Sentence examples for extend the plant from inspiring English sources

Total, the French oil firm that owns the refinery, hired Jacobs, a Californian engineering outfit, to extend the plant.

Diablo Canyon has been embroiled in a bitter battle with local opponents seeking new seismic studies ahead of a decision to extend the plant's operating license, which is due to expire in about 15 years.

The state also contends that the application to extend the plant's license for 20 more years, which was filed on April 30 by the plant's owner, Entergy Nuclear, failed to account for pipes, cables and fire-protection systems that have deteriorated at the nuclear reactors, which began operation in the mid-'70s.

If built, this will extend the plant's catchment to include waste from south Tyne and Wear.

Edison replaced the plant's steam generators in 2010 and 2011 in a bid to extend the plant's life, because tubes in the old steam generators were wearing down.

Such volatile-mediated tritrophic interactions have a considerable potential to shape ecosystem dynamics [ 3], but it remains unclear to what extend the plant signals are emitted by the plant to specifically attract natural enemies of herbivores [ 4].

Twenty reactors have applications pending with federal regulators to extend the plants' operating lives by as much as two decades, according to Bloomberg News.

To increase the production of soybean oil, it is not feasible to extend the planting area of the crop, because of increased competition for land by the rapidly rising population.

While the commission is disposed toward extending the plant's lease for another two decades, Entergy now needs the approval of Vermont's House and the Senate to reverse itself for that to happen.

The ability to withstand a failure of the Jocassee Dam was not required as part of the original 1974 licensing of the Oconee plant, nor for the more recent re-licensing of the facility in 2000, which extended the plant's life through 2034.

In temperate climates planting is generally conducted from late winter to late spring, but the use of container-grown seedlings extends the planting season into the early summer and includes a period in early autumn.