Sentences with phrase «in nuclear power generation»

A breakthrough in nuclear power generation?

In particular, changes in nuclear power generation could play an important role.

I have worked in nuclear power generation for about 30 years, operations, training, and engineering.

The chairman of Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) has called on Australian governments to embrace the potential to expand the country's uranium mining industry and be prepared for an expansion in nuclear power generation worldwide.

Moody hopes the discovery of stable superheavy elements will help scientists better understand the mechanics of how nuclei are held together, opening the door for future discoveries in nuclear power generation or weapons development.

Fail - safe technology is an essential goal in all nuclear power generation, and yet it continues to be ignored by an...

This work could also lead to radiation - tolerant materials for potential use in nuclear power generation.

Not exact matches

Nearly $ 10 trillion is needed in power generation, including $ 6 trillion in renewables and $ 1 trillion for nuclear.

A nuclear power generation company, for instance, had Tyco install surveillance equipment in irradiated areas of its plant.

Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sePower generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sepower (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

In the attempt to put a stop to further reactor construction, the antinuclear movement may be tempted to constipate the system — to plug up the radwaste outlet for the nuclear industry — hoping thereby to force a shutdown of electrical power generation.

«This report shows the government's plans are stacked in favour of nuclear power over renewable energy and are so vague they risk locking the UK into a new generation of polluting fossil fuels,» senior economy campaigner Simon Bullock commented.

In August Governor Andrew Cuomo announces that Exelon Generation has agreed to assume ownership and management of the James A. FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Scriba, N.YIn August Governor Andrew Cuomo announces that Exelon Generation has agreed to assume ownership and management of the James A. FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Scriba, N.Yin Scriba, N.Y..

A $ 110 million agreement will transfer ownership and operation of the James FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego from Entergy Corp. to Exelon Generation, company and state officials announced on Tuesday.

Government support for a new generation of nuclear power stations has been condemned, the day before it is formally announced in the Commons.

The government hopes NDA land, its fuel manufacturing business at Springfields and existing uranic material could all be used in the next generation of nuclear power stations.

The Lib Dems have also led the way with proposals for energy efficiency in our homes, and for green electricity generation without reliance on nuclear power.

Exelon, headquartered in Chicago, is a $ 31 billion energy services and wholesale power firm with one of the nation's largest nuclear fleets, as well as extensive holdings in natural gas, wind and hydropower generation assets.

This risk factor pushes the «levelized» or all - in price of nuclear power from new units to 8.4 cents per kilowatt - hour, the MIT study concludes, versus 6.2 cents for coal - fired plants and 6.5 cents for natural gas generation (if gas is priced at $ 7 per million British thermal units, or roughly 1,000 cubic feet of flowing gas).

A surge in hydropower, nuclear and gas power has cut coal's share in power generation to 73 percent this year, from 78 percent in 2007, and this is set to move even lower.

Uranium - 235 (U-235) is an isotope of uranium widely used for nuclear power generation and, like all other radioactive isotopes used in medicine, it has been also employed for diagnosis and treatment of diseased organs and tumors.

The newest generation of nuclear power plants builds on a foundation of excellence spanning decades and supported by significant improvement in plant efficiency.

Recently, the UK government set out its own Clean Growth Strategy, committing # 2.5 billion between 2015 and 2021, with hundreds of million to be invested in new generations of small nuclear power stations and offshore wind turbines.

Meeting coal demand in Japan Indonesian coal is also expected to help fuel a surge in fossil power generation in Japan after that country shuttered its nuclear plants in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor meltdown in 2011.

Toshiba, Hyperion Power Generation, Sandia National Labs, and TerraPower — a company underwritten in part by Bill Gates — also have downsized nuclear reactor concepts in the works.

Sometimes what the scientists have written has been political satire, like Leo Szilard's The Voice of the Dolphins or OR Frisch's charming little thought experiment On the Feasibility of Coal - burning Power Stations, in which he applied to fossil - fuel power generation the strictures imposed on nuclear plPower Stations, in which he applied to fossil - fuel power generation the strictures imposed on nuclear plpower generation the strictures imposed on nuclear plants.

In the 1950s, nuclear power began to be used for commercial electricity generation as well as to drive submarines, navy ships and icebreakers, and people spoke glowingly of future nuclear - powered trains and aircraft.

Five nuclear power stations in Britain use first - generation Magnox reactors, with steel pressure vessels.

