There are more expensive fuel sources, such as shale oil, or alternatives, such as renewable energy sources, coal and nuclear power. |
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The government's review of energy policy, which has been widely trailered as backing new nuclear power stations, might end up rejecting them. |
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That is about half of the electricity generated by the Torness nuclear power station in East Lothian. |
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About 90 percent of U.S. electricity comes from nonrenewable sources, mainly fossil fuels and nuclear power. |
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The government has already ruled out building new nuclear power stations, and existing ones will gradually be decommissioned. |
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All but one of our nuclear power stations are to be decommissioned by 2010 and no new ones will be built. |
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In the television show, Homer responds by ineptly professing his love for Marge, who later goes to him at the nuclear power plant where he works. |
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Conflict over the role of nuclear power in combating global warming is heating up. |
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We keep him in a building that was originally designed as a nuclear power plant. |
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But the industry believes that it should go somewhere where there has already been a nuclear power station. |
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You cannot switch a nuclear power station on and off at will, like rival energy sources, to exploit periods of peak demand. |
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He was interested in exploring the possibilities of having nuclear power to overcome the chronic energy deficit in his country. |
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There are other ways of conserving our energy, such as water power, and nuclear power stations, which the Government seem to be closing down. |
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The Royal Academy of Engineering said the cheapest electricity was generated from gas turbines and nuclear power stations. |
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Although steam and not radiation was to blame, the accident illustrates the contradictions of the politics of nuclear power. |
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He simply did not understand nuclear power, jet propulsion, or the new space age. |
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I think it is important to separate the debates about nuclear power and nuclear weapons. |
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Since the 1970s, environmentalists have been wedded to the notion that nuclear power is the epitome of evil. |
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He is a member of the major opposition Nationalist Party, which railroaded the nuclear power project while still Taiwan's ruling party. |
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Although Cuba does not yet have any operating nuclear power reactors, it is a signatory to this convention. |
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Commercial nuclear power reactors are clearly terror targets, particularly those near airports. |
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I am sure he would have dealt with the evils of nuclear power and the need to convert now to windmills. |
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But it adds that nuclear power plants were not designed to withstand attacks such as large aircraft impact. |
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But critics from Connecticut and elsewhere chastise his embrace of nuclear power. |
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Liberals also need to get over their allergy to the cleanest form of energy, nuclear power. |
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However this has nothing to do with nuclear power, where impure plutonium is a minor by-product of the fission of uranium. |
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We should pursue all viable alternative energy sources, from nuclear power to solar to geothermal. |
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Now that issues such as climate change and the use of nuclear power are coming to the fore have your opinions changed? |
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The plant reprocesses deadly plutonium to make fuel for nuclear power stations. |
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According to the Civil Aviation Authority, he strayed into a two-mile wide no-fly zone over Heysham nuclear power station. |
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So, this year I embark on a second year course, which covers things like the rise and fall of leaded petrol, and nuclear power. |
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In 1970 he was hired as a day labourer for janitorial work in a nuclear power plant. |
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The test sparked political outrage worldwide and heightened fears that the rogue state was close to becoming a nuclear power. |
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Nearly 100,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants, hospitals and research institutes are stored on the island. |
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The main advantage of nuclear power plants is that they do not cause atmospheric pollution. |
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The extent to which nuclear power will be attractive in the future depends on two main sets of factors. |
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But there is a Magnox nuclear power station at Trawsfynydd, now decommissioned. |
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Because heavy water is very efficient as a coolant and moderator in nuclear power plants, greater quantities were wanted than occur naturally. |
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However, his Liberal Democrat coalition partners are opposed to any new nuclear power stations. |
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I am deeply concerned about the propaganda and false arguments from those who oppose nuclear power. |
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A group of scientists favoring nuclear power accuses Kennedy of basing her conclusions on fear, not science. |
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Like a meltdown in a nuclear power plant, the conflagration now threatens to take the whole examination system down with it. |
