We'll -- we'll -- my friends, we'll build more nuclear power plants.
We need a lot more nuclear, because if you're serious about carbon reductions, you need to be serious about building more nuclear power plants.
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It is amazing to think that inland US nuclear power plants are more flood-proof than their Japanese counterparts.
Yet most Democrats, notably senators Obama and Biden, refuse to support two initiatives that would create hundreds of thousands of highly skilled, well-paying U.S. manufacturing and construction jobs: a new push for nuclear power plants and more oil and gas exploration and production.
These plants are cheaper and faster to build and more responsive to demand changes than coal-fired or nuclear power plants.
But as its nuclear power stations have been shut, the country's electricity providers have been relying more heavily on thermal power plants to produce electricity.
Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab said that the latest malware discovery, known as the Flame, is not only similar to the Stuxnet worm that infiltrated Iranian nuclear power plants in 2010, it was more than likely created by the same entities.
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Is a Congress liberal or conservative that stops nuclear power plants and offshore drilling, making us more and more dependent on Middle East tyrants?
The decision was seen as a compromise between those who support a quick halt to nuclear power generation and others who want to build more plants.
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American nuclear power plants' capacity utilisation has risen from 56% in 1984 to more than 90% today.
On nuclear power, Cheney also said he wants to give utilities incentives to build more nuclear plants, which would force the nation to deal with the problem of nuclear waste.
China has a huge thirst for energy that it will slake from as many wells as it can, with planned big increases in wind power and in gas as well as the nuclear build-out and ever more coal-fired plants.
In part, this is why we are likely to start seeing a shift from long-term and highly capital-intensive investments like coal plants and nuclear power to an increasing number of bets on smaller, modular, and more flexible technologies.
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In 2002, the U.S. launched its Nuclear Power 2010 program, an initiative by the government and the private sector to encourage the construction of more plants, though that effort has been slowed somewhat by regulatory issues.
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