nuclear energy facilities and the clean, reliable energy and good-paying jobs they provide. (npr.org)
  • Protests against nuclear power in the UK, India, Japan and Germany - and many other countries - show the scale of global public opinion against this dangerous and expensive form of energy. (cnduk.org)
  • Rather than pumping subsidies into nuclear energy, governments should be seriously investing in a sustainable energy policy based on renewable sources. (cnduk.org)
  • As the national shift to renewable energy places pressure on existing energy grids and increases the need for reliable carbon-free energy options, nuclear power is facing a revival. (smartgrowthamerica.org)
  • EDF Energy plans to build a 3.2GW twin-reactor plant at the site but is locked in talks with ministers over subsidies for the project. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Earlier this month MPs on the Energy Select Committee warned that ministers have no "plan B" if new nuclear plants are not built on time and on budget . (telegraph.co.uk)
  • In fact, it could turn out to be a game-changer for affordable, clean, sustainable nuclear energy . (digitaltrends.com)
  • Created by Energy Impact Center , a research institute with the mission to decarbonize the global economy by 2040, the so-called OPEN100 project aims to be a one-stop-shop for everything needed for new power plant construction. (digitaltrends.com)
  • The nuclear industry, over the last five decades, has engaged in a spiral of ever-escalating costs, where their preferred solution has been to earn more revenue by building bigger, only further exacerbating their woes," Bret Kugelmass, managing director of the Energy Impact Center, told Digital Trends. (digitaltrends.com)
  • For the first time ever there is a clear way out: OPEN100 paves the way towards standardization, simplification, and cost-effective nuclear energy - the ultimate solution for climate change. (digitaltrends.com)
  • Even more promising, however, is the attention we've been receiving from National Laboratories around the world, who are eager to build upon the precedent of the early U.S. nuclear industry when scientific institutions aided private industry in a rapid scale-up of nuclear energy. (digitaltrends.com)
  • Russian troops captured the station - the biggest nuclear plant in Europe, responsible for up to 20% of Ukraine's energy needs - early in the war. (theguardian.com)
  • The Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak accused Russia of targeting the part of the nuclear power plant where the energy that powers the south of Ukraine is generated. (theguardian.com)
  • A market design that fails to "recognize or adequately compensate" nuclear generators for the benefits provided, such as fuel diversity, climate-related advantages, grid reliability, and large-scale energy generation. (powermag.com)
  • When Pilgrim follows-expected by June 2019-Entergy will have only one nuclear facility remaining in operation in the northeastern U.S.: the Indian Point Energy Center. (powermag.com)
  • Could Energy-Storing Concrete Be a Power Source of the Future? (discovermagazine.com)
  • Space Energy: Will Space-Based Solar Power Be the Wave of the Future? (discovermagazine.com)
  • Five Valley cities, Arizona Public Service and Salt River Project announced a preliminary agreement of a 40-year comprehensive water contract to provide cooling water essential to power production at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, the nation's largest energy producer. (reliableplant.com)
  • The first is Maggie Koerth-Baker's simple and clear post, Nuclear energy 101: Inside the "black box" of power plants . (keithhennessey.com)
  • May 31 (UPI) -- The Japanese parliament has passed a bill that would extend the lifespan of nuclear power plants to more than 60 years as the country aims to cut carbon emissions and conserve energy by repurposing its nuclear resources. (upi.com)
  • The legislation, which was passed in response to a dwindling national energy supply due to Russia's war in Ukraine, would supersede five existing energy statutes, one of which governs the operation of all the nation's nuclear power facilities. (upi.com)
  • Last summer, Kishida said the government planned to take another look at the dormant sites to figure out how the country could repurpose their nuclear energy. (upi.com)
  • The war in Ukraine cut fossil fuel imports to Japan, causing a spike in utility prices that has prompted a resurrection of the country's nuclear energy agenda. (upi.com)
  • Indian People's Charter on Nuclear Energy The Indian People's Charter on Nuclear Energy is a statement emerging from the shared experiences, struggles and visions of grassroots movements for a safe energy future. (uchicago.edu)
  • This historic image depicted the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania, which was the site of a March 28, 1979 power plant accident. (cdc.gov)
  • Later in 1955, the APDA chartered the Power Reactor Development Company (PRDC) to design, construct, and operate the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant, Unit I after federal approval of the APDA's proposal. (thehenryford.org)
  • We don't need yet more study on whether to operate nuclear plants on fault lines. (commondreams.org)
