Sentences with phrase «for spent fuel»

In fact Utilities operating nuclear plants have managed to come up with design solutions to greatly increase the storage capacity of the on site facilities — due to the failure of the federal government to meet their legal obligation under US law to provide a repository for spent fuel.

While the final fate of Yucca Mountain may be decided in Congress, the courts, or the NRC, the fact is that there will be no repository for spent fuel and high - level waste for decades.

For almost 25 years, there was little attention on WIPP as an alternative consolidated storage or disposal site, because Yucca Mountain was the preferred repository for spent fuel and high - level waste.

I am pleased that the Department plans for all spent fuel in Yucca Mountain to be fully retrievable for at least 50 years.

But Nevada politicians of all stripes are steadfastly opposed to that idea, even as lawmakers from other states push to find a safer home for the spent fuel.

The DOE has chosen Yucca Mountain to be the store for spent fuel and high - level waste with a half - life of 24 000 years.

Last year Finland showed this when it approved construction of the Onkalo facility, which is expected to become the first geologic repository for spent fuel when it begins operations in the 2020s.

For spent fuel it takes 10,000.

Not exact matches

SpaceX spends nearly $ 37 million to build, fuel, and launch each rocket, for roughly a 40 % margin, according to a Space News analysis.

But for now, at least, Canadians had better get used to spending more on the stuff we've long taken for granted: the era of cheap food and fuel, it seems, is over.

He thinks that increased ad spending and popular new promotions will fuel a rally for the stock.

The serial entrepreneur and investor, who serves on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, spent several years as a kid living in Tokyo and fueled a lifelong zest for travel, which his international consulting practice provides plenty of today.

In Lebanon, for instance, an IRC report found that 87,700 Syrian refugee families each given $ 575 via ATM cards spent the money on food, clothes, fuel oil and getting out of debt.

He spent nearly a decade in the corporate world building high - end printers, not, it should be pointed out, manipulating plasma fuel for fusion experiments.

That's why analysts expect the government to look for operating expenditure cuts — such as cutting remaining fuel subsidies — even as it tries to keep up development spending and target lower - income households, often called the B40, or bottom 40 percent with incomes of less than around 2,500 ringgit a month.

The fuel price increases will filter through the economy, said McTeague, leading to less discretionary spending, higher inflation rates and fuel premium increases for truck, rail and air transport of goods.

Capital spending has become essential fuel in the Internet superpowers» war for consumers and for companies that rent computing horsepower.

This debt was the fuel for the consumption and capital spending boom we saw in recent years.

Hope this doesn't put off new Tesla owners who see this charging at the superchargers, the guy must have more money than sense to spend that kind of cash on one car just so that he can say he has an electric estate car for his dog, nice gimmick but he is not going to be offsetting the cost of fuel anytime soon.

A Little Bad Luck For The Fed Too... As Trump's Deficit Spending Pressures The Dollar [providing even more incremental inflationary fuel]... Adding Further Impetus To Higher Yields.

Higher consumption fuels economic growth, so there are several implications for the economy and markets if consumers spend less.

The government and the oil and gas industry have spent lavishly to promote fossil fuel development, but a poll for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers found that only 51 % of us think tar sands / oil sands development is worth the environmental risk; 49 % think it isn't.

Being in the enviable position of having its debt completely paid, and with record prices for oil fueling government revenues, the province found itself in a unique position: namely, where should revenues be spent?

What the world badly needs is credit expansion to fuel new investment that raises productivity, and for that productivity gain to flow through to higher wages and household spending.

«We also continue to see strong growth and success in China as their emerging middle class continues to fuel discretionary spending and demand for foreign brands and products,» Duffin said.

So if we started to get inflation that's going to create a real problem for the central banks because they won't be able to emit in the quantities of currency they've been emitting because that will fuel inflation and inflation of course destroys capital, it destroys the savings, it destroys the purchasing power of wages and people actually have less money to spend, less purchasing power.

