Sentences with phrase «current nuclear technology»

This new nuclear technology, because it operates at higher temperatures, can increase thermal efficiency from the 34 % or so of current nuclear technology to closer to 50 %; it can have more inherent safety features from not being pressurized and have a core that can not melt down; it can use more efficient combined cycle turbine technologies that require less capital for the same amount of power generated.

Current nuclear technology is not a sensible solution to the climate change challenge — but research on «new - nuclear» and renewables infrastructure should be aggressively pursued.

Not exact matches

As long as nuclear technology remains important for keeping America in its current position of global leadership, the U.S. government will keep pumping research's life - blood (money) into nuclear - energy - related science.

-- From the Summer 2001 Edition of University Currents, a publication of DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology.

With what EPRI calls a «full» portfolio of technology options, including new nuclear, expanded wind power and carbon capture, the price of electricity in current dollars would climb by 80 percent in 2050.

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

«While nuclear can be a very large share of global demand and low carbon supply, we're not going to do it, I believe, on the current generation of technology,» said Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force.

Crossing the huge distance between the Sun and Alpha Centauri using current spacecraft technologies would take several millennia, though the possibility of nuclear pulse propulsion or laser light sail technology, as considered in the Breakthrough Starshot program, could reduce the journey time to a matter of decades.

Using this type of NMR, which is based on a technique known as dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), scientists can gain much more insight into protein structure and function than they can with current NMR technology, which requires large quantities of purified proteins, isolated from their usual environment.

And modern nuclear technology can reduce proliferation risks and solve the waste disposal problem by burning current waste and using fuel more efficiently.

The approach to nuclear power is to take a few baby steps with current technology.

They all expect that somehow the technologies (whatever they are) will magically thwart the Second Law; that we will somehow replace tit - for - tat the current energy flow from fossil fuel with sunlight or nuclear or geothermal, you name it.

Current technology includes nuclear fission, which is more than capable of dealing with global energy needs, and at costs lower than fossil — IF it were only deployed.

We should also be building nuclear and using current technology to reduce carbon emissions.

Even so, if you weigh the risks (fully considered and in the light of current technology as well as developing technology) against the benefits, nuclear is by far and away the best, cheapest and safest form of energy production.

Seems to me, nuclear power in it's current form, is a mature technology that is being overtaken by more advanced energy forms that are more efficient and cost effective.

From the starting point of today, what are relative risks, costs and benefits of fossil fuel production and against current and emerging nuclear technology?

Your objections to current nuclear fission technology are valid — in fact, they make the «nuclear option» politically impossible today.

Just to keep the costs in perspective with alternatives here are the alternatives again: — Current EU carbon price = $ 10 / t CO2 — Estimated abatement cost with renewable energy in Australia = $ 300 / t CO2 [3]-- Estimated abatement cost with nuclear energy in Australia = $ 65 / t CO2 — Nordhaus «Low - cost backstop» technology (assumes) = $ 270 / t CO2 [4]-- CO2 Abatement cost if / when we allow low - cost nuclear = < $ 0 / t CO2 [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Nuclear power in its current form is not competitive (in the US and other regions with multiple fuel resources) because the technology is toô expensive to build and operate, relative to the competition.

They believe the transition to a wind & solar powered energy grid could be made in two decades or less using current technology, and at an affordable cost — but only if the many roadblocks now being thrown up by nuclear and fossil fuel interests can be overcome.

Increasingly, analysts describe current designs as «bridging technologies,» stepping stones toward more advanced clean energy, whether in the form of perovskite solar cells or modular nuclear reactors.

What's needed now is a new national commitment to the development, testing, demonstration, and early stage commercialization of a broad range of new nuclear technologies — from much smaller light - water reactors to next generation ones — in search of a few designs that can be mass produced and deployed at a significantly lower cost than current designs.

A 100 % renewable energy transition globally by 2050 is both technological possible and will reduce the average cost of energy by 30 % from current fossil fuel and nuclear power prices according to a comprehensive 2017 study of the European Energy Watch Group led by physicist and German PV pioneer Hans - Josef Fell and performed by Berlin's Lappeenranta University of Technology.

Fixing the problems of the current DOE loan guarantee program and ensuring that we have an effective financing authority for a broad range of clean energy technologies, including renewables, nuclear, energy efficiency, and carbon capture and storage, needs to be one of our highest priorities.

Despite these obstacles, current US nuclear technology has made innovations in safety and security features.

It is not very honest to compare cost of new nuclear to current wholesale price of electricity without also comparing that of other technologies for new build.

Clean Energy Technologies Can Return CO2 to Safe Levels This Century Though current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of about 385 parts per million are already above the revised safe level of 350ppm being promoted by scientists, Kharecha said that it is still possible to return them to safe levels by the end of this century if we engage in «Herculean» efforts to shift towards renewable energy sources, increase the use of nuclear power, and apply carbon sequestration technologies on existing coal power plants.

Their current 5 - year plan is full of action to develop knowledge and products that are based on the view that there will be a huge global market demand for new energy technology, rail transport, ice breaking ships, nuclear power, etc..

It has to be done right, and I'm pretty sure that the current IAEA isn't up to the task, but without nuclear power as at least a bridge technology, there's no way that we'll successfully decarbonize our civilization in time.

Many new technologies could change the whole picture such as massive energy storage, efficient electro - catalytic hydrogen production, ambient temperature superconductors etc. but with the current technology investing in wind / solar over nuclear will aggravate our GHG emission problems not improve them.