Due east along Guangdong's coastline, one of the region's most sophisticated technological projects, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Complex, is also the stage for a cutting - edge experiment in high - energy physics: measuring the proportion of electron antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed throughNuclear Power Complex, is also the stage for a cutting - edge experiment in high - energy physics: measuring the proportion of electron antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed throughnuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed through space.

URS has provided engineering and construction services for the installation of nuclear power generation since the 1960s in the U.S. and abroad through its heritage companies Ebasco, United Engineers & Constructors, and Gibbs & Hill, and pioneered the concept of nuclear contract maintenance and modifications, and large - scale modular construction through predecessor companies Catalytic and Stearns - Roger.

PRISM can recycle used nuclear fuel, reducing repository size, and cutting the duration of its high radiotoxicity down to hundreds (rather than hundreds of thousands) of years, and thereby is in a position to play a key role in enabling a new, sustainable generation of nuclear power.

MHI President and CEO Shunichi Miyanaga said: «For many years Orano has lent its support to the development of nuclear power generation in Japan.

Neutrinos, or more specifically antineutrinos, are also emitted as a by - product of power generation in manmade nuclear reactors, giving scientists a powerful way to study them on Earth in a controlled manner.

It draws on the WNA's global network of contacts in industry, academia, research institutes and intergovernmental agencies that includes key personnel in enterprises that account for virtually all of the world's uranium mining, nuclear fuel manufacture, equipment production and nuclear power generation.

The two companies hope to advance an aSMR design for global power generation with initial deployment in Canada, including the pursuit of a preliminary regulatory review by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, based on earlier technology licensing success in the United States.

Mr. Hooper imagined the rotting nuclear family formed by the Sawyer clan (oddly renamed the Hewitts in the remake) exacting its final parental revenge on the flower - power generation, represented as a group of helpless children.

«8.5 The nuclear power industry: a tactician behind the CO2 based global warming In my view, the CO2 based global warming theory was contrived to revive a nuclear power generation industry that suffered from high cost infrastructure and from a bad public image after the disastrous Chernobyl accident in 198In my view, the CO2 based global warming theory was contrived to revive a nuclear power generation industry that suffered from high cost infrastructure and from a bad public image after the disastrous Chernobyl accident in 198in 1986.

> I think that your comments have a bit of «begging the question» about them, in suggesting that the necessity of expanding nuclear power to reduce GHG emissions from electricity generation is an established fact, upon which any «debate» about addressing AGW must be based — rather than an unproven assertion to be argued.

JP Morgan's report, Trading Climate Change, suggests that within the next decade nuclear energy will be at the top of the world's agenda, with the resurgence of nuclear a key element both in the drive to reduce carbon emissions from power generation and to develop zero - emission hydrogen - fuelled transport.

Four climate scientists, three of whom have published in peer - reviewed literature on energy issues (a sampler from Wigley, Hansen and Caldeira), are pressing the case for environmental groups to embrace the need for a new generation of nuclear power plants in a letter they distributed overnight to a variety of organizations and journalists.

Instead, several respondents heaped abuse on the potential of nuclear power in general despite the fact that the great bulk of their criticisms related to the shortcomings of third generation reactors.

Solar, wind and nuclear all operate on fundamentally different principles, which is reflected in how power generation looks over time.

Deepwater and all offshore drilling in the US has been set back for a generation, just as Three Mile Island set back nuclear power development for decades.

Nuclear is best operated in constant baseline mode, with no increases or decreases in power generation.

«Ultimately the things that will generate electricity in the developing world and here will be the same,» Rucker said, highlighting the next generation of nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams as particularly applicable in parts of Africa.

«Even in the expected event that there are no important breakthroughs in the cost of nuclear power, the potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think, certain.

Off - grid solar is already providing electricity to communities in rural Africa, India, the Caribbean and elsewhere who will never get access to grid power from nuclear or any other form of large, centralized generation, because the resources to build either the grids or the giant power plants do not exist, nor do those communities have the wealth to purchase grid power.

Behind the histrionics and talking points framing the decades - long battle over the place of nuclear power in America's (and the world's) energy menu, there have long been hints of a path forward, both for dealing with existing, aging reactors and considering a new generation of technologies.

All of which is to say, from a technical perspective, for electricity generation renewable energy sources (totally excluding nuclear power) could produce several, several times the amount of electricity currently generated in the United States.

And in Japan, the quick suspension of nuclear power generation after the Fukushima disaster led to more natural gas and oil use, pushing emissions up 1 percent to 336 million tons in 2012.