  • As long as commercial nuclear power plants operate anywhere in the world, we believe it is critical for all nations to learn from what happened at Fukushima and continue doubling down on nuclear safety. (popsci.com)
  • Ukraine's state nuclear operator, Energoatom, said it would continue to operate the plant. (scrippsnews.com)
  • On Monday, CNN reported that the French company which helps operate the nuclear plant in southern Guangdong province had warned Washington of an "imminent radiological threat. (cnn.com)
  • Three Mile Island has a license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to operate until 2034. (npr.org)
  • Pilgrim's renewed license enables the plant to operate until 2032. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • John Herron, president, CEO and chief nuclear officer of Entergy Nuclear, said, "The NRC conducted extremely thorough safety and environmental reviews of Pilgrim's application for license renewal and concluded the station can safely operate another 20 years. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • In addition, events such as the explosions at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March of 2011 ignite concerns of radiation exposure, which can lead to radiation-induced injury. (medscape.com)
  • Entergy Nuclear filed Pilgrim's license renewal application on 25 January 2006, making this the longest license review on record. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • Smith added, "On behalf of Entergy Nuclear and Pilgrim Station, we thank all of our employees, elected officials, community leaders and local citizens for their support throughout this important process. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • The fission in a nuclear reactor heats the reactor coolant. (wikipedia.org)
  • In its central part, the reactor's core produces heat due to nuclear fission. (wikipedia.org)
  • The heat from nuclear fission is used to raise steam, which runs through turbines, which in turn power the electrical generators. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since nuclear fission creates radioactivity, the reactor core is surrounded by a protective shield. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a nuclear power plant, heat is produced in a nuclear reactor, where a controlled chain reaction of fission products is generated. (stuk.fi)
  • The nuclear fission occurs when a neutron hits a uranium nucleus, which splits into two lighter nuclei. (stuk.fi)
  • The Government also gave the first official confirmation that the costs of the first proposed new plant, at Hinkley Point in Somerset, have risen to as much as £14bn. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • With respect to commercial nuclear power plants, these facilities are initially licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a 20-year period. (smartgrowthamerica.org)
  • A variety of market dynamics and policy initiatives at the state and federal levels have recently served to prolong the operational life of commercial nuclear power plants. (smartgrowthamerica.org)
  • Last year, the WS released a report titled "Scientists' Group Judges Federal Nuclear Safety Inspection Effort" which received little coverage. (projectcensored.org)
  • Union of Concerned Scientists, November 26, 1978, "Scientists' Group Judges Federal Nuclear Safety Inspection Effort. (projectcensored.org)
  • By leveraging the knowledge base and experience from the past 40 years of LWR operation, the nuclear DT is helping to accelerate the development and deployment of advanced nuclear technology in areas of passive safety, new fuel forms, instrumentation, and reactor control. (ornl.gov)
  • This is especially important for the safety systems and corresponding equipment because they are important contributors to the overall nuclear power plant safety. (hindawi.com)
  • A novel method for optimization of the maintenance activities in the nuclear power plant considering the plant safety is developed and presented. (hindawi.com)
  • The proposed method is applied on probabilistic safety analysis model of the selected safety system of the reference nuclear power plant. (hindawi.com)
  • Obtained results show that optimization of maintenance decreases the risk and thus improves the plant safety. (hindawi.com)
  • In order to ensure availability and the operability of the safety systems and the safety of the corresponding plant, the surveillance requirements (SR) together with the limiting conditions for operation (LCO) are included within technical specifications (TS) of the NPP [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The developed method utilizes results obtained from Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) for the assessment of the plant safety and optimization function. (hindawi.com)
  • The obtained results from the application of the developed method on test safety system of the reference nuclear power plant are presented. (hindawi.com)
  • The situation at the plant is clearly untenable and immediate action is required to strengthen nuclear safety and security and prevent a nuclear accident from happening. (rferl.org)
  • This Safety Guide provides recommendations on the recruitment, selection, qualification, training and authorization of personnel working in all safety related functions and at all levels of nuclear power plants. (iaea.org)
