Sentences with phrase «fuel cycle as»

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.

First Energy spokesperson Jennifer Young told World Nuclear News that the reassessment of operating safety margins is routinely carried out for every new fuel cycle as part of normal practice, regardless of the type of fuel.

Not exact matches

«This recovery has been fueled by a housing bubble, just as the late 90s cycle was fueled by a stock bubble,» said Baker.

In a 24/7 news cycle that is fueled by controversies, outrage, sensationalism and rhetoric, it's easy to view these sorts of tactics as effective tools in advancing our cause.

The NCC's concern for energy issues dates back to fall 1974 when the Division of Church and Society (DCS) asked Margaret Mead and René Dubos to chair a study of the implications of using plutonium as fuel in the nuclear cycle.

Constellation had bought 100 per cent of the business, previously known as BRL Hardy, in 2003 at the top of the wine cycle after a low Australian dollar had fuelled significant growth in exports for the BRL Hardy brands.

Like bankers do for financial debt, climate scientists assume that the greenhouse gas expense of burning biofuels will be paid back eventually as the crops that make fuel «earn» carbon through sequestering it throughout their life cycle.

The back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, mostly spent fuel rods, often contains fission products that emit beta and gamma radiation, and may contain actinides that emit alpha particles, such as uranium - 234, neptunium - 237, plutonium - 238 and americium - 241, and even sometimes some neutron emitters such as Cf.

There is almost no work going on in the United Kingdom on future alternative reactor designs, such as Generation IV reactors and small modular reactors and their associated fuel cycles, so Beddington's ad hoc board says the government should actively foster research in these areas.

In addition, a supercritical turbine could fit into a directly heated cycle, where a fuel like natural gas burns in the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as waste.

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.

Our activities, such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation, are pushing the cycle out of its natural balance, adding more and more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

As a result of this annual cycle, together with the continual emissions from fossil fuel burning (particularly over China, Europe, and the southeast United States), carbon levels reach a maximum in the Northern Hemisphere in April, just before terrestrial plants begin to soak up more carbon.

As President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear industry.

The experiments have provided invaluable data that will be used to validate codes and nuclear data for advanced fuel cycles, as well as to derive reactor kinetics parameters for studies of transient / accident phenomena for these fuels.

Over the years, Ms. Eisenhower has served as a member of three blue ribbon commissions for the Department of Energy for three different secretaries: The Baker - Cutler Commission on U.S. Funded Non-Proliferation Programs in Russia; The Sununu - Meserve Commission on Nuclear Energy; and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, which released its findings on a comprehensive program for the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle in the winter of 2012.

Also, recycling nuclear fuel (as is often but not always called for in fast reactor fuel cycles) brings up proliferation concerns that inspired the Jimmy Carter administration to cancel a large US effort to develop a fast - reactor system.

The carbon cycle defines the fate of CO2 injected into the air by fossil fuel burning [1], [168] as the additional CO2 distributes itself over time among surface carbon reservoirs: the atmosphere, ocean, soil, and biosphere.

CE envisions building individual facilities with a capacity of 2000 barrels per day, and deploying first projects in leading markets such as British Columbia and California where existing Low Carbon Fuel Standards favour fuels such as CE's which have ultra-low life - cycle carbon emissions.

The key to controlling your hunger cycle is to improve insulin and leptin sensitivity by eating foods that act as fuel, reducing inflammation, and getting your body moving.

Finally, studies have shown that leucine promotes energy partitioning from fat cells to muscle cells, thereby decreasing energy storage and encouraging the body to burn fat cells as fuel, with one large study providing irrefutable evidence that leucine supplementation fuels the citric acid cycle which facilitates fat oxidation.

«The available research, such as there is,» she says, suggests that «progesterone can alter the body's fuel metabolism and its ability to handle heat,» she says, meaning that women will probably feel hotter and more fatigued during prolonged exercise in the second half of their menstrual cycles, when progesterone levels rise, than before menses, when progesterone is low.

You can get ribose from food in small amounts, but if you're looking to fuel longer workouts or «peak - performance» exercise sessions, you'll likely use more than the body has immediately available and possibly run out of gas mid-workout or «bonk» as they say in the cycling world.

Cycle 2: Macro-Patterning — When your body is «set up» and «prefer» to burn fat as its fuel, carbs are added back into the diet here to stop your metabolism from slowing down.

This book will provide very specific nutrition and exercise recommendations that will guide you through each training cycle with the end goal of improving your ability to use fat as fuel.

As discussed by Robergs and Roberts [22], amino acid catabolism during exercise is important for three reasons: 1) for free energy during exercise to fuel muscle contraction; 2) to increase concentrations of citric acid cycle intermediates and therefore support carbohydrate and lipid catabolism; and 3) to serve as gluconeogenic precursorAs discussed by Robergs and Roberts [22], amino acid catabolism during exercise is important for three reasons: 1) for free energy during exercise to fuel muscle contraction; 2) to increase concentrations of citric acid cycle intermediates and therefore support carbohydrate and lipid catabolism; and 3) to serve as gluconeogenic precursoras gluconeogenic precursors.

A standard gangster story on its surface, The Drop patiently develops some interesting ideas as it progresses, minimizing the focus on money and playing up the concept of a gangster demimonde fueled primarily by insecurity, with pointless squabbles over reputation and petty personal grudges keeping the cycle of violence flowing.