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I can't walk into a nuclear power plant and start fiddling with knobs and dials, without causing a nuclear meltdown. |
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One nuclear power station is needed to feed the millions of electrical appliances left in standby mode around the UK every day. |
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They'll just get the weapons in anyhow, dirty bombs, clean bombs, or blow up one of the 103 nuclear power plants in America. |
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Amidst the donkey work, disruption and bills, I was thinking about his suggestion that he might build new nuclear power plants. |
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Demanding the right to continue destroying the environment is like nuclear power workers demanding the right to keep on producing nuclear waste. |
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Perhaps it would be better instead to find a nice hidden fold in the hills on which to site a small, unobtrusive nuclear power station. |
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If we use more nuclear power, we could do this for about 100 years using current nuclear reactors, before fissionable uranium runs out. |
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He plans to build new nuclear power stations for the first time in 25 years. |
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Today there are six and half billion of us with bulldozers and chain saws and nuclear power. |
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What if a hijacked plane hit a nuclear power plant, what if bioterrorists infected burger bars, what if we were flooded with smallpox? |
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Fault trees are commonly used to troubleshoot complex systems such as devices used in airplanes and nuclear power plants. |
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Hasn't he just blotted his copybook in his dotage by coming out in favour of nuclear power? |
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Apart from no one wanting a nuclear power plant in the neighbourhood, they cost a motser and don't come on-stream for decades. |
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The only power source yet unconsidered, and the one that is unjustly vilified in the court of public opinion, is nuclear power. |
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It's cheap, if you're subsidising nuclear power to the hilt, and frankly we have whole slag heaps of it to dump. |
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The group were not cranks or dropouts but concerned about the potential hazards of nuclear power. |
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The Greens also opposed both the construction of nuclear power stations and the stationing of nuclear weapons on German soil. |
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That was followed by increased protection for nuclear power plants, bridges and railways. |
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In Germany, four nuclear power plants cut production drastically to avoid releasing super-heated water from cooling towers into rivers. |
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You make mention in passing of nuclear power, but doesn't the logic of your argument mean you should be a strong supporter of it? |
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Use of uranium in nuclear power plants produces plutonium, and that is a key material of choice of nuclear weapons builders. |
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Yes, at maximum capacity the scheme would generate about half as much power as Torness nuclear power station. |
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An attack on a nuclear power plant or other nuclear installation could result in a massive release of radioactive material. |
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There's maybe someone in Cumbria running a small nuclear power plant in their garden shed. |
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There are radiation leaks from nuclear power plants or nuclear reprocessing facilities. |
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I happen to be a supporter of nuclear power for the electrical power grids upgrade. |
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Smith identifies the problems that must be addressed if nuclear power is to be expanded. |
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The main example I chose was the use of nuclear power for electricity generation. |
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Scotland has more than sufficient capacity without nuclear power to meet its electricity requirements. |
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But that is not enough to explain the real antipathy to, say, nuclear power generation. |
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But the dream of a new generation of nuclear power may prove to be the real casualty of last week's events. |
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So even if you double that, it doesn't really affect the generating cost of nuclear power. |
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The Austrians have voted not to generate electricity from nuclear power stations. |
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The Chinese are claiming this is the biggest advance in nuclear power generation for 25 years. |
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However, energy requirements may come from solar power, or even nuclear power in Britain. |
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It is a green light to the nuclear industry, indicating support for a new generation of nuclear power stations. |
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The third hurdle that nuclear power advocates must overcome is radioactive waste. |
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Hence the first generation of nuclear power stations, with the exception of Trawsfynydd, was located on the coast. |
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Germany has shut 16 nuclear reactors as part of a plan to eliminate nuclear power from its energy mix. |
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We seem to be uneasy about the generation of electricity by nuclear power, although it is far less polluting than fossil fuels. |
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Toxic waste from some nuclear power stations and other sources has been dropped to the bottom of the sea. |
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For the last three decades, no new nuclear power stations have been built because of the massive public opposition to such projects. |
