Sentences with phrase «larger than uranium»
As an added bonus, many of the very long - lived nuclides larger than Uranium (Neptunium, Plutonium, Americium, Curium, etc.) have the same trend, and fast reactors can split and destroy these actinides as fuel rather than let them accumulate as in thermal reactors.
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The world's ample supply of uranium could fuel a much larger fleet of reactors than exists today throughout their 40 - to 50 - year life span.
And by 2070, Storm van Leeuwen found, the amount of energy it takes to mine, mill, enrich and fabricate one metric ton of uranium fuel may be larger than 160 terajoules — the amount of energy one can generate from it.
The larger particles also adsorbed uranium more slowly than the smaller ones.
The team found that gravel and other large bits adsorbed less uranium (IV) than smaller grains.
In contrast, super-Earths with a similar concentration but larger absolute amount of radioactive heat sources (i.e., uranium and thorium) than Earth would produce more internal heat, more vigorous mantle convection, and faster plate tectonic action involving thinner plates, which may promote planetary habitability with lower mountain ranges but higher volcanic activity and an atmosphere with a greater relative composition of volcanic and lighter gases (Sasselov and Valencia, Scientific American, August 2010; Valencia and O'Connell, 2009; and Valencia et al, 2007).
By installing a large PV solar nameplate capacity, using the need to pay off this (subsidized) investment as the rationale for approved rate increases, and then selling us (mostly) the cheaper electricity they make from coal and uranium, they actually increase the profitability of coal and uranium more than PV solar.
In addition, a relatively small amount of uranium can produce a relatively large amount of energy, helping the overall energy cycle of an online nuclear plant to release no more carbon dioxide per kilowatt - hour than solar power, which must account for the manufacturing of photovoltaic cells.