Humanity must become aware of the urgent need to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources to avoid the catastrophic scenario of using coal as an energy source as well as to replace the current model of development for sustainable development, which, by reverse logistics, with the reuse, recovery and recycling of materials, thus reaching the so - called closed production cycle, could delay the exhaustion of natural resources of the planet Earth.

The 5th grade science words cover topics such as the greenhouse effect, fossil fuels, and various Earth cycles, while the eighth grade earth science definitions include geological eras, plate tectonics.

Since no fuel is being injected, I visualize this as the dissipation of momentum in the engine, though I'm sure it's more complicated (webpages have described the kinetic energy of the car as being consumed in the compression cycle of the piston).

The engine has the same measurements as the previous Versa's 1.6 - liter, but Nissan says it's new, and the mill utilizes variable valve timing on both intake and exhaust cycles and squirts fuel via two injectors per cylinder (not to be confused with direct injection, mind you).

Time hasn't been good to the 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid: while it's still Hyundai's most fuel - efficient vehicle, it was one of the many models implicated in the company's MPG inflation scandal and, as such, no longer scores 40 mpg on the EPA test cycle.

«Flex Fuel» isn't an issue (I assume you mean E85 and similar) if you use injector duty cycle as the basis of your calculations.

As a compensation for the error, the automakers will be providing current and former owners with debit cards that cover the cost of fuel calculated by the difference in the new and old EPA combined cycles, the price of gas in the owner's area, and the amount the owner drives.

EPA fuel economy figures for the diesel are still a ways off, but we can tell you that in the European test cycle it's nearly 25 percent more efficient than the GLK350; ours probably won't do quite as well, however, because the U.S. diesel doesn't get the auto stop / start system.

Its 3.0 - litre V6 turbo diesel engine achieves a fuel consumption figure of just 6.9 litres / 100 km as per the European driving cycle.

Moving to the Atkinson cycle means the intake valves are held open for a bit longer as the intake stage moves to the combustion stage, which improves combustion efficiency and, therefore, fuel efficiency.

To maximize fuel economy as much as possible, the V - 6 employs Atkinson - cycle combustion, direct fuel injection, and variable valve timing.

The engine is also fuel efficient, claiming as low as 7.2 L / 100 km combined fuel consumption based on the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC).

On the contrary — averaging fuel consumption of 9.0 litres / 100 kilometres (equal to 26.1 mpg US) and CO2 emissions of 210 grams per kilometre in the EU test cycle, the new top model offers the same superiority also in this respect as the BMW Z4 sDrive35i with Sport Automatic.

At 9.0 litres / 100 kilometres (equal to 26.1 mpg US) and 210 grams in the EU test cycle, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are the same as on the BMW Z4 sDrive35i with Sport Automatic.

The new sedan is also just as fast as the previous car, needing six second to hit 60 mph with rear - wheel - drive and 5.8 clicks to achieve the same benchmark with xDrive, but fuel economy is better based on European - cycle figures.

The estimated fuel consumption figures have been calculated as per the ECE text cycle.

Fuel consumption improves by 10 per cent on the combined cycle and CO2 emissions fall from 388 to 347 g / km as a consequence.

The four - cylinder diesel engine featured in this particular version of the BMW 1 Series delivers maximum torque of 260 N · m (192 lb - ft) and, in combination with the BMW EfficientDynamics techologies also featured as standard in this model, allows average fuel consumption in the EU test cycle of 4.4 L / 100 kilometers (53.5 mpg US) and a CO2 rating of 118 grams per kilometer.

The BMW 320i EfficientDynamics Edition Sedan accelerates in 7.6 seconds from zero to 100 km / h, combining its athletic spirit with an average fuel consumption rate as measured on the EU test cycle of 5.3 litres per 100 kilometres.

Mazda says the engine is capable of delivering a combined - cycle fuel figure as low as 4.8 L / 100 km on front - wheel drive variants, with all - wheel drive models sipping 5.1.

Mazda says the engine is capable of delivering a combined cycle fuel figure as low as 4.8 L / 100 km on front - wheel drive variants, with all - wheel drive models sipping 5.1.

• New generation of engines with MINI TwinPower Turbo Technology; three model variants available as of market launch: MINI Cooper with 100 kW / 136 bhp 3 - cylinder engine, MINI Cooper S with 141 kW / 192 bhp 4 - cylinder petrol engine and MINI Cooper D with 3 - cylinder diesel engine (85 kW / 116 bhp); expansion of the model program to include the entry - level variants MINI One D (3 - cylinder diesel engine, 70 kW / 95 bhp) and MINI One (3 - cylinder spark - ignition engine, 75 kW / 102 bhp); 6 - speed manual transmission as standard, with optional 6 - speed automatic transmission or sports automatic transmission, also newly developed; extensive MINIMALISM technology including automatic engine start / stop function likewise in conjunction with automatic transmission and optional GREEN mode; improved driving performance figures and reduced fuel consumption; biggest efficiency advance in the MINI Cooper with automatic transmission: acceleration from zero to 100 km / h 2.6 seconds faster, average fuel consumption 27 per cent lower; lowest fuel consumption and CO2 levels in the MINI Cooper D: 3.5 — 3.6 litres / 100 km, 92 — 95 g / km (EU test cycle figures, dependent on tyre format selected).

All - electric range is listed as approximately 27 miles on the Euro test cycle at up to 83 mph — official U.S. EPA fuel economy and electric range figures aren't out yet.