Sentences with phrase «fuel cycle by»

Fast neutron reactors are typically fuelled using a mixture of oxides of uranium and plutonium, and can vastly increase the efficiency of the nuclear fuel cycle by using the uranium - 238 recovered from recycling nuclear fuel after use in conventional nuclear power reactors.

In contrast, PRISM, which is designed to refuel every 12 to 24 months, has primarily been focused on closing the fuel cycle by, among other things, consuming transuranics.

«What do you get by complicating the fuel cycle by looking at thorium when we have plenty of uranium?»

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.

Pueblo people of the ancient American Southwest contributed to the region's aridity and its erosion cycle by destroying forests to fuel their kilns.

Wenger / we scrape the holy grail 5th place, Stan hands out another extension to continue the cycle of mediocrity fueled by greed and lack of football ambition.

On Thursday, Arsene Wenger responded to a question about Aubameyang transfer rumors, which were swirling around the news cycle, at least partially fueled by the striker's being dropped from the BVB squad versus Hertha Berlin (he is currently suspended from first - team duty for missing a pre-match meeting).

«We had a $ 138 million deficit, we were the most fiscally stressed county in New York, our bonds were near junk and people were reeling from years of double digit tax increases fueled by an endless tax - and - spend cycle.»

The project involves the development, ownership, operation and management of the 400MW Combined Cycle Plant to be fueled by either Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or Natural Gas (NG) for a 25 - year period by Early Power Limited in Tema, strategically close to the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR).

However, it is electricity consumption by microwave appliances that has the biggest impact on the environment, taking into account its whole life cycle, from production of fuels to generation of electricity.

Cycles of boom and bust have appeared, fueled by land speculation.

The separation of uranium, a key part of the nuclear fuel cycle, could potentially be done more safely and efficiently through a new technique developed by chemistry researchers at Oregon State University.

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.

In a once - through fuel cycle, more than 98 percent of the expected long - term radiotoxicity is caused by the resulting neptunium 237 and plutonium 242 (with half - lives of 2.14 million and 387,000 years, respectively).

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.

The strategies investigated include an evolutionary transmutation strategy in which the ADS provides additional flexibility by enabling plutonium utilisation in conventional reactors and confining the minor actinides to a small part of the fuel cycle, and two innovative transuranics (TRU) burning strategies, with an FR or an ADS, in which plutonium and minor actinides are managed together to minimise the proliferation risk.

By allowing explicit calculations on wood - litter production, these results potentially enable more explicit modelling of woody tissues in ecosystems worldwide, with implications for the build - up of flammable fuel, nutrient cycling, and understanding of plant growth.

The government noted Japan's basic energy policy - decided by the Cabinet in April 2014 - aims to promote the nuclear fuel cycle, including the promotion of fast reactor development.

According to a paper by Xuegang Liu of the Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Engineering, The Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing («Spent Nuclear Fuel Management in China,» NAPSNet Special Reports, Aug. 5, 2014), because China has chosen to use a closed - cycle fuel path, it has less need for long - term SNF storFuel Management in China,» NAPSNet Special Reports, Aug. 5, 2014), because China has chosen to use a closed - cycle fuel path, it has less need for long - term SNF storfuel path, it has less need for long - term SNF storage.

In fact, stress and sleep deprivation may fuel each other in a vicious cycle leaving you exhausted by the time the New Year rolls around.

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.

Lack of quality sleep is a symptom of obesity, which also fuels a whole host of negative health consequences that are exacerbated by obesity, creating a vicious cycle of weight gain and worsening sleep patterns and increasing health problems.

Finally, if you want to understand more about how where you are at in your menstrual cycle changes the way that you feel and perform during exercise, I recommend reading book «Running for Women» by author Jason Karp, who is also interviewed in this Endurance Planet episode on female athlete fueling.

The cycle of extreme fatigue is perpetuated - fueled by the wrong foods; the wrong remedies; and the wrong advice.

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 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.

We've been caught in a destructive cycle for years now, fueled by intermittent but mutual distrust between policymakers and practitioners.

The idle control may have the ability to increase air through a bypass around the throttle, and adjust fuel amounts by controlling injector duty cycle.

A full hybrid version follows later, but until then the green flag will be waved by the ML250 Bluetec, which boasts the combination of 201 and 368 lb ft of torque, along with fuel economy of 47mpg on the official combined cycle.

The amount of fuel injected is controlled by how long the control signal is applied for or the duty cycle of the controlling pulse.

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.

Most of the problems can be avoided by using a higher viscosity oil and adding 2 cycle oil to the fuel.

It, along with a start - stop system, will most likely not be seen in the U.S. because there is no change in the EPA test cycle performance with the eco mode dialed in and the S5's buyers are more enchanted by its sporty personality than promise of fuel savings.

The higher - tech auto is attributed with lowering fuel consumption by more than 10 per cent on the official combined cycle, which now stands at 9.

However, in the EU test cycle, fuel consumption was reduced by about 20 percent.

High - Precision Injection (HPI) is a lean spray - guided gasoline direct - injection technology that BMW projects will increase fuel efficiency by up to 10 % in the Euro test cycle and between 5 % — 15 % in real world driving.

The BMW 116d powered by a 2 - litre four - cylinder 85 kW / 115 bhp diesel engine is available both in a 5 - door and a 3 - door version and, with a fuel consumption of 4.5 litres / 100 km in the EU test cycle, it offers better fuel economy than any other model of this series.

However, in the EU test cycle, fuel consumption was reduced by an impressive 25 percent.

The high - performance V6 uses unusually high - compression for a twin - turbo engine and runs to Miller Cycle philosophies, which help slash fuel consumption by 17 per cent to 8.8 L / 100 km, for 199 grams of CO2 / km.

And because the system's electric motor provides power assistance only when needed, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are reduced — by up to 4g / km on the European combined cycle.

Fuel consumption and emissions in the EU test cycle are down by 4 to 7 per cent compared to their predecessors» values.

Fuel economy has not yet been announced by Mercedes - Benz or the EPA, but my miles per gallon averaged in the low 20s during a testing cycle consisting mostly of flowing, steady speed driving in the North Georgia mountains.

High - level fuel management is ensured by the up to five, 1400 - bar fuel injection processes per cycle that create an extremely fine fuel atomization in the combustion chambers, which have a total displacement of 1248 cm3.

The exemplary efficiency of this variant is headlined by average fuel consumption in the EU test cycle of 4.4 (5.6) litres per 100 kilometres / 64.2 (50.4) mpg imp and CO2 emissions of 115 (149) grams per kilometre.

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 second version of the RX is the 450h Hybrid, which is powered by a combination of a 3.5 - liter V6 Atkinson - cycle engine, electric motors, a small and light power - control unit and other fuel - saving innovations.

«while the Japanese fuel cycle tests are notoriously more optimistic than the EPA's own fuel cycle tests, the 2012 Toyota Aqua Hybrid is given a rating by Toyota which is 16 % more than the official Japanese JC08 fuel economy ratings for the 2012 Toyota Prius Hybrid.

Power is transmitted by a six speed manual gearbox engineered to accommodate the increase in torque and fuel consumption is just 7.1 litres per 100 kilometres on the combine cycle, well ahead of its rivals.