After several delays in the restart of some of France's nuclear reactors following maintenance and a review ordered by the nuclear watchdog, 21 out of France's 58 nuclear reactors are offline.
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In 2013, Japan halted operations of all nuclear reactors nationwide.
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Of Sweden's eight nuclear reactors in operation, Vattenfall controls seven.
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Large U.S. nuclear reactors no longer make much economic sense.
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General Electric is not building large conventional nuclear reactors anywhere.
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Instead, expect to see small nuclear reactors start popping up.
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He said that China, where EDF is building two nuclear reactors, would build half of the world's new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years but said nothing about possible new contracts for EDF there.
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Nuclear reactors are, by their very definition, immensely difficult to control.
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Nuclear reactors currently provide about 20 percent of US electric power.
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Eventually, fusion power could replace fossil fuels and conventional nuclear reactors.
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China has 19 nuclear reactors under construction and 41 more planned.
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Its 24 nuclear reactors generate one-third of the country's electricity.
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So do the people looking after nuclear reactors and Predator drones.
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These agreements are not contracts to sell Russian-design nuclear reactors.
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Nuclear reactors in the US rely on analog controls to operate.
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That's down slightly from 22019 operating commercial nuclear reactors in 2011.
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Proton-packs with nuclear reactors, ectoplasm levels and class 4 apparitions?
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Nuclear reactors currently generate about 20 percent of the country's power.
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There are two nuclear reactors in Ohio - Davis Besse and Perry.
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Major systems like train networks and nuclear reactors were not affected.
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All active US Navy aircraft carriers are powered by nuclear reactors.
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The filmmakers are confusing it with what happens in nuclear reactors.
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The disaster led to shutdowns of all of Japan's nuclear reactors.
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But in recent years, Sweden's nuclear reactors have become starkly unprofitable.
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Japan, the world's largest importer of natural gas, is restarting its nuclear reactors six years after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, with three out of 43 nuclear reactors brought back online since August and more expected to come.
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This is the eerie blue glow most often associated with nuclear reactors.
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Meanwhile, Westinghouse will only focus on designing nuclear reactors in the future.
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And by reducing and better protecting nuclear reactors and spent nuclear fuel.
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Modular nuclear reactors may contribute to the energy mix in some places.
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But the last nuclear reactors will not go online until the 2030s.
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EDF Energy's 15 nuclear reactors provide around 20 percent of Britain's electricity.
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EDF Energy's 15 nuclear reactors provide about 20 percent of Britain's electricity.
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South Korea has 24 nuclear reactors, supplying a third of its electricity.
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Nuclear reactors generate energy day and night, and produce no greenhouse gasses.
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The Cruas plant in southeast France has four 900 MW nuclear reactors.
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The world of the future needs windmills, solar panels and nuclear reactors.
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AUTOS, NUCLEAR REACTORS Vehicles and parts were the biggest imports from Mexico to the United States, totalling $93.3 billion in 2018, followed by electric machines, nuclear reactors, minerals and oil, and optical equipment, according to U.S. government data.
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The European nation has seven nuclear reactors generating about half of its electricity.
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EDF operates 58 nuclear reactors which produce about 13 percent of France's electricity.
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Regulators gave TEPCO, a Japanese power company, approval to restart two nuclear reactors.
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EDF operates 58 nuclear reactors which produce about 75 percent of France's electricity.
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The report also said many countries' nuclear reactors were vulnerable to online attacks.
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It also maintains the nation's nuclear arsenal and nuclear reactors for the Navy.
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Belgium's nuclear reactors are set to be phased out from 2022 to 201.
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One agreement even offered two civilian nuclear reactors, though they were never completed.
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All but three of Japan's 54 commercial nuclear reactors are currently shut down.
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Placing nuclear reactors on vessels could also help reduce the costs of construction.
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His parent company is one of the world's leading designers of nuclear reactors.
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Advanced nuclear reactors are estimated to cost $5,366 for every kilowatt of capacity.
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The UK has 15 nuclear reactors that produce about 21 percent of its electricity.
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In July Russia promised $11.4 billion in loans towards a pair of nuclear reactors.
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Median annual wage: $9503,2950Projected job growth through 22026: -216% These workers control nuclear reactors.
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Last year, 35% of Finnish energy production came from the country's four nuclear reactors.
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KHNP currently operates a total of 25 nuclear reactors in Asia's fourth-largest economy.
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We must lead, particularly in efforts to develop the next generation of nuclear reactors.
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The shutdown created a glut of uranium used to make fuel for nuclear reactors.
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France relies on nuclear reactors run by EDF for three-quarters of its electricity.
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The kingdom is currently reviewing bids from international companies to build two nuclear reactors.
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The Cattenom plant has four nuclear reactors with a capacity of 1,300 megawatts each.
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Nearly 100 nuclear reactors in the US provide about 20% of the country's electricity.
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Putin's recent successful visit to the Gulf, hawking weapons and nuclear reactors demonstrated that.
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There are more than 300 other nuclear reactors producing electricity in 30 other countries.
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After Fukushima's nuclear reactors melted, radiation made it across the Pacific Ocean to California.
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EDF also plans to build two more nuclear reactors at Sizewell in eastern England.
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Saudi Arabia's plans involve building two nuclear reactors by 2020, and sixteen by 2030.
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The Nordic country has two nuclear reactors, one in Halden and one outside Oslo.
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Using nuclear reactors for marine propulsion, or on floating power plants, is not new.
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France has the world's second-largest fleet of nuclear reactors behind the United States.
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So Yang proposes massive subsidies for two somewhat speculative alternatives to traditional nuclear reactors.
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A Nimitz-class carrier has armaments and aircraft, nuclear reactors, and other complex systems.
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The country is building 11 more nuclear reactors, to add to its existing 47.
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Crews also prepared 16 nuclear reactors in the three-state region for the storm.
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However, increased availability of electricity from nuclear reactors will blunt demand, keeping pressure on prices.
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Scientists see 6 percent fewer electron neutrinos coming out of nuclear reactors than they should.
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EDF Energy's 15 nuclear reactors in Britain provide about 20 percent of the country's electricity.
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Median annual wage: $93,370Projected job growth through 2026: -10 percent These workers control nuclear reactors.
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The plant has two nuclear reactors and generates power to supply around 1.7 million homes.
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Median annual wage: $94,350Projected job growth through 2026: -10 percent These workers control nuclear reactors.
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The owners of the state's nuclear reactors include units of Exelon Corp and Entergy Corp.
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Heavy water is used in nuclear reactors that can produce plutonium, an alternative bomb fuel.
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Both nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors rely on fission to produce a powerful chain reaction.
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Four nuclear reactors have already been temporarily closed in France due to the high heat.
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Uranium miners' hopes center on the 56 nuclear reactors under construction, including 19 in China.
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The scare provided a reminder that nuclear reactors are radiological mines that terrorists could exploit.
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The company estimates that 439 nuclear reactors operated globally in 2015, down two from 2010.
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The intergovernmental agreement covers construction and modernization of research nuclear reactors and nuclear medicine development.
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Some 1,600 Creusot components are installed across EDF's fleet of 58 nuclear reactors in France.
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Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery, instruments, pharmaceutical and chemical products, vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft, plastics and more.
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Westinghouse is part of IP3's proposed consortium to build nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia.
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What they do, according to O*NET: Operate and maintain nuclear reactors in power plants.
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ASN will rule on a potential lifespan extension of EDF's nuclear reactors in 2020-21.
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South Korea has 25 nuclear reactors, supplying about a third of the country's total electricity.
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SCANA has previously partnered with Westinghouse to build a pair of since-scrapped nuclear reactors.
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The majority of EDF's nuclear reactors were connected to the grid between 1980 and 1990.
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South Korea, the world's fifth-biggest user of nuclear power, has been eager to sell its nuclear reactors abroad since its state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) won a deal to build four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates in 2012.
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That means South Korea's plan to build 11 nuclear reactors by 2029 could be under threat.
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If there's one unbreakable rule governing nuclear reactors, it's that they must be kept from overheating.
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FRENCH MINISTER HULOT SAYS SAYS GOVERNMENT WILL ASSESS WHICH NUCLEAR REACTORS TO CLOSE IN COMING YEAR
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France depends on its 58 nuclear reactors for more than 75 percent of its electricity needs.
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Two 1,100MW nuclear reactors that Chinese engineers are building west of Karachi have raised environmental concerns.
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Saudi Arabia plans to award a construction contract for its first two nuclear reactors in 2018.
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It was under the first Kim that North Korea began to build up its nuclear reactors.
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The 22007 billion pound ($22017 billion) nuclear reactors carry huge risks for both France and Britain.
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Back in 2013, the United States had 104 nuclear reactors supplying one-fifth of its electricity.
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The CNSC oversees Canada's 19 nuclear reactors, which generate about 17 percent of the nation's electricity.
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He said Pakistan wanted to build at least 3-4 more big nuclear reactors by 2030.
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NuGen, solely owned by Toshiba, is expected to build three nuclear reactors in Moorside, northwest England.
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New York and Illinois in 2016 established financial credits for nuclear reactors for emissions-free power.
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Currently, there are 85033 nuclear power plants with 99 operating nuclear reactors in the United States.
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Neutrinos are made in nuclear processes (think nuclear reactors and atomic explosions) and in particle accelerators.
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This week, New Jersey's public utilities commission awarded clean-energy credits to three vintage nuclear reactors.
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Basically stars are like massive nuclear reactors, fusing together elements until they run out of fuel.
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Plus cheaper natural gas has reduced the need to invest in risky and expensive nuclear reactors.
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And cheap natural gas from hydraulic fracturing has forced some American nuclear reactors to cease operations.
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Scana has struggled since this summer when it abandoned two unfinished nuclear reactors in South Carolina.
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The county lost about 5,000 jobs last summer when construction was halted on two nuclear reactors.
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Nearly half of the country's working nuclear reactors will go off-line for required security upgrades.
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LNG usage should fall further as overall energy demand declines and the country reopens nuclear reactors.
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Progressively shutting down the country's nuclear reactors over time had been part of the original plan.
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To achieve those goals, Wolf recommended implementing policies to keep the state's nuclear reactors in service.
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South Korea currently operates 25 nuclear reactors, which supply about a third of the country's electricity.
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They mostly do minor repairs, but they can work on more complex systems like nuclear reactors.
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Some products were included for reasons of national security, like components for nuclear reactors and aircraft.
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South Korea, the world's fifth-biggest nuclear power user, is seeking to export its nuclear reactors abroad.
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The 99 nuclear reactors operating in the United States provide about 20 percent of the nation's power.
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Saudi Arabia is reviewing bids by firms from several countries to build nuclear reactors in the kingdom.
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The Indian Point Energy Center is home to three nuclear reactors, only two of which are active.
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According to the World Nuclear Association, operations are ongoing to build containment units around the nuclear reactors.
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Maintaining America's nuclear arsenal, disposing of radioactive waste, and producing nuclear reactors would all fall under Perry.
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The money will be mainly used for building four nuclear reactors in southern Guangdong and Guangxi provinces.
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The group hosted leaders from 17 sectors, which included emergency services, water systems and even nuclear reactors.
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Between 27 and 2000, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the construction of four brand new nuclear reactors.
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"This is a major blow to Japanese ambitions to, finally, export their first nuclear reactors," said Schneider.
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Such government investment led to cheap natural gas, the first nuclear reactors, and lower cost solar panels.
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The two nuclear reactors on the barge can produce up to 70 megawatts of electricity, Rosatom says.
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EDF operates France's 58 nuclear reactors, which account for over 75 percent of the country's electricity needs.
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Two EDF nuclear reactors have also been shut for months following problems related to Creusot-made parts.
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Pennsylvania's nine nuclear reactors provide thousands of jobs and most of the state's non-carbon emitting generation.
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Washington needs to make it simpler for innovators who are building state-of-the-art nuclear reactors.
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Russia has agreed to build four nuclear reactors in Turkey, but the effort is seriously behind schedule.
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Four other nuclear reactors are under construction and could join the fleet within the next four years.
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The 100,000 ton Nimitz-class vessel is powered by two nuclear reactors and carriers almost 100 aircraft.
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Negotiations over the construction of next-generation nuclear reactors in India have been dragging on for years.
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But while he has characterized nuclear reactors as dangerous downstate, he has said they are critical upstate.
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Nuclear reactors operate 24/7 providing baseload electricity — they can't ramp their output up or down very easily.
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As for new nuclear reactors that could replace the old ones, there are only five on the horizon.
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Sweden, which also has nuclear reactors, tends to have the cheapest electricity prices during most of the year.
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And, of course, we need to know about any possible hidden or underground nuclear reactors or reprocessing facilities.
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For example, in 2016 Iran twice exceeded that amount of heavy water in nuclear reactors it could have.
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Nonetheless, state utility EDF said it was delaying planned maintenance outages at two nuclear reactors by a week.
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A bipartisan group of senators also pushed through a bill that would speed advanced nuclear reactors to market.
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Finland's four nuclear reactors operate at among the world's highest utilisation rates, and supply 26% of its electricity.
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Sheffield University's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre is pioneering new ways of 3D printing and building modular nuclear reactors.
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The 2011 Fukushima meltdown led to shutdowns of all of Japan's nuclear reactors, depressing the radioactive metal's price.
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I mean, Clinton and Carter went over there and built two nuclear reactors, gave them millions of dollars.
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"We are going to close some nuclear reactors and it won't be just a symbolic move," he said.
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EDF operates France's 58 nuclear reactors, which account for more than 75 percent of the country's electricity needs.
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The controversial part of the law is the future of nuclear reactors operated by state-owned utility EDF.
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EDF operates all of France's 58 nuclear reactors, which cover around 75 percent of the country's electricity needs.
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Based in Hanover, PreussenElektra has already shut down five nuclear reactors, in line with Germany's nuclear exit plan.
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Latin America's No. 3 economy already generates 5 percent of its electricity with three heavy-water nuclear reactors.
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Meanwhile, Russia will attempt to shoulder the U.S. from the Gulf as an arms and nuclear reactors supplier.
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That growth rate is slowing as nuclear reactors restart, however, and it's also resulted in too much supply.
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The trip was to discuss a proposal to partner with Russia to build nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia.
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At issue is a deal that would allow the United States to sell nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia.
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The plant has two nuclear reactors and is also outfitted with a pool, gym, and booze-free bar.
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BEIJING, Nov 27 (Reuters) - China will remove advanced second-generation nuclear reactors from import tax exemption from Jan.
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The country has numerous nuclear reactors used for research, some of which develop medical isotopes for cancer treatments.
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What are nations like North Korea and Iran really doing at nuclear reactors that are out of sight?
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Beijing has long helped its homegrown industries in strategically important areas like jetliners and parts for nuclear reactors.
