plant lifetime

In Japan, plant lifetimes up to 70 years re envisaged.

Remuneration of the generated electricity is guaranteed over the whole plant lifetime.

More recently, Greene has elaborated on the challenges of simply extending plant lifetimes to 100 years.

Extension of plant lifetimes from 40 to 60 years is enhancing the economic competitiveness of plants.

Governmental instabilities in the next plant lifetime.

It may be that over the plants lifetime, the set up energy expended would cancel out the energy gain from generating electricity.

Actual plant lifetime (to date, no plant has been shut down due to maximum licensed lifetime being reached, or been refurbished).

Licensing of plant lifetime extensions and the economic attractiveness of continued operation of older reactors are critical factors in the medium-term uranium market.

However, successive governments have had 30 years’ notice of the present serious decline of UK oil and gas supplies and full knowledge of generation plant lifetimes.

The limits to nuclear power plant lifetime will be determined by both technical and economic considerations, and achieving such extended lifetimes will require innovative business and financial arrangement.

Assuming equal public confidence and an established regulatory framework, the nuclear energy option compared favourably on cost, reliability, commercial availability, plant lifetime and greenhouse gas abatement, among other criteria.

Lifetime extension for 20 years, extending the plant lifetime till January 14, 2043 has been made to the Slovenian regulatory body (URSJV).

The environment minister had toyed with the idea of forcing nuclear reactor buildings to be made terrorist-proof when the government was negotiating with generators about the extension of nuclear plant lifetimes last year.

Synapse found that FERC did not fully consider the impacts from increases in electricity demand, improvements in nuclear plant efficiency, and the extension of nuclear and coal plant lifetimes.

The MSW design is modular and the reactor core is estimated to be replaced every 6-10 years, however, the fuel will not be replaced and will burn for the entire power plant lifetime.

As new data is gathered during the plant lifetime or system design changes are made RCM related data may be easily modified and maintenance procedures may be adjusted to reflect the living status of the plant.

To accommodate the absence of pre-specified plant lifetimes, all conventional fossil units (i.e., coal, oil/gas steam, combustion turbines, and combined cycle units) and nuclear units are provided with retirement options which allow units to retire due to economic factors.

The first version of the Seaborg core is planned to produce 50 MW power and is shown to reduce the amount of transuranic waste in the world by approximately 1 ton (not considering natural decays) over its 60 years power plant lifetime.

Also, the International Energy Agency in its recently published EU energy policy review concluded that 'EU nuclear generating capacity will decline from now on unless significant investment is forthcoming in the near future for plant lifetime extensions and the replacement of facilities reaching the end of their operational lives.'