  • It supplements Safety Standards Series No. NS-R-2, Safety of Nuclear Power Plants: Operation and is related to Safety Standards Series No. NS-G-2.4, The Operating Organization for Nuclear Power Plants. (iaea.org)
  • A decade later, the nuclear industry has yet to fully to address safety concerns that Fukushima exposed. (popsci.com)
  • We are scholars specializing in engineering and medicine and public policy , and have advised our respective governments on nuclear power safety. (popsci.com)
  • Experts widely agreed that the root causes were lax regulatory oversight in Japan and an ineffective safety culture at the utility that operated the plant. (popsci.com)
  • In its report, the commission concluded that Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission had never been independent from the industry , nor from the powerful Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, which promotes nuclear power. (popsci.com)
  • For its part, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, had a history of disregard for safety. (popsci.com)
  • About eighty environmental activists protested outside the fourth nuclear plant in New Taipei City Tuesday as a safety evaluation committee was holding its final meeting of the year," Taiwan News reports . (planetsave.com)
  • He said he will soon travel to Russia, then make another trip to Ukraine, to further his effort to set up a 'nuclear safety and security protection zone' around the plant, which he has advocated for weeks. (scrippsnews.com)
  • China attaches great importance to nuclear safety and has established a nuclear safety supervision system that is in line with international standards and national conditions," he said. (cnn.com)
  • On Wednesday, China's National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) denied raising the acceptable limits of radiation outside the plant to avoid its shutdown. (cnn.com)
  • The increase in the level of radioactivity in the primary circuit is completely different from a radiological leakage accident," as the "physical barriers are safe," it said, adding the level "is still within the range of allowable stable operation," and the "operational safety of the nuclear power plant is guaranteed. (cnn.com)
  • The meltdown put the brakes on building new nuclear plants in the U.S., and prompted the industry to apply more stringent safety standards. (npr.org)
  • Moreover, Britain continues to export civil nuclear technology to India, a country with an abysmal industrial safety record. (cnduk.org)
  • The primary goal of the license renewal process is to ensure that during its extended period of operation, a plant is able to maintain an adequate standard of safety. (smartgrowthamerica.org)
  • Zelenskiy said anyone giving orders for attacks on the site or nearby towns and cities should face trial by an international court, as concern about the safety of the nuclear site remained high. (theguardian.com)
  • 65,000% radioactivity spike at #IndianPoint Nuclear Plant is the 6th safety incident since 2015! (inquisitr.com)
  • The propietor (Hifrensa) decided to proceed with shutdown in view of the elevated cost of restarting activity after the fire, in compliance with the requisites established by the Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) . (foronuclear.org)
  • In a rare publicly stated expression of unease about the war in Ukraine, China said it is "seriously concerned about the safety and security" of nuclear facilities in Ukraine following the attack. (kpbs.org)
  • During a parliamentary session Tuesday, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attempted to tamp down emerging safety concerns as the law would likely result in nuclear facilities staying in operation well beyond current legal limits. (upi.com)
  • Over 60 epidemiological studies world-wide have examined cancer incidences in children near nuclear power plants (NPPs): most of them indicate leukemia increases. (countercurrents.org)
  • For normal operation of nuclear power plants (NPPs), liquid 14C effluents are significantly less than airborne releases. (lu.se)
  • Late in March, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that UN Security Council Resolution 1747 would not stop his country's nuclear program "for a second. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Nigerian officials insisted that they were seeking nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, and pointed to the country's ratification of the non-proliferation treaty and additional protocols as evidence of that. (bellona.org)
  • He gained prominence for his calls to amend Ukraine's migration regulations for Belarusian nationals who fled en masse to Ukraine following a deadly crackdown on dissent that started after a disputed presidential election in Belarus in August 2020. (rferl.org)
  • Ukraine has continued to strike at strategic bridges over the weekend supplying Russian troops holding the city of Kherson, the only major site held by the invaders on the west bank of the Dnieper, including the Antonovsky road bridge and crossing at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant upstream. (theguardian.com)
  • The nuclear DT uses real-time information and other data sources to improve the process of design, licensing, construction, security, O&M, decommissioning, and waste disposal. (ornl.gov)
