Sentences with phrase «expansion of nuclear power»

And 83 per cent agree that there should be a significant expansion of the nuclear power industry.

Finally, the global expansion of nuclear power plants should be enabled by some form of leasing program for the uranium fuel rods — one up for renewal every decade or so.

But there is not going to be any major expansion of nuclear power in the USA.

As China pushes an aggressive expansion of nuclear power it is running into a major stumbling block - a breakdown of trust, post-Fukushima, in official assurances of public safety.

And this cost projection assumes optimal conditions — the immediate implementation of a common global price or tax on carbon dioxide emissions, a significant expansion of nuclear power and the advent and wide use of new, low - cost technologies to control emissions and provide cleaner sources of energy.

A threefold expansion of nuclear power could contribute significantly to staving off climate change by avoiding one billion to two billion tons of carbon emissions annually

Despite the public focus on radiation risks, cost has long been the main obstacle to a substantial expansion of nuclear power generation, and will be even more as a result of Japan's still - unfolding effort to secure the wave - ravaged Fukushima Daiichi complex.

Russia has begun a massive expansion of its nuclear power stations, but it will take a few years before they come onstream.

The coming expansion of nuclear power can be a security as well as an environmental blessing (after all, nuclear energy is entirely free of greenhouse gas emissions and can help us deal with climate change), but only if it comes without a great increase in the risk of the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

And if the worst - case scenarios for climate change were plausible, then the most effective way to avert catastrophic global warming would be the rapid expansion of nuclear power, not over-complicated schemes worthy of Rube Goldberg or Wile E. Coyote to carpet the world's deserts and prairies with solar panels and wind farms that would provide only intermittent energy from weak and diffuse sources.

HONG KONG (Reuters)- As China pushes an aggressive expansion of nuclear power it is running into a major stumbling block - a breakdown of trust, post-Fukushima, in official assurances of public safety.

«Surely a few decades ago it made sense to be very cautious about any further expansion of nuclear power but a lot has happened over last few decades,» Hansen said.

Business secretary John Hutton has called for a massive expansion of nuclear power, saying it could be a new North Sea oil for the British economy.

The Liberal Democrats have previously campaigned vigorously against the expansion of nuclear power, an attitude which has apparently become another victim of the realities of coalition government.

Townsend said he favors the expansion of nuclear power, calling it «the greenest form of energy» and «one of the things France does well.»

Despite the lack of technical obstacles to the expansion of nuclear power, some regulatory and political challenges exist.

In making the announcement last month, Assistant Secretary of Nuclear Energy Dennis Spurgeon said, «These awards will strengthen DOE's commitment to expanding the vital role America's universities play in supporting the advancement and expansion of nuclear power.

Having said that, I believe that a rational consideration of nuclear power as it relates to the problem of global warming leads to the conclusion that an expansion of nuclear power is neither a necessary nor a particularly effective solution for reducing GHG emissions from the generation of electricity.

Placing so much emphasis solely on carbon footprints gives traction to foolhardy ideas such as carbon capture, iron seeding of the ocean and the expansion of nuclear power, which have no precedent in geologic history and seek to reduce net carbon emissions at the cost of much greater environmental damage.

Around the world the expansion of nuclear power has continued largely unabated since Fukushima.

Tanaka also expected the expansion of nuclear power to be costlier and to experience more delays than previously thought as a result of the situation in Japan.

The political divide over nuclear energy, a carbon - neutral technology, is less pronounced than it is over fossil fuels: 57 % of conservative Republicans support the expansion of nuclear power plants versus 38 % of liberal Democrats.

Firstly, expansion of nuclear power to additional countries also increases the number of nations which are able to obtain enriched uranium for potential nuclear weapons.

But Mike Childs, head of climate change at Friends of the Earth, insisted the expansion of nuclear power could not go ahead without some form of public subsidy because of the massive costs of construction.

Heinz professor of environmental policy John Holdren, who holds a joint appointment in the Faculty of Arts and Science's department of earth and planetary sciences, counts himself among the environmentalists who believe a contribution from the expansion of nuclear power — if its drawbacks can be overcome — would help meet the need for carbon - free electricity in a climate - constrained world.

In January 2006, the Guardian reported that he opposes the expansion of nuclear power as a means of combating climate change.

See research into and expansion of nuclear power, expansion of which could, of course, reduce emissions.

In light of a state - projected energy shortage, New York needs an expansion of nuclear power; and, it's a near - «silver bullet» solution, according to an ex-Greenpeace expert.

The heirs of the early - 21st - century «Right» are focused on the expansion of nuclear power and on the deployment of geo - engineering schemes intended to buy time to bring down CO2 levels.

The expansion of nuclear power is due to renovations at existing plants, and is around 6 times greater then the wind / solar expansion.

The study also calls for an expansion of nuclear power — which will be controversial for environmental groups.