Fueling the rebound is rising demand amid tightening supplies, thanks in part to Donald Trump's stunning White House win and the likelihood that he'll move forward with a plan to spend $ 1 trillion on infrastructure over the next decade, driving incremental demand for zinc.

In recent years, oil and gas majors like Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell have invested billions of dollars into LNG projects in countries like Australia and Qatar, while further vast sums have been spent on plants that turn LNG back into gas in consuming countries, all in the belief the world's need for the fuel would rise rapidly — especially as countries, particularly in Asia, sought to move away from more polluting -LSB-...]

«All things considered, the economy still appears to be on a solid footing, supported by a confident consumer sector — one with an optimism that is fueled by growing income and a strong labor market and is well positioned to spend more in the coming quarters,» said Jim Baird, chief investment officer for Plante Moran Financial Advisors.

The fact that it takes only 8.8 pounds of plutonium to produce an atomic bomb in the one - kiloton range makes spent fuel rods an alluring target for sophisticated revolutionary groups.

You receive one reward point for every pound spent, so simply redeem next time you shop to stay fuelled for less.

Crackers, pancakes, waffles and breadsticks are the most popular uses for what others say is «spent fuel» (the microorganisms have already consumed -LSB-...]

For example, if you spend $ 40 today and $ 60 next week, you will receive a fuel reward.

The FANS are the biggest idiots in the end for spending money to fuel this circus.

Drivers had to start Q3 with the amount of fuel they were going to start the race with, which meant that much of the session was spent watching cars driving around trying to use as much fuel as possible in order to make their car as light as possible for their flying laps.

In her article, Ragalie stressed the whole - child approach to health that is reinforced by the values of the learning connection: «With American children spending more than 2,000 hours in school each year, it's clear that in - school wellness initiatives (e.g., Fuel Up to Play 60) and alternate school breakfast programs, can be an engine for positive change to help achieve wellness goals, including being a part of the solution to overcome food insecurity.»

Maternal health: the cost of buying formula, the time spent finding fuel and preparing infant milk feeds or caring for a sick child mean that a mother also benefits from breastfeeding.

Fuel poverty is defined as the need to spend over 10 % of household income on fuel costs to maintain adequate warmth for health and comfFuel poverty is defined as the need to spend over 10 % of household income on fuel costs to maintain adequate warmth for health and comffuel costs to maintain adequate warmth for health and comfort.

For more than two months, Nigerians have had to spend more times at fuel stations than in their homes or offices and other places of work.

But it's still nowhere near the figures they are projecting, I think, for this,» he said, noting the 29 % reduction from fuel poverty spending by the Association for the Conservation of Energy's data.

He said the governors» position was informed by the huge amount of money being spent by the NNPC as payment for fuel subsidy annually.

Entergy will also move a set yearly number of spent fuel rods from their dangerous storage pools to dry cask storage on site — a much safer solution for this radioactive material.

Issue like the West Lothian question and Scotland's supposedly disproportionate share of public spending have fuelled support for an end to the union altogether.

Federal authorities in May gave approval for a company to truck spent nuclear fuel over the Peace -LSB-...]

One in ten UK households are living in fuel poverty, one in five of which are pensioners; and at least # 1 for every # 4 spent on heating UK homes is wasted due to poor insulation.

Quinn - Carey spent $ 48,000 in unauthorized purchases of food, beverages and some fuel for her car, according to the audit.

The reason the UK has been running a trade deficit with the EU (and, for that matter, the rest of the world) has nothing to do with the EU - and everything to do with the debt - fuelled growth of consumer spending in the UK.

Some of the current # 2.7 bn spending on the Winter Fuel Payment could be better focused on helping the poorest pensioners, for example, by means - testing the payment, or by raising pensioners» minimum income guarantee.

Overall the Winter Fuel Payment would appear to be a strong candidate for cutting, compared to many other, more valuable, areas of spending.

It's not just the locals who have expressed reservations about using the Peace Bridge as a shipping route for spent nuclear fuel.