Sentences with phrase «current nuclear power generation»

The problem is it won't be the cheapest without major technological breakthroughs in safe nuclear power generation and / or fossil fuel reserves become so depleted the cost of recovery makes the price surpass that of current nuclear power generation.

This combination would be safer and also cheaper — the cost long - term would be half of current nuclear power generation.

Not exact matches

More than 100 gigawatts of geothermal power (one tenth of the current U.S. electrical generation) could be developed for $ 1 billion during the next 40 years — at the full cost of one carbon - capturing coal - fired power plant or one - third the cost of a new nuclear generator.

A possible strategy for freeing nuclear power from its current impasse would be built around a new generation of lower - power, centrally fabricated nuclear reactors designed for inherent safety

Many people seem to have an irrational fear of nuclear power generation plants, just as people a century ago were fearful of domestic electricity supplies using alternating current.

The nation's current energy portfolio has raised concerns about the adverse environmental effects of energy generation — particularly greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired and oil - fired power plants and the long - term storage of spent nuclear fuel.

I'm reasonably confident that we can ensure enough safety measures are in place that current generation from nuclear power stations is indeed about as safe, statistically, as any energy source.

But our current fleet of power generation can't readily be used for peaking power plants, Nuclear 28 % and coal 60 %.

The development of the current generation of nuclear power has been severely constrained by nuclear phobia.

They outline the need to reduce demand but also to build large - scale infrastructure in the form of concentrated solar power, fourth - generation nuclear fission and high - voltage direct current transmission.

Even if all reactors scheduled to come online by 2015 make it, the projected closing of 93 nuclear reactors by then will drop nuclear power generation roughly 10 percent below the current level.

Given the evident concern about nuclear waste, it will be interesting to see if there is any reactions from young people to the governments recent admission that, on current NDA plans, the proposed Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) is not expected to be available to take spent fuel from new nuclear power stations until around 2130, which they note «is approximately 50 years after the likely end of electricity generation for the first new nuclear power station».

Current generation land - based nuclear reactors cost $ 10,000,000 per megawatt capacity or about $ 5 billion for the power plant not counting the cost of the equipment to convert electricity to fuel.

In addition, the nuclear advocates all talk about the next generation of nuclear power that would not only use a fraction of current uranium consumption per kWh but may also be able to extract power from the nuclear waste that has been produced to date.

Here the letter conflates the issue of opposition to the current crop of nuclear power plants — which are simply uncompetitive quite separate from the very legitimate issues of safety, waste disposal, proliferation, and water consumption — with a supposed lack of support for next generation nuclear power plants (that will be magically cheaper, despite all trend data to the contrary).

However, all of these designs must demonstrate enhanced safety above and beyond current light water reactor systems if the next generation of nuclear power plants is to grow in number far beyond the current population.

If this nuclear generation were replaced by coal - fired power plants (Scenario 1), the country's CO2 emissions would rise by roughly 317 million tons, 26 percent of current emissions.