  • Although CABs are typically associated with decommissioning nuclear plants, establishing a body through which community concerns can be effectively communicated to the utility could be a useful tool while the plant is still operational. (smartgrowthamerica.org)
  • We regulate all stages of the life of each nuclear power plant in Canada, from the environmental assessment and licence required before plant construction to the decommissioning of the facility once operations have ended. (gc.ca)
  • Holtec is decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. (powermag.com)
  • Instead, the regulator said it "reviewed and approved the relevant limits of specific radioactivity of inert gases in the reactor coolant at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant. (cnn.com)
  • New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that Entergy, the operator of the Indian Point nuclear facility, reported the substantial increase in radioactivity and leaking overflow water on Friday, the New York Daily News reports. (inquisitr.com)
  • Governor Cuomo had this to say about the Indian Point nuclear facility leak and the level of radioactivity contamination. (inquisitr.com)
  • The accident triggered widespread evacuations, large economic losses and the eventual shutdown of all nuclear power plants in Japan. (popsci.com)
  • The last shutdown stage at the plant will be executed by Enresa at the end of the latency period, around 2028. (foronuclear.org)
  • Depleted uranium may also be produced in the reprocessing of spent nuclear reactor fuel. (who.int)
  • Enriched uranium is used to make fuel for nuclear power plants. (cdc.gov)
  • The $1-billion Bushehr project, which is being implemented under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog, was originally scheduled for commissioning at the end of 2006. (globalsecurity.org)
  • It remains to be seen whether my one declared opponent, Assemblyman Jared Huffman, will join me in urging a rapid timetable for the closure of California's nuclear power plants. (commondreams.org)
  • Creating a CAB while a plant is still operational allows for better preparedness in the event of a closure announcement, and allows communities where plants are not at risk of closure to actively plan for the future. (smartgrowthamerica.org)
  • As part of this review, we previously announced the closure of the Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station in Massachusetts and have now decided that despite good operational performance, market conditions require us to also close the FitzPatrick nuclear plant. (powermag.com)
  • The procedures manuals cover pre-operational processes, plant facilities, and emergency shut down steps. (thehenryford.org)
  • Since very few new nuclear power plants have come online since 1990 and several plants in UK, Lithuania, Germany, Sweden, Slovakia and Bulgaria have been shut down (WNA, 2009), these trends illustrate increased plant availability in the past decades (see Figure 4 below) and increases in net plant electric efficiency from app. (europa.eu)
  • During December 2016, the world's first Generation-III pressusrized water reactor (PWR)at Kudamkulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) in India will be shut down for its second refueling. (countercurrents.org)
  • It's becoming increasingly common for nuclear power plants in the U.S. to close in light of market conditions - as Bloomberg reported , at least five have shut down in the past five years. (npr.org)
  • The 1000 MW WWER reactor, a joint venture of Russia's Rosatom and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) was grid connected three years ago. (countercurrents.org)
  • In India, Dr Manjula Datta reported highly significant increase of mental retardation, cancer, infertility etc among the people living within 10 km of the Madras Atomic Power Station at Kalpakkam near Chennai. (countercurrents.org)
  • Serious concerns over nuclear power have sparked mass protest in both Britain and India demonstrating the depth of opposition to new nuclear power plants. (cnduk.org)
  • The mass non-violent protests in Kudankulam in India and the repeated demonstrations at Hinkley Point in the UK are powerful expressions of the widespread rejection of nuclear power that governments around the world would do well to heed. (cnduk.org)
  • Former chief of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Dr Anil Kakodkar has stated that the Nuclear Power Corporation of India and its generating stations have to meticulously follow their corporate social responsibilities. (uchicago.edu)
  • He called for new sanctions against Russia that would "necessarily block the Russian nuclear industry", and he argued that "absolutely all officials of the terrorist state, as well as those who help them in this blackmail operation with the nuclear power plant, must be tried by an international court. (theguardian.com)
  • Local officials have warned that Russia is trying to prepare a "false flag" operation relating to the nuclear site. (theguardian.com)
  • Our employees are still inside, ensuring the stable operation of nuclear facilities. (kpbs.org)
  • SROG is responsible for the ownership and operation of the 91st Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plant, which delivers treated effluent to Palo Verde. (reliableplant.com)
