Sentences with phrase «from nuclear power stations»

To consider the annual radiation caused by routine emissions from nuclear power stations as anything dangerous is a gross form of public deception.

I'm reasonably confident that we can ensure enough safety measures are in place that current generation from nuclear power stations is indeed about as safe, statistically, as any energy source.

BPA derives 83 percent of its power from federally - owned hydroelectric dams dotting the Northwest and 10 percent from nuclear power stations.

Obviously there are threats from the nuclear power station, but they are limited and they are quantifiable.

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David Miliband has criticised the Scottish government after it vowed to prevent Westminster from building new nuclear power stations in Scotland.

On the environment, the Lib Dems wanted no new nuclear power stations and to increase the proportion of energy from renewables from 15 % to 40 % by 2020.

David Tillman, a spokesman for Exelon, which operates the Nine Mile Nuclear Power Station, said the company has offered to provide Fitzpatrick's fuel at cost so it can remain open while state officials work out the plan for how to achieve Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal to get 50 percent of state energy from renewable sources by 2030.

Nuclear: Lib Dem spokesman will be able to speak in opposition to new power stations - and Lib Dem MPs will abstain from vote

Each day, some two billion gallons of water are pumped from Long Island Sound into the Millstone Power Station in Waterford, Conn. — that state's only nuclear power plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating reacPower Station in Waterford, Conn. — that state's only nuclear power plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating reStation in Waterford, Conn. — that state's only nuclear power plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating reacpower plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating restation's two operating reactors.

Interestingly, at least once the censorship seemed to work for the social good: when a false rumour started that eating iodised salt, rather than potassium iodide pills, would protect people from radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, the censors deleted the messages.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

The new UK power stations will all be either nuclear or offshore wind farms, though there may also be some carbon capture from fossil fuel plants by the late 2020s.

It is the waste left over when the isotope uranium - 235 is extracted from naturally - occurring uranium to fuel nuclear power stations and build nuclear bombs.

«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 country's particular problems include the drying up of native oil and gas from the North Sea, an ageing portfolio of nuclear power stations and a renewable - energy sector struggling to become competitive.

A police officer in protective suit walks past a damaged house while searching for bodies in Minamisoma, about 18 km (11 miles) from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power station, Fukushima prefecture, April 11, 2011.

How to reduce nuclear wastes or how to treat them including the debris from TEPCO's Fukushima nuclear power stations is discussed; and 3) Environmental radioactivity, radioactive waste treatment and geological disposal policy.State - of - the - art technologies for overall back - end issues of the nuclear fuel cycle as well as the technologies of transmutation are presented here.

Billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide have been released into the atmosphere from coal - fired power stations that would never have been built if it weren't for our fear of nuclear power.

A solar - powered car wash popped up in California, we peeked in on a near nuclear meltdown in Sweden, and, in Japan, they were generating electricity from train station ticket gates.

The levels of exposure to radiation following the leaks and explosions at the earthquake - damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in 2011 were so low that they led today to this important conclusion from experts convened in Vienna by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effect of Atomic Radiation:

It's very difficult to make weapons from used fuel from modern civil nuclear power stations.

To get 42 kWh per day per person from nuclear power would require 525 one - gigawatt nuclear power stations, a roughly five-fold increase over today's levels.

«The potential loss of 3,190 megawatts of hydropower due to the California drought exceeds the 2,200 megawatts of power lost from the shut down of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.»

The cities of Encinitas, Del Mar and Solana Beach weren't singing songs of joy about the proposed re-deployment of combined cycle gas - fired power plants to replace the 2,200 megawatts of power lost from the shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).

Countries such as Germany, which has received praise from ecologists for its promise to phase out nuclear power stations and construct large number of wind parks on land and sea are finding that they do not solve the power problem.

The government plans to re-commission several retired coal power stations, and build more in the coming decade, with the remaining increase in capacity expected to come from new nuclear power plants.

In new Zealand our last government committed us to it and the present one supports that with the absurd result that as a clean, green nuclear free country with four and a half million population on a land - mass nearly the size of Britain we are buying carbon credits from Russia, who are classed better environmentally than us, pollution, dodgy power stations, doubtful farming, the lot, as their population / area ratio is lower!

The hydrogen economy, in its original sense, is based on central power stations (most likely nuclear ones) that would use energy to remove hydrogen from water.

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Very roughly Electricity costs from existing Australian coal fired power stations might be say $ 25billion / TWh and from existing European and US nuclear plants (Gen II) say the cost is the same, i.e. $ 25billion / TWh.

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Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force, cites the shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station as he explains why he has reluctantly shifted from being an anti-nuclear activist to someone who now argues that we can't afford to dismiss nuclearNuclear Generating Station as he explains why he has reluctantly shifted from being an anti-nuclear activist to someone who now argues that we can't afford to dismiss nuclearnuclear activist to someone who now argues that we can't afford to dismiss nuclearnuclear power.

The good news is that it can be done with existing technology, by cutting energy waste, expanding the use of renewable sources, growing trees and crops (which remove carbon dioxide from the air) to turn into fuel, capturing the gas before it is released from power stations, and - maybe - using more nuclear energy.

Given the evident concern about nuclear waste, it will be interesting to see if there is any reactions from young people to the governments recent admission that, on current NDA plans, the proposed Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) is not expected to be available to take spent fuel from new nuclear power stations until around 2130, which they note «is approximately 50 years after the likely end of electricity generation for the first new nuclear power station».

After taking part in a 325 km Walk for a Solar Thermal Power Station for Port Augusta (about 70 of us walked from Port Augusta to Adelaide) I'd be very sure that the people of that city would far prefer a solar thermal power station to a nuclearPower Station for Port Augusta (about 70 of us walked from Port Augusta to Adelaide) I'd be very sure that the people of that city would far prefer a solar thermal power station to a nucleStation for Port Augusta (about 70 of us walked from Port Augusta to Adelaide) I'd be very sure that the people of that city would far prefer a solar thermal power station to a nuclearpower station to a nuclestation to a nuclear one.

These range from weatherizing 600,000 homes to deploying 20,000 electric vehicle charging stations; from implementing the smart grid to capturing and storing carbon emissions; from restarting the nuclear power industry to investing in solar energy manufacturing, wind turbine reliability, and biofuels technologies.

In Australia, Prime Minister Howard has gone from global warming denial to «we need to build nuclear power stations».

These are same implications for having most electricity generated from say 25 nuclear power stations located within 100 km of the 7 major urban centers.

Just down the road from us is Didcot A power station, a large coal - burning plant with poor pollution control and therefore with substantial effects on local air quality, as well as more substantial emissions of radiation than from any UK nuclear power station and a Co2 output of about 8 million tonnes a year.

Tokyo residents worry about radiation following reports of further contamination escaping from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power station.

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