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The president declared it was time to resume building nuclear power stations. |
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Enormous public controversy is frequently generated by proposals to build nuclear power stations. |
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She is pursuing the programme of establishing nuclear power stations to produce electricity. |
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They are frightened of accidents and of radiation emanating from nuclear power stations and nuclear waste. |
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With no nuclear power stations of its own, it remains a major exporter of uranium. |
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The president announced plans to build two nuclear power stations along the Mediterranean coast. |
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Because of its neutron-absorption capacity, gadolinium is used in the manufacture of control rods for nuclear power plants. |
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Post-war Europe in particular has witnessed the erasure of particularities, the inevitable march from chimney stacks to nuclear power plants. |
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Illegal aliens are working in airports, nuclear power plants, chemical facilities and military installations. |
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Iran says it needs to enrich uranium to produce fuel for its future nuclear power plants. |
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He works at the local nuclear power plant as a safety engineer while she stays at home and raises the kids. |
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There is also the integrally insoluble hazard of America's inactive nuclear power stations. |
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The group took Reactor 1 at the nuclear power station out of service yesterday to investigate vibrations on one of the gas circulators. |
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It might be a pasteurisation system or hydro plant or a nuclear power plant or refinery or something. |
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In each of 8 areas downwind and proximate to closed nuclear power plants, infant deaths declined in excess of national trends during the first 2 yr following shutdown. |
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A final decision is expected next summer but existing and former reactor sites are being pencilled in for a new generation of nuclear power plants. |
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For a start you'd have the fossil fuel interests opposing nuclear power generation, but more importantly the Australian public just wouldn't wear it I think. |
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A nuclear power reactor needs a steady flow of cooling water. |
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The only way that nuclear power can be economically viable is if the taxpayer is burdened with the huge costs of radioactive waste disposal and decommissioning. |
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The major powers generally want to limit proliferation of nuclear power precisely because of its links to weaponry, which is made possible by the enrichment of uranium. |
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But as we are all aware, the environmental impact of disposing of nuclear waste and decommissioning nuclear power stations are issues of great concern to the public. |
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Some say the old warhorses of the energy age, coal and nuclear power stations, will still be needed to cope with windless, sunless, waveless days. |
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There is no insoluble and eternal waste problem as with nuclear power. |
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A large number of people in the nuclear industry have been attending a major conference in Sydney to discuss whether nuclear power is inevitable or irrelevant. |
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Wouldn't nuclear power then be seen as the potential saviour of the race with its seemingly inexhaustible supply and comparatively small amount of waste? |
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Britain's ageing nuclear power stations will have to be closed down soon. |
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Campbell, who's lived on the reservation since 1970, is a lifelong, irascible opponent of nuclear power in general, and the Prairie Island plant in particular. |
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To mitigate the impact of greenhouse gases, we must place greater reliance on hydropower, nuclear power and renewables and over time cut down on carbon-based energy sources. |
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This is not just a nuclear power reactor, but a repository for highly radioactive spent fuel rods from two other nuclear plants owned by Progress Energy. |
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Both are following up on a Wired article of that name and are inclined to agree that nuclear power is the only real solution to the world's energy needs. |
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As the oil runs out, so nuclear power climbs back up the agenda. |
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The atomic energy expert admits that establishment of nuclear power stations needs slightly more initial investment, in comparison to other kinds of power stations. |
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If we campaign against any new nuclear power build, and rely on such statements, it might interest the local community and those in the anti-nuclear lobby. |
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France has a great abundance of cheap electricity thanks to their nuclear power stations, whereas our electricity to recycle the glass is produced by burning fossil fuels. |
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Let me say that I have a strong but constructive critique against parts of the traditional left with regard to their attitude to the bomb and nuclear power. |
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His first feature film, Jellyfish Eyes, debuted last year and was set in a town near a threatening nuclear power plant. |
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As an example of the new knowledge, the Port Huron statement endorsed the development of nuclear power. |
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And the Japanese government wants to hold on to nuclear power because they are interested in producing nuclear bombs. |
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As a practical matter, no government, regardless of its politics, has much choice on nuclear power in the short term. |
