Sentences with phrase «for nuclear waste storage»

A recent study looking for nuclear waste storage sites suggested that the sedimentary soil beneath Toronto and surrounds was very stable and suitable for long term storage.

Holtec sees the passage of H.R. 3050 as a good step towards interim and long - term solutions for nuclear waste storage.

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.»

Overview of efforts in Congress to weaken health and safety standards for nuclear waste storage and disposal.

The budget also would include $ 140 million to restart licensing activities for nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain, a thorny issue on Capitol Hill.

Not exact matches

The recent accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant reinforces the need for renewed thinking about nuclear - waste storage and disposal.

As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage.

The Obama administration's budget cuts funding for oil research and the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository as it increases money to renewables, carbon capture and storage

In the aftermath of Yucca's mothballing, the DOE has pursued a diverse strategy of nuclear waste management that includes tentative plans for consolidated interim storage facilities, tests of deep boreholes as another possible long - term storage technique, and the development of «consent - based» siting protocols to gain support from municipal and state governments.

The telegram seems to substantiate charges that politicians in the government of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl pressured scientists to recommend an old salt mine as a potential site for long - term nuclear waste storage.

«The sensing skin could be used for a wide range of structures, but the impetus for the work was to help ensure the integrity of critical infrastructure such as nuclear waste storage facilities,» says Dr. Mohammad Pour - Ghaz, an assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the work.

Aluminum is currently used in not only research reactor components but also nuclear batteries and spacecraft, and it has been proposed as material for storage containers for nuclear waste.

A similar chemical reaction stemming from the sloppy disposal of Los Alamos» nuclear waste in 2014 provoked the shutdown of a deep - underground storage site in New Mexico for more than two years, a DOE accident investigation concluded.

Indiana University researchers have reported the first definitive evidence for a chemical bond between two negatively charged molecules of bisulfate, or HSO4, a new molecular structure with potential applications to the safe storage of nuclear waste and reduction of chemicals that contaminate water and trigger large fish kills.

For decades, public sentiment, expressed in hearings, protests, public opinion polls, and other means, has strongly opposed spent nuclear fuel and high level waste storage or disposal in New Mexico.

Republican leaders in the U.S. House support legislation to nominate Yucca Mountain as the storage and disposal location for high level waste and spent nuclear fuel.

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, which Feinstein chairs and Alexander serves as the top Republican, may again include a mandate for DOE to designate a high level waste / spent nuclear fuel storage site, as they did in the 2012 bill that the last Congress did not pass.

Unfortunately, the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage plan overpromises and underperforms for the people of my State.

In 2013, Congress likely will consider nuclear waste legislation for a new spent nuclear fuels storage facility and perhaps more comprehensive nuclear waste legislation.

Also, this swelling can be a problem for long - term storage of nuclear waste.

For this series, the artist photographed a wide range of subjects such as nuclear waste encapsulation and storage facilities to a recreational site for death row prisoneFor this series, the artist photographed a wide range of subjects such as nuclear waste encapsulation and storage facilities to a recreational site for death row prisonefor death row prisoners.

I think the jury is out, but if I had to guess, I'd say that improved nuclear fuel cycles and improved waste storage technology have more near - term prospect for solving the waste problem for nuclear than sequestration proposals have for CO2.

Yet, no country has developed an acceptable or permanent method for high — level nuclear waste storage, thereby leaving both present and future generations at great risk.

Lets see: Wind Farms: 1000s dead birds killed on the blades Nuclear: Terrorists, fail to manage the waste across many glacials etc etc and you have a sterile world Roof top solar: Energy storage for rainy days and nights Lower energy use: get real!

But the logic propelling the charge reaches a breaking point — if a regulation calling for fences around nuclear waste storage or munitions dumps actually did turn out to be «job - killing,» think people would suddenly oppose it?

From my point of view nuclear's scale up has problems with regulations and political will for storage, if necessary for waste.

6/26/17 — Plans for building the nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, fell apart a decade ago because, in part, federal officials didn't do enough to win support from state and local residents, analysts have said in Issues.

(Associated Press) • Nuclear waste from power plants around the country could be headed to West Texas for temporary storage as a result of a bill passed by the House on Thursday.

The capital costs for nuclear plants are $ 6,000 a kilowatt, or $ 6 a watt, or more, not including waste storage, and often rise higher than expected.

For example, the mandate in Minnesota for 425 megawatts of wind power by 2003 was part of a settlement with Northern States Power (now Xcel Energy) to extend on - site storage of nuclear waste at its nuclear faciliFor example, the mandate in Minnesota for 425 megawatts of wind power by 2003 was part of a settlement with Northern States Power (now Xcel Energy) to extend on - site storage of nuclear waste at its nuclear facilifor 425 megawatts of wind power by 2003 was part of a settlement with Northern States Power (now Xcel Energy) to extend on - site storage of nuclear waste at its nuclear facility.

This makes very good sense to me, the cost would drop dramatically if we changed our regulation environment for nuclear, the new passive cooling reactors are much much safer than older reactor designs, and regional storage (which we have de facto anyway) solves the waste problem.

any nuclear reactor wherever located; any nuclear fuel cycle facility; any radioactive waste management facility; the transport and storage of nuclear fuels or radioactive wastes; the manufacture, use, storage, disposal and transport of radioisotopes for agricultural, industrial, medical and related scientific and research purposes; and the use of radioisotopes for power generation in space objects

And just like existing nuclear power plants, they produce long - lived, highly radioactive nuclear waste for which no safe management and permanent storage exists.

I say: it has even more such advantage in nuclear energy with its vast uranium desposits and ample space for safe waste storage

The most wonderful illustration of this mismatch between what science can tell us and what politicians care about is the effort to build a long - term storage site for nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.

The budget increase will be for handling the country's nuclear stockpile and restart the controversial Yucca Mountain storage facility for nuclear waste.

Even then, all they will achieve is putting as much of the nuclear waste genie as possible back into temporary storage — like before — because we have no real life working solution for it.

Enforcing fire and earthquake regulations, addressing flood risks, and safer storage for nuclear waste are just a few of the ways we can help prevent nuclear accidents.

Prospecting, mining, storing, transporting, refining, burning, cleaning up the mess from, fighting wars over, wild price fluctuations, huge military costs for protection, blowing the tops off thousands of mountains or billion gallon coal fly ash sludge spills, or oil spills or nuclear accidents or radioactive waste storage problems, or running out of fuel resources.

The main point of the discussion was Yucca Mountain, a nuclear waste storage facility in Nevada that took years and billions of dollars to research and build, that is a completely safe location to store commercial nuclear waste, but which sits empty for political reasons.

I (and perhaps others here) would welcome pointers to any peer - reviewed reports you are aware of that assess the energy cost of the entire nuclear life - cycle (from mining through waste storage and monitoring) so that the overall EROEI for the entire nuclear energy life cycle can be known (the kind of thing being done for ethanol).