Sentences with phrase «fuel cycle in»

According to Box 1.1 Australia's involvement in the nuclear fuel cycle in the 2006 report, there can not be radioactive contamination in Hunters Hill, Sydney due to a nuclear facility, however small, because there was none!

GE Hitachi calls the design the Power Reactor Innovative Small Module (PRISM), which is a key component to a new fuel cycle in which spent nuclear fuel is reused instead of being stored.

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.

It is a situation that fuels a cycle in which parents who can afford high - priced properties flood to those wealthier areas, and the neighborhood schools receive greater funding for programs, supports, and services.

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«The prices have really become detached from the fundamentals like sales and cash flow,» says Clayton, who suggests that the market is caught in a cycle of news driving stock prices and stocks fueling news.

My rejection and fear of myself fueled my own sin cycle and resulted in very poor decision making and very unhealthy expressions of my sexuality.

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 causIn 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 causin 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.

Released to the public in June 2017, the latest corrugated industry life cycle assessment (LCA) confirms continued environmental progress through increased efficiencies in mill energy systems, increased use of low - impact fossil fuels, and increased recovery for recycling.

Official sports nutrition supplier, SiS work directly with Great Britain Cycling Team athletes in order to create bespoke nutritional strategies to fuel them ahead of key competitions throughout the next four - year cycle and, ultimately, towards the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.

When babies bawl like this, they take in a lot of air, which creates gas and more pain, making them cry even more — fueling a vicious cycle that many parents struggle with on a daily basis.

The problem here was that at the time, not only did the US not want Iran to do any fuel cycle work, the US also opposed any nuclear energy program in Iran.

Under president Bush in 2005, the decision was made that any deal with Iran should be on the basis that Iran is barred from doing any fuel cycle work.

«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.»

Trump's unpredictability and his fueling of distrust of his opponents led to a growth in fake news that was supportive of him which now flames a cycle of de-legitimizing the established press making the term fake news essentially meaningless and more of a stick to beat the mainstream press with than a phenomenon in itself.

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).

The burning of fossil fuels essentially reintroduces ancient carbon that is stored in the depths of the earth back into the carbon cycle.

WHY CITIES SUCCEED In «Bigger Cities Do More with Less,» Luís M. A. Bettencourt and Geoffrey B. West assert that a high - rent city allows only greatly value - adding activities to be profitable, which leads to a cycle in which more talent is attracted, «pushing rents higher still, fueling the need to find yet more productive activities.&raquIn «Bigger Cities Do More with Less,» Luís M. A. Bettencourt and Geoffrey B. West assert that a high - rent city allows only greatly value - adding activities to be profitable, which leads to a cycle in which more talent is attracted, «pushing rents higher still, fueling the need to find yet more productive activities.&raquin which more talent is attracted, «pushing rents higher still, fueling the need to find yet more productive activities.»

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks led to new requirements to safeguard spent fuel pools at U.S. reactors, but the overall policy toward the nuclear fuel cycle has been bound up in the fight over the proposed fuel repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, which the Obama administration wants to terminate.

The work, published in Science, not only opens the door to expand the use of one of the most efficient energy sources on the planet, but also adds a key step in completing the nuclear fuel cycle — an advance, along with wind and solar, that could help power the world's energy needs cleanly for the future.

Most of Nangonya's training covered the subjects that might be expected: the ins and outs of the nuclear fuel cycle, how to verify that each and every reported gram of plutonium and uranium are where they are supposed to be, and how to spot signs of illicit activity.

The article, published recently in Open Chemistry may lead to the development of a process to remove uranium from wastewater at the front - end of the nuclear fuel cycle, or even extracting natural uranium from sea water.

There are also outstanding questions related to the real - world efficiency gains of natural gas fuels and the life - cycle emissions they produce based on methane leakage in the production process.

The problem is that life - cycle analyses for biofuels literally assign a carbon credit to the biofuel that cancels out all the emissions from burning the fuel in the car.

