Sentences with phrase «u.s. spent fuel»

For more information, see von Hippel and Schoeppner's previous papers, «Reducing the Danger from Fires in Spent Fuel Pools» and «Economic Losses From a Fire in a Dense - Packed U.S. Spent Fuel Pool,» which were published in Science & Global Security in 2016 and 2017 respectively.

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That would translate into an additional $ 190 spent on fuel by the average U.S. household this year compared to last, the agency said.

U.S. airlines should outperform as more people chose to spend their vacations abroad and higher fares offset climbing fuel prices, according to Macquarie.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A plan to temporarily store tons of spent fuel from U.S. commercial nuclear reactors in New Mexico is drawing fire from critics who say the federal government needs to consider more alternatives.

To pinpoint the average retirement income you would need to live comfortably throughout the U.S., GOBankingRates looked at five factors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia: Per capita spending on groceries, healthcare, gas and fuel, housing and utilities and personal consumption expenditures not included in the four other categories.

Because of possibly rising gasoline prices, U.S. drivers are expected to spend about $ 52 billion more at the gas pump this year compared to 2016, according to GasBuddy's 2017 Fuel Price Outlook.

«This U.S. spending binge fueled economic growth in China and in turn boosted total savings in that country.»

The negative effects of lower oil prices hit the economy right away, and the various positives - more exports because of a stronger U.S. economy and a lower dollar, and more consumption spending as households spend less on fuel - will arrive only gradually, and are of uncertain size.

Spending on enterprise information technology is set to accelerate, fueled by U.S. corporate tax cuts, global economic gains and a backlog of aging corporate IT systems that need to be replaced, Oracle's Mark Hurd said Monday at an event in New York.

In tiny El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts, the U.S. government spent about $ 700 per minute ($ 1.4 million per day), largely on military aid, over the past ten years fueling a deadly civil war and in effect paying the military slayers of the six Jesuits in November 1989.

There is currently no approved national repository to begin removing it from temporary spent fuel pools located on - site at Indian Point and other U.S. nuclear power plants across the country.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei and Republican John Katko spent the past week in a fierce, behind - the - scenes battle for donations to fuel their campaigns before the year's first quarter ended at midnight.

In the U.S., because of a lack of a long - term plan for dealing with such nuclear waste, spent - fuel pools are even more densely packed, making it easier for a meltdown to occur in the event of a loss of water.

Japan's nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing reactor fuel, authors of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on the nuclear fuel cycle said yesterday.

The crisis at the nuclear plant in Japan, due in part to exposed spent fuel, is forcing U.S. scientists and policymakers to look for safer courses of action

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks led to new requirements to safeguard spent fuel pools at U.S. reactors, but the overall policy toward the nuclear fuel cycle has been bound up in the fight over the proposed fuel repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, which the Obama administration wants to terminate.

A top U.S. nuclear regulator has now given a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis, saying that radiation from uncovered spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns there

The MIT report says that transfers of spent fuel in casks could begin with the leftover fuel at decommissioned U.S. plants — a first step that, if successful, could bolster public confidence in the process.

MIT physics professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative and co-chairman of the spent fuel study, said that until now, U.S. policy on the disposition of spent reactor fuel has been an «afterthought.»

«This is a victory for drivers who, by 2016, will get 35 miles per gallon, spend less on fuel and send less of their dollars overseas,» Jackson said, although the new rules still leave the U.S. behind Europe, Japan and China in terms of the timing or strength of fuel efficiency standards.

As the U.S. makes new plans for disposing of spent nuclear fuel and other high - level radioactive waste deep underground, geologists are key to identifying safe burial sites and techniques.

In the U.S., the plan to use Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert as a repository for spent nuclear fuel rods is in limbo, opposed by the Obama administration.

The half - lives (the period in which radioactivity halves) of these atoms range up to tens of thousands of years, a feature that led U.S. government regulators to require that the planned high - level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada isolate spent fuel for over 10,000 years.