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It's still far less power than the nearly 22011,21 megawatts its nuclear reactors were capable of generating before.
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Deploying new uranium-based nuclear reactors would likely happen much more rapidly and at a substantially lower cost.
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Cotton's amendment would prevent the government from purchasing Iran's heavy water, which can be used in nuclear reactors.
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EDF operates all 58 French nuclear reactors, which account for around 75 percent of the country's electricity needs.
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Nuclear reactors are online and generating power 93% of the time, compared with wind (37%) and solar (0003%).
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Cotton's amendment would prevent the government from purchasing Iran's heavy water, which can be used in nuclear reactors.
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It's also a byproduct of splitting uranium 235 in nuclear reactors — a hint of the cloud's possible origin.
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And if this all feels like some esoteric particle physics, it's actually quite important for nuclear reactors in general.
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France, for example, has issues with energy availability in winter due to safety concerns at its own nuclear reactors.
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The list of these goods includes vapor turbines, super-heated water boilers, parts of dishwashing machines, and nuclear reactors.
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This will help build its store of low enriched uranium and heavy water, which are used in nuclear reactors.
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Atomic power from France's 58 nuclear reactors operated by EDF accounts for around 75% of the country's electricity needs.
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By the end of May, everyone in Kiev had received an informal education on nuclear reactors, radiation, and cancer.
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China is building 13 new nuclear reactors to add to its fleet of 45; it has 43 more planned.
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Engie has a 40 percent stake in the NuGen consortium to build three Westinghouse nuclear reactors in Cumbria, Britain.
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Vattenfall plans to shut down its two oldest nuclear reactors in Sweden, Ringhals-1 and Ringhals-2, by 2020.
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Sasseigne said EDF was contributing to the PPE discussions, adding its nuclear reactors were important to France's energy transition.
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Rolls-Royce, which makes nuclear reactors for submarines, is submitting what is likely to be the only domestic proposal.
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The US decided to build a facility to convert the weapons-grade material into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors.
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The idea of using floating nuclear reactors to power an electrical grid on land isn't that out there, either.
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French regulators last year discovered manufacturing flaws and falsified documentation at the foundry, which makes components for nuclear reactors.
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The plant, called is loaded with two nuclear reactors and outfitted with a pool, gym, and booze-free bar.
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The majority of the country's 99 nuclear reactors are more than 30 years old and were opened before deregulation.
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Second, current nuclear reactors are very large by design, requiring huge upfront costs, which means they're tricky to finance.
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We toured the bridge, the stateroom, the officers' mess, the crew cabins, and of course, the nuclear reactors themselves.
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But shooting nuclear reactors into the sky at Mach 8 poses a danger to everyone, not just Russian scientists.
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Did Michael Flynn try to enrich former business partners with plans to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East?
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That means that operators of American nuclear reactors get about 90 percent of their nuclear fuel from foreign sources.
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After the Fukushima meltdown, the Japanese government faced significant pressure to shut down all of the country's nuclear reactors.
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Two bills he signed into law sped up the development of advanced nuclear reactors and streamlined the permitting processes.
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This is because nuclear reactors, although they need extremely strong and carefully engineered components, are basically souped-up kettles.
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South Korea underbid Japan to win a contract to build the first nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates.
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Saudi Arabia plans to build 85033 nuclear reactors over the next 20 to 25 years, according to the report.
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The two nuclear reactors still being built in Georgia are both AP1000s at the existing Vogtle nuclear power plant.
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By mid-century the count will be 40 as developing states, which today are building nuclear reactors, go nuclear.
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RTE's website showed that at least 9 nuclear reactors reported unplanned outages after the workers voted on Wednesday evening.
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Vattenfall operates seven out of the eight remaining nuclear reactors in Sweden, three at Forsmark and four at Ringhals.
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Three nuclear reactors melted down at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, releasing dangerous radiation into the surrounding area.
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Saudi Arabia plans to spend more than $80 billion to build 16 nuclear reactors over the next quarter century.
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In exchange, North Korea has the possibility of normalized relations, fuel oil and help building light-water nuclear reactors.
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The RTE said electricity generation was reduced at EDF-operated Paluel 1, Chinon 1 and St. Laurent 1 nuclear reactors.
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Currently there are five nuclear reactors offline with a total capacity of 2.8 gigawatts, putting more strain on the grid.
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Of the 99 nuclear reactors operating in the United States, capable of generating about 99,300 MW, 33 are in PJM.
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Asia's fourth-largest economy currently generates 21.2 percent of its electricity from coal, and around 20203 percent from nuclear reactors.
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But Westinghouse's biggest creditors are its parent company Toshiba and the U.S. utilities that own the half-finished nuclear reactors.
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It's now at least the seventh robot to have broken down while investigating Fukushima's nuclear reactors, which remain highly radioactive.
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There are currently 99 nuclear reactors operating in the US, supplying nearly 20 percent of the country's utility-scale energy.
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That's one of the three nuclear reactors that melted down after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in 2011.
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Johannesburg-based independent energy analyst Chris Yelland said South Africa was still a long way from procuring new nuclear reactors.
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Low natural gas prices have been making both existing nuclear reactors and new reactors in the United States less economical.
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The method has been used to see inside volcanoes, nuclear reactors at Fukushima, and now, the Great Pyramid at Giza.
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In the US, 35 states have stores of spent fuel from nuclear reactors, with nowhere permanent for them to go.
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When nuclear reactors are retired, carbon-emitting sources of energy typically fill the void, at least in the near-term.
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While these strategies work fine for the short-term, nuclear reactors are vulnerable to terror attacks, meltdowns, and natural disasters.
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In Ohio and Pennsylvania, both Exelon and FirstEnergy recently announced plans to close nuclear reactors that are no longer profitable.
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More than a dozen nuclear reactors have either shut down or are set to shut down in the coming years.
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For starters, he notes, it'd be quite possible to retrofit existing nuclear reactors to ramp up and down more easily.
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Westinghouse has traditionally been a builder of nuclear reactors, not entire nuclear power plants including steam turbines, generators and transformers.
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In April, Horizon formally applied for a site license for its project to build two nuclear reactors in Wylfa, Wales.
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Altogether, there are about two dozen serious designs for advanced nuclear reactors trying to break into the market, said McGinnis.
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Japan and South Korea scrambled for LNG after Japan's Fukushima disaster in 2011 forced them to shut down nuclear reactors.
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EDF is the sole operator of France's 21 nuclear reactors that account for over 20.8982 percent of its electricity needs.
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Whether that includes the construction of new nuclear reactors has emerged as a politically sensitive issue for President Emmanuel Macron.
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But we've also seen nuclear reactors going to sea since 1955 when the submarine USS Nautilus took its first voyage.
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Nonetheless, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co shut down four nuclear reactors at the Wolsong complex in Gyeongju as a precaution.
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The number of nuclear reactors operating in South Korea will be cut to a net 14 by 2038 it said.
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Two years later, jellies also got sucked into the cooling pipes at one of Sweden's nuclear reactors, forcing a shutdown.
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The news also comes after plans were canceled to build two nuclear reactors in the area, terminating 85033,000 construction jobs.
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The RTE said the strike had reduced power generation at EDF-operated Chinon 1 and St. Laurent 1 nuclear reactors.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday that advanced second-generation nuclear reactors will lose their import tax exemption from Jan.
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Countries are replacing dirty coal plants with cleaner natural gas plants, hydropower dams, nuclear reactors, solar arrays, or wind farms.
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The Kursk, a strategic missile submarine powered by twin nuclear reactors, sank after a torpedo exploded during a test launch.
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In the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, for instance, the Fukushima nuclear reactors survived the magnitude-9.1 quake's initial shaking.
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Plutonium production is relatively easy to track from afar, since nuclear reactors generate heat that can picked up by satellites.
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He said the state would bear no costs in the shutdown or decommissioning of the plant's two operating nuclear reactors.
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The firm operates all of France's 58 nuclear reactors, which account for over 75 percent of the country's electricity needs.
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Copson was working with Flynn to promote a joint project with Russia to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East.
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We should also invest more in research to develop advanced nuclear reactors, including small modular reactors and accident-tolerant fuels.
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The British government, eager for reliable, low-carbon energy to replace aging coal plants and nuclear reactors, has been encouraging.
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French nuclear group Areva delivered defective fuel rods for nuclear reactors but said on Friday that there was no safety risk.
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Why it matters: Toshiba is attempting to build the first new nuclear reactors in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Areva and EDF in 2009 lost to South Korea's KEPCO in a bid for four nuclear reactors in United Arab Emirates.
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The 2011 Fukushima meltdown led to shutdowns of all of Japan's nuclear reactors, sending uranium prices into a five-year slump.
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They have stayed stubbornly weak since a 2011 tsunami in Japan led to the shutdown of all the country's nuclear reactors.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Russia signed a new nuclear cooperation agreement with Argentina, which is already negotiating with China about building nuclear reactors.
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This work could help shed light on dangerous solar outbursts and help improve the design of advanced nuclear reactors, researchers said.
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Neutrons react with the walls of nuclear reactors more than protons, which causes them to have to be replaced more often.
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French utility EDF's plan to build two huge nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in Britain would help plug the supply gap.
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A consortium led by Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) is building four nuclear reactors for Saudi neighbor the United Arab Emirates.
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Any proposal from Rosatom, one of the world's largest producers of nuclear reactors, would likely face close scrutiny from Chilean regulators.
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Spent fuel from nuclear reactors can be reprocessed to extract plutonium, which is then recycled into mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel.
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A robot swimming in the depths of one of Fukushima's nuclear reactors may have spotted lumps of molten nuclear fuel inside.
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Going by the current capital costs of nuclear reactors, this would have translated into $50 billion or more in reactor sales.
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Nine nuclear reactors on its 586 square miles — about half the size of Rhode Island — were once used to produce plutonium.
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The administration is trying to thwart efforts by China and Russia to export nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia and other nations.
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"It is indispensable that French people continue to benefit from it so long as the nuclear reactors are functioning," he added.
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Two nuclear reactors at a power plant in France shut down because the water they used for cooling became too hot.
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Legislators in Pennsylvania have been working on a plan to subsidize the state's nine nuclear reactors to keep them from retiring.
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Falih said earlier on Wednesday that he expected to sign contracts to build two nuclear reactors by the end of 2018.
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France, a net power exporter in Europe, relies on 58 nuclear reactors run by EDF for three-quarters of its electricity.
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EDF, which operates France's 58 nuclear reactors, said the increase in production was due to a lower volume of reactor outages.
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The cap means that EXIM cannot finance the largest export U.S. products such as Boeing Co aircraft or Westinghouse nuclear reactors.
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The project, which has been in the works for three years, is intended to make nuclear reactors safer and less expensive.
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He generally favors the Green New Deal, but he wants to accomplish it by using geo-engineering and thorium nuclear reactors.
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More than one in three Americans lives within 50 miles of the 99 nuclear reactors operating in the United States today.
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The world's fifth-biggest nuclear energy user currently runs 24 nuclear reactors, generating a third of the country's total electricity needs.
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Rest of Thursday's agenda ... A Senate Environment and Public Works Committee panel will discuss a bill related to advanced nuclear reactors.
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"We are confident that we will be able to continue operating our nuclear reactors after the fourth decennial overhaul," Miniere said.
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South Korea is currently running 24 nuclear reactors after it permanently closed its oldest nuclear reactor, Kori No.1, last week.
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After relying first on Russian designs, and more recently importing American and French ones, China has also developed indigenous nuclear reactors.
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In the last half century, over 2353 nuclear reactors have been sent to space and almost all of them were Soviet.
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In return, it was to receive two light-water nuclear reactors, for electricity generation, and fuel oil from the United States.
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In 2003, K.E.D.O. halted construction on the nuclear reactors after spending about $1.6 billion, largely funded by South Korea and Japan.
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In Ohio, the American Petroleum Institute is waging a fierce campaign against a bill to subsidize the state's two nuclear reactors.
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The country now has 37 nuclear reactors, with another 153 under construction, and it aims to have 110 reactors by 2030.
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Mr. Arthurs said the group had planned to use the stockpile to attack the nation's power grid, nuclear reactors and synagogues.
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I had visions of the new dam bursting and flooding the island or the imposing nuclear reactors melting and creating chaos.
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In August, the White House issued a memo that tasked NASA with developing safety protocols for operating nuclear reactors in space.
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In the aftermath, Japan shut down all of its nuclear reactors, and Germany decided to phase out nuclear energy by 2022.
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Last month, Trump ordered U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry to "prepare immediate steps" to prevent any more nuclear reactors from shuttering.
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But 59 of the nation's 97 licensed commercial nuclear reactors are slated to retire by 2040 if their licenses aren't renewed.
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According to the World Nuclear Association, Finland is home to four nuclear reactors which provide almost 30 percent of its electricity.
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Engineers have plenty of other ways to power planetary science probes, including batteries, fuel cells, solar power, and even nuclear reactors.
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The questionnaire also suggests a new emphasis on nuclear power, including queries about supporting the operation of existing nuclear reactors; preventing the premature closing of nuclear plants; increasing research and development of advanced nuclear reactors; and moving forward with plans to license nuclear waste disposal at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, which was shut down by the Obama administration.
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And in Japan and Germany, where the governments have been shutting down nuclear reactors since the Fukushima meltdown, coal use has spiked.
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The discovery shows that damaged nuclear reactors are capable of spreading radiation far from the meltdown site, and in some surprising ways.
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The struggle to meet energy demand this winter has raised questions about how Belgium will cope after its nuclear reactors are decommissioned.
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The EU promptly planned tariffs for a range of U.S.-origin products, from furs and leather to essential oils and nuclear reactors.
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The deal is not a contract to build nuclear reactors, but a framework agreement like ones Russia has signed with many countries.
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China currently has 36 nuclear reactors in operation, another 21 under construction, and wants to double its nuclear power generation by 2021.
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The agreement will see two next-generation CANDU nuclear reactors installed about 100 kilometres southwest of Shanghai, and could transform nuclear power.
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There are 23 nuclear reactors in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, the states expected to suffer the most damage from Florence.
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Making novel nuclear reactors extremely safe requires critical thinking and obstinate truth-telling; so does convincing others that you have done so.
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EDF has said the largest forgings, used in the nuclear reactors, will be procured overseas as UK steelmakers do not produce them.
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Electricity production at EDF's nuclear reactors in Britain fell 7.5 percent on a year-on-year basis to 59.1 TWh, it added.
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Minigrids involving locally produced wind and solar power, electric-vehicle batteries, small-scale hydropower and small modular nuclear reactors may be another.
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France, a major electricity exporter in Europe, depends on its 58 nuclear reactors for more than 75 percent of its electricity supply.
