Sentences with phrase «manage nuclear waste»

The country needs a better way to manage nuclear waste as well.

The planning was set in motion by President Jimmy Carter's directive to Congress on February 12, 1980, wherein he said, «My paramount objective in managing nuclear wastes is to protect the health and safety of all Americans, both now and in the future.»

Although some have argued that current methods of managing nuclear waste present problems, I would affirm that safe, effective management of used fuel and other radioactive material have been consistently demonstrated over several decades.

While not without risks, the risks of managing nuclear waste pale in comparison to the risks of global warming or world economic collapse.

Not exact matches

There is also little incentive for companies to try to license and develop new low - level waste sites, because nuclear plants, which generate most of that waste, have managed to dramatically reduce their volume and store more on site, according to Todd Lovinger, executive director of the Low - Level Radioactive Waste Forum, a nonprofit that is helping state compacts comply with the low - level waste law.

On April 8, 2013, DOE and its co-permittee, Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC, submitted a class 2 Permit Modification Request — Modify Excluded Waste Prohibition — to eliminate the requirement in the WIPP permit for a public hearing before any waste that has ever been managed as high - level could be allowed.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) believes that PRISM offers the most efficient, clean, cost - effective option for turning nuclear waste into low carbon energy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electNuclear Energy (GEH) believes that PRISM offers the most efficient, clean, cost - effective option for turning nuclear waste into low carbon energy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electnuclear waste into low carbon energy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electnuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electricity.

Create and manage your own underground vault, keep your vault dwellers happy, and prepare for the inevitable — bandits, radscorpions; venturing out into the long - since nuclear war - torn wastes for supplies.

Lets see: Wind Farms: 1000s dead birds killed on the blades Nuclear: Terrorists, fail to manage the waste across many glacials etc etc and you have a sterile world Roof top solar: Energy storage for rainy days and nights Lower energy use: get real!

Despite over 50 - years of development and government support in Canada, nuclear power continues to be plagued by cost overruns, technical problems, accidents and the ongoing problem of how to manage its legacy of high - level nuclear waste.

We can manage waste from coal and nuclear, IMO.

The processes involved in building and managing nuclear power — such as mining, uranium enrichment and waste storage — are all very energy intensive.

She has organized and managed education and advocacy programs dealing with a wide range of energy and environmental issues, such as high level nuclear waste legislation, director of a solar installers» training and energy conservation installation program, coordination for numerous state, local and national conferences / strategy workshops, and has assisted community - based groups in establishing job - training / energy rehabilitation programs.

It is telling that while there are thousands of articles, studies, books and movies about the relatively miniscule quantities of well - managed spent fuel that comes out of nuclear plants, there is to date only one estimate of how much solar waste the world is on track to produce, and it was calculated for the first time by an 18 - year - old nuclear engineering student from UC Berkeley and (proudly) published yesterday by Environmental Progress.

Examples include refining ways to securely handle radioactive waste from nuclear reactors; testing repositories for carbon dioxide captured at power plants; and, perhaps more important, improving the electricity grid so that it can manage large flows from intermittent sources like windmills and solar panels.

Ms. Zoi manages over $ 30 billion of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding, as well as a base budget of over $ 10 billion in applied research and development and nuclear waste management.

These include the potential of catastrophic reactor accidents on the scale of Chernobyl, the difficulties of managing long - lived radioactive waste, and increased likelihood of nuclear weapons proliferation.

«Safety is the chief public concern throughout the lifecycle of nuclear power, from mining uranium to operating power plants to managing waste,» said Dr Birol, «Newcomer countries to nuclear power, especially, must commit to developing a strong regulator and culture of safety.»

Last fall, the group told lawmakers that a nuclear waste policy should focus on a consent - based approach, rather than one focused on Yucca Mountain, that is «technically sound» and requires that SNF is managed safely and securely at reactor sites until a repository becomes available.