The United States could meet projected electricity demand over the next 20 years and cut power-plant carbon emissions by 84 percent without them, according to a 2009 UCS report. ❋ Elliott Negin (2011)
Our terrain is less vulnerable to quakes than Japan, but local power-plant operators say, to be on the safe side, they're prepared for bigger tremors than the state has felt so far. ❋ Susan Buchanan (2011)
On the issue of nuclear power in the wake of the power-plant crisis in Japan, Warren Buffett said Saturday: "I think nuclear power is safe." ❋ Serena Ng (2011)
Separately, the justices blocked six states from suing power-plant operators over greenhouse-gas emissions. ❋ Unknown (2011)
TOKYO—Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Thursday indicated for the first time that he may step down, telling lawmakers that he was ready to pass responsibilities on to others once measures to deal with reconstruction from the earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power-plant crisis were taken care of. ❋ Dow Jones Newswires (2011)
Measures to reduce demand like smart meters and higher prices for peak times could allow for a scaling back of new power-plant construction. ❋ James Simms (2011)
In the old times -- that's only ten years ago -- a federal minister of planning would sit in his office and single-handedly decide whether a road, port or power-plant would be built, as well as who would build it. ❋ Marcelo Giugale (2011)
Such activities may include mergers, acquisitions and investment projects such as power-plant and high-speed train construction. ❋ Kazuhiro Shimamura (2010)
In the Acid Rain program, EPA shepherded a few hundred existing coal-fired power-plant units with extremely accurate emissions measurement through a relatively manageable fuel switch from high-sulfur coal to readily-available, affordable, low-sulfur coal. ❋ Unknown (2009)
FRANKFURT—German utility RWE AG has called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to adjust aspects of the country's planned exit from nuclear energy, saying the fixed shutdown dates for individual reactors put the Essen-based company at a disadvantage to other power-plant operators. ❋ Jan Hromadko (2011)
India, which has no history of using power-plant fuel in weapons production, denies it plans to use the civilian nuclear deal to bolster its nuclear warheads. ❋ Tom Wright (2010)
We have bottom-oriented thinking in mileage standards for cars, in acceptable levels of pollutants in power-plant emissions and other industrial operations and in permissible levels of chemicals in food and drugs. ❋ Terry Newell (2011)
Mr. Tada is in a group of semiskilled workers who hover somewhere in the middle of Japan's nuclear power-plant ecosystem. ❋ Phred Dvorak (2011)
Mr. Sprecher, the 56-year-old entrepreneur and onetime power-plant developer, is going back to his roots with the Brazil deal. ❋ Aaron Lucchetti (2011)
The economics of building multibillion-dollar nuclear reactors have deteriorated with a sharp drop in the price of natural gas – a common power-plant fuel – and a pullback in electricity demand during the recession. ❋ Mark Peters (2010)
In a previous nuclear-exit agreement dating back to 2002 the reactors had been granted quotas of electricity-production volumes that the operators were allowed to exhaust before the power-plant operating permits expire. ❋ Jan Hromadko (2011)