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About 60% of the power those plants produce comes from nuclear reactors, 303% from gas, 8% from coal and 2% from solar.
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Twenty-four out of France's 58 nuclear reactors operated by EDF are offline for maintenance, refueling or reviews ordered by the regulator.
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Because without electricity to cool the fuel inside nuclear reactors, pressure could build up and cause the reactor's containment building to fail.
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EDF which operates France's 58 nuclear reactors, said the earthquake had no impact on Blayais, which has four 900 megawatt capacity reactors.
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N) acquisition of Alstom's power division - whose turbines equip all of France's nuclear reactors - Technip's merger with U.S.-based FMC Technologies (FTI.
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The U.S. will still have to reach so-called 123 Agreements with foreign countries before American firms can sell nuclear reactors overseas.
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Twice in 2016, Iran has briefly exceeded the cap on heavy water, a material used in the operation of some nuclear reactors.
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It has an atomic number of 0.753 and is formed in nuclear reactors as a byproduct of neutrons being captured by uranium.
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The former Soviet Union started using icebreakers as experimental platforms for the development of nuclear reactors to power carriers in the 1950s.
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PARIS, Nov 12 (Reuters) - French utility EDF on Tuesday extended outages at its Cruas 2, 3 and 4 nuclear reactors until Nov.
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Heavy water is a component of some nuclear reactors, and the U.S. bought a store of it from Iran earlier this year.
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Russia also has a nuclear-powered fleet that includes icebreakers, which are designed to plow through ice with nuclear reactors on board.
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EDF's Thomas Piquemal resigned over the company's plan to build the nuclear reactors, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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And some of the state's nuclear reactors were on the verge of shutting down in recent years since they were losing money.
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Russia remains an oil and gas exporter and continues selling weapons and nuclear reactors, as it has for the last 50 years.
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Around noon, when it is blazing, there will be little need for energy from nuclear reactors, or even from gas or coal.
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The problem is that nuclear reactors, and even gas- and coal-fired generators, can't switch themselves on and off on a dime.
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The House passed a bill Wednesday preventing the United States from purchasing heavy water — a component of some nuclear reactors — from Iran.
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The carrier affectionately known as "Big E" was decommissioned in 2017, and inactivation of the eight nuclear reactors was completed last year.
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Both reactors are among 18 of EDF's 58 nuclear reactors involved in a safety probe demanded by French nuclear safety regulator ASN.
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China also built six nuclear reactors in Pakistan over the past two decades and expects to help build at least two more.
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Texas also hosts four nuclear reactors that supply 10 percent of that state's electricity – and 60 percent of their emission-free electricity.
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Such funds have historically excluded companies that make cluster bombs, nuclear reactors and cigarettes, while favouring companies that are rated socially responsible.
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EDF rose 10 percent after saying it was confident about the new British government's commitment to build nuclear reactors in Hinkley Point.
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"Shooting nuclear reactors into the sky at Mach 8 poses a danger to everyone, not just Russian scientists," a source told Insider.
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Tepco, the power plant's operator, said via Twitter that "no abnormalities" were found at the nuclear reactors as of 5:59 a.m.
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But Cummings' letter to Gowdy described Flynn's interest in the deal for nuclear reactors in far more detail than was previously known.
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To be sure, a disaster on that scale at the California facility is unlikely because it no longer has functioning nuclear reactors.
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This is far smaller than most nuclear reactors in operation in the US, which tend to deliver several hundred megawatts of power.
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In its early days, the administration spent considerable time discussing ways that Saudi Arabia and other Arab states could acquire nuclear reactors.
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Britain faces a supply crunch over the coming winters as nuclear reactors age and coal plants are forced to close by 2025.
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Since then, the owners of the other project in South Carolina have announced plans to shut down construction of their nuclear reactors.
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Their content ranges from language on the construction of nuclear reactors to assistance with feasibility studies and personnel training, press statements show.
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In 85033, Kim Jong Il went beyond those pledges and began dismantling his country's nuclear reactors while accepting intrusive on-site inspections.
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Kansai Electric declined to comment on what alternative power sources it plans to use to replace output from the two nuclear reactors.
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That is the seemingly unanimous view: Liability should be unlimited for owners of nuclear reactors that cause damage to persons and property.
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In nuclear reactors, the heavy water is used as a coolant and allows engineers to bypass uranium enrichment activities to produce plutonium.
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They essentially provide a bridge that keeps zero-emissions power from nuclear reactors on the grid as renewable energy becomes more viable.
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This is because nuclear reactors must close by 2022 and many heavily CO2-polluting coal plants are being closed for environmental reasons.
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Even at a first-of-a-kind cost double today's nuclear reactors, a two-megawatt reactor would only cost roughly $250 million.
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It has an atomic number of 94 and is formed in nuclear reactors as a byproduct of neutrons being captured by uranium.
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Humans still can't locate the hundreds of tons of fuel inside the nuclear reactors that suffered meltdowns in 2011—but maybe robots can.
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However little impact was felt in the power sector and on nuclear-reliant France's 58 nuclear reactors operated by state-controlled utility EDF.
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That is a hangover from the 2011 Fukushima disaster that shut Japan's nuclear reactors, which had met 30% of the nation's power needs.
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The crucial issues of flooding for nuclear reactors and the loss of power required for cooling were highlighted by the accident at Fukushima.
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Wilson succeeds John Hopkins, who currently also serves as the chairman and CEO of NuScale Power LLC, a company that designs nuclear reactors.
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Another robot has died in the depths of one of Fukushima's nuclear reactors, as attempts to locate and remove melted radioactive fuel continue.
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Sofia plans to keep a blocking stake in the venture and be involved in the site, the nuclear reactors and the acquired licenses.
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This same plant was restarted back in January after it was shut down post-Fukushima, along with the rest of Japan's nuclear reactors.
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In 2009, a KEPCO-led consortium won a contract to build four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates, which are under construction.
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Spent fuel is usually left to cool in pools next to nuclear reactors before being shipped to central pools or permanent storage facilities.
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In the area with the highest detected concentrations of Ruthenium-106, near the Ural mountains, lies Russia's Research Institute of Nuclear Reactors (RIAR).
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S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, called on each side to dispose of 34 tonnes of plutonium by burning it in nuclear reactors.
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Last month a report commissioned by Greenpeace said the spent-fuel pools of French utility EDF's nuclear reactors were highly vulnerable to attacks.
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When malware that attacked Iranian nuclear reactors was attributed to the U.S. and Israel, Iran invested in a cyber offense of its own.
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There can be bipartisan support for a fiscally responsible increase in federal investment in new technologies from energy storage to advanced nuclear reactors.
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Swedish state-owned utility Vattenfall and Germany's E.ON have said they will shut four of Sweden's 10 nuclear reactors earlier than previously planned.
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Uranium stock prices have been decimated in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima disaster, which led to Japan closing its nuclear reactors.
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EDF has been forced to reduce power output at several nuclear reactors due to hot weather and low river levels these past weeks.
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France will decide by the end of this year how many nuclear reactors it wants to close, the energy minister said on Monday.
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Last month, Britain said it would review plans to build two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point with financial backing from China General Nuclear.
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As the former head of naval nuclear reactors, he literally had his finger on the pulse of the maritime arm of nuclear deterrence.
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Japan is making that decision after the Fukushima disaster in 2011 that led to the shutdown of most of the country's nuclear reactors.
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He took crucial steps toward ratifying the Paris climate accord and finishing the purchase of nuclear reactors, with a military deal to come.
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Both Sweden and Finland have nuclear power, as well as coal-fired power plants, although Sweden plans to phase out its nuclear reactors.
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The two nuclear reactors being built at Georgia Power's Vogtle station, near Augusta, are the only reactors currently under construction in the country.
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The future of many of the country's 99 nuclear reactors — a majority of which are more than 30 years old — is looking grim.
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According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. has 61 commercially operating nuclear power plants with 99 nuclear reactors in 30 states.
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Cameco warned late last year that the uranium market would remain depressed until Japan's nuclear reactors were restarted and excess supply was depleted.
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The plants have been approved, but they carry a different cost: Gas-fired generators emit climate-changing gases that nuclear reactors do not.
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Kaberger is also a member of the board of state-owned Swedish utility Vattenfall, which owns 10 nuclear reactors, according to its website.
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Still, it is pretty terrifying that your brunch is only three quarters less radioactive than something that powers nuclear reactors and atomic bombs.
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Trump has promised to revive coal and is directing his Energy Department to bolster economically struggling coal plants (and similarly challenged nuclear reactors).
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The deal includes two unfinished nuclear reactors, transmission lines, office and warehouse buildings, eight miles of roads and a 1,000-space parking lot.
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He also said the government was considering supporting small nuclear reactors, including a consortium led by Rolls-Royce, the British jet engine maker.
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The United States' fleet of 99 nuclear reactors still supplies one-fifth of the country's electricity without generating any planet-warming greenhouse gases.
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When the deal was struck, Iran had roughly 22,000 pounds of low-enriched uranium on hand, the kind used for powering nuclear reactors.
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While China is building 20 nuclear reactors, including four AP1000s, the United States has largely abandoned the construction of costly new nuclear plants.
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But those plants are now starting to reopen; Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made getting nuclear reactors back online a national priority.
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A KEPCO-led consortium in 2009 won a contract to build four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates, which are under construction.
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Sofia plans to keep a blocking stake in the venture and will contribute with the site, the nuclear reactors and the acquired licences.
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But Oyster Creek's original license was granted first, technically making it the oldest of the nation's commercial nuclear reactors that are still operating.
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The contract comes as Saudi Arabia pushes the Trump administration to sign off on having U.S. companies build nuclear reactors in the country.
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Electricity generation dropped by more than three gigawatts, the equivalent of three nuclear reactors' output, as power workers joined the strike in sympathy.
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Already, 60 percent of our carbon-free electricity comes from the 99 nuclear reactors that dot the nation's map, from Avila Beach, Calif.
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And you can explore the effects a carbon tax might have on America's grid — or, say, the development of much cheaper nuclear reactors.
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Tricastin's four nuclear reactors produce an average of 25 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity per year, or 6% of French nuclear power generation.
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Germany committed to shutting down all of its nuclear reactors by 161660143, but the country is now likely to miss its emissions reduction targets.
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Electricity from nuclear reactors, which account for about 75 percent of French needs, is expected to increase by 1.7 GW during the same period.
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In Belgium, the regulator ordered production to be stopped at two nuclear reactors in 2012 after finding indications of tiny cracks in core tanks.
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While nuclear reactors are hardened against outside attack, including by the intentional crash of a medium-sized jet plane, larger planes could destroy them.
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EDF - which operates the 58 nuclear reactors that generate some three quarters of French electricity - said it could not immediately comment on ASN's statement.
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Rosatom was also in talks with South Africa on building more nuclear reactors there but President Cyril Ramaphosa put nuclear expansion plans on hold.
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North Korea agreed to dismantle its nuclear reactors and accept wide-ranging inspections in exchange for diplomatic and economic concessions from the United States.
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EDF on Friday delayed the restart of all four nuclear reactors at its Tricastin nuclear plant by three weeks until the end of November.
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Last year, Kyushu Electric became the first utility company to bring its nuclear reactors back online after new, post-disaster safety rules were implemented.
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However, Cameco warned that the uranium market would remain depressed until Japan's nuclear reactors are restarted and excess supply is depleted, among other things.
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With 22 nuclear reactors, India has the seventh-largest nuclear production fleet in the world, according to numbers from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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The vast majority of its low- and mid-level waste is just sitting around in containers at the nuclear reactors where it was produced.
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On Tuesday, Obama and Modi welcomed the start of preparatory work that could lead to the building of six Westinghouse nuclear reactors in India.
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The 2011 power loss and core meltdown at three nuclear reactors there released about one-tenth as much radioactive material as the Chernobyl disaster.
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Spot prices of uranium, used to fuel nuclear reactors, dipped to a 13-year low late last year and have rebounded modestly in 13.
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South Korea has the sixth-largest fleet of nuclear reactors in the world, generating about one-third of its energy needs from 25 reactors.
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Even Westinghouse, the company that has directly or indirectly designed the majority of the world's nuclear reactors, has realized that there is no market.
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By 2035, Putin said Russia's Arctic fleet would operate at least 13 heavy-duty icebreakers, nine of which would be powered by nuclear reactors.
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Trump and his advisers told Netanyahu that, if the U.S. does not sell the Saudis nuclear reactors, other countries like Russia or France will.
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"I think Yang's approach to climate change is deeply problematic," said Jones, who favors Sanders's plan and its call to retire all nuclear reactors.
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"We are proceeding with it cautiously ... we are experimenting with two nuclear reactors," Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said at a conference in Abu Dhabi.
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In fact, they are parts built to contain something even more fearsome—nuclear reactors and the high-pressure, high-temperature steam that they produce.
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It's hard for venture investors to back companies that are [building nuclear reactors], which makes government grants the best choice for early innovation oftentimes.
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Today solar and wind power are lower in cost than even the existing nuclear plants, much less the runaway cost of new nuclear reactors.
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Apart from disasters such as Chernobyl and Fukushima, nuclear reactors give off radioactive emissions from day-to-day operations and the waste they produce.
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His company is currently working to complete two nuclear reactors in Alabama, and is seeking an extension of tax credits from the Trump administration.
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Driving the news: Operators of up to 1003% of America's nuclear reactors are seeking federal approval to run reactors for an unprecedented 2100 years.
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Each of America's 267 nuclear reactors are housed on sprawling campuses and are capable of providing anywhere from 220 to 2235,2235 megawatts of power.
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Policy makers rushing to unplug existing nuclear reactors and embrace renewables note: Shuttering viable technological paths could send us down a cul-de-sac.
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The report also floated the idea of using heat from advanced nuclear reactors to increase America's hydrogen production without further contributing to climate change.
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Yang's plan proposes spending $50 billion on researching new nuclear technologies, and he wants to see new nuclear reactors online as soon as 2027.
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Westinghouse filed for bankruptcy last month hit by billions of dollars of cost overruns at four nuclear reactors under construction in the U.S. Southeast.
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The company filed for bankruptcy protection after it incurred billions of dollars of cost overruns at four nuclear reactors under construction in the U.S. Southeast.
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Spot prices of uranium, used to fuel nuclear reactors, dipped to a 13-year low late last year and have rebounded only modestly in 2017.
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French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would not rule out France building new nuclear reactors to replacing state-controlled utility EDF's ageing reactors.
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About 200 nuclear reactors around the world will be shut down over the next quarter century, mostly in Europe, according to the International Energy Agency.
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Whether it's large-scale energy storage, advanced biofuels, or next-generation nuclear reactors, clean energy innovation is an essential part of any sensible climate policy.
