Sentences with phrase «our nuclear future»

As Switzerland and Germany opt out of a nuclear future, however, doubling down an unpopular, highly politicized energy source looks increasingly expensive, as EDF must build ever - more political risk into the price tag.
The Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future wasn't specifically asked to decide the viability of a permanent nuclear waste repository in remote Yucca Mountain, Nev..
The House of Commons voted last night to renew Trident, in the first time MPs have taken a decision on the UK's nuclear future.
The Toshiba - Westinghouse AP1000 reactor remains a symbol of the U.S. nuclear future to supporters and opponents alike.
The 2012 presidential Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future recommended more research, and the U.S. Department of Energy is now developing an R&D plan.
Tom Sanders, president of the American Nuclear Society and manager of Sandia National Laboratories» Global Nuclear Futures Initiative, has been stumping for small rectors for more than a decade.
Nuclear with Chinese characteristics China's new nuclear future is a mix of its own and foreign reactor designs.
Nuclear future China leads the world in new nuclear reactors, with 29 currently under construction and another 59 proposed, according to the World Nuclear Association.
A scaled - down nuclear future?
The draft bill includes many of the suggestions made by the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.
As President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear industry.
In response to the Obama Administration's «Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future,» SRIC submitted various reports, participated in three meetings, and has provided information about WIPP and nuclear waste storage and disposal policies to the public, policymakers, and the media.
The Obama administration established the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future on January 29, 2010 to conduct a comprehensive review of spent fuel and high - level waste policies and recommend a new plan.
Over the years, Ms. Eisenhower has served as a member of three blue ribbon commissions for the Department of Energy for three different secretaries: The Baker - Cutler Commission on U.S. Funded Non-Proliferation Programs in Russia; The Sununu - Meserve Commission on Nuclear Energy; and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, which released its findings on a comprehensive program for the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle in the winter of 2012.
So we are down to this: nuclear futures dominated by China, Russia, India, Iran and North Korea: good luck with that.
Reference: OUR NUCLEAR FUTURE: THE PATH OF SELECTIVE IGNORANCE by Alex Gabbard Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN Selections from the 19th Annual Conference SOUTHERN FUTURE SOCIETY March 14,15,16, 1996 Nashville, Tennessee
Despite all the industry hype about a nuclear future, private investors are openly skeptical.
Senator Ron Wyden (D, OR) has sponsored S1240, the Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2013, which implements key recommendations of the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.
Instead, the administration appointed the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future to address, once again, the country's efforts to store and dispose of high - level radioactive wastes.

