Sentences with phrase «like nuclear power»

This may have less impact in smaller companies, however, just like a nuclear power station, banks could be viewed as critical national infrastructure.

And the task gets all the harder if countries delay action or if they rule out certain controversial technologies, like nuclear power or carbon capture for coal plants.

(Others, however, like nuclear power and carbon capture for coal plants, have stalled out.)

He lumped into that category additional issues like nuclear power, asbestos and pesticides.

For instance, global coal use would have to peak before 2020; power plants and factories would have to get a lot more efficient; things like nuclear power and renewables would have to expand at an even faster rate.

Even if power companies had sufficient warning to shut down prior to the event (to avoid transformer failure), facilities like nuclear power plants and hospitals which use back - up generators would still be exposed.

That is why PURPA passed in 1978, to shutdown big government forcing customers to pay for big projects like nuclear power plants.

People don't like nuclear power because they have visions of Chernobyl or Three Mile Island, what are we doing with the storage of the waste.

So the idea that some technologies might not become available when you need them, some technologies might be limited, like nuclear power or renewables.

I would not like a nuclear power plant of any size on my property as I wouldn't know what to do with the exhausted fuel rods.)

No matter how much the US and the rest of the world may desire a move away from those energy sources, the transition to renewable sources — and to no - carbon sources like nuclear power — will take most of the 21st century and require trillions of dollars in new investment.

It's also important to expose «false solutions» to climate change, like nuclear power, agro-fuels, genetically engineered trees and carbon trading.

The 5.8 - magnitude quake, centered in Virginia 84 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., is a reminder of the importance of factoring in shaking in the design of buildings and important installations like nuclear power plants.

To use a sports analogy (and setting aside, for the moment «stasists» locked into the status quo), the debate tends to break down to those pushing the ground game, investing in deployment of today's non-polluting sources like wind and solar, and those pursuing tough, but potentially game - changing advances in technologies like nuclear power.

I saw it in Finland while doing stories on polarized issues like nuclear power or genetically modified food, and now here with the shale gas drilling, how things get stuck.

Critical facilities like nuclear power plants must be designed for a site - specific «maximum credible earthquake» as their safe - shutdown event.

Again, like nuclear power, we are simply shifting the problems until after we are dead while enjoying the fruits of the energy generated now.

Cuomo administration officials also say it would be difficult to abruptly transition from oil and gas to cleaner fuels without a bridge fuel like nuclear power.

Cuomo administration officials also said it would be difficult to abruptly transition from oil and gas to cleaner fuels without a bridge fuel like nuclear power.

However, sexuality is extremely important in our lives only when properly used as it is designed and just like a nuclear power, is extremely damaging when inappropriately used.

If you are promoting some destructive technology like nuclear power as a solution to global climate change, please go elsewhere.

High - reliability - organization (HRO) practices help prevent catastrophic failures in complex systems like nuclear power plants through early detection.

Not exact matches

«If we discovered nuclear power today, we would be working like mad to make it as safe and cheap as possible,» Stanford University climate scientist Ken Caldeira tweeted last summer.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature retirement of baseload power plants that provide nonstop power, like those fired by coal and nuclear fuel.

The whole thing started in 2015, when Stanford professor Mark Jacobson and some colleagues published a paper arguing that, by mid-century, the United States could be powered entirely by clean energy sources — and by clean, he meant the really clean stuff (wind, solar, hydropower), not the only - somewhat - cleaner - than - coal stuff like natural gas, nuclear energy, and biofuels.

Moog's technology chief George Small said the aerospace industry, like other highly regulated sectors such as the medical and nuclear power industries, was expending considerable effort on tracking parts across the supply chain to keep up with quality and regulatory demands.

I love that AWS going down means like... someone's smart egg tray can't order more eggs and someone else's nuclear power plant doesn't work.

Anyone who visits the site or who has previously registered a book purchase gets to see your bonus offering, and you can use your bonus to gain subscriptions, offer a lead generation piece, or whatever you like (subject to approval, which means no promotion of porn, hate speech / bigotry, weapons, tobacco or nuclear power / eco-unfriendly or unethical practices).

Just like in 2008, with the derivatives that have been layered into the mix, the embedded leverage in the commercial mortgage / CMBS / REIT model is the financial equivalent of the Fukushima nuclear power plant collapse.

It made no sense that a country like South Africa, with year - round sunshine, would abandon its renewable energy options to focus on nuclear power instead.

I like BWX Technologies because I think it will stick to nuclear technologies unrelated to new - build for civilian power.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source.

Yet, paradoxically enough, a civilization that likes to see novelty in history where there is none, by dint of its distorted historic perspective seems to perceive but dimly the genuine novelty with which nuclear power confronts it.

It will take decades — if God in his grace restrains the principalities and powers that seek nuclear war — for the new abolitionists to persuade militaristic America that preparation for nuclear holocaust, like slavery, is an affront to the Creator.

That is why the United States must lead the world in transforming our energy system away from nuclear power and fossil fuels and towards energy efficiency and renewable energies like wind, solar, geothermal and biomass which will provide safe and clean energy and create millions of good - paying jobs.

First, whilst nuclear crises and stand - offs are close to unthinkable in the short - term, they could return in the future, as American hegemony declines and nuclear technology spreads amongst middle powers like Iran, North Korea or Pakistan.

I feel like one bullet point should be that if you just accept one crazy dictatorship becoming a nuclear power, that sends the wrong message to other crazy dictatorships.

I'm not saying there is more cause for concern for the nuclear programs of Iran and Pakistan than there is for other nuclear powers, like Russia, North Korea and Israel.

It's intended to help offset the loss in places like Oswego County where the Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant is slated to be shutdown in January.

«Our affiliates in the private sector, public sector and building trades were united in recognizing the important role existing nuclear facilities, like the James A. Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant have in our communities and in our future,» said AFL - CIO President Mario Cnuclear facilities, like the James A. Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant have in our communities and in our future,» said AFL - CIO President Mario CNuclear Power Plant have in our communities and in our future,» said AFL - CIO President Mario Cilento.

As policy in South Korea looks like shifting, many sceptics remain who think that no amount of talking to Kim Jong - un will persuade him to renounce either his despotic power or his nuclear ambitions.

«Ministers should reverse green technology cuts and invest in building a safe and secure low - carbon economy through a green investment bank - saying yes to renewable energy like wind, wave and solar but no to nuclear power.»

As natural gas and renewable sources took center stage, nuclear power sources like Oswego County's FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant were sqnuclear power sources like Oswego County's FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant were sqNuclear Plant were squeezed.

On that basis, environmentalists like Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group observed that, «These charges are essentially a tax to keep aging nuclear power plants online.»

The former mayor has branched out into the exciting field of nuclear - power public relations as the front man for a new advertising campaign aimed at reassuring New Yorkers that a Fukushima - like event is really, really unlikely.

Canale's Restaurant co-owner Nick Canale is celebrating the refueling of the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant, which brings in around 1,000 outside workers to the area who patronize businesses like his.

«Nuclear power, like the boy next door, seems to have grown up overnight.

The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, like the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, is prompting countries around the world to reassess the safety of their plants and their nuclear aspirations.

Some estimates have put the cost of each shuttle mission at as much as $ 1.5 billion — NASA itself reckons $ 450 million — and NASA has been drawing up wish lists of technologies it would like to use the spare cash to create, such as nuclear - powered rockets for trips to Mars and vehicles able to reach Earth orbit using power from ground - based lasers.

She, like other opponents, insists that nuclear power is unsafe and costly and diverts dollars from conservation, energy efficiency, wind, solar, and energy - storage technologies.