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Wind and solar power have, after huge subsidies, joined nuclear reactors and dams as affordable ways of generating gigawatts of electricity without burning fossil fuels.
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When I asked what else deserves funding, I heard a long list of options including advanced nuclear reactors, fusion, and turning air into liquid fuel.
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Many of Japan's nuclear reactors are still going through a relicensing process set up after the Fukushima disaster, the world's worst since Chernobyl in 1986.
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Plutonium is the foundation of resource-poor Japan's nuclear fuel cycle, in which spent fuel from nuclear reactors is reprocessed into plutonium and then reused.
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Elsewhere on Friday, Perry said he was pushing a rule that would favor nuclear reactors, along with coal plants, which could have a broader impact.
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Toshiba Corp will be paying $2.168 billion through 2022 over two unfinished nuclear reactors in South Carolina that its Westinghouse subsidiary is building, per Reuters.
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TWR, one of several new "fourth-generation" reactor designs, uses depleted uranium and is more fuel-efficient and cheaper to run than conventional nuclear reactors.
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The United States, South Korea, Russia, France and China are bidding on a multi-billion dollar tender to build the country's first two nuclear reactors.
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EDF in January announced a preliminary agreement with Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd to build six EPR nuclear reactors at Jaitapur in western India.
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The year-to-date gain is 215.85 percent, and the metal used to power nuclear reactors is on track to record a second annual increase.
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Cost overruns at four nuclear reactors it was building in the United States pushed Westinghouse, a unit of Japan's Toshiba Corp, into bankruptcy in March.
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It said Ho assisted CGNPC in procuring U.S.-based nuclear engineers to assist in the design and manufacture of components for nuclear reactors more quickly.
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But Oyster Creek&aposs original license was granted first, technically making it the oldest of the nation&aposs commercial nuclear reactors that are still operating.
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France plans to halt power generation at some of its aging nuclear reactors to reduce dependence on atomic energy and develop power from renewables sources.
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Admitting these hard truths might scuttle the Abe administration's plan to restart more of the nuclear reactors that were put offline after the Fukushima disaster.
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As well as building civilian nuclear reactors, Westinghouse has been the leading supplier of reactors for nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carriers, submarines and other warships.
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The United States has nearly 100 nuclear reactors in operation, which produced about 20% of total electrical output in 2018, World Nuclear Association data show.
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The investigation could ultimately result in new tariffs at a moment when more than half of America's nuclear reactors are losing money, according to Bloomberg.
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That indictment named the China General Nuclear Power Company, the largest Chinese nuclear producer, which was seeking American designs for key components for nuclear reactors.
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These bricks are used in all 14 advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactors (AGRs) in Britain which drive seven out of eight of the country's plants.
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"It's achievable," Mr. Tsunakawa told reporters in June, referring to the company's official goal of building 45 nuclear reactors around the world by fiscal 2030.
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Some political observers, however, are concerned about the prospect of nuclear reactors backed by Russia in some countries with rebel groups and weak government institutions.
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The world's first large nuclear reactors, erected at Hanford in Washington State in the 280s, turned uranium fuel into plutonium for use in nuclear warheads.
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Cardiac stress tests use technetium 99m to evaluate the blood supply to the heart, but recent shutdowns of nuclear reactors have resulted in significant shortages.
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Currently, 19 of EDF's nuclear reactors are out for scheduled maintenance or safety checks for periods ranging from a couple of days to several months.
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The boat was bobbing in calm, blue, shallow water some 500 yards from Turkey Point, which houses two of America's oldest operating commercial nuclear reactors.
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A so-called "Industrial Way Forward Agreement" was signed between French utility EDF and India's NPCIL for the construction of six nuclear reactors at Jaitapur.
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That could include restarting plutonium-producing nuclear reactors in Yongbyon, about 60 miles north of Pyongyang, the capital, or launching short- or medium-range missiles.
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Mr. Barrack told ProPublica in 2017, while these negotiations were going on, that he was considering investing in Westinghouse, the bankrupt maker of nuclear reactors.
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The world needs to halve its carbon emissions by 2030, and embracing the new generation of nuclear reactors may be key to making that happen.
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Both reactors are under repair as Belgium faces a tight electricity supply situation going into winter with just two out of its seven nuclear reactors working.
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Then there are low levels of higher energy radiation like the kind in nuclear reactors, including particles coming out of the soil and off of bananas.
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An even trickier problem will be getting the spent fuel to Yucca Mountain safely by train and truck from nuclear reactors sites all across the country.
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Washington (CNN)The U.S. will purchase from Iran 32 metric tons of heavy water, a key component of nuclear reactors, according to a senior administration official.
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Last year, more nuclear reactors were under construction and came online than at any other time in the past 25 years and building times have improved.
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That's why it's so important to keep nuclear reactors cool: if temperatures climb too high, the reactor core can melt into a kind of radioactive lava.
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Teller also believed the US should invest in geoengineering, nuclear engines for spacecrafts, nuclear testing in space, and nuclear reactors powered by thorium rather than uranium.
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Mantashe added that the IRP contained provisions for "modular nuclear technology", implying government would contemplate adding nuclear reactors on a smaller scale than in the past.
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The nuclear reactors at the Indian Point Energy Center in Westchester County, New York, will stop operating by 2021, according to the plant's owner Entergy Corporation.
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When NERC tests the resilience of the system, it imagines knocking out two of the three nuclear reactors at the 3.8GW Palo Verde plant in Arizona.
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Yellowcake is a processed form of uranium that can be further processed for use as fuel in nuclear reactors or enriched for use in nuclear weapons.
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Using thorium to produce nuclear power is considered to be much more stable than using uranium to power nuclear reactors, but using uranium is more common.
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EDF also said this week it was repairing pumping station pipes at 20 nuclear reactors after discovering they might not be strong enough to resist earthquakes.
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) released a letter showing that 17 of the country's nuclear reactors have parts from Areva's Le Creusot forge.
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"Secure capacity goes down continuously until 2020 and there could be a deficit even before all nuclear reactors leave the grid," CEO Klaus Kleinekorte told Reuters.
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There are currently more than 400 nuclear reactors in operation around the world, with 65 new ones under construction and another 165 on order or planned.
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EDF appointed an Italian to run its British unit handling the construction of two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point C. Elsewhere, broker updates propelled share prices.
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Yes, but: The obstacles facing a potential rush of new advanced nuclear reactors are aplenty: The Energy Department's budget proposal cuts spending to its nuclear office.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French state-controlled utility EDF said on Friday it is confident about the new British government's commitment to build nuclear reactors in Hinkley Point.
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For example, Kim might want to hand over all his nuclear weapons, but may want to keep his nuclear reactors and technology for non-military uses.
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Westinghouse filed for bankruptcy last month after being hit by billions of dollars of cost overruns at four nuclear reactors under construction in the U.S. Southeast.
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Saudi Arabia's energy minister, Khalid al-Falih, said last month that he expected to sign contracts to build two nuclear reactors by the end of 2018.
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Using nuclear reactors to fuel missiles or airplanes has proved to be a "hazardous" technology that's probably unnecessary, a leading defense expert told Insider this week.
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EDF, which operates France's 58 nuclear reactors which provide more than 75 percent of its electricity needs, did not give any further details about the strike.
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Under the terms of the Iran nuclear agreement, the country is required to sell down its stock of heavy water, which is used in nuclear reactors.
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During his campaign, Moon vowed to review plans to add new eight nuclear reactors, including the part-completed Shin Kori No.5 and Kori No.6.
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EDF, which operates France's 58 nuclear reactors that accounts for over 75 percent of the country's electricity needs, is rapidly expanding into wind and solar generation.
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Under the deal, North Korea halted construction of two nuclear reactors that the United States believed would be used to produce fuel for a nuclear bomb.
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First, Iran would start stockpiling extra low-enriched uranium and heavy water, the kind used in nuclear reactors that could be used to produce a bomb.
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Under the 1994 deal, North Korea was to be provided with $4 billion in energy aid for heavy oil shipments and two light-water nuclear reactors.
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But more recently, that same gas boom has started pushing many of America's nuclear reactors into early retirement — a trend with adverse consequences for climate change.
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The German government quickly passed legislation to decommission all of the country's nuclear reactors, ostensibly to keep its citizens safe by preventing a Fukushima-style disaster.
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The report also notes ties between Kushner and one of the companies that could benefit from the sale of nuclear reactors to the Saudis, Westinghouse Electric.
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The Office of Nuclear Energy, which is pursuing technology to help extend the life of the United States' existing nuclear reactors, faces a 2700 percent cut.
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But the company filed for bankruptcy last March, hit by billions of dollars of cost overruns at four nuclear reactors under construction in the United States.
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South Korea, the world's fifth-biggest user of nuclear power, has developed its own nuclear technology through KEPCO and is keen to export its nuclear reactors.
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If it uses nuclear reactors to generate electricity, that will allow the Gulf country to export more of its oil rather than consume it at home.
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Energy-starved India plans to construct about 60 nuclear reactors and has been in talks with Westinghouse Electric Co LLC, GE as well as France's Areva AREVA.
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Germany's move to shut down its nuclear reactors has public backing, but Berlin faces billions of euros' worth of lawsuits as dispossessed operators try to reclaim losses.
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Under an "Agreed Framework" in late 43 the North promised to abandon illicit work on plutonium weapons, in return for American aid, oil and civilian nuclear reactors.
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ITER hopes to generate power from a process similar to the nuclear fusion that powers the sun, unlike existing nuclear reactors that produce energy by splitting atoms.
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It might include destroying the nuclear reactors at Yongbyon and letting inspectors confirm that the Punggye-ri site, where nuclear devices were detonated underground, really is closed.
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Their discussions included cooperation in areas such as pre-feasibility study to build the first two nuclear reactors in the kingdom, and exploration for uranium and thorium.
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Since the disaster, only two of Japan's 250 operable nuclear reactors have reopened over public protests, and the nuclear industry is desperate for a public relations coup.
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He added that in order to be cost-efficient it was necessary to build nuclear reactors in series, with two reactors per site on three consecutive sites.
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He added that in order to be cost-efficient it was necessary to build nuclear reactors in series, with two reactors per site on three consecutive sites.
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South Korea is building four nuclear reactors in the Middle Eastern country, and has been stationing a unit of special forces to train UAE troops since 2011.
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Westinghouse filed for bankruptcy early this year after being hit by billions of dollars of cost overruns at four nuclear reactors under construction in the U.S. Southeast.
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Japan allowed nuclear reactors to restart last August after a nationwide moratorium implemented in 2011, hoping to reduce energy imports that had led to skyrocketing utility bills.
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Perry said the United States has a "moral obligation" to build the site, since storing spent fuel at the sites of the nation's nuclear reactors is dangerous.
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The lifetime of the nuclear reactors, originally intended to stop operating in 2015, was extended by the Belgian legislature that year to continue producing electricity through 2025.
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Doel 1 and 2, located near Antwerp and operated by Engie Electrabel, are Belgium's smallest of seven nuclear reactors, with capacities of 445 and 433 megawatts respectively.
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EDF has halted four nuclear reactors at three power plants in France because of the current heatwave affecting Europe, a spokesman for the utility said on Saturday.
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In January 2015, Chevet had said the ASN would give a preliminary opinion about the possible lifespan extension of EDF's nuclear reactors by the end of 2015.
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Forty-two of the 69 crew members perished, and the boat sank to the depths with its onboard nuclear reactors and two torpedoes carrying plutonium-tipped warheads.
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The Trump administration has been negotiating a so-called Section 123 agreement with Saudi Arabia that would allow the kingdom to buy nuclear reactors from U.S. companies.
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Kazakhstan inherited an advanced nuclear industry when the Soviet Union collapsed and is a top supplier of concentrated uranium, also known as yellowcake, used in nuclear reactors.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists, which hasn't always been so sympathetic to nuclear, now agrees that keeping today's nuclear reactors running is vital to the emissions fight.
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His plan calls to break ground on new nuclear reactors by 2027, in part to achieve his timeline of a 100 percent renewable electric grid by 2035.
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Nuclear reactors only supply about one-fifth of US power today, but they're incredibly safe, and emit no carbon, making them a remarkably Earth-friendly energy source.
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Japan's nine regional power utilities and a wholesaler, Japan Atomic Power Co, have 42 nuclear reactors for commercial use, with a total generating capacity of 41,482 megawatts.
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The Trump administration has been negotiating what's known as a "28503 agreement" with the Saudis that would allow the kingdom to buy nuclear reactors from U.S. companies.
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But multiple experts have warned that the process, which entails disassembling deployed and stockpiled weapons, closing nuclear reactors and removing all enriched uranium, could span several years.
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When the plant was up and running, using nine nuclear reactors and five reprocessing plants, it produced about 65% of the plutonium used by the US government.
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Bulgaria has begun a 360 million euro ($401.33 million)upgrade of its two, Soviet-made nuclear reactors to ensure they can operate safely for another 13 years.
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The power plant on board consists of two-nuclear reactors capable of delivering a combined 70 MW of power, approximately enough for a city of 200,000 people.
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Germany initially set out to close all of its nuclear reactors by 2022, but as a result, they are now likely to miss their emissions reduction targets.
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In total, the tariffs will fall on 1,102 categories of Chinese goods, including nuclear reactors, aircraft engine parts, bulldozers, ball bearings, motorcycles and industrial and agricultural machinery.
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There's a reason for that: Alarmed by the prospect of nuclear meltdowns and the potential damage to ecosystems and human health, voters remain decidedly against nuclear reactors.
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Scientists know that neutrinos are produced by natural sources such as stars or galactic cores, as well as human-made technologies like particle accelerators and nuclear reactors.
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Natural gas provided more than half the electricity generated in New Jersey last year, while its four nuclear reactors provided 39 percent, according to federal energy data.
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More than half of U.S. nuclear reactors are currently losing money, with losses totaling $2.9 billion annually, according to a recent report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
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Today, nuclear reactors operating with ordinary uranium and cooled by "heavy" water have made the job easier and less costly, allowing many players to pursue the goal.
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He noted that CA Technologies' network systems are "deeply embedded" in many national security agencies and critical infrastructure facilities in the United States — including 29 nuclear reactors.
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"I am skeptical of the ability to license advanced nuclear reactors and deploy them on a scale that would make a difference for climate change," adds Fetter.
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An earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan not far from the site of the disastrous quake of 2011 that caused three nuclear reactors to melt down.
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North Korea and the United States reached a framework agreement in Geneva in 1994 to freeze construction of the North's nuclear reactors, but that accord unraveled in 2003.
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In total, up to 1,800 MW of electricity production capacity, equivalent to two nuclear reactors, was expected to be decommissioned in Finland during 2013-2016, PVO has said.