Jaczko told the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee that measures to protect both U.S. reactor operations and the spent fuel pools have been taken on a case - by - case basis for each U.S. reactor since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The report calls for a long - term spent fuel U.S. repository but says the country can get by for the short term with interim storage of fuel rods at plants or other facilities.

The top U.S. nuclear regulator, Gregory Jaczko, gave a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis yesterday, saying that lethal radiation from uncovered spent fuel above one of the reactors could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns of damaged reactor cores at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The U.S. government is also interested in recycling the spent nuclear fuel, as France, Japan, Russia and the U.K. do, under the terms of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, a consortium of 21 foreign countries as well as domestic nuclear technology firms formed to promote nuclear power.

And the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2006 suggested the practice of overcrowding pools for the storage of spent nuclear fuel rods — that has caused fires and explosions at Fukushima Daiichi, which stores far less used fuel than typical U.S. plants — could prove dangerous.

On September 15, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission affirmed its expert opinion that spent nuclear fuel could be safely stored on nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.»

Forsberg added that the spent nuclear fuel currently awaiting a home in the U.S. could be compared with «a super-strategic petroleum reserve.

The U.S. remains a nation in search of a solution for what to do with its nearly 70,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel, which has a small fraction of plutonium mixed in it.

Spent fuel accumulating at U.S. nuclear reactor plants is also vulnerable, the report warns.

If the United States does not like the way U.S. - origin spent fuel is being recycled, it can veto that activity.

At U.S. nuclear plants, spent fuel is equally vulnerable.

Without a repository, she says, «it is very unlikely that the U.S. will ever take back U.S. - origin spent fuel.»

The U.S. agreement with Korea that governs nuclear materials including spent fuel, for example, stipulates that the United States will «consult with the Government of the Republic of Korea in the matter of health and safety.»

A major spent fuel fire at a U.S. nuclear plant «could dwarf the horrific consequences of the Fukushima accident,» says Edwin Lyman, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., who was not on the panel.

Those electric cars — combined with improvements in the fuel efficiency of existing internal combustion engines, new hybrid power trains and even fuel - cell vehicles — could begin to reduce the roughly $ 1 billion a day the U.S. spends on imported oil.

This item has been corrected 1 April: The original article stated that Henry Sokolski said that the law gave the U.S. «extensive» legal rights over spent fuel it sold to other countries and that it could ask for fuel back if it didn't like how the fuel was being handled.

But under the NNPA, U.S. action can be triggered only by concerns that U.S. - origin spent fuel may be used for nuclear weapons production, or may be vulnerable to theft or terrorism.

DENVER — Along the way to testing an old - but - new concept in nuclear waste storage — burying spent fuel in a hole drilled kilometers below the surface — the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its contractors relearned a lesson that seems frequently forgotten: Get the locals on board first.

Republican leaders in the U.S. House support legislation to nominate Yucca Mountain as the storage and disposal location for high level waste and spent nuclear fuel.

The NAC - MPC is compatible for storing and transporting spent fuel from many older U.S. nuclear plants, with widespread applications for U.S. government spent fuel management and worldwide.

Over the years, science has given way to raw politics as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and supporters of DOE's repository project in Congress have sought to obfuscate and compensate for an ever - multiplying set of flaws and problems with the site and with the notion of transporting unprecedented amounts of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level nuclear waste across the country.

The letter also urged the U.S. government to ask China and South Korea to review their own plans to one day construct a spent fuel reprocessing facility.

An adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama expressed concerns about Japan's plan to reprocess its spent nuclear fuel, pills citing the ever - increasing plutonium stockpile already in the nation's possession.

10/13/15 An adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama expressed concerns about Japan's plan to reprocess its spent nuclear fuel, citing the ever - increasing plutonium stockpile already in the nation's possession.

Hours earlier, Gregory Jaczko, the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, told Congress that spent fuel rods in Unit 4 of the plant had been exposed, resulting in the emission of «extremely high» levels of radiation.

Spent fuel at many U.S. and other plants has stayed in pools for much longer than anticipated.

The union leadership sees this and gets all jizzy, thinking about how to steer some of that dough to their own pockets: «The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $ 2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.