Sentences with phrase «learned about nuclear power»

For those of us who learned about nuclear power in school but nothing about wind turbines, here's a simple explanation of how wind turbines work, with a brief history of the industry.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to shutter the Indian Point nuclear power plant as soon as 2020 sparked praise and skepticism from stakeholders as they learned about it on Friday.

Twenty minutes north of Buchanan, folks are packing the room at the Desmon - Fish Library in Garrison, anxious to learn more about the right choice to decommission the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

When a museum exhibit touting U.S. efforts in nuclear power came to San José, Costa Rica's capital city, every afternoon Chang - Díaz rushed to the San José International Airport, where the display was located, to learn more about using atoms for energy.

When we talk about lessons learned, the most immediate lessons that we have to learn from this catastrophe in Japan is not whether nuclear power is good or bad or whether to continue with nuclear power growth or not.

Over four lessons, the students will study the introduction, initial paragraph and contrasting paragraph of a balanced argument about nuclear power and will learn to how to write their own version about solar power.

Smarter Balanced performance tasks include 30 - minute classroom activities — one for the math section and one for the English section — in which students, for example, learn about and discuss nuclear power before they start the writing assignment.

Asher has held a variety of positions, but a lot of what he learned about leadership and sales he picked up in the Navy, where he served as captain of two nuclear - powered fast attack submarines before becoming the program manager for a billion - dollar software development program.

Readers interested in learning more about nuclear energy from the inside should take a look at RadDecision, a techno - thriller novel about the American nuclear power industry.

Consumers in the province of Ontario (Canada) learned the hard way about the costs of nuclear power.

Whether or not Trump succeeds does nothing to prove or disprove the fact that nuclear power would now be about 10 times cheaper than it is if the learning rates that prevailed up to about 1968 had continued to 2015 (see Figure 2 here: https://cama.crawford.anu.edu.au/publication/cama-working-paper-series/9070/nuclear-power-learning-and-deployment-rates-disruption.

If you want to learn more about the Union of Concerned Scientists» nuclear power work, visit our main nuclear power page.

Often I encounter people who oppose nuclear power but refuse to listen to any description of its potential benefits or learn about its safety record or how it works because they've decided that all of the science of nuclear power and radiation protection is false, that nuclear energy is bad and that's it.

Tuesday, April 24, 5:30 — 7:30, 6 pm, Montshire Museum, Norwich, Porter Community Panel Discussion: Decommissioning: A Future Without Vermont Yankee Panel: Deb Katz, Executive Director of the Citizens Awareness Network Chris Williams, Organizer for Vermont Citizens Action Network Robert Stannard, Citizen Lobbyist for the Vermont Citizens Action Network Come learn more about the current status of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon, VT: the lawsuits and appeals, the Public Service board process; public engagement and the inevitable nuclear power plant decommissioning.