Sentences with phrase «make nuclear energy»

It is also in fact the safest, wholly sustainable for hom sap on Earth, while it still rains and there are oceans, and uses MUCH less land and natural resources to build than any other source, because of the intensity of the energy sources and the massive efforts to make nuclear energy ridiculously safe, compared to any other generation or day to day toxi risk.

New generations of nuclear reactors like the molten salt and pebble bed reactors promise to make nuclear energy even more safe, efficient and cheap.

I have been wanting to highlight this review of strategies to make nuclear energy cheap and efficient from the Breakthrough Institute for a while.

A new Pew Research Center survey finds that most Americans can answer basic questions about several scientific terms and concepts, such as the layers of the Earth and the elements needed to make nuclear energy.

Most Americans (86 %) correctly identify the Earth's inner layer, the core, as its hottest part, and nearly as many (82 %) know uranium is needed to make nuclear energy and nuclear weapons.

I have been wanting to highlight this review of strategies to make nuclear energy cheap and efficient from the Breakthrough Institute for a while.

He said energy prices were rising, making nuclear energy an issue across the world; anxiety about climate change and the need to find clean energy sources was rising; and security of supply meant Britain must find new domestic sources of power.

Wirth has also received the 2014 DOE Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for his commitment to making nuclear energy safer and more secure, and the 2016 Mishima Award for outstanding work in nuclear fuels and materials research from the American Nuclear Society.

If accident tolerant fuels prove successful, the cost of operating nuclear plants could decline by as much as 30 percent, making nuclear energy instantly competitive even with rock - bottom natural gas prices.

Not exact matches

More recently scientists have been making some progress on a variation of this technology called low - energy nuclear reaction.

Development cost the government tens of billions of francs, and it became a centrepiece of President François Mitterrand's push to make France a leader in aviation, nuclear energy and electronics.

Jeff I figure at best Canada has 50 years to sell oil and then renewables, safer nuclear, electric cars and greater energy efficiency will make the oil sands worthless.

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.

He stressed the need for developed countries to help India increase its nuclear energy production capacity by making nuclear fuels readily available.

This would help Canadian nuclear energy technology companies successfully navigate the decision - making processes of India's government.

«Taiwan's President Tsai Ing - wen's has pledged to make Taiwan nuclear energy free by 2025, and the talks of battery facilities with Tesla would be a crucial step in his plans of utilizing more green energy.»

WASHINGTON (AP)-- A subsidiary of General Electric has agreed to pay $ 2.7 million to resolve claims its employees made false statements to the U.S. Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission about a reactor component.

The International Atomic Energy Agency reported last week that Iran has a sufficient quantity of enriched uranium to make two nuclear weapons with relatively little further enrichment.

Nuclear energy may be used to make bombs or to generate electricity.

Nevertheless, the judgment is made that a coal - and nuclear - fission - based energy policy is centered on high - risk technologies.

«Even in a perfect world where energy companies didn't make mistakes, nuclear power is and always has been a dangerous idea because there is no good way to store nuclear waste.

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The best case for nuclear having no place in a future UK energy policy is not made by considering whether it is safe as an energy source, because, by and large, it is.

Trade and industry minister Lord Truscott makes the case for nuclear power as just one part of an overall strategy, which includes greater energy efficiency and more use of renewables such as wind, wave and solar power.

The SNP believes Scotland has enough sources of renewable energy to make new nuclear power stations unnecessary and argues that, in any case, they pose unacceptable risks to the environment.

At the same time, Parliament's energy and climate change committee has warned that failure to build new nuclear will make it much harder and more expensive for us to meet our climate change targets, that government appears to be «crossing its fingers that private companies will deliver» and that a Plan B is required in case new nuclear stations are not built on time...

In a press release, they say that investing in energy efficiency and by completing ongoing projects the state should be able to provide enough energy to make up for the loss of the nuclear power plant.

And then there's Owen's vision of an «energy island», generating work and prosperity through the use of nuclear, windmills and marine turbines, is making real progress.

The only credible Plan B for energy policy is to make Plan A work and give nuclear the support it needs.

The government's energy review is due to report back this summer, but Tony Blair has already made clear he believes replacing Britain's ageing nuclear power plants is a vital part of the future energy mix, along with renewables and energy efficiency.

Conservative environment spokesman Peter Ainsworth said: «The question of our future energy supply is crucial and we can't have these decisions made on the basis of hidden links to the nuclear industry or lobbying activities.

Nuclear power will make a «significant contribution» to providing Britain's energy in the future, the trade and industry secretary has announced.

Yesterday prime minister Gordon Brown made clear his support for an expansion of nuclear energy in Britain beyond existing plans.

This laid the groundwork for the transformation of the German economy that makes it a world leader today including strong environmental regulation, phasing out of nuclear power in favour of renewables and a focus on energy - efficient production, as well as long overdue social reforms in the areas of citizenship and civil rights.

In a recent experiment performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN, an international collaboration with scientists from eleven countries, led by scientists of the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC (Spain) and the RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan), made a very surprising observation: High - energy gamma rays — which are mediated by the electromagnetic force — are emitted in the decay of a certain excited nucleus — tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear force.

Theoretical studies suggest that nuclear clocks that make use of analogous changes in the energy states of atomic nuclei could provide even more accurate frequency standards for timekeeping purposes.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

Furthermore, even as the industry struggles for survival, scientists and engineers who make it through the nation's few remaining nuclear energy programs draw top salaries and many job offers (see sidebar).

The development and deployment of major technologies potentially crucial to more sustainable energy — such as nuclear power, wind and solar power, biomass conversion and transport infrastructure — are matters of systems design requiring a mix of public and private decision making.

REP. BOEHNER: George, we believe that our all - of - the - above energy strategy from last year continues to be the right approach on energy — that we ought to make sure that we have new sources of energy, green energy, but we need nuclear energy, we need other types of alternatives, and, yes, we need American - made oil and gas.

That makes nuclear fission look a bit more competitive, at least until the price comes down on solar, wind, biomass, fuel cell, and other, less controversial emissions - free energy sources.

In 2016, the nation's 25 reactors generated nearly one - third of its electricity and made it the world's fifth largest producer of nuclear energy, according to the World Nuclear Assocnuclear energy, according to the World Nuclear AssocNuclear Association.

Domestic industries can make it from a range of chemical feedstocks and energy sources (for instance, from renewable, nuclear and fossil - fuel sources), and the nontoxic gas could serve as a virtually pollution - free energy carrier for machines of many kinds.

Adding a price on carbon emissions at even a «modest» level of $ 25 per ton would make new nuclear energy competitive with coal and natural gas even if the risk premium remains, the MIT study concludes.

We should bring greater openness and transparency in the decision - making processes relating to our nuclear energy program.»

The nuclear phase diagram: RHIC sits in the energy «sweet spot» for exploring the transition between ordinary matter made of hadrons and the early universe matter known as quark - gluon plasma.

This is not to deny that at a time when there has been dramatic progress in nuclear science and technology, some questions require periodic re-examination; the criteria by which judgments on energy policy should be made are constantly changing.

Turning down Keystone makes the statement that it is time to stop investing in technologies that lock us into continued fossil fuel use, and to make a bigger play on efficiency and carbon - neutral energy (including nuclear).

One of the most outstanding legacies of [former prime minister] Jawaharlal Nehru is the vast infrastructure for science and technology that India possesses and which has made so many far - reaching contributions to the country's progress — in agriculture, nuclear energy, defense, space, industry, energy, telecom and IT.

And in the movie the fossil fuel industry and the nuclear people get together and kidnap this renewable energy guy to make sure the president can't choose that system.