Sentences with phrase «from nuclear power production»

A leading ecologist with decades of experience in the effects of disturbance on ecosystems, Woodwell shows that diverse industrial activities — from nuclear power production to fossil - fuel burning to contemporary agricultural practices — are affecting the chemical processes that underpin all life on Earth.

Not exact matches

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.

At the same time, the Chinese have taken the lead in producing clean energy — from topping the world in the production and installation of solar power to building an entire new series of nuclear power plants, making use of the latest technology.

Electricity production from biomass, coal, gas and hydropower for instance induces much higher indirect greenhouse gas emissions than nuclear electricity, or wind and solar - based power supply.»

In one decade (1977 — 1987), France increased its nuclear power production 15-fold, with the nuclear portion of its electricity increasing from 8 % to 70 % [231].

Nuclear can't back out oil from power production, there is so little.

According to a River Network report in June, electricity production by coal, nuclear and natural gas power plants is the fastest - growing use of freshwater in the U.S., accounting for more than half of all fresh, surface water withdrawals from rivers.

As nuclear power generation disappears by 2022, electricity production from natural gas will play an important transitional role in Germany in order to fill the gap left open from the closing of nuclear capacity.

Production tax credit of 1.8 or 2.1 cents / kWh from the first 6,000 MWe of new nuclear capacity in their first eight years of operation (the same rate as available to wind power on an unlimited basis).

The 20th century saw great leaps forward in technology and innovation — from the mass production of cars to nuclear power to moon landings — and ended on something of a high with the internet.

While total output from low carbon technologies, such as hydro, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and nuclear power, has continued to grow, their share of global primary energy supply has remained relatively constant; fossil fuels have maintained their dominance and carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) has yet to be applied to electricity production at scale.

A national renewable electricity standard would mandate that a given share of an electric company's production come from renewable sources (most likely wind power), or, in the case of a «clean energy standard,» from an expanded list including nuclear and hydroelectric power.

Excluding nuclear from the discussion, wind, solar and ocean current power production are nice ideas but far from capable of meeting today's demands; much less tomorrow's.

In one decade (1977 — 1987), France increased its nuclear power production 15-fold, with the nuclear portion of its electricity increasing from 8 % to 70 % [231].

(Sec. 1306) Allows a tax credit for certain levels of production from advanced nuclear power facilities.

Using historical production data, we calculate that global nuclear power has prevented about 1.84 million air pollution - related deaths and 64 gigatonnes (Gt) CO2 - equivalent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that would have resulted from fossil fuel burning.

Although Latin American countries rely lightly on nuclear power (only Argentina, Brazil and Mexico have plants, which represent only 2 % of the region's energy production), many countries had plans for new plants until this week: namely Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela, apart from expansion plans in the countries that already have centrals.

Nuclear power is the future of our civilization which has immense potential and has huge energy production from a small quantity.