Sentences with phrase «generates radioactive waste»

This completely ignores the fact that nuclear power generates radioactive waste, can never be 100 % safe and is a magnet for terrorist groups seeking targets and materials for attacks.

2 Fusion On Tap Plasma physicist Eric Lerner has a dream: a form of nuclear energy so clean it generates no radioactive waste, so safe it can be located in the heart of a city, and so inexpensive it provides virtually unlimited power for the dirt - cheap price of $ 60 per kilowatt — far below the $ 1,000 - per - kilowatt cost of electricity from natural gas.

The obstacle I've never been able to get my mind around is that even at this primitive stage in the development of nuclear power, we can and do already generate radioactive waste much faster than it decays.

Not exact matches

Among the surprising conclusions: the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts.

There are about 1,300 dry casks at 55 sites nationwide; however, most of the radioactive waste generated in the United States sits in cooling pools similar to Japan's.

Late last month, the French industry minister, Dominique Strauss - Kahn, gave conditional backing to a plan devised by the nuclear industry to create what amounts to a politician's dream: a reactor that provides plenty of electricity without generating vast quantities of long - lived radioactive waste.

Although thermal reactors generate heat and thus electricity quite efficiently, they can not minimize the output of radioactive waste.

Fly Ash Bricks In the process of generating electricity, U.S. coal plants spew more than 70 million tons a year of a radioactive waste called fly ash.

The mining of metals used in electronics is spreading to countries like Malaysia and Brazil, but scientists warn of the toxic and radioactive wastes generated by the industry.

If coal ash, a waste product from burning coal to generate power, contains concentrated levels of known carcinogens, neurotoxins and radioactive elements, is it hazardous?

Fusion remains the holy grail of clean energy research, because the fusion reaction generates new elements that are not radioactive, unlike nuclear fission which leaves us with hazardous fuel wastes that require generations of management.

There are other obstacles as well, such as the facts that nuclear power plants take a long time and a lot of material to build, release radioactive material into the environment in «unplanned releases,» generate waste which must be kept isolated from the biosphere for as much as 10,000 years, and create more potential bomb material cruising around the economy.