  • Prior to the operation of the first Belarussian nuclear power plant (BelNPP), the baseline of the radiation environment was determined within a radius of about 30 km from BelNPP. (lu.se)
  • Nuclear powerplant licensing delays and the impact of the Sholly versus NRC decision hearings before the Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, March 25 and 31, 1981. (upenn.edu)
  • They heard evidence that the 2025 timetable was "ambitious at best and unrealistic at worst", with delays and rising costs having dogged new nuclear projects elsewhere in Europe. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • A demonstrator shouts slogans near a nuclear power project during a protest in Kudankulam, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu September 10, 2012. (uchicago.edu)
  • Living near a nuclear power plant. (cdc.gov)
  • China said Tuesday that radiation levels around the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant are normal, following CNN's exclusive report the United States government was assessing a reported leak at the facility. (cnn.com)
  • The state environmental and conservation agency and the health department has been called in to investigate the nuclear plant leak. (inquisitr.com)
  • The New York governor wants the investigation into the nuclear plant leak to determine not only the extent of the accident but the duration of the leak. (inquisitr.com)
  • What do you think about the Indian Point power plant leak? (inquisitr.com)
  • The report criticized the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's failure to be a tough inspector of nuclear power plants. (projectcensored.org)
  • most regulatory standards are drafted by the nuclear industry itself. (projectcensored.org)
  • In a recent letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein noted that 'roughly 424,000 live within 50 miles of the Diablo Canyon and 7.4 million live within 50 miles of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (commondreams.org)
  • by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and United States. (upenn.edu)
  • Federal/State regulatory permitting actions in selected nuclear power station licensing cases : improving regulatory effectiveness in Federal/State siting actions. (upenn.edu)
  • The nuclear power plant operator must provide the CNSC with a licence application that addresses all applicable regulatory requirements. (gc.ca)
  • It is important for both the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which is the regulatory authority, and (plant) operators to continue to work together to reduce risks to avoid another tragic accident. (upi.com)
  • The White House is fundamentally mistaken in its efforts to triple the budgeting of federal loan guarantees for the domestic nuclear power industry, from $18 billion to $54 billion. (commondreams.org)
  • Our tax dollars should not be used to subsidize the nuclear power industry. (commondreams.org)
  • Meanwhile, it pushes further the disastrous deregulation of the power industry (see following article). (larouchepub.com)
  • but the electric power industry sees even the three-plants-by-2015 goal as ambitious. (larouchepub.com)
  • The nation needs, by contrast-in the hard and minimal estimations of engineers and experts on the power industry-to build 30 times that many nuclear power units by the middle of the next decade, if it hopes to revive manufacturing, industry, and infrastructure. (larouchepub.com)
  • And it needs to swiftly re-regulate the electric power industry, as well as to take other steps to forcefully revive national capabilities to produce power components, or else such a necessary nuclear construction drive simply cannot occur. (larouchepub.com)
  • Nuclear power isn't popular anywhere (well, except in nuclear industry board rooms, I guess). (planetsave.com)
  • As Cusick reported, New York and Illinois recently "agreed to give billions in subsidies to the nuclear industry by essentially broadening the definition of clean power. (npr.org)
  • Launching the strategy document, Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, said the nuclear industry provided "significant opportunities for economic growth" for the UK. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • As Kugelmass, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur, explained, complex and proprietary plant designs have led the nuclear industry to become niche, expensive, and slow to adapt. (digitaltrends.com)
  • arbon-14 (14C) is of special interest for dose assessments related to operational releases from the nuclear industry as it is the radionuclide that normally dominates the committed effective dose to the public. (lu.se)
  • The data obtained in the project will be of great importance for correct dose assessment of 14C from the nuclear power industry and SSM. (lu.se)
  • He said his organization has been in contact with Ukraine's nuclear regulator and managers at the plant after the strike. (kpbs.org)
  • Ukraine's nuclear regulator issued a statement confirming that the fire was out. (kpbs.org)
  • A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. (wikipedia.org)
  • The world's first full scale power station, Calder Hall in the United Kingdom, opened on October 17, 1956. (wikipedia.org)
  • The nuclear reactor is the heart of the station. (wikipedia.org)
