Sentences with phrase «century nuclear technology»

We ask only that energy system decisions be based on facts, and not on emotions and biases that do not apply to 21st - century nuclear technology.

We ask only that energy system decisions be based on facts, and not on emotions and biases that do not apply to 21st century nuclear technology.

The US has a gas to nuclear transition strategy that remains the only practical way forward given commercialization of 21st century nuclear technologies.

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Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

BACKGROUND: The origins of nuclear medicine involve at least a dozen scientists working on different aspects of the technology over a century, culminating in a surge of diagnostic machines in the 1980s and»90s.

CSTSP has conducted, participated, or co-sponsored several projects assessing nuclear forensics technologies; the reliable replacement warhead; nuclear weapons in 21st Century national security; nuclear weapon stockpile management, safety, and security; nuclear energy issues having relevance to...

The exchange centers on Lynas's new book, «The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans,» and particularly on his conclusion that some technologies that have been anathema to environmentalists are vital to a smooth human journey in this century — particularly nuclear power and crops developed using biotechnology.

To me, for example, Hansen's far too confident about the scale at which nuclear power, particularly the new technologies that he prefers, could be deployed by the middle of this century.

In the case of nuclear power, the only new commercial energy generation technology to emerge and scale up significantly in the 20th century, government insurance, liability limitation, and loan guarantees have allowed private financiers the certainty and stability to invest in nuclear energy projects, which typically have high up - front capital cost and long life spans.

Mr. Resch argues that more established technologies including oil and gas, coal and nuclear power are still taking advantage of incentives that were established in the 20th century.

The 20th century saw great leaps forward in technology and innovation — from the mass production of cars to nuclear power to moon landings — and ended on something of a high with the internet.

Most of today's nuclear power plants have half - century - old technology with light - water reactors [243] utilizing less than 1 % of the energy in the nuclear fuel and leaving unused fuel as long - lived nuclear «waste» requiring sequestration for millennia.

As William Nordhaus put it: «Countries might start wars today because of the possibility of nuclear proliferation a century ahead; or because of a potential adverse shift in the balance of power two centuries ahead; or because of speculative futuristic technologies three centuries ahead.

Clean Energy Technologies Can Return CO2 to Safe Levels This Century Though current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of about 385 parts per million are already above the revised safe level of 350ppm being promoted by scientists, Kharecha said that it is still possible to return them to safe levels by the end of this century if we engage in «Herculean» efforts to shift towards renewable energy sources, increase the use of nuclear power, and apply carbon sequestration technologies on existing coal power Century Though current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of about 385 parts per million are already above the revised safe level of 350ppm being promoted by scientists, Kharecha said that it is still possible to return them to safe levels by the end of this century if we engage in «Herculean» efforts to shift towards renewable energy sources, increase the use of nuclear power, and apply carbon sequestration technologies on existing coal power century if we engage in «Herculean» efforts to shift towards renewable energy sources, increase the use of nuclear power, and apply carbon sequestration technologies on existing coal power plants.

More efficient generation systems and our old freind Nuclear would be a stop gap for the rest of this century while we wait for new technology and energy breakthroughs to occur.

I will also post some notes on stuff connecting ideas about advanced technology and strategy (conventional and nuclear) including notes from the single best book on nuclear strategy, Payne's The Great American Gamble: deterrence theory and practice from the Cold War to the twenty - first century.