Sentences with phrase «fuel stored at»

Had there not been spent fuel stored at the Fukushima plant, we would not have had all of the latest problems of the past two or three days.

At the end of 2016 Japan had 14,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel stored at nuclear power plants, filling about 70 percent of its onsite storage capacity.

Not exact matches

His idea was to pay plants a premium to store at least 90 days of fuel on site in an effort to make grids more reliable.

Loblaw said members will earn 10 points per litre on fuel as well as 10 points per dollar on eligible convenience store purchases and car wash services at Esso stations.

According to the latest data from the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, nearly 1 billion packages of hot dogs were sold at U.S. retail stores in 2014, fueling the meals of people that prefer to eat at home instead of at a fast food joint.

IEnova, Sempra Energy's subsidiary in Mexico, announced it's investing about $ 130 million in a marine terminal that will receive, store and deliver gasoline and diesel fuel at its facility a few miles north of Ensenada.

He blogs / podcasts about his e-commerce store over at E-Commerce Fuel.

In the U.A.E., it aims to boost sales of fuel and products sold at convenience stores located at most of its stations, Carey said.

Based on consumer preference, it has expanded to include additional service items such as fuel stations at some of its locations and in - store pharmacies in 12 of its stores.

No chemical / fossil fuel inputs to grow the food for soy or feed the cows for dairy, no packaging, no transport to / from the store, no bottles to manufacture or wash (when not pumping), really no waste at all!

Approximately 1500 tons of spent fuel is currently stored in densely packed pools at Indian Point.

In the meantime, highly radioactive waste is being stored on - site in spent fuel pools at each nuclear plant, with 1500 tons of waste are currently stored at Indian Point.

Investigators have found several fire - code violations at the garden supply store in Manhattan where a fuel spill ignited a fire underneath the Metro - North Railroad last Tuesday, causing thousands of commuters to be stranded and lingering disruptions, city officials said.

He leads a team at Monash University in Melbourne that is developing technologies to extract fossil fuels more cleanly, turn waste products into fertiliser and cement, and store carbon dioxide deep underground.

From there, the researchers estimated that the carbon stored in Central Congo Basin's peat is equivalent to about 20 years of fossil fuel emissions from the United States, at current rates.

The safety of deep pools used to store used radioactive fuel at nuclear plants has been an issue since the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in March.

Noting that diet and weight loss surgery are often recommended for the care of metabolic syndrome, Heinrich Taegtmeyer, M.D., D.Phil., professor of cardiovascular medicine at McGovern Medical School, said, «This drug amplifies the biological rhythms of metabolic genes to the extent that the animals burn more fuel and store less fuel.

From the outset, on - site stores were planned at the plant to take up to 20 years» worth of spent fuel.

Fuel units must be stored initially in pools at reactor sites for about five years, until the decay heat drops enough to permit movement into dry cask containers.

«Order - of - magnitude calculations suggest that implementing a low - amperage backup service appears to be more cost effective than having each homeowner buy a portable generator and storing diesel or gasoline for fueling, especially if a region is expected to suffer more frequent and longer widespread outages,» says Sunhee Baik, lead author and doctoral student in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

With no permanent waste repository in sight, the nuclear industry is storing spent fuel at reactor sites.

Any future discussion of nuclear power will have to take a hard look at regulation and safety, in particular the practice of storing spent nuclear fuel rods on - site

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

The research may eventually help lead to ways to safely dispose of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel that is stored now at commercial nuclear power plants.

Eventually, he adds, the technology might generate hydrogen at a fueling station or even aboard a vehicle, thus avoiding the expense and hassle of storing and transporting hydrogen gas.

But researchers continue to hunt for materials that can store methane at low pressure, which would save energy and the cost of condensing the fuel.

These «second - generation» bioenergy crops are often seen as the future of bioenergy because, as perennials, they are far better at storing carbon in the soil and in their biomass than traditional fuel crops like corn and canola.

And a fire at a pool storing spent fuel rods at dormant reactor No. 4 is posing additional hazards to the few workers remaining at the site.

A study by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories concludes that a number of existing gas stations in California can safely store and dispense hydrogen, suggesting a broader network of hydrogen fueling stations may be within reach.

In this context, switching from high - cost diesel to a low - carbon alternative fuel isn't just the green thing to do; it's key to ensuring consumer products stay at affordable prices, Elizabeth Fretheim, director of business strategy and sustainability logistics at Wal - Mart Stores Inc., explained at a symposium last week hosted by the nonprofit group Business for Social Responsibility (BSR).

Although the utility managed to safely remove all 1,533 fuel bundles from the plant's unit No. 4 reactor by December 2014, it still has to do the same for the hundreds of rods stored at the other three units.

A second major issue at Fukushima is how to handle the fuel 3/4 the melted uranium cores as well as spent and unused fuel rods stored at the reactors.

Lake Barrett — director of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant during its decommissioning after a partial meltdown at the Middletown, Pa., facility in 1979 — says TEPCO will use robots to remotely dig out the melted fuel and store it in canisters on - site before shipping to its final disposal spot.

Stored alongside nine others — those from Discovery, plus spares — in the engine shop at Kennedy, these Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne liquid - fuelled motors are awaiting transport to NASA's Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi.

The problem of spent fuel storage Nuclear reactor operators must store spent fuel removed from reactor cores for several years at least, in large pools at reactor sites until the remaining heat from the uranium fuel cools sufficiently.

• Of greatest concern are the spent fuel rods stored at reactor Nos. 3 and 4.

Some plants, such as soybeans, also store fats and can be used as fuel sources, but Bruce Rittmann, Vermaas's colleague at Arizona State, argues that photosynthetic microbes produce nearly 250 times more fat per acre.

The Japanese plant has endured partial meltdowns in at least three of its six reactors, as well as two of its seven pools for storing spent fuel.

And the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2006 suggested the practice of overcrowding pools for the storage of spent nuclear fuel rods — that has caused fires and explosions at Fukushima Daiichi, which stores far less used fuel than typical U.S. plants — could prove dangerous.

In order to replace a big fraction of fossil fuel power with solar power, we need a way to store energy from the bright noon sun to use at night or when it's cloudy.

On September 15, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission affirmed its expert opinion that spent nuclear fuel could be safely stored on nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.»

Many nuclear plants, like Fukushima, store the fuel onsite at the bottom of deep pools for at least 5 years while it slowly cools.

And, although a few projects such as the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea or oil fields owned by the EnCana Corporation in Calgary, Alberta have proved that CO2 can be pumped underground and remain trapped below cap rock, they are aimed at enhancing recovery of the fossil fuels in those fields rather than permanently storing the greenhouse gas.

And within a century after that, melting could begin to release waste stored at the camp, including sewage, diesel fuel, persistent organic pollutants like PCBs, and radiological waste from the camp's nuclear generator, which was removed during decommissioning.

We have likewise been storing spent nuclear fuel at our nuclear plant sites since the country began using nuclear energy.

LIVERMORE, Calif. — A study by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories concludes that a number of existing gas stations in California can safely store and dispense hydrogen, suggesting a broader network of hydrogen fueling stations may be within reach.

At the outset of her work, Jansson suspected that warming trends might activate bacterial processes that break down stored carbon, releasing it into the atmosphere and fueling climate change.

Research reactor fuel, transuranic waste and sterilization capsules such as the Cesium Chloride capsules stored at the Hanford site.

No fuel elements from the research reactor are stored at the ZRA (see also question 8).

That amount increases slowly as spent fuel is discharged from nuclear submarines and stored at the Idaho lab.