Sentences with phrase «nuclear development at»

«The nuclear industry in general is an industry where it's in our best interest that everybody builds safe and reliable plants,» said Steve Winn, executive vice president of strategy, environment and nuclear development at Princeton, N.J. — based utility NRG Energy, in an interview with Scientific American in 2007.

Not exact matches

For all their camaraderie, Macron and Trump disagree on some fundamental issues, including the multinational nuclear deal, which is aimed at restricting Iran's development of nuclear weapons.

Officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and U.S. Department of Energy, at a news conference in Las Vegas, detailed the development of the nuclear fission system under NASA's Kilopower project.

Specifically, the estimated levelized cost of energy for nuclear generation increased ~ 35 % versus prior estimates, reflecting increased capital costs at various nuclear facilities currently in development.

At the Honolulu Conference, where Doi was honored for his leadership in dialogue, he spoke of the growing threat of nuclear warfare, pleading that this development alone makes it imperative for Buddhists and Christians to come together in mutual understanding.

Reed is set to take a job in the nuclear industry, working as head of development and community relations at Sellafield.

Since then, different U.S. administrations have tried to make even the concept of MAD obsolete with the development of ballistic missile defense systems, culminating in the 1980s with the so - called «Star Wars» project of President Reagan aimed at deploying a global shield in space against nuclear ballistic missiles.

During his remarks at the Workers Party Conference, Kim vowed to push forward with nuclear development despite international pressure.

At a secret meeting in January 1947, Attlee and six cabinet ministers, including Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, decided to proceed with the development of Britain's nuclear weapons programme, [34] in opposition to the pacifist and anti-nuclear stances of a large element inside the Labour Party.

Martin Powell, head of campaigns at Transform Drug Policy Foundation, was an analytical chemist for the French nuclear industry before working for a range of charities in Latin America and the UK, including Friends of the Earth, the Environmental Investigation Agency, and the World Development Movement, including as co-chair of the Jubilee Debt Campaign.

PoliticsHome speaks to former Labour MP Jamie Reed about his new role as Head of Development & Community Relations at Sellafield Ltd, the nuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site in Cumbria.

That legacy of nuclear energy development continues today at The University of Manchester in the form of research on new reactor technologies and related areas, says Denecke.

Richard Hargreaves, executive director of imaging at Merck Research Laboratories, says, «Nuclear imaging using radiotracers gives the opportunity to put your arms around proof - of - concept very early in a drug discovery and development program by focusing the selection of doses to study on those proven to deliver enough drug to the target therapeutic sites.»

The research team led by Professor Chun T. Rim of the Nuclear and Quantum Engineering Department at KAIST has made great strides in WPT development.

«The existing regulatory paradigm must change,» says Paul Genoa, director of policy development at the Nuclear Energy Institute.

This report was authored by Genevieve Cullen, vice president, Electric Drive Transportation Association; Alan Epstein, vice president, technology and environment, Pratt & Whitney; paul Genoa, director, policy development, Nuclear Energy Institute; Daniel Ingersoll, program manager, nuclear technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Connie L. Lausten, principal, cLausten LLC; Jeffrey Stein, mechanical engineer, University of Michigan; Amadeu K. Sum, chemical engineer, Colorado School of Mines; Donald Weeks, biochemist, University of Nebraska at Nuclear Energy Institute; Daniel Ingersoll, program manager, nuclear technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Connie L. Lausten, principal, cLausten LLC; Jeffrey Stein, mechanical engineer, University of Michigan; Amadeu K. Sum, chemical engineer, Colorado School of Mines; Donald Weeks, biochemist, University of Nebraska at nuclear technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Connie L. Lausten, principal, cLausten LLC; Jeffrey Stein, mechanical engineer, University of Michigan; Amadeu K. Sum, chemical engineer, Colorado School of Mines; Donald Weeks, biochemist, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

In addition to Vogel and Aizenberg, the research team included: Rebecca A. Belisle, a former Wyss research assistant who is now a graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University; Benjamin Hatton, Ph.D., formerly a Technology Development fellow at the the Wyss Institute and a research appointee at SEAS who is now an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Toronto; and Tak - Sing Wong, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Wyss Institute who is now an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Penn State University.

That includes at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, and Fossil Energy Research and Development program.

The article, published recently in Open Chemistry may lead to the development of a process to remove uranium from wastewater at the front - end of the nuclear fuel cycle, or even extracting natural uranium from sea water.

A single nuclear power plant takes at least 10 years to build in the U.S., says Paul Genoa, director of policy development for the Nuclear Energy Insnuclear power plant takes at least 10 years to build in the U.S., says Paul Genoa, director of policy development for the Nuclear Energy InsNuclear Energy Institute.

Research coordinated by Osaka University has now shown that the nuclear protein complex cohesin must be expressed at sufficient levels in the early mouse brain to control gene regulation and allow development of healthy neuronal networks and behavioral characteristics.

The model is being developed under the auspices of the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses (CNWRA), the NRC's federally funded research and development center, and will be described at the GSA meeting by NRC performance analyst Jin - Ping Gwo.

«If public communication is not done properly, it would have a major negative impact on China's future nuclear power development,» said Lin Boqiang, professor and director of the China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University.

Further, Chinese officials have announced plans to explicitly cap China's total energy use at four billion metric tons of coal - equivalent by 2015; they also have drafted a «New Energy Industry Development Plan» that would invest amore than $ 750 billion in «new energy,» which includes nuclear, in the next decade.

The research team consisting of researchers at NIMS, RIKEN, Kobe Steel and JEOL RESONANCE (a consolidated subsidiary company of JEOL) successfully developed the NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) system equipped with world's highest magnetic field, 1,020 MHz, during engagement in the JST - SENTAN program «Development of Systems and Technology for Advanced Measurement and Analysis.»