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Asia's fourth-largest economy has plans to build 11 more nuclear reactors by 2029, putting it under pressure to come up with measures to handle mounting nuclear wastes.
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Anti-nuclear groups are pushing for it to follow neighboring Germany, which shut 40 percent of its nuclear reactors after Fukushima and will close the rest by 2022.
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The Energy Department later confirmed that it has granted seven of the so-called Part 10 authorizations to U.S. firms competing to build nuclear reactors in the kingdom.
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Many deep space missions rely on small nuclear reactors to generate power, but LLISSE will use a heat-activated thermal battery similar to the kind found in missiles.
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REUTERS/Mike Blake About 200 nuclear reactors around the world will be shut down over the next quarter century, mostly in Europe, according to the International Energy Agency.
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Rubber seals are used in large numbers in the extensive piping found in nuclear reactors and their cooling systems and can be subject to high temperatures and pressure.
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Click here to view original GIFSo just how heat-resistant are the highly-engineered materials developed for use in things like jet engines, nuclear reactors, and gas turbines?
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It said it was keeping a watchful eye on several nuclear reactors operated by utility EDF that are currently offline but due to return to service this month.
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Under the JCPOA it is producing enriched uranium at a concentration below 4%, used for nuclear reactors, far below the 90% or higher level required for nuclear weapons.
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It wants to build two nuclear reactors and insists on its right to enrich uranium (and to reprocess spent fuel from those reactors, another path to a bomb).
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According to Reuters tabulation, 22 out of 58 French nuclear reactors are currently on planned or statutory outage representing about 36 percent of its installed nuclear power capacity.
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In addition to that programme, Riyadh is in the early stages of feasibility and design studies for its first two commercial nuclear reactors, which will total 2.8 gigawatts.
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Spent fuel from nuclear reactors remains highly radioactive for thousands of years and all countries using nuclear energy struggle with the question of where to store it safely.
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The bill would develop additional funding mechanisms and demonstration programs for the next wave of advanced nuclear reactors, and establish a national nuclear energy strategy for the nation.
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A press release from the American Geophysical Union explains:The dam spans the Yangtze River in eastern China and generates roughly the amount of energy as 12 nuclear reactors.
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War, perhaps the most state-directed of all enterprises, accelerated the diffusion of several key energy technologies, most notably the internal combustion engine, jet turbines, and nuclear reactors.
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BOLOGNA, Italy (Reuters) - French environment and energy minister Nicolas Hulot said on Monday that the government plans to close some nuclear reactors of state-controlled utility EDF (EDF.
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In the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima disaster, Japan closed its nuclear reactors, which accounted for some ten percent of the more than 20143 reactors operating globally.
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He has also said that if Saudi Arabia relies on China or Russia for building nuclear reactors those two countries don't give a "tinker's damn" about non-proliferation.
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The Takahama No. 3 reactor is one of two nuclear reactors running under new safety standards adopted by the government after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear incident, KEPCO said.
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The White House has been pursuing a deal to sell nuclear reactors to Riyadh despite the kingdom's reluctance to accept stringent restrictions against nuclear proliferation, including uranium enrichment.
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In this case, my "computer" is a modified Ford Fusion hybrid sedan code-named Boron 210, an atomic element often found in magnets, laundry detergent and nuclear reactors.
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The MOX plant is being built to convert approximately 2628 metric tons of surplus plutonium from nuclear weapons to mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel for use in nuclear reactors.
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The Saudis don't want to be "one-upped" by the UAE, so they too embarked on a very ambitious nuclear plan involving no fewer than 16 nuclear reactors.
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Separately, Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot said France will detail at the end of 1003 how many nuclear reactors will close to meet a target on reducing atomic energy.
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Flynn, while involved in the Trump transition, worked with companies including ACU Strategic Partners to make a deal with Russia to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East.
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EDF, France's state-owned power company, warned that several of its nuclear reactors have been affected by improper welding, sending shares of the firm sharply lower on Tuesday.
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Under the deal, North Korea agreed to halt construction of two nuclear reactors that the United States believed would be used to produce fuel for a nuclear bomb.
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But at least some of the spent fuel may have a second chance at life feeding advanced nuclear reactors that will be smaller and safer than their predecessors.
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Few companies have embodied Japan's industrial might like Toshiba, whose products run the gamut from hair dryers to giant gas-fired electricity turbines, as well as nuclear reactors.
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The result: All the waste piling up at the nation's aging nuclear reactors will remain in storage at the plant sites, even after they retire and cease operations.
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The Trump administration has also been negotiating a so-called Section 123 agreement with Saudi Arabia that would allow the kingdom to buy nuclear reactors from U.S. companies.
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NuGen is 60 percent owned by Toshiba, whose Westinghouse unit will provide the AP1000 nuclear reactors for the project which is expected to produce first power in 2025.
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French utility EDF gained 3.2% after it said there was no need to close any of its nuclear reactors for now following the discovery of problems with weldings.
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French President Francois Hollande, making a state visit to India, said on Monday that an agreement to build the six nuclear reactors should be concluded within a year.
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Realistically, if I'm trying to use my money to get the most gains for climate, I'd set up a competitive prize to demonstrate small, factory-produced nuclear reactors.
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Under the agreement, one of the two nuclear reactors at Indian Point will permanently cease operations by April 13, while the other must be closed a year later.
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Until recently, Sweden's nuclear reactors — which provide 40 percent of the nation's electricity — were on track to close prematurely in the coming years, as government policies favored renewables.
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All of this is to say that our Earth is really weird, and thunderstorms can turn into natural particle-accelerating nuclear reactors for reasons we don't quite understand yet.
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She has a background as a nuclear engineer and operated nuclear reactors, and served in the Navy, winning a district containing Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest Navy base.
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He could insist on a definitive accounting by North Korea of its nuclear capabilities, down to the number of warheads it maintains and the location of its nuclear reactors.
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It will overtake France to have the second-highest number of nuclear reactors by 703, Agneta Rising, the WNA's director general, said at an annual energy conference in Singapore.
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It was not immediately clear whether EDF's reactor building business Framatome, formerly called Areva, and its nuclear reactors in Britain would also be held in a separate nuclear division.
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Next year, Gulf state UAE is set to become the first new nation to use nuclear energy in decades when it starts up the first of four nuclear reactors.
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For more than a year, the Trump administration has been considering policy measures to keep economically struggling nuclear reactors open, as well as coal plants that face similar problems.
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The show of support by Perry came after Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse's bankruptcy filing had raised doubts about the proposed construction of six nuclear reactors in India's Andhra Pradesh state.
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At the time, Toshiba—which like other conglomerates of its type invests in all kinds of businesses—thought that investing in nuclear reactors would be a good financial decision.
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The ASN nuclear regulator said last month it would rule on a potential lifespan extension of France's 58 nuclear reactors - all operated by state-owned EDF - in 2020-21.
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Japan says it has to rely more on the fuel after shutting down most nuclear reactors that used to supply a third of its electricity before the Fukushima disaster.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French utility could prolong planned outages at its two Golfech nuclear reactors because of a heatwave expected across France this week, the power utility said on Monday.
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La Hague takes the plutonium out of spent uranium burned in EDF's French plants, which Melox blends with uranium to produce new fuel rods for pressurised water nuclear reactors.
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The National Hurricane Center's forecast track shows Irma making landfall on the southwest side of the Florida Peninsula, west of the two nuclear reactors at the Turkey Point plant.
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Researchers at a nuclear research facility in the Netherlands are working on building up molten-salt nuclear reactors that would use thorium as a fuel, according to New Scientist.
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The global uranium industry is in a tailspin dating back to the 193 tsunami that caused Japan to shutter all nuclear reactors, a few of which have since restarted.
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Sweden's five other nuclear reactors are expected to be decommissioned by 2045, slashing the country's power capacity by another 5.5 GW and further increasing the risk of power shortages.
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However, it could face a second winter of tight power supply as nuclear reactors undergo a review of hundreds of components and increased scrutiny demanded by the country's watchdog.
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State-controlled EDF wants to acquire 51 to 75 percent of Areva NP, which designs, manufactures and services nuclear reactors and is worth about 2.5 billion euros ($2.8 billion).
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PARIS (Reuters) - EDF has halted four nuclear reactors at three power plants in France because of the current heatwave affecting Europe, a spokesman for the utility said on Saturday.
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As nuclear reactors need fuel, all this should be good news for uranium miners, but the radioactive metal last week hit a new decade low of $23.5 per pound.
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Engie's Belgian unit Electrabel operates seven nuclear reactors in Belgium, four at Doel and three at Tihange, which produce about half the country's electricity when they are fully operational.
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"We will completely stop all plans for the construction of new nuclear reactors like the government previously stated," Moon said in a statement distributed to reporters by his office.
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And although multinational technology initiatives that focus on a particular technology niche, like hydrogen fuel cells or advanced nuclear reactors, are higher in profile, they are limited in scope.
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Toshiba's auditors have questioned practices at Westinghouse, where massive cost overruns at four nuclear reactors under construction forced its Japanese parent to estimate a $9 billion annual net loss.
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"After seeing what happened with the [French carrier] Charles de Gaulle, China knows not to try and transfer nuclear reactors from a submarine to an aircraft carrier," he said.
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Hundreds of coal power plants, and many nuclear reactors, have closed in recent years, as electric utilities turn to cheap natural gas, as well as to wind and solar.
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Perhaps in time it might do so with lasers; the nuclear reactors that power American carriers' catapults and screws could also provide the megawatts that high-power lasers need.
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The Trump administration last year was in the process of negotiating a "123 agreement" with the Saudis that would allow the kingdom to buy nuclear reactors from U.S. companies.
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Right now, the Akademik Lomonosov is slowly being towed from St. Petersburg, Russia, to the town of Murmansk, where its two nuclear reactors will be fueled up this fall.
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About 70 percent of South Korea's nuclear reactors are in the southeast, partly to locate them further away from North Korea, with which the country remains technically at war.
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"Construction work (for the two new nuclear reactors) will begin immediately after midnight," Paik Un-gyu, Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy, told a news briefing in the capital.
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The ministry said it will use alternative fuels such as solar and wind power to replace the six nuclear reactors with a projected combined capacity of 8.8 gigawatts (GW).
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Miniere - whose name was not on a letter of EDF engineers supporting EDF's project to build nuclear reactors in Hinkley Point, UK - denied he did not back the project.
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Treasury targeted four Chinese shipping companies and one executive for shipping hundreds of millions of dollars worth of computers, equipment, fuel, minerals and items used to construct nuclear reactors.
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Under the false flag of free market capitalism, Chinese state-owned enterprises have systematically acquired American and European firms working in advanced technology, nuclear reactors, robotics, aviation, and more.
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The energy bill would have taken steps to speed permitting of liquefied natural gas facilities, fund research into advanced nuclear reactors and protect the power grid from cyber attacks.
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The project to construct four nuclear reactors has repeatedly run into delays, including being briefly halted after Turkey downed a Russian jet near the Syrian border in November 2015.
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Currently, 20 out its 58 French nuclear reactors are completely out for planned or statutory maintenance outages for various periods ranging from a couple of days to several months.
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France is one of the world's few civil nuclear powers which reprocesses and reuses part of the spent fuel of its nuclear reactors, rather than treating it as waste.
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Last summer he put 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion a year in Chinese imports in crucial industries like car-making and the manufacturing of parts for nuclear reactors.
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The potential options include advanced nuclear reactors, geothermal plants tapping the earth's interior heat, floating offshore wind turbines, and gas-burning power plants that capture and bury their emissions.
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It is true that Germans would have made more progress in the battle against climate change had they kept their nuclear reactors running and shut plants burning lignite instead.
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Elsewhere in Europe, Belgium's regulator ordered production to be stopped at two nuclear reactors - not operated by EDF - in 2012 after finding indications of tiny cracks in core tanks.
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France and Russia are the only two nations recycling spent fuel from nuclear reactors, but France no longer operates the breeder reactors which are suitable to use this fuel.
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South Africa is planning to build several new nuclear reactors with a combined capacity of 9,600 megawatts, which could be one of the world's biggest nuclear deals in decades.
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Today, all the nuclear reactors in the US only use fuel enriched to less than 5 percent, but Haleu fuel is enriched to anywhere from 5 to 20 percent.
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"If we want to make a substantial dent in fossil fuel energy production, we need to get advanced nuclear reactors on the grid as quickly as possible," says Dewan.
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The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, about 45 km (28 miles) east of Toronto, features six nuclear reactors and accounts for about 14% of Ontario's electricity needs, its website says.
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Saudi Arabia has enlisted a trio of U.S. firms as it tries to persuade the Trump administration to sign off on a sale of nuclear reactors to the country.
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The European Commission is currently examining a deal that would see state-controlled EDF acquire 51 to 75 percent of Areva NP, which designs, makes and services nuclear reactors.
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In the densely populated parts of eastern and southern China where many of the country's nuclear reactors are located, such an exclusion zone could impact huge numbers of people.
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"We were alone in doing the research but not alone in our concern that radiation from nuclear reactors is getting into people's bodies and harming them," Mr. Mangano said.
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Japan relied on nuclear power for nearly a third of its electricity supply before the Fukushima disaster, but now has just six out of 40 available nuclear reactors running.
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Besides the flood repair work, they pointed to schemes like the Thames Tideway Tunnel plan, London's new "super-sewer", and projects for new nuclear reactors and high-speed rail links.
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Now, election systems join a lineup of important things that as a country we'd prefer to not have hacked, including government facilities, nuclear reactors, transportation systems and the energy sector.
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Experiments on nuclear reactors and particle accelerators have confirmed the strange neutrino identity-switching oscillation behavior, which won scientists Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics.
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French utility EDF, which operates France's 58 nuclear reactors that accounts for over 75 percent of its electricity needs, has said the current heatwave would not impact nuclear power production.
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Saudi officials have suggested the nuclear reactors would be useful in pursuing sea-water desalination, but the secretive nature of the acquisitions has led to concerns of a wider agenda.
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PARIS, Nov 8 (Reuters) - France's ASN nuclear regulator will rule on the potential lifespan extension of EDF's nuclear reactors in 2020-21, ASN chief Pierre-Franck Chevet said on Wednesday.
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Belgium this month passed bills aimed at spurring investment in gas-fired power and 4,000 megawatts of new offshore wind farm capacity by 2030 to replace its ageing nuclear reactors.
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A robot outfitted with remotely controlled pinchers poked at debris that's suspected to contain molten nuclear fuel at the bottom of one of Fukushima's nuclear reactors, World Nuclear News reports.
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PARIS, Oct 24 (Reuters) - French utility EDF can continue operating nuclear reactors concerned with defective welds at its steam generators, the head of France's ASN regulator told Les Echos newspaper.