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Local enterprise is most notably defined by underemployment, low-grade food processing plants and Chapelcross, a decommissioned nuclear power plant. |
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The prime minister has already signalled his support for the building of new nuclear power plants when the current lot are decommissioned within the next 20 years. |
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Uncertainty over what to do with nuclear waste bedevils nuclear power. |
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The kettle was adamantly calling the pot black as Netanyahu accused Iran of doing all sorts of shady things with nuclear power. |
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Mining of uranium ores has been a controversial issue because of its use in atomic weapons and the potential for accidents at nuclear power stations. |
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The atomic energy expert admits that establishment of nuclear power stations needs slightly more initial investment in comparison to other kinds of power stations. |
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Organised by the Energy Research Centre, the conference comes just as Britain reopens the debate of whether to expand Britain's nuclear power capacity. |
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Like terrestrial atomic power, space nuclear power has a problematic past. |
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His piece on the clamour for new nuclear power stations is dead good. |
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In 1979, when the Three Mile Island nuclear power disaster occurred in Pennsylvania, President Carter went out of his way to flack for the atomic-energy industry. |
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He also expressed hope that the construction of the second unit of the Bushehr nuclear power plant would get underway in the near future. |
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The report judged the risks of catastrophic nuclear power plant accidents to be socially acceptable. |
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In subsequent years, China sold the nuclear power plant for energy and industrial growth of the country. |
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With the success of Operation Hurricane, Britain became the third nuclear power after the United States and the Soviet Union. |
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Voters banned the approval of new nuclear power plants since the late 1970s because of concerns over radioactive waste disposal. |
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On 26 April the city had 50,000 habitants, the majority working at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. |
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The party is also strongly opposed to both nuclear power and the Trident nuclear programme. |
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The plant relied for its electricity supply on the island's nuclear power station at Wylfa, near Cemaes Bay. |
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However, recent disasters in Japan have raised concerns over the safety of nuclear power, and the capital cost of nuclear plants is very high. |
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The plan aims to decrease Germany's dependence on energy derived from coal and nuclear power plants. |
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A nuclear power plant or nuclear power station is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. |
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Analysis of the economics of nuclear power must take into account who bears the risks of future uncertainties. |
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Proponents advance the notion that nuclear power produces virtually no air pollution, in contrast to the chief viable alternative of fossil fuel. |
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Proponents also believe that nuclear power is the only viable course to achieve energy independence for most Western countries. |
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Opponents say that nuclear power poses many threats to people and the environment, and that costs do not justify benefits. |
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Those countries that do not contain uranium mines cannot achieve energy independence through existing nuclear power technologies. |
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With the commercialization of nuclear power, the reprocessed plutonium was recycled back into MOX nuclear fuel for thermal reactors. |
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A new generation of designs for nuclear power stations, known as the Generation IV reactors, are the subject of active research. |
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Most fleets have no nuclear submarines, due to the limited availability of nuclear power and submarine technology. |
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According to Greenpeace the slow construction times, construction delays, and hidden costs, all negate the mitigation potential of nuclear power. |
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Greenpeace views the construction of Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland as an example of the problems on building new nuclear power. |
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Patrick Moore also reversed his position on nuclear power in 1976, first opposing it and now supporting it. |
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At present there are 70 nuclear power plant sites where spent fuel is stored. |
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It is the site of the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale. |
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Others use nuclear power, but there is an increasing use of cleaner renewable sources such as solar, wind, wave and hydroelectric. |
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France is the smallest emitter of carbon dioxide among the G8, due to its heavy investment in nuclear power. |
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Since then, electricity has been generated mostly from hydropower and nuclear power. |
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The energy crisis led to greater interest in renewable energy, nuclear power and domestic fossil fuels. |
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In 2011, due to a serious earthquake, the nuclear power facility in Fukushima was damaged. |
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The facility stores all high level waste from the French nuclear power program in one large vault. |