  • محطة براكة للطاقة النووية ) (BNPP) is the United Arab Emirates ' first nuclear power station, the first nuclear power station in the Arabian Peninsula , the second in the Persian Gulf region and the first commercial nuclear power station in the Arab World . (wikipedia.org)
  • Events at the Onagawa Nuclear Power Station, located 39 miles (64 kilometers) from Fukushima, told a contrasting story . (popsci.com)
  • Conceptual layout and deployment of a Prodigy SMR Marine Power Station with 12 NuScale Power Modules. (ans.org)
  • As part of the project, Balfour Beatty is responsible for delivering the complex marine and tunnelling works, and constructing the structures needed to supply cooling water to the power station (see lead picture this page). (geoconnexion.com)
  • High winds from Friday's storms knocked out several spans of a transmission line between Wichita and the Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station, utility provider Evergy reported Saturday. (kshb.com)
  • Caisley said crews were working Saturday afternoon to repair the transmission lines to the nuclear station, which was brought online in June 1985. (kshb.com)
  • First, the magnitude 9.0 earthquake knocked out off-site electric power. (popsci.com)
  • Saito T, Kunimitsu A. Public health response to the combined Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant accident: perspective from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal , 2011, 2(4):7-9. (who.int)
  • And environmental groups are mixed, Cusick said, with some stressing that nuclear power is not renewable. (npr.org)
  • Putin signed a decree Wednesday declaring that Russia was taking over the plant. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Licenses for nuclear power plants are authorized for a pre-determined number of years. (gc.ca)
  • citation needed] In the case of a pressurized water reactor, the steam turbine is separated from the nuclear system. (wikipedia.org)
  • The plant-located in Oswego County on the southeast shore of Lake Ontario-is an 838-MW boiling water reactor commissioned in July 1975. (powermag.com)
  • Police have booked anti-nuclear protesters including S P Udayakumar in connection with the explosion at a village near Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in which six people including three children were killed. (uchicago.edu)
  • It is also an important economic driver for Arizona and the entire Southwest,' said APS executive vice president and chief nuclear officer Randy Edington. (reliableplant.com)
  • The agreement also provides revenue for the maintenance and technological enhancement of a key wastewater treatment plant with the capacity to treat more than 200 million gallons of raw sewage every day. (reliableplant.com)
  • In March 2015, ENEC applied to Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) for operating licences for Units 1 and 2. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and has huge oil and gas resources, but corruption by successive governments and inefficiency in the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) have led to massive shortfalls in power supply. (bellona.org)
  • These limits are used for operational management and have nothing to do with radiation levels outside the nuclear power plant," the administration said in a statement on its official social media account. (cnn.com)
  • In this context, many nuclear power plants are planning for extended operational timeframes approaching 60 years or more. (smartgrowthamerica.org)
  • Affordable and efficient portable power is a necessity these days, keeping our electronic devices operational while on the go. (digitaltrends.com)
  • Coal-fired additions to power generation in America have essentially ceased. (larouchepub.com)
  • Very few coal-fired electric plants have been added to the U.S. grid, and the existing stock of plants is aging and badly polluting. (larouchepub.com)
  • The retrofitting of a 40-year-old coal-burning plant to meet anti-pollution standards, in many cases is as great an investment as building an entirely new plant. (larouchepub.com)
  • Hundreds of coal-electric plants will either have to be expensively upgraded, or replaced in the next ten years. (larouchepub.com)
  • An example: On Dec. 3, 2004, Cincinnati Gas and Electric (which goes by the new-age moniker Cinergy, in the Enron age of deregulated power-merchant companies), with 20% of Ohio's power capacity, announced that it wanted to add 800 megawatts by building a new coal-gas electric plant. (larouchepub.com)
  • CG&E hasn't brought any new capacity on line since the coal-fired Zimmer power plant-14 years ago. (larouchepub.com)
  • Framatome had reached out to the US in order to obtain a waiver that would allow them to share American technical assistance in order to resolve the issue at the Chinese plant. (cnn.com)
  • Iran and Russia are currently finishing the Bushehr nuclear power plant project. (globalsecurity.org)
  • On Sunday, 42 countries including the US, Japan and the UK, plus the European Union, called on Russia to immediately withdraw military forces from the plant and the entire country to safeguard the site. (theguardian.com)
  • Russia already has one floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov , which is stationed at Pevek where it supplies heat and power to the town. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • The media's failure to provide a forum for groups such as the Union of Concerned Scientists and others and its failure to inform Americans of successful anti-nuclear activities in other countries qualifies this story for nomination as a "best censored" story of 1978. (projectcensored.org)