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Belgium this month passed bills aimed at spurring investment in gas-fired power and 4,000 megawatts of new offshore wind farm capacity by 2030 to replace its aging nuclear reactors.
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The federal government requires communities near nuclear reactors to stockpile potassium iodide pills, along with public health stockpiles in locales that have feared a terror attack ever since 9/11.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China had 20 nuclear reactors under construction at the end of March, with a total capacity of 23.11 gigawatts (GW), the China Nuclear Energy Association said on Thursday.
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In France, where four nuclear reactors have been temporarily closed due to the heat, three cities banned the most polluting cars from the roads because of heat-linked ozone pollution.
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China has been exploring the use of small nuclear reactors — less than a fifth of the size of a standard reactor — as alternative heating systems in smog-prone northern regions.
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Inspired by the Manhattan Project, the Department of Energy has initiated energy hubs that focus respectively on artificial photosynthesis to create synthetic fuel, nuclear reactors, clean energy and critical materials.
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Buried in low-lying hills about 100 km (22017 miles) north of North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, Yongbyon is home to nuclear reactors, fuel re-processing plants and uranium enrichment facilities.
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Finance Director Thomas Piquemal has resigned over the French utility's plan to build two nuclear reactors in Hinkley Point, in Britain, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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The government on Tuesday suspended construction of two partially completed nuclear reactors in the country while it gathers public opinion on the facilities and decides whether they should be scrapped.
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But it would throw into question the future of a key plank in Britain's plans to replace ageing nuclear reactors, and the future of India's biggest nuclear project to date.
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Still, maybe that's an easier job than finding a safe place to put all the radioactive waste that keeps piling up around Pilgrim and the nation's 97 other nuclear reactors.
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In 2011, a massive tsunami hit northern Japan following a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast, resulting in the meltdown of nuclear reactors at the Fukashima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
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Hulot - who has repeatedly said that state-controlled utility EDF needs to close several nuclear reactors and make a massive switch to renewable energy - made no comments regarding nuclear energy.
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In addition to that program, Riyadh is in the early stages of feasibility and design studies for its first two commercial nuclear reactors, which will total 2.8 gigawatts, he said.
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"That's not happened - at least yet - as weather outlooks suggest a relatively mild winter, and because a lot of nuclear reactors, especially in Japan, have returned to service," he said.
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NATO member Germany is not a nuclear power and in 2011 a Merkel-led government announced plans to shut all nuclear reactors by 2022 after the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
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The indictment said Ho had since 1997 sought to enlist others to assist with developing nuclear reactors and nuclear material in China -- without the permission of the Department of Energy.
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RIYADH, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Wednesday that he expected to sign contracts to build two nuclear reactors by the end of 2018.
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Westinghouse filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection from creditors two weeks ago, hit by billions of dollars of cost overruns at four nuclear reactors under construction in the Southeastern United States.
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Elia, in a study released on Friday, estimates the country will need an additional 3.9 GW of capacity from 2025 to replace the power generation from its seven nuclear reactors.
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Belgium risked an unprecedented power shortage this past winter when six of its seven nuclear reactors were offline, although it managed after the government scrambled to secure alternative power supplies.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France could face a second winter of tight power supply as nuclear reactors undergo a review of hundreds of components and increased scrutiny demanded by the country's watchdog.
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Plunging temperatures in South Korean capital Seoul could spark additional demand for spot LNG purchases from Kogas as heating needs spike at a time when 11 nuclear reactors are offline.
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PARIS, Sept 21 (Reuters) - French energy group Engie has extended outages at two of its Belgian nuclear reactors by several months following the discovery of problems with their concrete structures.
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A recent Royal Commission report argues that South Australia could profit by storing high-level waste from nuclear reactors overseas, buried deep underground at a location still to be chosen.
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The country plans to start building two new nuclear reactors in the second half of this year at a cost of $13 billion, most of it financed by Chinese organizations.
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The report lists 10 types of technologies the private sector and government should prioritize, including storage and battery technologies, advanced nuclear reactors and management of carbon dioxide emissions, including sequestration.
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Belgium faces an unprecedented power supply deficit ahead of winter, with only one of seven nuclear reactors operated by Engie's Belgian unit Electrabel scheduled to have been operational in November.
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Even the nuclear industry's grandiose and preposterously expensive proposal to build two new nuclear reactors a month, from now to 85033, would be far too little and far too late.
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Earlier this week ASN told EDF to conduct safety tests on five nuclear reactors before their scheduled maintenance period, adding potential further pressure to the country's already tight supply situation.
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EDF will take a 66.5 percent stake in the 18 billion pound ($66.53 billion) project to build two new nuclear reactors at Hinkley, with CGN taking a 33.5 percent stake.
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"KEPCO is working and studying hard which type of nuclear reactors would suit better for them, given the current market situation," the second person with knowledge of the matter said.
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Pre-allocated 2019 import quotas for tax exemption on nuclear reactors with capacities of more than 1 gigawatt to Chinese manufacturing companies will also be cancelled, the Finance Ministry said.
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Westinghouse had hoped to clinch a deal to build six nuclear reactors in India by the end of March, during Modi's last Washington trip to attend a global nuclear summit.
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According to OPG, which owns Ontario's four nuclear reactors, the safest place for nuclear waste is deep underground, where it can ideally remain undisturbed for hundreds of thousands of years.
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French nuclear safety regulator ASN has ordered EDF to carry out tests on 12 nuclear reactors in a metal resilience probe related to high carbon concentrations in their steam generators.
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The kingdom, which wants to build 16 nuclear reactors producing a combined 17.6 gigawatts of energy by 2040, which would provide Westinghouse and the U.S. nuclear industry with a lifeline.
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Shares in French utility EDF sank 7% after warning it had discovered problems with the weldings and other components in some of its nuclear reactors, raising fears about potential closure.
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In April, a court ruled that Japan's only two working nuclear reactors could remain online, rejecting an appeal by residents who said tougher post-Fukushima safety rules were still inadequate.
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Toshiba-owned Westinghouse is in talks with other U.S.- based companies to form a consortium for a bid in a multibillion-dollar tender for two nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia.
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The nuclear reactors aboard the first-in-class carrier USS Gerald R. Ford can generate more than three times as much power as the reactors on previous classes of carriers.
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Submarines in the fleets of Japan, South Korea and North Korea are not powered by nuclear reactors, but rather by a combination of gas turbines, diesels and/or electric engines.
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This misbegotten deal provided Pyongyang 500,000 tons of heavy fuel oil annually and two light-water nuclear reactors in exchange for the North's promise to abandon its nuclear-weapons efforts.
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PARIS, Feb 27 (Reuters) - French state-controlled utility EDF has extended outages at three of its nuclear reactors by several weeks, data from electricity grid operator RTE showed on Thursday.
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That's how much money presidential candidate Andrew Yang wants the government to put into the development of thorium molten-salt nuclear reactors to transition from fossil fuels to green energy.
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France's 58 nuclear reactors operated by EDF supply around 75% of the country's electricity needs, a total planned to drop to 50% by 2035 as the share of renewables increases.
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Britain needs to replace ageing nuclear reactors and coal plants coming offline in the 2020s but new large plants have struggled to be built due to high up-front costs.
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Talks will also include a U.S. bid to build two nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia and a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement needed for that to proceed, an industry source said.
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The Times reported that one of the two nuclear reactors at Indian Point will close by April 2020, while the other would be shuttered by April 2021, the Times said.
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Later this year, Saudi Arabia will award contracts for the first two of 16 nuclear reactors to be built—for a total of $80 billion—over the next 25 years.
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You talk about India and sooner or later you will uncover one of the thorium enthusiasts, and they will tell you that this is an alternative fuel for nuclear reactors.
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PARIS, Sept 18 (Reuters) - French utility EDF said on Wednesday there was no need to close any of its nuclear reactors for now following the discovery of problems with weldings.
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The state-controlled utility company said Wednesday that it did not need to close any of its nuclear reactors following the discovery of problems with weldings in their steam generators.
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States with nuclear reactors and populations within a 10-mile radius of the reactors stockpile potassium iodide to distribute in case of an emergency, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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The House bill's effects would be more direct, rolling back tax credits for wind farms and electric vehicles, while increasing federal support for two nuclear reactors under construction in Georgia.
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Some countries with civilian nuclear reactors, like South Korea, don't bother with the whole enrichment process and have opted instead to buy their nuclear fuel on the open international market.
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The site was used to make fuel for nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, and in 1957, suffered a massive explosion that created the worst nuclear disaster in history until Chernobyl.
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Muromachi stepped down after a $1.3 billion accounting scandal last year highlighted weaknesses in a number of Toshiba's varied operations, which include laptops, television sets, flash memory chips and nuclear reactors.
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"Nuclear reactors bobbing around the Arctic Ocean will pose a shockingly obvious threat to a fragile environment which is already under enormous pressure from climate change," Haverkamp said in a release.
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Republicans have sharply criticized an administration plan that came to light last week to buy from Iran 32 metric tons of heavy water, which is a key component in nuclear reactors.
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"Any proposal to introduce dozens of nuclear reactors to the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia, raises many proliferation red flags," said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the nonpartisan Arms Control Association.
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A troubled, over-budget project to build two new nuclear reactors in Georgia is still alive after a high-stakes vote by co-owners yesterday — but maybe for not much longer.
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Of the 43 nuclear reactors in Japan, only two at that one remaining plant are still operational: they're at Kyushu Electric Power's Sendai plant, on the southern tip of the archipelago.
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If you need to know one thing about rare earth metals, it's that they're crucial to modern technology, helping power everything from MRI machines and satellites to headphones and nuclear reactors.
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The South American country already generates about 5 percent of its electricity with three heavy water nuclear reactors, two German-built and one Canadian, with combined capacity of 1,600 megawatts (MW).
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PARIS, Nov 7 (Reuters) - French gas and power group Engie confirmed its 2018 earnings guidance but said this would depend on being able to restart its Belgian nuclear reactors as scheduled.
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But building new electricity-generating plants to replace the country's six nuclear reactors will be expensive, especially if, as Ms Tsai plans, most of the new power comes from renewable sources.
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The Almaraz plant in Western Spain hosts the first two nuclear reactors slated for closure in a calendar which foresees all seven in the country going offline between 0.53 and 2035.
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Other initiatives announced by Hulot include reducing France's usage of nuclear energy to just 50 percent of the country's entire energy mix by 2025, closing excess nuclear reactors in the meantime.
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A mockup of Martian base with nuclear reactors (Image: NASA)You may have heard about President Trump's plan for NASA to set its sights to sending humans back to the moon.
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EDF's UK unit EDF Energy owns and operates 15 nuclear reactors in eight nuclear power stations with a total capacity of 8.9 gigawatt, which generate about 20 percent of Britain's electricity.
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The company said two nuclear reactors at the St. Alban plant and one at Bugey could be impacted over the weekend, but production losses are expected to be lower from Monday.
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EDF's British business EDF Energy owns and operates 15 nuclear reactors in eight nuclear power stations with a total capacity of 8.9 gigawatts, which generate about 20 percent of Britain's electricity.
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Westinghouse Electric, a unit of Japanese conglomerate Toshiba, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, hit by billions of dollars of cost overruns at four nuclear reactors under construction in the U.S. Southeast.
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Rossi, who joined EDF in 2004, will be in charge of the 18 billion pound ($23 billion) project to build two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point C on Britain's west coast.
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The French group did not say why he quit but a source familiar with the matter said it concerned EDF's plan to build two nuclear reactors in Hinkley Point, in Britain.
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Massive cost overruns at four nuclear reactors being constructed by Westinghouse in the Southeastern United States have forced Toshiba to estimate a $9 billion annual net loss and take drastic measures.
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Britain also plans to build a new fleet of nuclear plants, starting with EDF's Hinkley Point C project, to replace aging nuclear reactors and coal plants coming offline in the 2020s.
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In an interview with Reuters in 2015 Roderick said he was "pretty confident" in achieving Westinghouse's goal of winning orders to construct 64 nuclear reactors worldwide over the next 15 years.
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In addition to the nuclear weapons labs, major contributions are made to the nuclear security mission by DOE science, energy and environmental national labs, and by the Naval Nuclear Reactors labs.
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Back in the 28503s, when public faith in government was high, a decision to entrust a federal agency with safely managing waste from the country's commercial nuclear reactors was relatively uncontroversial.
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The funding will go toward building a new advanced test reactor and designing a facility to turn spent nuclear fuel from U.S. Navy submarines into reusable fuel for advanced nuclear reactors.
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In a hearing on the safety and security of France's 58 nuclear reactors, Chevet said safety levels were satisfactory overall, despite a number of anomalies and incidents reported in recent weeks.
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Furthermore, its 29-plus nuclear reactors, once considered a brilliant solution to its energy resource dearth, today mostly stand idle following the devastating Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown, in 284.
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Tepco's move comes amid a fall in demand for uranium that is largely a result of the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown, which led to shutdowns of all of Japan's nuclear reactors.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French Energy Minister Segolene Royal said initial tests on Areva-made components installed in French nuclear reactors were positive after France's ASN nuclear regulator said irregularities had been found.
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The move comes after a unit of Scana and state-owned utility Santee Cooper abandoned two unfinished nuclear reactors in July after being dogged by billions of dollars in cost overruns.
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The authors suspect this has to do with pressure put on the NRC by the companies running the nuclear reactors, and the US Congress acting in defense of these same companies.
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Electrabel, the Belgian arm of French group Engie, operates seven nuclear reactors in Belgium with a total capacity of some 6,000 megawatts, covering about 55 percent of the nation's electricity consumption.
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Kyushu Electric Power Co surged 8.4 percent after a Japanese court rejected an appeal that would have led to the shutdown of its nuclear reactors in Sendai, Japan's only operating units.
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The Fukushima nuclear power plant was massively damaged in 2011, when three of the six nuclear reactors suffered meltdown after being struck by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and associated tsunami waves.
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All of the 37 nuclear reactors in operation and half of the 20 reactors under construction are second or advanced-second generation, according to data from the China Nuclear Energy Association.
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From modularized nuclear reactors to renewable natural gas systems to facilities that convert energy from ocean waves into electricity, the potential for clean technology to reshape our energy sector is massive.
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"Why would you even consider helping the kingdom build nuclear reactors after the attack on an energy facility?" said Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Washington-based Nonproliferation Policy Education Center.
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Only uranium-23.6 can sustain the fission reaction that makes nuclear reactors tick, so turning the ore into usable fuel requires separating the uranium-22024 out in a process called enrichment.
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Engie's 2019 sales and underlying profits were boosted by a restart of all the group's Belgian nuclear reactors and a strong performance in energy management, where it renegotiated gas supply contracts.
