Sentences with phrase «for nuclear energy technology»

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The technology for nuclear weapons is different from that for nuclear energy, but there is some overlap.
Many Indian and foreign nuclear energy technology companies have not been willing to supply nuclear technology and services to India because laws in the country leave suppliers open to financial liability for damages to third parties in the case of a nuclear accident.
This opened the door for the sale of uranium and nuclear energy technology and services between the two countries, but trade outcomes have been limited.
Despite the modestly slowing rate of cost declines for utility - scale alternative energy generation, the gap between the costs of certain alternative energy technologies (e.g., utility - scale solar and onshore wind) and conventional generation technologies continues to widen as the cost profiles of such conventional generation remain flat (e.g., coal) and, in certain instances, increase (e.g., nuclear).
French President Francois Hollande arrives in Japan on Thursday for a visit expected to focus on closer cooperation in nuclear energy technologies and on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic strategies.
French President Francois Hollande arrived in Japan on Thursday for a visit expected to focus on closer cooperation in nuclear energy technologies and on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic strategies.
The government should be legislating now in the Energy Bill for a decarbonisation target for 2030 in order to give a framework for those seeking to invest in renewable, nuclear, and clean gas and coal technology.
A similar agreement was discussed at the 6 nation talks in 1997: NK stops developing nuclear technology, in return for energy aid
Under Cuomo, the PSC has undertaken an ambitious reimagining of the utility industry, called Reforming the Energy Vision, has backed subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technEnergy Vision, has backed subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technenergy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technenergy technology.
Under Cuomo, the PSC has undertaken an ambitious reimagining of the utility industry, has backed subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technology.
Canada however was annoyed that India had violated a 1971 agreement between the two countries relating to the transfer of peaceful nuclear technology, and froze nuclear energy assistance to India for two years.
As long as nuclear technology remains important for keeping America in its current position of global leadership, the U.S. government will keep pumping research's life - blood (money) into nuclear - energy - related science.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES) conducts research into novel nuclear fission fuels and technoNuclear Energy Systems (CANES) conducts research into novel nuclear fission fuels and technonuclear fission fuels and technologies.
«Nuclear is the major base load — producing energy source that could reduce greenhouse - gas emissions,» says Kathryn McCarthy, INL's deputy director for nuclear science and techNuclear is the major base load — producing energy source that could reduce greenhouse - gas emissions,» says Kathryn McCarthy, INL's deputy director for nuclear science and technuclear science and technology.
And just last year the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), home of the nation's first and best graduate nuclear engineering program, started a brand - new research center, the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (nuclear engineering program, started a brand - new research center, the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES).
One of the most outstanding legacies of [former prime minister] Jawaharlal Nehru is the vast infrastructure for science and technology that India possesses and which has made so many far - reaching contributions to the country's progress — in agriculture, nuclear energy, defense, space, industry, energy, telecom and IT.
From a strategic standpoint, which is the bigger competitor for nuclear: incumbent coal, oil and gas technologies or other alternative energy technologies?
For example, a tax on fossil fuel burned would spur investment in cleaner energy technologies, such as renewables or nuclear power.
Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).
Arjun Makhijani, who heads the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, a think tank that advocates against nuclear power, sees disseminating the technology as incompatible with controlling it.
Earlier today, The Hill newspaper reported that the plan «would roll back funding for nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research to 2008 levels, eliminate the Office of Electricity, eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and scrap the Office of Fossil Energy, which focuses on technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.»
* $ 2.5 billion for developing clean new energy technology and another $ 1 billion for «nuclear technologies of tomorrow.»
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have demonstrated that diamonds may hold the key to the future for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies
In his December 2017 address to the Nuclear Industry Association's Annual Conference in London, Energy Minister Richard Harrington set out the next steps for the Government's plans to support Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology.
Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA-0003525.
Beyond ARPA - E, both the fossil and nuclear energy offices would see reductions of around five percent, while DOE's office for efficiency and renewable energy technology would be cut by 47 percent — all three reductions far smaller than the Administration had requested.
Boosts for nuclear and fossil energy encompassed several technology areas, and smart grid and cybersecurity research also did very well.
