Sentences with phrase «by nuclear power»

The spent fuel produced by nuclear power plants will emit harmful radiation for hundreds of thousands — even millions — of years.

Even more remarkable, the electricity produced by wind farms over the course of the year exceeded that produced by nuclear power plants.

Scientific evidence says the number of deaths caused by nuclear power is overwhelmingly small.

This is not to say an accident will happen every time a hurricane passes by a nuclear power plant.

What happens to all that radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants?

Both of these ways are very beneficial because you are not using the harmful energy that is gathered by a nuclear power plant.

So it seems safe to say that more citizens have been killed by wind power than by nuclear power plants.

Electricity from nuclear plants is delivered to consumers such as businesses and homeowners, who rely on the steady, baseload electricity supplied by nuclear power.

It was the soft left that got most bothered by nuclear power, for reasons that had more to do with pacifism and the thought that the USSR might one day use nuclear weapons against the US, or someone else might get involved in an exchange like India and Pakistan or S Africa.

Gradually, inexorably, it is becoming clear that there is no safe and practicable way to provide our energy needs except by nuclear power.

In my view, the Nuclear Summit has only further legitimized the existence of a reality that will be dominated by nuclear power and energy, thus reinforcing an existing status - quo and sidelining what I believe is one of the most important issues to be addressed: the need for complete nuclear disarmament by nuclear weapon states.

To oversimplify a bit, you consent to not building nuclear weapons, and you get peaceful nuclear power, and a promise by the nuclear powers not to be threatened with their nuclear weapons.

National environmental groups, and some in Texas like the Sierra Club and Public Citizen, do not want new electrical demand met by nuclear power.

This is recognised by the nuclear power industry and its regulators, whose aim is to make the risk of accidents as low, and thus the reactors as safe, as is reasonably achievable.

The continuing arms buildup by the nuclear powers puts the treaty's future in doubt

Years back, during the congressional hearings over the FPO (full power operation) permit for the Seabrook power plant on the east coast, I found out about a MOA (Memorandum of Agreement) between the US NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) and INPO (Institute of Nuclear Power Operations), which is a private corporation that can be hired by nuclear power operators for tasks such as investigating nuclear power plant safety deficiencies.

The LANL report is a proposal to use combustion products (water and carbon dioxide are both combustion products, not sources of chemical energy) as feedstock for synthesizing a liquid that conveniently stores some of the energy produced by the nuclear power source.

The only form of iodine that has potential to be dangerous to the environment is a radioactive form that has a half - life of millions of years, and is released by nuclear power plants.

Likewise if heat is indeed the main factor, nuclear power, though CO2 - free, can not be an alternative since total heat emitted by nuclear power plants is more than twice the electrical output.

Support for a comeback by nuclear power has come from the unlikeliest or perhaps likeliest of sources: environmentalists.

A: The greatest mystery to me is how the American environmental movement can be anti-nuclear, because the environment is so much benefited by nuclear power, compared to any other way to generate electricity, including solar and wind.

In his latest book, «The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back — and How We Can Still Save Humanity» (Perseus, 2006), Dr. Lovelock says that any risks posed by nuclear power are small when compared with the «fever» of heat - trapping carbon dioxide produced by burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels.

Today, electricity generated by a nuclear power plant costs about 6.4 cents per kilowatt hour (kwh), as compared to 4.5 to 5 cents per kwh for coal and 3.5 to 4 cents per kwh for natural gas, Holdren explains.

«These zero emissions credits will represent the emissions - free value of energy produced by the nuclear power plants specifically,» said Scott Weiner, deputy for markets and innovation at DPS, at Thursday's meeting.

For example, he points out that the proportion of electricity to be generated by nuclear power plants in the year 2000 will, at 34 per cent, be almost double the previous forecast made less than three years ago.

Governments realise that the only practicable way to provide this is by nuclear power, and so many more power stations are being planned, using new designs that are even safer and more economical than those presently in operation [2].

The knowledge gained from such research could inform the design, selection, and improvement of adsorbent materials and membranes for capturing gases such as radioactive krypton and xenon generated by nuclear power plants.

I would dare humanity to live in a world where are the fossil fuel energy is instead produced by nuclear power: our «date with destiny» would be just around the corner; in less than geologic time.

In 1995, he received the Goldman Environmental Prize for Asia as a result of his leadership in protecting the Korean people and their environment from the destruction caused by nuclear power plants.

The long term solution to global warming is 1/3 extreme conservation, 1/3 conversion of gasoline powered cars to electric, and 1/3 increased conversion to generation of electrical energy by nuclear power.