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The state-controlled utility said total output from its nuclear reactors since the start of the year stood at 288.2 TWh, down 0.6% compared with the same period a year ago.
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Other than an upgrade to nuclear reactors at Browns Ferry in Alabama, which will add about 450 MW, Johnson said TVA will probably not build another new plant for a decade.
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An international arbitration court ruled in June that Sofia should pay more than 550 million euros ($623 million) in compensation to Russian nuclear giant Rosatom over the two nuclear reactors ordered.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France aims to reduce the share of electricity produced by nuclear reactors to 50 percent from 75 percent now by 2035, Environment Minister Francois de Rugy said on Sunday.
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MBS comes to Washington with the rhetoric of a domestic reformer, but under his arm he clutches the shopping-list of a war-monger that includes the acquisition of nuclear reactors.
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U.S. nuclear developer Westinghouse is the lead contractor building two nuclear reactors each in Georgia and South Carolina, both of which are billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule.
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A South African pact with Russia's Rosatom to build nuclear reactors was deemed unlawful by a High Court on Wednesday, casting fresh doubt over the country's energy plans.
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Mr. Perry could prove his doubters wrong by expanding investment in breakthrough energy technologies like advanced nuclear reactors, high-capacity batteries and electrical grids that can better accommodate variable power suppliers.
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The Black Sea state already has two 1,000 megawatt Soviet-made nuclear reactors at its Kozloduy plant, also on the Danube River, which provide about 30 percent of the nation's power.
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The closure is the first of Switzerland's five nuclear reactors to be shuttered following the 13 nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, which triggered safety concerns about nuclear power around the world.
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The closure is the first of Switzerland's five nuclear reactors to be shuttered following the 13 nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, which triggered safety concerns about nuclear power around the world.
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That led Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in May to announce that his nation would start stockpiling low-enriched uranium, which can be used for nuclear reactors but not for atomic bombs.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France could shut down up to six nuclear reactors by 2028 among other options, French media reported, as part of its medium-term energy policy to be presented next week.
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Westinghouse Electric Company, which filed for bankruptcy in March and is owned by Toshiba, has run up billion-dollar cost overruns while building four new nuclear reactors in Georgia and South Carolina.
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Nuclear reactors in the Nordic region have been forced to curb power output or shut down altogether due to the unusually warm summer in the region that has increased sea water temperatures.
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Fuel secure plants include nuclear reactors and coal plants with 90 days of fuel on site, according to the Department of Energy's (DOE) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) filed on Sept. 28.
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The company finally secured approval from the British government in September to go ahead with its 18 billion pound ($22 billion) project to build two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in England.
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And, of course, if the United States is ever to build a new generation of nuclear reactors in order to help tackle global warming, then public opinion will prove even more important.
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Its stock of heavy water - a less sensitive material that can be used as a moderator in nuclear reactors but is still restricted under the deal - was roughly unchanged at 122.8 tonnes.
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Engie's Belgian unit Electrabel on Friday announced a revised maintenance schedule for its nuclear reactors, including an extension of the closure of the Tihange 3 plant because of problems with deteriorating concrete.
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The program gives them the right to buy up to 2019 TWh of power produced by France's 58 nuclear reactors at a fixed price of 42 euros ($48) a megawatt hour (MWh).
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Congress is also debating legislation that would allow four financially struggling nuclear reactors under construction in Georgia and South Carolina (the only new ones in some 30 years) to receive tax credits.
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Honda was experimenting with robots that walk on two legs without face-planting, a skill that may one day make them useful for exploring environments built for humans, like decommissioned nuclear reactors.
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America's nuclear industry is urging Congress to pass legislation within the next couple of weeks that would allow two pairs of financially struggling nuclear reactors to cash in on expiring tax credits.
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James Clyburn, the No. 3 Democrat in the House, said his state may need to increase its fossil-fuel dependence in the wake of construction on two new nuclear reactors being halted.
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But billions of dollars of cost overruns at four nuclear reactors under construction in the U.S. Southeast pushed Westinghouse into bankruptcy and resulted in a net loss of $9 billion at Toshiba.
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The French utility has advanced the restart date of three nuclear reactors involved in a safety probe, signalling it may have obtained the green light from safety watchdog ASN to resume production.
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The figure is rough, and ignores the cost of shutting down all Japan's nuclear reactors, so it is likely to understate both the total cost and the proportion paid by the public.
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Nuclear watchdog ASN has told state utility EDF to conduct tests on the five nuclear reactors before their scheduled maintenance period, potentially adding further pressure to the country's already tight supply situation.
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Poland considers building three nuclear reactors with a total capacity at 4.5-5 gigawatts, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reported, citing Energy Minister Krzysztof Tchorzewski, who expects the investment to be completed by 2040.
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The Topix subindex for electric and gas shed 3.1 percent after a Japanese court ordered operations at two of Japan's four on line nuclear reactors to halt, dimming prospects for further restart.
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If we want to stop the surge of carbon emissions, we have to prevent closure of our nuclear reactors and start investing more in making our most reliable energy option even better.
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In three weeks, it's expected to arrive in Environmental activists worry about the risks of floating nuclear reactors, since they could be vulnerable to weather- or climate-related disasters such as tsunamis.
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This would open the doors for Russia in the Middle East from Algeria to Iraq — selling weapons and nuclear reactors and projecting power all the way to the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
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South Korea, Asia's fourth-largest economy, gets 210 percent of its electricity from thermal coal and nuclear reactors, and offers tax benefits to both sectors to ensure abundant electricity at affordable prices.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French utility EDF is confident that nuclear safety regulator ASN will allow it to extend the lifespan of its nuclear reactors beyond 40 years, an EDF executive said on Thursday.
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Britain says it needs a new fleet of nuclear plants to replace aging coal and nuclear reactors set to close in the 2020s as well as to cut the country's carbon emissions.
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In several cities, specialized nuclear reactors, for example, continued to pump out plutonium because they were also used to heat water for residential use in showers and space heating in nearby towns.
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The U.S. Navy benefits from a shared supply chain with the civilian nuclear fleet, which is used to support the Navy's 99 nuclear reactors that power nearly all submarines and aircraft carriers.
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Twenty years ago, in the Clinton Administration, both of us helped launch a program to build a factory to turn the excess plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons into fuel for nuclear reactors.
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Tehran has exceeded some deal restrictions, such as a limit on its heavy water stockpile, used in nuclear reactors, the Institute for Science and International Security said in a November 2016 report.
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What's next: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency is gearing up to review requests from companies to run some nuclear reactors for an unprecedented 80 years, 20 years longer than current operating licenses.
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Key takeaways: The auto and energy industries will be among those most affected, as vehicles, nuclear reactors and mineral fuel are three of the top goods imported from both Canada and Mexico.
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No new nuclear reactors have been completed for many years and the new reactor that's intended to be built next to Onkalo in Finland has been delayed for almost 10 years now.
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Sofia has revived the Belene project to make use of two nuclear reactors it bought for more than 620 million euros from Rosatom in compensation for scrapping the original project in 2012.
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Yet that could happen if the United States mishandles Saudi Arabia's plans to enter the nuclear power business and erect as many as 16 nuclear reactors for electricity generation over 25 years.
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It's no secret that Flynn, when he was still allowed in the Oval Office, pushed for his own "Marshall Plan," which would have put dozens of nuclear reactors across the Middle East.
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And on Tuesday he put forth one more: a bold vision of an "ecological transition" that promises to close 14 nuclear reactors by 2035 and to reduce the use of fossil fuels.
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On Tuesday EDF Energy, which operates the 15 nuclear reactors in Britain, said it can maintain operations at its nuclear power plants in Britain during the coronavirus outbreak, even with minimal staffing.
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This past spring, Westinghouse filed for bankruptcy, attributing their financial state largely to the mounting liabilities associated with the Vogtle project and the construction of two other nuclear reactors in South Carolina.
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But the Cold War arms race meant the US was already in the business of enriching uranium for weapons, so nuclear reactors based on solid uranium took off while liquid reactors stalled.
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The global uranium industry is in a six-year tailspin, dating back to the 2011 tsunami that caused Japan to shutter all of its nuclear reactors, some of which have since restarted.
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By analyzing the baby teeth of children who lived near nuclear reactors, they suggested in five peer-reviewed journal articles that even small doses of radiation had caused increases in childhood cancer.
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"If nuclear reactors in the Nordics shut down or reduce power due to the heatwave, it could also put pressure on the supply and consequently on the Nordic power prices," he added.
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The subs were resting on the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Navy wanted to determine if the nuclear reactors on board were potentially dangerous and why the subs had sunk.
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An arbitration court ruled last month that Bulgaria has to pay nearly 550 million euros in compensation to Russia's Atomstroyexport for cancelling a project to build two 1,000 MW nuclear reactors at Belene.
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Britain plans to build a new fleet of nuclear plants to replace ageing coal and nuclear reactors set to close in the 2020s as well as to help cut the country's carbon emissions.
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LONDON, June 4 (Reuters) - British business minister Greg Clark said on Monday the government was considering direct investment to help a unit of Japan's Hitachi Ltd to build nuclear reactors in North Wales.
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PARIS, May 9 (Reuters) - EDF's works council said on Monday it had voted to order an external study into the French utility's project to build two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in Britain.
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The plans are not as ambitious as those pledged by newly-elected President Moon Jae-in, who had proposed reviews of existing plans to build nine coal power plants and eight nuclear reactors.
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Yet Kashiwazaki-Kariwa has not generated a single watt of electricity since 2011, when it was shut down along with the rest of Japan's nuclear reactors after the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear accident.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Nuclear reactors are not being built rapidly enough around the world to meet targets on curbing global warming, a report by the World Nuclear Association, an industry body, said on Tuesday.
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The warning was issued on Tuesday by grid operator RTE, which said power supply had been hit by the closure of around a third of the country's ageing nuclear reactors for safety checks.
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The report criticizing costly delays and warning of technical hurdles ahead shines a spotlight on the challenges facing Germany and other nations within the bloc that are planning to retire their nuclear reactors.
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Separately, two banking sources said Kazakhstan's state uranium miner Kazatomprom had delayed its plans to list in London this year due to falling uranium prices UX-U3O8-SPT, used to power nuclear reactors.
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BUDAPEST, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Russian Rosatom's 12.5 billion euro project to build two nuclear reactors at the Paks nuclear site in Hungary has been delayed by at least a year, Hungarian authorities said.
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On Thursday, state-owned The Saudi Technology Development and Investment Co (Taqnia) signed a memorandum of understanding with China Nuclear Engineering Group Corp to develop water desalination projects using gas-cooled nuclear reactors.
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He said the central pool would be built on the site of one of its 19 nuclear plants and that it would receive the spent fuel of all of EDF's 58 nuclear reactors.
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But not everyone is happy with the new nuclear subsidy, including the state's ratepayer advocate, the Sierra Club, AARP and several power generators that would benefit if the nuclear reactors were to close.
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Now, about shifting away from fossil fuels… Further reading: At the Washington Post, Steven Mufson has more on the Obama-Modi talks, which included a deal to build six nuclear reactors in India.
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It would make Pennsylvania the fifth U.S. state after New York, Illinois, Connecticut and New Jersey to provide a new revenue stream to keep nuclear reactors in service to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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North Korea has advanced its nuclear program too far and concealed too much to allow Israeli-style air strikes like those that eliminated the Iraqi and Syrian nuclear reactors in 1981 and 2007.
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The utility, which operates France's 58 nuclear reactors that account for more than 75 percent of France's electricity needs, discharges water it uses as coolants for the reactors into surrounding rivers and canals.
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Illustrations to appear in the textbooks will include The Pieces Everything is Made of (aka The Periodic Table), Bags of Stuff Inside You (The Human Torso), and Heavy Metal Power Buildings (Nuclear Reactors).
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Setbacks for France's nuclear reactors have shaken confidence in Europe's wholesale electricity since last October, keeping prices high despite the fact French capacity is currently at a more comfortable level than in 2016.
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French media have reported that Macron is not in favor of recapitalizing EDF now, because investments for Hinkley Point and a 50 billion euro upgrade of France's nuclear reactors are several years away.
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During his visit he will try to close the defence deal and to push forward with nuclear and solar energy agreements, including a plan to build six French nuclear reactors in western India.
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The utility, which also confirmed its 2017 French nuclear output target of 390-400 terawatthours, said the new anomalies had been discovered during an ongoing review of all 58 of its nuclear reactors.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into the suspected falsifying of documents at Areva's Le Creusot foundry that manufactures parts for nuclear reactors, a judicial source said on Thursday.
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Year-ahead electricity contracts hit one-year highs last week over reports that France might prolong planned maintenance stoppages at 12 of its 58 nuclear reactors in the coming months for additional checks.
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EDF's unions, including the moderate CFDT, said in an open letter to French President Francois Hollande that the French utility was not ready to start building nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point, in Britain.
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But current-generation nuclear reactors, entail societal risks of their own – uncertain waste storage, serious nuclear proliferation risks, cost uncertainties, as well as the more well-known risk of the occasional nuclear accident.
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The Canadian company said its loss was also related to weak uranium prices amid a prolonged glut, tracing back to the 2011 tsunami in Japan which shut all of that country's nuclear reactors.
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But demand for LNG could fade as the weather heats up with spring's arrival in March and as some nuclear reactors are due to restart around the same time, said IHS Markit's Jin.
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Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, has pressed federal regulators to shut down Indian Point, arguing that it is unsafe to operate nuclear reactors in a densely populated area so close to New York City.
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An analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, narrowly distributed two weeks ago, estimated that nuclear reactors that produce 56 percent of the country's nuclear power would be unprofitable over the next three years.
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Nuclear reactors currently generate about 20 percent of the country's power, but that share is expected to decline to 11 percent by 2050 as some of the nation's aging nuclear power plants retire.
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In addition, the U.S. is home to dozens of companies, large and small, that are leading the world in the development of the next generation of nuclear reactors, advanced fuels and other technologies.
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TOKYO — A powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami off the coast of Japan early Tuesday, near where three nuclear reactors melted down at a plant in Fukushima after a quake and tsunami in 2011.
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Formed in 226.5, Framatome built France's fleet of 21 nuclear reactors and was merged with nuclear fuel group Cogema to form Areva in 20.7383 with the aim of creating a world-leading company.
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Belgium is facing an unprecedented power supply deficit ahead of winter, with only one of seven nuclear reactors operated by Engie's Belgian unit Electrabel scheduled to be operational for the whole of November.
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Doing so would cost the nuclear power industry $500 million to $800 million per year, the study found, increasing the average cost of electricity from nuclear reactors by around 2 to 3 percent.
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Detectors as large as the one at Boulby could be placed near the nuclear infrastructure of a state that had agreed to shut down its nuclear reactors, allowing international authorities to verify compliance.
