Sentences with phrase «fuel cycle issues»

We're looking at long term fuel cycle issues versus short term safety issues, which are what came out of Fukushima.»

Not exact matches

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.

Industry officials say the federal government should determine what its fuel cycle policy will be before issuing such an order.

The new report is considered a good guide to what the influential Blue Ribbon panel is expected to say on issues related to the fuel cycle.

Mr. Dyke has 30 years of experience and leadership in the nuclear industry focusing on the nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear nonproliferation issues.

Equity issues plague our educational system, which amplifies already glaring class differences and fuels the poverty 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.

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.

Re the «peak fossil fuel issue», if all easily accessible fossil fuels in the ground are burned, atmospheric CO2 levels will hit 1500 - 3000 ppm (sink limitation issues and carbon cycle feedbacks create the variability).

He has produced many studies and articles on nuclear fuel cycle related issues, including weapons production, testing, and nuclear waste, over the past twenty years.

The results, which appear in a paper titled «Spatially Explicit Life Cycle Assessment of Sun - to - Wheels Transportation Pathways in the U.S.» and published in the Dec. 26 issue of the journal Environmental Science & Technology, showed photovoltaics (PV) to be much more efficient than biomass at turning sunlight into energy to fuel a car.

The core issue is to ensure a secure fuel supply to those agreeing to forego their own fuel cycle development.

I would hope they get into the RCP issue (the fact that RCP8.5 has fake fossil fuel resources really needs to be resolved), the carbon cycle, the potential for energy alternatives to replace fossil fuels, their costs, etc..

New fuel cycles and reactor technologies addressing some of these issues are being investigated and progress in research and development has been made concerning safety and waste disposal.

Mike, should uranium supply for a once - through fuel cycle become an issue then fuel recycling and fast spectrum reactors would surely be adopted.

They did uncover, however, a «nuclear - related» document discussing «openly available concepts about the nuclear fuel cycle and some weapons - related issues.»

Our lawyers are versed in US and international requirements covering new plants, power plant projects and transactions, plant regulation, nuclear liability issues, and all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining, enrichment, fabrication, and transport to nuclear waste management, decommissioning, and disposal.