The five-segment booster is intended to power the early flight phase of Nasa's proposed Ares 1 launch vehicle - its replacement for the space shuttle.
Mr. WHITAKER: You could do a query to identify all parcels with a particular zoning designation within so many feet of three-phase electrical power and so many feet of a water line, and the three properties left to put your business or your school would light up.
The rise of solar power in Germany is directly related to the country's phase-out of nuclear power plants -- however in Japan, the issue of nuclear power is back in the news.
In 2002 the then centre-left government said it would phase out nuclear power by 2022.
Today, the Swiss cabinet decided to phase out nuclear power through attrition over the next few decades.
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Sweden also needs new energy sources, because the country has decided to phase out nuclear power by 2010.
They blamed the global economic crisis and Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima accident in Japan.
After Fukushima, Germany announced that it would phase out nuclear power.
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He has already scored a strategic victory by persuading the Centre Party (a junior coalition member) to revoke its 1980 decision to phase out nuclear power.
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That vague phrase may be sharpened by a decision last month by Switzerland to phase out nuclear power, after similar decisions in Sweden, Italy and Germany.
Equipment ordered during the third quarter included two concrete batch plants and associated crushing and screening plants, and also the first phase of the power plant, including three gas turbines with a combined capacity of 120 megawatts, Thomas said.
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If Japan were to phase out its nuclear power fleet, it would likely ramp up production from its natural gas-fired and coal power plants.
Germany has decided to phase out use of nuclear power plants.
The initial phase should generate enough energy to power 12 homes for a year.
On Thursday, Japan said it would review the previous administration's plans to phase out the use of nuclear power.
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"We are commencing the first phase to connect the major new power generation we are expecting to arrive in Anglesey, " said Martin Kinsay, a senior project manager with National Grid.
The first phase of construction includes early earthwork and concrete foundations for a mill and on-site power plant, expansion of the existing water-supply system, construction and operation of the initial phase of a new tailings facility, and expansion of camp facilities by approximately 6, 600 additional beds for workers.
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Phasor measurements track the amount of stress placed on the electric power grid by providing granular data about frequency, voltage and phase angle conditions in real-time.
When you have a model of what equipment is drawing power when, you have finished the first part of the visibility phase.
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As it stands now, we are still supporting in North Carolina requests for assistance as they go to the recovery phase and begin damage assessments -- a lot of power outages, roads that were heavily damaged by storm surge, particularly in the Outer Banks, as well as a lot of debris in the eastern part of the state.
The Swiss phase out raises more doubts about the future of the nuclear power industry.
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This happens to be the noisiest phase of the flight, when the jet is at a full-power climb.
So although Japan may phase out a lot of older reactors, the public may tolerate nuclear power in the form of new, better plants with management it trusts.
We are just in the beginning of that phase, and in the next 10 year you would see tremendous amount of power move into consumer hands.
Ocean Power is working with Spanish utility Iberdrola, French oil giant Total and two Spanish government agencies for the first phase of a modest 1.39-megawatt facility--a decent-sized nuclear reactor pumps out 2, 200 megawatts--off the coast of Spain.
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