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Both are used for international freight on an industrial size, including products like nuclear reactors and fiber optic cable spools, said Dave Mullen, executive director of the Pease Development Authority, a state agency.
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The White House has restricted Chinese investment in the United States and hit China with tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods, including sensitive products like parts for nuclear reactors and semiconductors.
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Sovereignty over the South China Sea is contested by China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan, and any move to build nuclear reactors is bound to stoke further tension in the region.
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Single-day temperature records were set in Paris and other cities, and nuclear reactors in France and Germany were forced to reduce output or shut down because the cooling water became too warm.
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Moreover, the number of plant closures is expected to increase as plants age and state regulators refuse to adopt rate structures that value the type of base load power provided by nuclear reactors.
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The trip wire for this tsunami was a 9.1 earthquake 45 miles off the coast; the wall of water induced meltdowns at three nuclear reactors in the now-infamous Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant.
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In April, a South African pact with Russia's Rosatom to build nuclear reactors was deemed unlawful by a court and there are also concerns over the cost of the plans and their transparency.
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Even as Asian spot LNG prices have dropped 65 percent from their 2014 peak, Japan's electric utilities still want to restart their nuclear reactors since they are a lower-cost power generation source.
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The report noted that Saudi Arabia had received requests from five bidders from China, France, the U.S., South Korea and Russia "to perform the engineering, procurement and construction work on two nuclear reactors."
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We are looking at the issue of the viability of building nuclear reactors in order to produce energy so that we can save the oil and export it in order to generate revenue.
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But the launch of the Rokkasho plant has been delayed so long — and popular opposition to restarting additional nuclear reactors remains so strong — that skepticism abounds over the plan to recycle the stockpile.
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The Georgia Public Service Commission will probably rule this week on whether work should continue on two nuclear reactors under construction near Augusta, the only commercial nuclear project underway in the United States.
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EDF Energy Chief Executive Vincent de Rivaz said the Chinese, who will provide 6 billion pounds of funding, were a trusted partner with whom the French had worked building two nuclear reactors in China.
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The average construction time of a new reactor in 2015 was 73 months, compared to an average 82.5 months for all civil nuclear reactors built over the past 60 years, according to the report.
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The development of mass-produced, compact, cheap and safe nuclear reactors would be a Chinese first that a world in the throes of climate change would have real cause to celelebrate—and start importing.
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Accountants have been questioning the numbers at Westinghouse, where massive cost overruns at four nuclear reactors under construction in the Southeastern United States have forced Toshiba to estimate a $9 billion annual net loss.
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The sheer scale of EDF's 18 billion pound ($25.55 bln) project to build two nuclear reactors at Britain's Hinkley Point, puts the French utility at risk, the CFE-CGC managers union warned on Tuesday.
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Exelon in August agreed to buy Entergy's FitzPatrick reactor in New York, which Entergy said it would retire in 2017, after the state adopted the Clean Energy Standard to help the state's nuclear reactors.
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The resistance to signing long-term contracts is coming because electric utilities are getting nuclear reactors back online after prolonged shutdowns following the 2011 Fukushima disaster and the rising use of renewables, Varello said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Energy firm Florida Power & Light (FPL) said on Wednesday it could shut its four nuclear reactors in the path of Hurricane Irma before Saturday if the storm stayed on its current path.
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The sheer scale of EDF's 23 billion pound ($25.55 bln) project to build two nuclear reactors at Britain's Hinkley Point, puts the French utility at risk, the CFE-CGC managers union warned on Tuesday.
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New Jersey's nuclear reactors, which are under consideration for retirement because of competition from cheap natural gas, generated more than one-third of the state's electricity in 2016 without producing any planet-warming emissions.
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In the end, New York's regulators decided to think about the problem this way: We know that these existing nuclear reactors help New York avoid a certain amount of planet-warming CO2 each year.
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Such a move would leave Toshiba's U.S.-based Westinghouse focused on the much narrower field of nuclear reactors and services, rather than civil engineering for nuclear power plants, or their construction, the sources said.
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NuGen, a Toshiba-led venture with French utility Engie, was set up to build three AP1000 nuclear reactors designed by the Japanese conglomerate's Westinghouse unit at the Moorside site on the coast of Cumbria.
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ASN said earlier it agreed with EDF that some of the nuclear reactors whose steam generators have high carbon concentrations could be restarted, although the utility would have to carry out some extra tests.
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MOX was designed to turn that plutonium into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors but in addition to being preposterously over budget, the technology is questionable at best and lacks even a single potential customer.
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Unlike previous nuclear reactors, the AP1000 would be built from prefabricated parts; specialized workers at a factory would churn out sections of the reactor that would be shipped to the construction site for assembly.
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Russia is tied to Assad, and is likely to prop up his regime, just as Russia has helped Iran in numerous ways, including the provision of nuclear reactors and ultra-sophisticated air defense systems.
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The restart of Tihange 3 could ease Belgium's power supply worries after six of the country's seven nuclear reactors were forced offline for prolonged repairs due to concrete degradation and maintenance outages in September.
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In doing so, it officially extends by another year the U.S. government's failure to implement a policy established in 28500 that it would be responsible for managing the spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.
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Absent this "dread," the paper states, the respondents might support what amounts to 40 additional large nuclear reactors worth of power in 2050, with nuclear providing over 25% of U.S. generation at that time.
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State-run Santee Cooper and South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G) both said they would suspend their plan to build two new nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer power plant northwest of Columbia.
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Shares of the French energy firm EDF also rose on Wednesday morning, up about 3.2 percent, after appointing Simone Rossi to lead its British unit, which has two new nuclear reactors in the pipeline.
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It has been five years since the last sharknado assaulted the planet, thanks to a tech wizard (Tommy Davidson) who figured out how to use nuclear reactors to short-circuit the man-devouring twisters.
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South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G) and state-run Santee Cooper both said Monday they would suspend their plan to build two nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer power plant northwest of Columbia.
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OSLO, June 6 (Reuters) - Finland's two operating Olkiluoto nuclear reactors appear to fulfil all basic preconditions to get a 20-year lifetime extension, the director of the country's energy department told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Russian and Chinese exports are becoming a major tool for soft power all around the globe, and that may extend for many decades as many nuclear reactors can operate for up to 80 years.
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Analysts have expressed concerns that France, which depends on nuclear power for over 75 percent of its electricity needs, could face tight supplies this winter due to the prolonged outages of several nuclear reactors.
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This is why we hunt for them by nuclear reactors, where beta decay is taking place continually as the fragments leftover from fission reactions try to find a stable state to end up in.
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Tokyo knows from the experience of Fukushima that as the nationwide blackout becomes protracted, within days Japan's nuclear reactors will exhaust their emergency power supplies and begin exploding, contaminating the home islands with radioactivity.
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Some of the questions in the memo seem to suggest that a Trump administration is concerned about the various nuclear reactors currently at risk of closing early due to competition with cheap natural gas.
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The northern half is another story: an industrial expanse that includes Con Edison switchyards, a gypsum manufacturing facility and Entergy's Indian Point Energy Center, with its domed nuclear reactors set on 240 riverfront acres.
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A major difference with Ford over its Nimitz-class predecessors is its twin A1B nuclear reactors that produce more than three times the electrical power of the reactors on Nimitz — more than 100 megawatts.
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The US fleet of nuclear reactors is rapidly approaching the end of its regulatory lifetime—almost all were built before 1990—and the only two new reactors under construction have gone way over budget.
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The administration is reportedly considering a deal that would allow Saudi Arabia to enrich and reprocess uranium while setting up American companies including Westinghouse Electric Co. to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East.
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The Canadian government did not give details about its decision, but one of the biggest hurdles facing the deal, according to analysts, was Aecon's contract for Canada's Candu nuclear reactors, which generate electric power.
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Despite the bearish outlook, European gas traders are keeping an eye on several issues that may curtail supplies or boost demand including concerns over some French nuclear reactors and a Russia-Ukraine transit agreement.
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The industrial conglomerate, which builds everything from nuclear reactors to aircraft engines, already has sizable interests in Iraq, including power contracts worth more than a billion dollars and hundreds of employees in the country.
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Not surprisingly then, that port is also the headquarters for Russia's Northern Fleet — its most powerful — and the site of numerous air, infantry, missile, and radar bases along with naval shipyards and nuclear reactors.
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Dependence on its neighbors during peak winter demand could accelerate if France fails to develop renewables further or extend the lifespan of its 226 nuclear reactors, while cross-border exchange capacity continues to grow.
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Many worried about energy security — only three of the country's 45 nuclear reactors are now operational, a result of safety concerns after Fukushima — and expressed hope that Japan would invest more in renewable energy.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French utility EDF said on Tuesday it had signed a preliminary agreement with Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL) to build six nuclear reactors at Jaitapur, in the west of India.
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French electricity grid operator RTE said the strike reduced nuclear electricity generation by 2 gigawatts as several nuclear reactors operated by state-controlled utility EDF were forced to cut production due to the strike.
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The Treasury Department also singled out Chinese national Sun Sidong and his company, Dandong Dongyuan Industrial Co., saying they traded $28 million worth of goods with North Korea, including parts associated with nuclear reactors.
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Under the current power supply plan, in addition to building 11 nuclear reactors by 2029 - three of which are already under construction - South Korea plans to add 20 more coal-fired power plants by 2022.
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PARIS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - A power sector strike reduced electricity generation at three French nuclear reactors and two coal-fired generators by 2.8 gigawatts (GW) on Tuesday, data by French power grid operator RTE showed.
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RTE's data showed that power generation was reduced at EDF operated St. Laurent 1, Cruas 2 and Chinon 4 nuclear reactors, while output was at zero at the Cordemais 4 and 5 coal power plants.
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EDF shares rose more than 133 percent on news about the exit of Hulot, who had wanted EDF to close up to a third of the utility's 213 nuclear reactors and shift to renewable energy.
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That can include search and rescue missions in areas that have been devastated by war or weather, or inspecting facilities like nuclear reactors that have suffered incidents making them too radioactive for humans to enter.
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EDF needs to finance the 53 billion pound (21.15 billion euros) build of two nuclear reactors in Hinkley Point, Britain and a 50 billion euro upgrade of its French nuclear stations over the next decade.
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The company plans to analyze the images as well as the temperature and radiation information that the robot collected, which is key data as TEPCO continues its long, slow cleanup of the destroyed nuclear reactors.
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Exelon in August agreed to buy Entergy's FitzPatrick reactor in New York, which Entergy said it would retire in 2017, after the state adopted the Clean Energy Standard (CES) to help the state's nuclear reactors.
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"The two EPR reactors at Hinkley Point would strengthen EDF's presence in Britain, a country where its subsidiary EDF Energy already operates 15 nuclear reactors and is the largest electricity supplier by volume," EDF said.
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Yet because U-2150 is found in such small amounts in naturally occurring Uranium ore, its percentage needs to be increased so that it can be used to power nuclear reactors and create nuclear weapons.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The French government is willing to support a 10-year extension to the life of the country's nuclear reactors, operated by utility EDF, Energy Minister Segolene Royal told France 3 television on Sunday.
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Officials at Florida Power & Light (FPL) are monitoring two facilities housing their four nuclear reactors along the state's coast, which could shut down if Irma makes landfall as expected this weekend in the Sunshine State.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The board of French utility EDF on Thursday narrowly voted to proceed with a controversial project to build two nuclear reactors in Hinkley Point, Britain - the country's first new nuclear plant in decades.
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Vehicles and parts were the biggest imports from Mexico to the United States, totaling $93.3 billion in 2018, followed by electric machines, nuclear reactors, minerals and oil, and optical equipment, according to U.S. government data.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission on Friday cleared a Belgian support scheme to compensate the operators of three nuclear reactors for potential financial risk, saying the measure was in line with EU state aid rules.
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The project to build two next-generation EPR nuclear reactors has divided opinion in France at a time when EDF's finances are severely stretched already by its absorption of loss-making nuclear plant builder Areva.
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In China, which currently has 36 operational nuclear reactors, the Hualong One is competing with other third-generation technology reactors for a share of 100-150 new reactors planned to come into operation by 2030.
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The final two pillars call for opening federal lands for renewable energy research and development and aligning policies and regulations to more quickly bring to market advanced nuclear reactors, carbon capture technology and hydropower projects.
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Analysts have raised concerns that France, which depends on nuclear power for more than three-quarters of its electricity needs, could face tight supply this winter due to the prolonged outages of several nuclear reactors.
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The utility's chief executive said earlier this month that EDF was doing its best to have more nuclear reactors up and running but was waiting for the ASN's green light to restart some of them.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German wholesale power prices for August are up sharply pointing to potential output reductions by some nuclear reactors in the country which rely on water to keep them cool, traders said on Monday.
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EDF shares rose more than 230 percent on news about the exit of Hulot, who had wanted EDF to close up to a third of the utility's 213 nuclear reactors and shift to renewable energy.
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Several other countries including Germany announced plans to exit nuclear, and in the past three years several nuclear reactors in the United States were closed as they could no longer compete with cheap shale gas.
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They would build space stations after reaching the moon instead of before—and cities in craters and new rockets powered by nuclear reactors and everything else the Space Age that was clearly dawning might need.
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In response to a question on the firm that South Africa could choose to build new nuclear reactors, Kubayi said it was important to go for "the most experienced people who have a track record".
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Further out, three more large nuclear reactors are due to come online by 2024, while seven large coal-fired power plants are set to start operations by 2022, according to data from Korea Power Exchange.
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The inclusion of the Saudi provision comes as the administration has been trying to negotiate what's known as a 123 agreement with the Saudis to allow U.S. companies to sell nuclear reactors to the kingdom.
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More controversially, he pledged during his campaign to review existing plans to build nine coal power plants and eight nuclear reactors, including the part-completed Shin Kori No.5 and No.6, citing safety concerns.
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Democrats have broadly rejected an amendment to the bill that would block the U.S. from buying heavy water, a component of nuclear reactors and weapons, from Iran, a transaction the Obama administration announced last week.
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He attributed the high salinity levels and the algae bloom to drought conditions in 2013 and 2014, which drastically increased water temperatures in the canals, not to the overhaul of the plant's two nuclear reactors.
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"An added bullish factor is by way of increased coal usage from the European power sector as a result of all the nuclear reactors out of action," said Wayne Bryan, analyst at consultancy Alfa Energy.
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French utility EDF said last week it would carry out tests on some nuclear reactors during the winter months, triggering fears about the French system's ability to meet peak demand if temperatures fall below normal.
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Israel asked to know in advance what nuclear equipment the U.S. would sell the Saudis and asked to be consulted about the planned location of the nuclear reactors the U.S. would build in Saudi Arabia.
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