Sentences with phrase «while nuclear waste»

While nuclear waste is contained in heavy drums and regularly monitored, very little has been done to deal with solar waste.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, the Finnish government has agreed to take responsibility for nuclear waste after 60 years, something the Lib Dems say could cost billions in Britain, while it is also providing indirect subsidies in the form of export guarantees and 30 - year contracts.

While he promised to pursue cleanups at nuclear waste sites, he declined to take a position on opening the planned nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

While President Obama's plan to find alternatives to storing high - level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nev., is grabbing headlines, another problem has begun threatening license applications for new reactors.

Once isolated by the bacteria, the strontium could be sequestered in high - level nuclear waste repositories, while the rest of the waste could go to a less expensive lower - level repository, saving space and money.

And while France has reduced nuclear waste, it hasn't eliminated the need to dispose of it.

The idea remains that fast reactors, which get their name because the neutrons that initiate fission in the reactor are zipping about faster than those in a conventional reactor, could offer a speedy solution to cleaning some nasty nuclear waste, which fissions better with fast neutrons, while also providing electricity as a by - product.

So while yes, a nuclear bomb could be used to blow up a small asteroid, it's unlikely that world leaders would waste expensive resources on that endeavor.

We can continue down the same path for used nuclear fuel that we have been on for the last 50 years, or we can develop an approach that brings the benefits of nuclear energy to the world while also reducing proliferation concerns and nuclear waste.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) believes that PRISM offers the most efficient, clean, cost - effective option for turning nuclear waste into low carbon energy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electNuclear Energy (GEH) believes that PRISM offers the most efficient, clean, cost - effective option for turning nuclear waste into low carbon energy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electnuclear waste into low carbon energy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electnuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electricity.

Radioactive waste leaks threatens vineyards and farming communities in the Champagne and Normandy regions, while the nuclear industry ignores French laws prohibiting dumping of foreign nuclear waste in France.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

While there will be no single technological silver bullet, the time has come for those who take the threat of global warming seriously to embrace the development and deployment of safer nuclear power systems as one among several technologies that will be essential to any credible effort to develop an energy system that does not rely on using the atmosphere as a waste dump.

Nuclear Power while viable has a very nasty logistics tail and health hazard with waste products.

While not without risks, the risks of managing nuclear waste pale in comparison to the risks of global warming or world economic collapse.

These people are very poor, it's very cruel to discriminate against them while we waste so much energy and don't even try to ratify Kyoto or make a dent in our greenhouse emissions by nuclear plant construction.

Someone needs to point out that while high - grade nuclear waste might take 20,000 years to completely break down, CO2 is forever.

While this is more expensive than the current cost of market power at $ 32 / MWh, solar has no fuel costs, no risk of fuel cost increases, and no water or air pollution, coal ash clean - up, or nuclear waste costs.

... [one wedge] by 2050 would require adding globally, an average of 17 [nuclear] plants each year, while building an average of 9 plants a year to replace those that will be retired, for a total of one nuclear plant every two weeks for four decades — plus 10 Yucca Mountains to store the waste.

Is there no way to eliminate the risks of proliferation, reduce nuclear waste, and make the plant safe from terrorism and meltdown, all while making the reactor cheaply?

If solar and nuclear produce the same amount of electricity over the next 25 years that nuclear produced in 2016, and the wastes are stacked on football fields, the nuclear waste would reach the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa (52 meters), while the solar waste would reach the height of two Mt. Everests (16 km).

It is telling that while there are thousands of articles, studies, books and movies about the relatively miniscule quantities of well - managed spent fuel that comes out of nuclear plants, there is to date only one estimate of how much solar waste the world is on track to produce, and it was calculated for the first time by an 18 - year - old nuclear engineering student from UC Berkeley and (proudly) published yesterday by Environmental Progress.

Imagine how future generations are going to feel having been dumped with the responsibility to maintain the safety of mountains of toxic nuclear waste throughtout their time and onto other future generations, a toxic mess that does nothing for them economically while increasing their vulnerability to many forms of cancer.

Twenty years ago in the early days of the civilian nuclear waste repository program, while we were struggling with a variety of issues as to how to assure the reproducibility of the analytical work, the kind of cavalier attitudes toward software QA / QC that is now demonstrated by many climate scientists was not all that uncommon among the many scientists employed by the repository project..

While nuclear energy is regarded as the lesser of the two evils when compared at an emission level to the burning of fossil - fuels, it may trump on the containment of the heat process, which burns in a contained nuclear reactor through an in - ward heat - chemical reaction called fission, but nuclear energy production is a chain from uranium mining to the toxic waste disposal and therefore as an entire process is an equally high risk environmental option.

While the senator did not comment on a long - term waste management effort, his spokesperson noted that in May 2017, Markey sponsored the Dry Cask Storage Act, a bill that would essentially allow the NRC to give nuclear generators grants from interest earned from the Nuclear Waste Fund to transfer SNF from pools to dry storage under NRC - approvednuclear generators grants from interest earned from the Nuclear Waste Fund to transfer SNF from pools to dry storage under NRC - approvedNuclear Waste Fund to transfer SNF from pools to dry storage under NRC - approved plans.

A 2007 Keystone report concluded that just one wedge of nuclear power «would require adding on average 14 plants each year for the next 50 years, all the while building an average of 7.4 plants to replace those that will be retired» — plus 10 Yucca Mountains to store the waste.

They can also be processed while the reactor is operating to scrub out the fission products that are the real nuclear waste.

As Carl Pope, executive director of The Sierra Club says, «It's truly shocking that John McCain is willing to stick the people of Nevada with thousands of tons of dangerous high - level nuclear waste, while acknowledging that he wouldn't even want it traveling through his own state on its way to Yucca Mountain.»

For instance, while the discussion rambles on about the pros and cons of fossil fuels vs. nuclear power, wind & solar power and others, the world sits on a vast storehouse of energy in various forms of waste we produce.