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In the nuclear power industry, water can also be used as a neutron moderator. |
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Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is a project to construct a 3,200 MW two reactor nuclear power station. |
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In physics, the discovery of nuclear fission has led to both nuclear weapons and nuclear power. |
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As of 2011 The largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, is located in Ukraine. |
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Geothermal energy production is the most important source of energy in Iceland, whilst nuclear power is produced in both Finland and in Sweden. |
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Russia was the first country to develop civilian nuclear power and to construct the world's first nuclear power plant. |
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Currently the country is the 4th largest nuclear energy producer, with all nuclear power in Russia being managed by Rosatom State Corporation. |
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In addition, the Government of Ghana has sought to build the second nuclear power plant in Africa. |
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All of this areas power comes from the nuclear power plant across the river. |
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It is the second nuclear power plant ever built in the Middle East after the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant in Armenia. |
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The world's first nuclear power plant was commissioned on June 27, 1954 in Obninsk. |
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A nuclear power plant uses heat from a nuclear reactor to generate steam and electric power. |
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But nowadays, the clamor for moving away from nuclear power has softened. |
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A truck was stopped from entering the Ringhals nuclear power plant on Wednesday afternoon and searched. |
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Any advocate of nuclear power, Petit wrote, is likely an environmentalist. |
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Most of us are aware that chain reactions occur in our nuclear power plants. |
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The plutonium used on space probes is not the Plutonium-239 isotope used in atomic bombs and built up as a byproduct in nuclear power plants. |
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Contract Awarded for Supply fuel assemblies to the Trillo nuclear power plant. |
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This metal is important in high temperature steels and in the control function of nuclear power plants. |
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Amazingly, because many nuclear power plants have not been abiding by current regulations to put up proven fire barriers. |
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Enriched uranium can fuel nuclear power plants or, if processed much further, nuclear bombs. |
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Hollysys' HOLLiAS-N DCS is one of the high-end DCS products Hollysys developed for 1GW level nuclear power plant. |
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They also discussed the method for delivering full control of the Bushehr nuclear power plant to Iranian experts. |
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Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh governments have already offered land for nuclear power plants. |
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Salehi expressed the hope that 4 new nuclear power plants would start workshop operations in the next 3 to 4 years in Iran as well. |
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The ministry also said that two preliminary sites for future nuclear power plants had been chosen in Kazakhstan. |
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The leading market for nuclear power equipment is Asia-Pacific due to its high numbers of nuclear power plants and projects, followed by Europe. |
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There may be more than one nuclear power plants Their construction is not going to be cheap. |
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Does he not realise that is costs as much to decommission a redundant nuclear power station as it costs to build a new one? |
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The life extension at Dungeness B is part of a wider EDF Energy programme to extend the lives of its eight nuclear power stations. |
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A HIGH level report has backed benefits for communities hosting new nuclear power stations. |
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Horizon Nuclear Power is a UK energy company developing a new generation of nuclear power stations. |
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Neutrinos are minuscule particles created in nuclear reactions, such as in the sun and the stars, or in nuclear power plants. |
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The Gori 1 nuclear power plant's operations were suspended in March over safety concerns following a blackout event. |
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Over a third of the energy produced in most nuclear power plants comes from plutonium. |
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Despite the Agreed Framework signed in 1994 meant to prevent North Korea's nuclear breakout, today the hermit kingdom is a nuclear power. |
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Plutonium-239 can also be used in fission bombs and is produced in nuclear power reactors from natural uranium. |
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Iodine-131, known as I-131, is a radioactive isotope commonly released after nuclear power plant disasters. |
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It's about time we stopped being fraidy-cats and developed new nuclear power plants. |
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A 14-WEEK operation to recover 12 fuel rods after an accident at a nuclear power station is over. |
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This technology initially will be focused on the market for spent nuclear fuel rods generated by nuclear power plants. |
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To provide stable electricity supplies throughout Japan, MHI views enhancement of safety at the nation's PWR nuclear power plants as its most important current task. |
