Sentences with phrase «from nuclear industry»

He also accepted positions from the nuclear industry and forestry companies in Asia and North America, but he still does not sacrifice his environmental credentials.

WRT decommissioning costs — and even more so, long - term storage costs — I certainly wouldn't trust any estimates from nuclear industry or enthusiast sources: they have every incentive to under - estimate costs, and a long record of doing so.

«This fossil fuel signal can moreover be partially masked by the enriching effect that anthropogenic emissions of 14CO2 from the nuclear industry have on the atmospheric Δ14CO2 signature.»

The response from the nuclear industry to such problems would have been to invent yet another nuclear plant design complete with promises of greater safety and lower cost.

It should be noted that contributions from the nuclear industry, a subcategory in the Center's totals for electric utilities, were held out of these totals.

I bet you have all those Oil company checks in your swiss bank account as I do mine from the Nuclear industry that I was accused of by a local greenie and my «Split Atoms not Birds...» remark concerning my opposition to Wind turbines....

Which is a good job, given the shortage of high - grade uranium ore, the huge unmanageable risks associated with nuclear plants and nuclear proliferation, the large amounts of embedded carbon in uranium refining and processing (and other GHG emissions from the nuclear industry), and the insanity of developing a huge strategic fuel dependence on countries such as Russia.

They set up an institute in Moscow to keep scientists from the nuclear industry in work.

The team are holding a one - day workshop on 27 April for trainers and safety experts from the nuclear industry.

Not exact matches

As much as Australia might benefit from a cut in official interest rates, it would definitely benefit from encouraging a new industry, such as the nuclear - fuel processing facility being championed by the South Australian government, and supported by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

The nuclear power industry, another area on which Hitachi has set its sights, is still recovering from the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that was triggered by the massive Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

That idea resonated with the U.S. nuclear - construction industry, which never recovered from the Three Mile Island disaster in the 1970s and was looking to new markets overseas.

Higher use of oil and gas in transport, heating and industry would lead EON and RWE to export its surplus energy from coal, gas, and nuclear to other European markets that are lagging behind.

China's nuclear industry might not thrive into mid-century unless the state continues to provide it incentives and benefits that are now coming under pressure from market forces and their advocates in Chinese government agencies.

Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

The global nuclear energy industry is at a crossroads as demand for nuclear energy shifts from North America and Europe to developing Asia.

CyberX would like to cordially invite you to a 1 / 2 - day seminar, «New Threat Vectors for ICS / SCADA Networks», featuring ICS experts from different industries including: pharmaceutical, nuclear, manufacturing and more.

by Jason Smith Blue Sky Uranium finds cause for optimism in Argentina Uranium prices have plummeted in recent years, as Japan's nuclear power industry has continued to recover very slowly from the Fukushima disaster in 2011.

Alongside this belching motorcade of backroom dealing and cronyism rides the nuclear industry, which stands to benefit from the NOPR more or less by accident.

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Various media said Trump was considering detonating the trade equivalent of a nuclear option — an executive order to withdraw from the trade agreement, which would instill fear in members of Congress, industry and Canadian and Mexican trade negotiators.

We can not allow the ailing nuclear industry to endanger the lives of millions of people just to squeeze out every last cent from its failing infrastructure.»

The UK is also seen as offering a welcome to infrastructure investment that delivers stable long - term returns that continues to be of great interest to China from projects regarded as too sensitive for foreign involvement by other states, such as the nuclear power industry.

The most striking beneficiary from the phasing out of nuclear power in Germany is the coal (and especially lignite) industry.

Papers released under a freedom of information request reveal one of the MoD's top civil servants told senior industry figures the government had already decided to replace its nuclear munitions despite public assurances that no decision had been taken from defence secretary Des Browne.

Republican state lawmakers in the Senate are pushing a $ 100 million bailout of the state's nuclear power industry using funds from a climate change program meant to cut greenhouse gases from power plants.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver proposed a bill that would ban companies and individuals that invest in Iran natural gas, oil or nuclear industries from doing business with all levels of government in New York.

Mr Reed - a leading critic of Jeremy Corbyn - stunned Westminster this afternoon by announcing he was resigning from his Copeland seat to take up a job in the nuclear industry.

He said: «As well as her own extensive and wide - ranging consultations with senior figures from the armed forces, the defence industry, the unions, academic experts and others, Emily is hosting a series of round table events for MPs to inform the defence review, focusing on issues such as intelligence, international relations, cyber-security, terrorism, and the role of special forces, as well as the future of the nuclear deterrent.

