Delays in completion for any reason drive up the costs, especially in times of high inflation. The question of how a utility should be allowed to recover its construction costs is controversial. Different states and their regulatory agencies take different approaches. But utilities and rate commissions are trying to ease the price rise to consumers by slowly increasing rates after the plant is completed. Return to list.
Radiation is a natural energy traveling in the the form of waves or particles.
We also receive radiation as a result of the natural process of radioactivity. Materials that are radioactive are made up of atoms that contain excess energy. These radioactive materials give off their excess energy as radiation. The three kinds of nuclear radiation that come from the radioactive materials are alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. All three types are present in nature.