Sentences with phrase «great nuclear electricity»

The other thing is that even though France has great nuclear electricity potential, it still uses fossil fuels for other things.

Not exact matches

The world's first nuclear power plant to produce electricity from the atom: Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, in the Great Basin Desert of Idaho.

«There's a current Nuclear Regulatory Commission study being undertaken, but we also have to be realistic and say, you get 25 percent of the electricity in the greater New York City area from Indian Point,» she said.

At Fukushima, the loss was greater, and Japan is having another of their discussions, which seems to be resolving in favor of keeping and restarting all of the nuclear power plants, especially as people are reminded of the value of electricity and the lives lost in handling fossil fuels.

Nuclear powered reactors are capable of producing vast amounts of electricity with no greenhouse gas emissions, which is clearly a great benefit given current concerns about climate change.

It is expected that consumers will be able to choose electricity from renewable sources instead of fossil fuel - powered thermal (along with its problems in terms of climate change) or nuclear power generation (whose great risks again became evident with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, caused by the tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2great risks again became evident with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, caused by the tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011).

Margie Tatro, director of fuel and water systems at Sandia National Laboratories, says, «I think natural gas is a transitioning fuel for the electricity sector until we can get a greater percentage of nuclear and renewables on the grid.»

Nuclear energy makes great sense to me, but according to BP's Review of World Energy 2010 Electricity creation is only 16 % of all energy used.

The country has also faced a series of rolling electricity load - shedding incidents and there is greater caution about the use of nuclear power owing to the Fukushima accident in Japan, spurring interest in both large - scale fuel cell applications and residential fuel cell micro-CHP.

«France achieved the greatest reduction of energy intensity (Fig. 4b) via a shift over about a 10 - year period to nuclear power for 80 % of its electricity.

A: The greatest mystery to me is how the American environmental movement can be anti-nuclear, because the environment is so much benefited by nuclear power, compared to any other way to generate electricity, including solar and wind.

I am aware of people making the argument that the big push by the nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of nuclear power on the basis that nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of global warming, and I make that argument myself (because even a quite large expansion of nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).

The central challenge for nuclear energy, if it is to become a greater portion of the global electricity mix, is to become much cheaper.