Not exact matches

Among the moon's vast riches: gold, cobalt, iron, palladium, platinum, tungsten and helium - 3, a gas that can be used in future fusion reactors to provide nuclear power without radioactive waste.
The government said it would take a «special share» in all future nuclear new construction projects to ensure that significant stakes can not be sold without its consent.
It has urged North Korea to halt future ballistic missile and nuclear tests, while also calling on the U.S. and South Korea to cease military exercises.
Meaning theoretically, an unknown nuclear engineer in Nebraska might be indirectly managing a share of Cohen's money through his or her algorithm in the near future — that of course is the best case scenario.
In 2013, China's Communist Party - affiliated newspaper Global Times published a detailed report on future nuclear attacks on the western United States showing how the strikes would kill 12 million Americans through blast and radiation.
The nuclear deal has become the latest, and perhaps most consequential, international agreement or norm that the EU seeks to uphold and Trump seeks to tear down: from the Paris agreement, to the future of NATO, to the unity of the EU, to the funding of the United Nations, to the status of Jerusalem.
Second, even after the deal, Iran continued to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons knowledge for future use.»
For Pompeo, a long list of pressing issues awaits, including a decision on the Iran nuclear deal, Trump's upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and ongoing disagreements in the White House about the future U.S. role in Syria.
Key subjects include the future of the Iran nuclear accord and the Syria crisis.
Recent developments in IFE safety and tritium research and considerations for future nuclear fusion facilities
The nuclear winter of the gold - mining industry will have inescapable intermediate to longer - term effects on future mine supply.
Finally, if you're a true «believer» in the future of nuclear power (and it's hard not to be with the growth projections in Asia), evaluating uranium hard rock development stories could be a wise move.
His argument appeared to be that Iran lied about nuclear activities in the past, which means it's likely to lie about it in the future.
From Brussels, Pompeo will travel on to the Middle East, visiting Saudi Arabia, Israel and Jordan, where the future of the Iran nuclear deal and the conflict in Syria will be significant agenda items.
There have been long queues outside exchange offices for weeks in Iran, as uncertainty over the future of the P5 +1 nuclear deal looms.
U.S. equity futures declined on Labor Day, as investors reacted to the fallout from North Korea's latest nuclear provocation.
I have read and signed, many years ago, a code of ethics as an employee of NBPower and I am sure that if I did blog of horrible wrong doing of my employer and my disabelief of NBPower's use of nuclear power I would be told to stop or risk my future employement.
[It should be noted here that complementarian notions of manhood and womanhood tend to be based on culturally — influenced stereotypes, many of which project idealized notions of the post-industrial revolution nuclear family onto biblical texts rather than taking those texts on their own terms — a topic we've discussed at length in the past and will continued to discuss in the future.]
I don't know what foolish things people and nations will permit themselves to do in the near future, what compacts we will make with hell through the use of nuclear and biological weapons, what ecological disasters we will actively perpetrate or merely permit to happen or what unprecedented human tragedy we will willingly or witlessly sponsor.
While neither is overly occupied with the policy concerns of the larger environmental movement ¯ global climate, carbon capture, alternative energy, the future of nuclear power, and so on ¯ they help illuminate a common narrative that places nature above human need.
Now it is up to the clergy, who more and more can begin to act on the convictions expressed by the U.N. report, which opens with the words «Alarmed by the threat to the very survival of mankind,» and proceeds:»... the accumulation of weapons, particularly nuclear weapons, today constitutes much more a threat than a protection for the future of mankind.
Thanks to the mechanical devices which we increasingly charge with the burden not only of production but also of calculation, the quantity of unused human energy is growing at a disturbing rate both within us and around us; and this phenomenon will reach its climax in the near future, when nuclear forces have been harnessed to useful work.
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Other but perhaps more serious problems devolve on any future generations that must rely on nuclear power.
Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev has followed his earlier initiatives in reducing nuclear weapons by making two announcements of momentous import: economically, socialism does not work, and politically, democracy is the road to the future.
Whether among the secularized masses of industrial societies, the emerging new ideologies around which societies are organized, the resurging religions which people embrace, the movements of workers and political refugees, the people's search for liberation and justice, the uncertain pilgrimage of the younger generation into a future both full of promise and overshadowed by nuclear confrontation - the Church is called to be present and to articulate the meaning of God's love in Jesus Christ for every person and for every situation.
The planning was set in motion by President Jimmy Carter's directive to Congress on February 12, 1980, wherein he said, «My paramount objective in managing nuclear wastes is to protect the health and safety of all Americans, both now and in the future
Billed as a «grassroots Christian disarmament movement,» 2FP's goal is to educate the broader evangelical community about the possibility of a future world without nuclear weapons and to provide ideas and avenues for advocacy.
Aghast by the church's historical «moral sausage - making» when it comes to the political outworking of the gospel in the area of U.S. nuclear weapons policy, Tyler Wigg - Stevenson — a Baptist minister and a nuclear policy expert — responded by launching the Two Futures Project (hereafter 2FP).
I would invite all Christians — evangelicals or not — to visit 2FP's website, closely read the background and FAQ material (including the «Four Horsemen» articles), as well as Wigg - Stevenson's Fermi Project paper («A World Without Nuclear Weapons»), his and Wilbanks» Relevant articles and the Spring 2009 issue of Yale Divinity School's Reflections, which was devoted to «Faith and the Future of Nuclear Weapons» and was guest - edited by Wigg - Stevenson.
While I mostly trust the current leadership not to make first use of nuclear weapons, that is not the case when you consider all the potential future leaders of India or Pakistan.
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