In addition to its unique fuel cycle, the TerraPower design employs a high - temperature, liquid metal core cooling technology suited to a breeder reactor with «fast» neutron activity, rather than today's predominant reactors whose water cooling systems slow neutrons.

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 wastIn 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 wastin the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as waste.

Throughout the nuclear fuel cycle, many separations are required — in mining, enrichment and fuel fabrication, and then after fuel use, for the recovery of usable spent isotopes and the encapsulation and storage of unusable radioactive components.

Cornell University researchers factored in the carbon emissions over the course of natural gas's life cycle when it is extracted using hydraulic fracturing — which includes drilling the wells, erecting the construction sites, building pipelines to transport the gas, fueling the pumps that force the water underground, and transporting the wastewater — and concluded that natural gas is dirtier than coal.

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.

«For the next several decades in the U.S. the once - through fuel cycle using light - water reactors is the preferred option,» said M.I.T. physicist and report co-chair Ernest Moniz at its release on September 16 in Washington, D.C. «Light - water reactors are the workhorse, and there's a lot we can do to improve [them].»

For example, an entire nuclear cycle involving light - water reactors, reprocessing of the spent fuel, and disposal of small «packages» of highly radioactive nuclear waste in deep boreholes could prove an attractive option, Moniz noted.

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 TCA cycle is a process in which fuel molecules are converted into energy.

The reactor, operating at 85 megawatts of power, is currently in its 455th fuel cycle since the first cycle in 1966.

An optimized closed (fast - reactor) fuel cycle would recycle not just the uranium and plutonium but all actinides in the fuel, including neptunium, americium and curium.

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).

In a letter dated 27 March, the regulator noted that the amendment would «support the use of GNF2 fuel starting at the next operating cycle».

Unicellular photosynthetic microbes — phytoplankton — are responsible for virtually all oceanic primary production, which fuels marine food webs and plays a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle.

Studtite, or uranyl peroxyde, is a well - known compound in the nuclear fuel cycle used for decades.

Extensive knowledge of legislative and regulatory frameworks required to operate existing plants and develop new nuclear in commercial and federal markets worldwide, including Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)- licensed fuel cycle and isotope production facilities.

According to Global Nuclear Fuels, the GNF2 design delivers higher energy output whilst cutting overall fuel cycle costs, reducing the total amount of uranium and the average enrichment in fuel reloads.

At the Fuel Choices Summit in Israel this week, FCA presented the Fiat 500 M15 — a retail - ready version of the Fiat 500 that runs on a blend of 85 % gasoline and 15 % methanol; is compliant with the Euro 6 New European Driving Cycle (NEDC); delivers a 2 % CO2 reduction compared with... Read more →

The grant will also be used to host an annual workshop focused on developing chemical separations for the fuel cycle designed for undergraduate and graduate students, post doctorate fellows and faculty from collaborating institutions and a summer school course for any U.S. undergraduates interested in the field.

Human decisions have introduced additional perturbations to the carbon cycle, in the form of fossil - fuel burning, cutting down forests, and land use changes, just to name a few.

«For example,» said Clark, «Used fuel, which is currently disposed of in the United States after a single use in a reactor in what is called an open fuel cycle, would be reprocessed to extract out a significant fraction of re-useable uranium.

The ability for UF6 to change easily to a gas at a low temperature and slightly increased pressure make it ideal for use in the remaining steps of the fuel cycle.

«The entire cycle is a self - regulating feedback mechanism, like the thermostat on a house's heating and cooling system, because the «puddle» of gas around the black hole provides the fuel that powers the jets,» NASA said in the statement.

From 1990 to the formation of NEI in 1994 he was the Vice President of Technical Programs at the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness (USCEA) where he was responsible for ensuring the technical accuracy and effectiveness of USCEA's industry communications and also led the regulatory, policy and R&D activities associated with supporting companies in the front - end of the nuclear fuel cycle.