Sentences with phrase «new nuclear age»

Opponents of nuclear power have started a counteroffensive to Dr. Lovelock's call for a new nuclear age, arguing that mining uranium and building nuclear plants releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide, and that the danger from accidents or terrorism is too great.

In the same strand, A New Nuclear Age?

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Those plants are aging, and if we replace them with new nuclear plants they would struggle to compete against the shrinking costs of wind and solar.

In 1972, at age 15, he was involved in a community group that opposed a nuclear power plant proposed for two miles north of New York City (a proposal that the utility company quickly withdrew).

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-- The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that it is entering negotiations with General Electric's nuclear division on a proposal to replace an aging uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky with a new facility.

The discoveries and scientific creations of recent years in the field of nuclear energy, transforming our period into a new power age, are directly traceable to the discoveries of radioactive elements by Becquerel and the Curies, inaugurating the new physics.9 A new depth of relations and energy revealed in both earlier and more recent experiments has routed the world - view of mechanism which Newton and his followers through the nineteenth century had come to take for granted.

After World War II the executive branch of government argued that it needed absolute power in foreign affairs because (1) in a nuclear age, when missiles can make the trip from Moscow to New York in 20 minutes, there is no time to consult Congress and the people, and (2) the «secret, subversive» techniques of the communists can be challenged only by subversion and secrecy on our part.

Same goes for age - graded schools, parenting done solely within nuclear families, and other cultural institutions and practices that are still relatively new even in Western societies.

The Liberal Democrats, Mr Huhne's party, went into the election promising not to build new nuclear power stations, whereas the Conservatives favoured replacing ageing stations.

At noon, Community leaders denounce Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 12 - year - plan to bail out three aging upstate nuclear reactors by charging New Yorker utility ratepayerss an estimated $ 7.6 billion in subsidies.

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.»

Maria Korsnick, the new head of the Nuclear Energy Institute, told skeptical Wall Street analysts in New York today that supporting financially struggling, aging reactors is critical to curbing heat - trapping emissions, and that states like Illinois, New York and now Connecticut are stepping up with financial support (Energywire, Feb. new head of the Nuclear Energy Institute, told skeptical Wall Street analysts in New York today that supporting financially struggling, aging reactors is critical to curbing heat - trapping emissions, and that states like Illinois, New York and now Connecticut are stepping up with financial support (Energywire, Feb. New York today that supporting financially struggling, aging reactors is critical to curbing heat - trapping emissions, and that states like Illinois, New York and now Connecticut are stepping up with financial support (Energywire, Feb. New York and now Connecticut are stepping up with financial support (Energywire, Feb. 9).

Part of this strategy includes saving aging nuclear plants from shutting down and may lead to building new ones.

London insists it needs new nuclear power plants to replace aging ones, but is also granting extended operating permits to those older units

Should the United States listen to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and others who call for new nuclear weapons to replace our aging stockpile?

Trinity Site, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico What does it feel like to stand at the spot where the nuclear age began?

In the U.S. the five new nuclear reactors under construction will replace the four aging reactors that closed in 2013, but as older reactors like Oyster Creek in New Jersey and Vermont Yankee continue to shut down, the number of reactors in the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as wenew nuclear reactors under construction will replace the four aging reactors that closed in 2013, but as older reactors like Oyster Creek in New Jersey and Vermont Yankee continue to shut down, the number of reactors in the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as weNew Jersey and Vermont Yankee continue to shut down, the number of reactors in the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as well.

Shuttering a key part of PF - 4 abruptly halted two types of sensitive work done nowhere else in the United States, for roughly the next four years: The invasive sampling and analysis of selected aging nuclear weapons cores to ensure that intact models could all still function as intended; and the production of new cores that could be fit into more modern nuclear weapons or replace those pulled apart in testing.

The purpose of this proposal is to develop and exploit new approaches to establish an in vivo cause - and - effect relation between nuclear and mitochondrial aging processes.

Nash's faith in rationality and the power of pure thought was extreme, even for a very young mathematician and even for the new age of computers, space travel, and nuclear weapons.

Now that I'm your age, or near enough, I know that owning a new car doesn't mean you belong to a fully intact nuclear family.

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As New York's aging Indian Point nuclear power plant comes up for relicensing, a new report shows that its electricity simply isn't needNew York's aging Indian Point nuclear power plant comes up for relicensing, a new report shows that its electricity simply isn't neednew report shows that its electricity simply isn't needed.

The exchange centers on Lynas's new book, «The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans,» and particularly on his conclusion that some technologies that have been anathema to environmentalists are vital to a smooth human journey in this century — particularly nuclear power and crops developed using biotechnology.

Once the public catches on to how much this self - induced energy crisis is costing us, we will enter a new golden age of fossil and nuclear energy development, which will eventually carry us to the age of renewables.

Behind the histrionics and talking points framing the decades - long battle over the place of nuclear power in America's (and the world's) energy menu, there have long been hints of a path forward, both for dealing with existing, aging reactors and considering a new generation of technologies.

Some new analysis done by Synapse Energy Economics, at the request of NRDC and Riverkeeper, shows that the state of New York could close the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the planew analysis done by Synapse Energy Economics, at the request of NRDC and Riverkeeper, shows that the state of New York could close the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the plaNew York could close the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the plant.

The initial «Earth Day» kicked off with a warning about the coming ice age: «1970: First Earth Day Promoted Ice Age Fears — Excerpt: At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1970, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, «The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankiage: «1970: First Earth Day Promoted Ice Age Fears — Excerpt: At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1970, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, «The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankiAge Fears — Excerpt: At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1970, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, «The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankiage must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

The aging 2,000 megawatt nuclear power plant, located 25 miles north of New York City, has presented numerous threats to the safety of over 20 million residents and the environmental health of the area.

«But I would distinguish between new nuclear plants, new nuclear technologies, and existing incumbent aging plants heading into the end - of - life, their hospice period.»

The report states that «there is no significant age - related trend in nuclear reactor performance» with older units achieving the same level of reliability as newer ones.

Exelon's new plan to support aging nuclear plants and cut carbon emissions is putting a big decision in front of Illinois lawmakers.

Plagued by cost overruns, construction delays, and a dearth of private investment interest, the world's nuclear reactor fleet is aging quickly as new reactor connections struggle to keep up with retirements.

Indeed, if the NRC behaves responsibly and stops rubber - stamping license renewals for aging nuclear power plants, and they are decommissioned as originally planned, it is likely that nuclear's share of US electricity generation will drop, even if a few new plants are eventually built.

International Wildlife warned «a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war» as a threat to mankind.

The «continued rapid cooling of the Earth» (Global Ecology, 1971) meant that «a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery» (International Wildlife, July 1975).

About 1.6 million electric customers in South Carolina are paying for the unfinished reactors that were supposed to mark a new age of nuclear power as coal - fired plants were shutting down.