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Why is it that when they have brilliant ideas for dangerous money-making schemes like nuclear power stations or spaceports, it's never in London, but in the West Country. |
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A programme will be developed to study howA thorium might be used as a possible fuel at nuclear power plants, in addition to other fuels usingA uranium and plutonium. |
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Powerful interests in the US are seeking massive subsidies for even more destructive false solutions, including the expansion of nuclear power and the liquification of coal. |
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The Green Party would also phase out nuclear power within ten years. |
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Hartlepool has a nuclear power station, and there is a conventional CHP power station and a biomass power station operated by Sembcorp on the Wilton Chemical site. |
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They can brave that isolation by acting responsibly and foreswearing the development of nuclear weapons, which would still allow them to pursue peaceful nuclear power. |
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The sea is of significant economic importance to regional trade, shipping and transport, fishing, and power generation in the form of wind power and nuclear power plants. |
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The company is monitoring the radiation which is restricted to certain areas near the Fukushima nuclear power plant, and will be revaluating its safety measures accordingly. |
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Further, unlike nuclear power, with strong and organized pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear groups, there has never been a significant anti-space movement in the United States. |
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Why are we pursuing the nuclear option when Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland have decided to do away with nuclear power and invest in clean renewable energy? |
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Under the proposed agreement, the Russians would convert the uranium into specialized fuel rods for the Bushehr nuclear power plant, Iran's only commercial reactor. |
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There had been workshops on nuclear power, electoral action, architecture and city planning, as well as some time kibbitzing in order to see how we can help each other out. |
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A nuclear power plant inspector suffers radiation poisoning and the team investigate the possibility that a foreign power deliberately targeted him. |
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Since the cost of nuclear power is dominated by its high infrastructure costs, the cost per unit energy goes up significantly with low production. |
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Encouraged by the rich uranium deposits the Namibian government plans to erect its first nuclear power station by 2018, also uranium enrichment is envisaged to happen locally. |
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At Flamanville there is a nuclear power plant, where the second European Pressurized Reactor in the world is being constructed, with commissioning delayed to 2016 or later. |
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Some sources of pollution, such as nuclear power plants or oil tankers, can produce widespread and potentially hazardous releases when accidents occur. |
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To this end, he withdrew from NATO's military integrated command, he launched a nuclear development programme and made France the fourth nuclear power. |
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On 18 October 2010, the UK government announced that Sellafield was one of the eight possible sites it considered suitable for future nuclear power stations. |
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The British and Irish Communist Organisation, who believed nuclear power was necessary to achieve socialism in Ireland, picketed the first concert. |
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On June 27, 1954, the world's first nuclear power station to generate electricity for a power grid started operations at the Soviet city of Obninsk. |
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By contrast, 3 out of 4 Canadians opposed nuclear power developments. |
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Energy companies are about to increase nuclear power production, as in July 2010 the Finnish parliament granted permits for additional two new reactors. |
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The May Ministry delayed the final approval for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in July 2016, a project which May had objected to when she was Home Secretary. |
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For decades, nuclear power has played a limited role relative to many other developed countries, in part because of public perception in the wake of a 1979 accident. |
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The remainder was supplied by nuclear power and renewable energy sources. |
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The nuclear power industry has a plant at Springfields, Salwick operated by Westinghouse and Heysham nuclear power station is operated by British Energy. |
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Virtually all nuclear power plants generate electricity by heating water to provide steam that drives a turbine connected to an electrical generator. |
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Although of high, bomb-grade quality, the uranium from Russia's dismantled warheads could potentially be diluted into the lower grade kind used to fuel nuclear power reactors. |
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The incident raises profound questions as to why Scotland relies on two ageing nuclear power stations for so much of the national electricity load. |
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If we were in Japan, we can't enter the nuclear power plants there. |
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After 2021, PAEC will be focusing on to construct work on, at least one nuclear power plant project every year to achieve the desired targets, he added. |
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Bulgaria has picked five companies to prepare the stress tests at the country's sole nuclear power plant in Kozloduy, a public procurement notice shows. |
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