Marilyn Kray, vice president of Nuclear Technology and Strategy for Exelon Generation, said, «By providing our knowledge and expertise of nuclear plant operations, we are advancing innovative, next - generation nuclear technology to ensure that our industry continues to provide clean, safe and reliable energy for future generations.Nuclear Technology and Strategy for Exelon Generation, said, «By providing our knowledge and expertise of nuclear plant operations, we are advancing innovative, next - generation nuclear technology to ensure that our industry continues to provide clean, safe and reliable energy for future generatioTechnology and Strategy for Exelon Generation, said, «By providing our knowledge and expertise of nuclear plant operations, we are advancing innovative, next - generation nuclear technology to ensure that our industry continues to provide clean, safe and reliable energy for future generations.nuclear plant operations, we are advancing innovative, next - generation nuclear technology to ensure that our industry continues to provide clean, safe and reliable energy for future generations.nuclear technology to ensure that our industry continues to provide clean, safe and reliable energy for future generatiotechnology to ensure that our industry continues to provide clean, safe and reliable energy for future generations.»
She joins 11 fellow experts on the «Independent Assessment of Science and Technology for the Department of Energy's Defense Environmental Cleanup Program» committee through the NASEM Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board.
In April 2015, NuScale launched its NuScale Diverse Energy Platform (NuDEP) highlighting its small modular reactor technology as the nuclear «plug - n - play» solution for providing reliable power to diverse applications.
CEA Tech is the technology research branch of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), a key player in innovative R&D, defence & security, nuclear energy, technological research for industry and fundamental science, identified by Thomson Reuters as the second most innovative research organization in the Energy Commission (CEA), a key player in innovative R&D, defence & security, nuclear energy, technological research for industry and fundamental science, identified by Thomson Reuters as the second most innovative research organization in the energy, technological research for industry and fundamental science, identified by Thomson Reuters as the second most innovative research organization in the world.
The Institute for Energy Technology has been world leading within design and manufacture of nuclear instrumentation since the early 1960's for experiments in the Halden Reactor.
O'Brien, J. E., Stoots, C. M., Herring, J. S., Lessing, P. A., Hartvigsen, J. J., and Elangovan, S., «Performance Measurements of Solid - Oxide Electrolysis Cells for Hydrogen Production from Nuclear Energy,» Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Vol.
Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525.
Brian Sales, distinguished research scientist and lead of the Correlated Electron Materials Group in the Materials Science and Technology Division, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «pioneering research for clean energy technologies, including thermoelectric and superconducting materials, and materials for nuclear waste storage.»
Terrestrial Energy uses a completely different nuclear technology for its small modular reactor — molten salt fuel instead of conventional solid fuel.
«For more than 50 years GE has been at the forefront of energy innovation and nuclear technology and GE Hitachi's PRISM reactor offers an attractive solution to tackling the UK's plutonium management challenges while generating clean electricity,» said Mark Elborne, President and CEO of GE UK & Ireland.
The work supports the Lab's Nuclear Deterrence and Energy Security mission areas and the Information, Science, and Technology and Materials for the Future science pillars.
Terrestrial Energy has begun a feasibility study for the siting of the first commercial Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories» (CNL) Chalk River site, with a further vision of creating a technology hub at CNL to support the commercialisation of small modular reactors (SMR).
According to a paper by Xuegang Liu of the Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Engineering, The Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing («Spent Nuclear Fuel Management in China,» NAPSNet Special Reports, Aug. 5, 2014), because China has chosen to use a closed - cycle fuel path, it has less need for long - term SNF storage.
This fascinating documentary about the quest for nuclear fusion as a silver bullet for the world's energy thirst is at the same time informative and entertaining as it dives into both the insane and insanely expensive ways of achieving the technology (see the trailer for a taste).
Today we have different incentives for different technologies — from nuclear power, to clean coal, to wind and solar energy.
I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.
Conversely, although nuclear energy accounts for less than 10 percent of the GHG emission reduction potentials across all scenarios, it has received some 50 percent of the total public investment in energy technology R&D.
[Comment 21] Today we have different incentives for different technologies — from nuclear power, to clean coal, to wind and solar energy.
We've provided billions of dollars for next generation nuclear energy technologies.
When climate scientists start acting as advocates for some specific technology, writing letters demanding the nuclear power plants stay open, when many other experts in the energy field have well - developed reasons for closing them and going with wind / solar / storage instead, it doesn't do climate activism any good.
At the 2015 Paris summit, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz provided a compelling vision for nuclear technology development:
Isn't the technology for producing nuclear power already advanced enough that it could theoretically provide all of mankind's energy needs?
While there will be no single technological silver bullet, the time has come for those who take the threat of global warming seriously to embrace the development and deployment of safer nuclear power systems as one among several technologies that will be essential to any credible effort to develop an energy system that does not rely on using the atmosphere as a waste dump.
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