  • Nuclear plants are very often used for base load since their operations, maintenance, and fuel costs are at the lower end of the spectrum of costs. (wikipedia.org)
  • The company warned that the launch of the NPP and nuclear fuel deliveries could be delayed as a result. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The fuel sub-assemblies were deaccessioned in 2001 and donated to the Argonne National Laboratory-West, in Scoville Idaho, a U. S. government nuclear fuel training facility. (thehenryford.org)
  • Called a molten-salt reactor , the technology was conceived during the Cold War and forgoes solid nuclear fuel for a liquid one, which it can "burn" with far greater efficiency than any power technology in existence. (businessinsider.com)
  • What are the trends concerning the accumulation of high level nuclear waste and the production of spent fuel? (europa.eu)
  • The activities performed prior to dismantling consisted of transferring the spent fuel to France for reprocessing, conditioning and removal of the operating waste and the disassembly of those plant installations that were no longer necessary. (foronuclear.org)
  • Entergy Corp. said on Nov. 2 that it would retire the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba, N.Y., at the end of its current fuel cycle due to the facility's "continued deteriorating economics. (powermag.com)
  • At nuclear fuel production facilities. (cdc.gov)
  • Nuclear fuel processors. (cdc.gov)
  • As one of the earliest nuclear powered generating facilities in United States, the Fermi I plant construction and design process laid the ground work for subsequent nuclear power technology development through the 1970s. (thehenryford.org)
  • The Commission makes decisions on the licensing of major nuclear facilities through a hearing process which give involved parties and members of the public an opportunity to be heard by the Commission. (gc.ca)
  • However, there are still significant knowledge gaps for the radioecological behaviour of anthropogenic 14C released from e.g. nuclear facilities. (lu.se)
  • It will include investigations for determining the proportion that foreign nuclear facilities influence the varying Swedish marine 14C background, it will study long-term trends and temporal variations in the marine 14C background, and radioecological in situ studies will be performed at Ringhals NPP. (lu.se)
  • Last year, the Swedish government was overthrown as a result of opposition to nuclear power plant development. (projectcensored.org)
  • Mrs. Aquino's son, Benigno S. Aquino III, the current president, has publicly stated his opposition to resurrecting the plant. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Huffman has ties to California's nuclear-invested utility PG&E. Between 2007 and 2009, according to campaign finance data compiled by nonpartisan Maplight.org, he received $11,100 from PG&E, which owns and operates the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. (commondreams.org)
  • In the next three or four months we will announce a tender for the construction of a nuclear power plant with a capacity of 2,000 MW," Mohammad Saeedi, Iran's deputy nuclear chief, said Tuesday. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Early in 2005, Iran's parliament ratified a bill on the construction of nuclear power plants with an aggregate capacity of over 20,000 MW, and in December 2005 the government took a decision to build the first NPP with a capacity of 360 MW in Khuzestan within seven years. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The Bushehr project was in jeopardy after Atomstroyexport, the Russian contractor for the nuclear power plant construction, said Tehran had not made any payments for the NPP construction since mid-January, and that by the fourth quarter of 2006 the project had only received 60% of the required funding. (globalsecurity.org)
  • About 50 new plants are under construction, but many operating plants are aging. (popsci.com)
  • The vague vaporings of the George W. Bush Administration about "getting back to designing some nuclear power plants by 2010" (the President on Aug. 8 in New Mexico), are worse than inadequate to the United States' immediate need to have a sizable nuclear power construction program under way-tomorrow. (larouchepub.com)
  • That includes resources ranging from a web interface for visualizing plant and component design to detailed construction plans. (digitaltrends.com)
  • The goal of this project is to unite vendors, developers and other interested parties in establishing a common platform for design, construction, and financing of future plants. (digitaltrends.com)
  • Construction has started on the first of four floating nuclear power plants for the Cape Nagloynyn project that will power a huge mining development in the Russian Arctic. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • We've sorted through countless portable power options and came up with six of the best portable power stations to keep your smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other gadgets functioning while living off the grid. (digitaltrends.com)