Sentences with phrase «by nuclear power plants»

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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