FIERCE criticism is being directed from all quarters at the proposal by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to finish building two Soviet - designed nuclear reactors in Slovakia.

Earlier this week, John Parmentola, senior vice president of energy and advanced concepts at General Atomics, told a House energy subcommittee that the United States needs to invest in a test bed nuclear reactor to ramp up development in the next generation of atomic energy (E&E Daily, May 14).

«This is a development of considerable significance for nuclear materials science, where composites — particularly oxide dispersion - strengthened steels — have long been considered promising candidate materials for applications involving high temperature and high irradiation dose,» says Sergei Dudarev, a professor of materials science at Oxford University in the U.K., who was not involved in this work.

In addition, to promote innovation and growth in nuclear energy, research, development, and demonstration activities are funded at $ 969 million — $ 48 million below the fiscal year 2017 enacted level and $ 266 million above the request.

A company formed by Electricite de France (EDF), France's state - owned generator, and its Slovak counterpart SEP has applied to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a loan to upgrade and operate two partly - built nuclear reactors at Mochovce in Slovakia.

A pioneer in the diagnostic uses of radiation and the development and testing of radiotracers in the early days of nuclear medicine, Robert N. Beck, professor emeritus in the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago, died at the University of Chicago Medical Center on August 6, 2008, from myelodysplasia, a form of leukemia.

NAC has partnered with AREVA and Waste Control Specialists (WCS) in the development of a License Application for a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) for Used Nuclear Fuel at their facility in Andrews County, TX.

Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) funded the work at Los Alamos, which supports the Lab's Global Security mission area and the Science of Signatures and Nuclear and Particle Futures science pillars.

At the leading edge of U.S. nuclear technology development, Centrus is dedicated to the long - term growth of the commercial U.S. nuclear fuel supply and the expansion of the commercial nuclear power industry worldwide.

At the same time, OSU was gaining international recognition for its work in the development of passive safety systems that use natural circulation to provide cooling for nuclear plants.

IFE — Halden has a foresight development program aimed at meeting instrumentation requirements for the long - term future within the nuclear industry.

SCIENTISTS at the University of Huddersfield have been using world - class new facilities to carry out experiments that could aid the development of nuclear fusion reactors, widely regarded as the «Holy Grail» solution to future energy needs.

For her residency at CCS Bard, Raskin will take a custom van on a monthlong tour of the American West, visiting historic sites of nuclear testing and development.

At the 2015 Paris summit, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz provided a compelling vision for nuclear technology development:

There are other proposals to use a very modest tweak in fuel taxes to boost basic research and development funding aimed at expanding nonpolluting energy options (nuclear, solar, storage, etc)-- an arena that has been unbelievably underfunded for decades (see graph at link) compared to other areas of scientific inquiry.

The obstacle I've never been able to get my mind around is that even at this primitive stage in the development of nuclear power, we can and do already generate radioactive waste much faster than it decays.

Some degree of fear is rather normal given the way humans approach risk, particularly with something like the risks from radiation, and particularly given inherent trust that comes from for - profit overlay onto the «common good» and (IMO) laying that fear exclusively at the feet of environmentalists, or simply labeling it as irrational, is more a product of ideologically - driven identity - protective cognition and tribalism on the part of nuclear proponents than a useful ingredient for making progress on energy policy development.

C. Technically, it is still possible to solve the climate problem, but there are two essential requirements: (1) a simple across - the - board (all fossil fuels) rising carbon fee [2] collected from fossil fuel companies at the domestic source (mine or port of entry), not a carbon price «scheme,» and the money must go to the public, not to government coffers, otherwise the public will not allow the fee to rise as needed for phase - over to clean energy, (2) honest government support for, rather than strangulation of, RD&D (research, development and demonstration) of clean energy technologies, including advanced generation, safe nuclear power.

«The estimated levelized cost of energy for nuclear generation increased ~ 35 percent versus prior estimates, reflecting increased capital costs at various nuclear facilities currently in development,» the analysis found.

To me that means remove the impediments that have blocked and slowed nuclear power development for at least 50 years.

What's needed now is a new national commitment to the development, testing, demonstration, and early stage commercialization of a broad range of new nuclear technologies — from much smaller light - water reactors to next generation ones — in search of a few designs that can be mass produced and deployed at a significantly lower cost than current designs.

The Nuclear Energy Institute agreed, noting that all energy subsidies should have a sunset clause, like some of the government support that the nuclear industry received in its first few decades.Amy Myers Jaffe, director of the Energy Forum at the Baker Institute, was generally not a fan of subsidies, but did acknowledge their utility in research and development of technoNuclear Energy Institute agreed, noting that all energy subsidies should have a sunset clause, like some of the government support that the nuclear industry received in its first few decades.Amy Myers Jaffe, director of the Energy Forum at the Baker Institute, was generally not a fan of subsidies, but did acknowledge their utility in research and development of technonuclear industry received in its first few decades.Amy Myers Jaffe, director of the Energy Forum at the Baker Institute, was generally not a fan of subsidies, but did acknowledge their utility in research and development of technologies.

He has also worked at the Alvin Weinberg Foundation, a charity advocating the development of next - generation nuclear technology and interned with Lord Alf Dubs and the British Embassy, Prague.

Promote nuclear power as the climate - neutral and politically - bipartisan energy resource that it is, incentivize the U.S. nuclear industry to expand America's nuclear capacity, and stimulate U.S. research and development in advanced nuclear reactor designs for implementation at home and abroad 5.

Meanwhile, Trump has also talked about zeroing out all federal research and development for clean energy, which would include work the Department of Energy is doing on solar, wind, nuclear power, efficiency, electric cars, batteries, and more, including the cutting - edge research being done at ARPA - E.