Foes of a U.S. nuclear power revival continue to fight the AP1000 and have seized on a statement from NRC last week that cited new issues in the agency's design review — a review that industry officials had assumed was going smoothly toward a final decision this year.

The main industry trade group, the Nuclear Energy Institute, commissioned studies that showed U.S. plants could sustain a direct hit from a modern airliner without any radiation release.

Manchester scientists have revealed how arsenic molecules might be used to «fish out» the most toxic elements from radioactive nuclear waste — a breakthrough that could make the decommissioning industry even safer and more effective.

Far from abandoning the nuclear industry, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) seems intent on reinvigorating it or at least propping it up — to the dismay of many environmentalists.

Domestic industries can make it from a range of chemical feedstocks and energy sources (for instance, from renewable, nuclear and fossil - fuel sources), and the nontoxic gas could serve as a virtually pollution - free energy carrier for machines of many kinds.

Small modular reactors may help with two of the biggest challenges facing the nuclear industry: the growing stores of waste from existing reactors and residue from the mass production of nuclear weapons as well as the overall safety of nuclear power.

And that may ultimately erode the current U.S. nuclear industry advantage — from design to operation to regulation.

It is possible to remain a nuclear inspector for life, but returning to industry or academia is always an option, Nangonya says — although many from the developing world find it hard to match their very specific expertise with a job back home.

Given the Trump administration's questioning of climate science, the nuclear industry is hoping states will follow through with financial support while fending off a surge of cheap gas and questions from the right about whether at - risk reactors should receive federal support.

Though it doesn't break out the nuclear data separately, statistics from Europe's electricity industry association Eurelectric show both planned and unplanned outages mostly increased at thermal power plants in eight European countries examined, and periods of energy unavailability increased from around 12.8 percent in 2002 to 18.3 percent in 2011.

Well, five years from now the official industry forecast suggests that decentralized low - and no - carbon generators will be adding 160 times as much capacity as nuclear will add up to that year.

The Prime Minister added that he was not attracted by the suggestion from Foratom, the European nuclear industry association, that governments donating assistance should participate in a multilateral liability fund.

Tim Eggar, the minister of state who handles most energy issues from within the Department of Trade and Industry, announced on 19 May that the long - heralded Nuclear Review would involve two separate departmental inquiries.

Information is still coming in about the events unfolding in Japan, but the administration is committed to learning from Japan's experience as we work to continue to strengthen America's nuclear industry,» Chu said.

«It is difficult to see how any safety case presented from now on that relies in any way upon the UK VPF, whether on the roads, the railways or in the nuclear industry, such as the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C in Somerset, could stand up to test in court.

The workshop, held 3 to 4 October, attracted two dozen nuclear arms and security experts from government and diplomacy, industry, academia, and non-governmental organizations for off - the - record discussions, followed by a presentation for about 150 Georgia Tech students and faculty members.

China has become the nuclear industry's living laboratory for new reactor designs and the learning that comes from actual construction.

«Is it not extraordinary and unacceptable,» he went on to add, «that the honourable gentleman should have made that announcement before the conclusion of the 1994 review on nuclear policy, which the government commissioned from the industry?»

With the aid of nuclear industry promotional pamphlets and detailed advice he obtained from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (to which he misrepresented himself as a physics professor), Hahn removed radium from old clocks, extracted americium from smoke detectors, stole tritium from borrowed night - vision equipment, and even ordered a sample of uranium - bearing ore from a company in the Czech Renuclear industry promotional pamphlets and detailed advice he obtained from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (to which he misrepresented himself as a physics professor), Hahn removed radium from old clocks, extracted americium from smoke detectors, stole tritium from borrowed night - vision equipment, and even ordered a sample of uranium - bearing ore from a company in the Czech ReNuclear Regulatory Commission (to which he misrepresented himself as a physics professor), Hahn removed radium from old clocks, extracted americium from smoke detectors, stole tritium from borrowed night - vision equipment, and even ordered a sample of uranium - bearing ore from a company in the Czech Republic.

There are several reasons for this: the contraction of energy - intensive heavy industries, such as iron and steel; the long - term malaise in the national economy; the modest move away from burning fossil fuels that produce carbon dioxide towards nuclear energy; and the increasingly efficient use of energy evident in most of the economies of the rich world.

· The U.S. nuclear industry and USNRC should strengthen their capabilities for assessing risks from events that could challenge the design of nuclear plant structures and components and lead to a loss of critical safety functions.