Sentences with phrase «nuclear electricity»

The improvement of uranium mining occurred through the development of a well - regulated nuclear electricity sector, and has gotten better and better every decade.

A real one could accumulate nuclear electricity overnight for use during the day's load peaks.

The opponents have painted grim pictures of prices hikes, blackouts, increased use of coal, with more emissions, and massive imports of nuclear electricity from France and gas from Russia.

France imports most of it's crude oil consumption and has vast idle off - peak nuclear electricity generating capacity.

Nuclear share of world electricity was calculated by dividing world nuclear electricity generation by total world electricity generation.

To calculate lost nuclear electricity production, we count plants that were already built and closed, and those plants that were not yet under construction but were close to construction and had a utility operator intent on building it.

How do you deal with the fact that wind electricity is competitive with fossil fuel and nuclear electricity NOW and is still coming down?

Anything more than that would require giving up automobiles in everyday life and heating our houses with nuclear electricity (or nuclear electric - powered heat pumps).

The other thing is that even though France has great nuclear electricity potential, it still uses fossil fuels for other things.

While offshore wind power generates a higher level of electricity than onshore wind farms, its generation levels are still much less than fossil fuel and nuclear electricity technologies since it is still reliant on the wind blowing.

At best, maybe we'll see much more nuclear electricity generation, and reduced oil dependance.

I disagree that it can net sequester CO2 absent nuclear electricity.

Find the total nuclear electricity ever generated, put a price on carbon — say the $ 23 carbon tax -, assume nuclear has displaced black coal.

Global nuclear electricity generation (blue area, left axis) and nuclear's share of total world power generation (red bars, right axis).

Bavaria is expected to trade out their significant nuclear electricity portfolio for fossil generation in the coming decade, according to new analysis from Der Spiegel.

Accepted was the Executive Budget proposal to increase the annual fee assessed to nuclear electricity generating facilities to $ 1 million for the purpose of offsetting a greater share of local emergency preparedness costs (Part R of the PPGG Article VII).

Even if it is nominally replaced by renewable power, a kilowatt - hour of renewable electricity that replaces lost nuclear electricity is a kilowatt - hour that is not available to displace coal and gas from the grid.»

The technology is now one of the world's leading energy storage technologies, and allows solar energy to operate like traditional fossil - fired and nuclear electricity generation — except the fuel is the sun which means zero emissions, zero hazardous waste, and zero dependence on fuel price volatility.

THE world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

The world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

Electricity production from biomass, coal, gas and hydropower for instance induces much higher indirect greenhouse gas emissions than nuclear electricity, or wind and solar - based power supply.»

France managed 2 per cent per year during its 30 year dash for nuclear electricity, when it went from 1 per cent nuclear - powered to 80 per cent.

If all the costs of generating nuclear electricity are included in the price to consumers, nuclear power is dead in the water.

Much of the rest is nuclear electricity, which has both real and perceptual problems.

But an early start could be made with CCS and water electrolysis in locales with cheap hydro - or nuclear electricity.

Earth and water source heatpumps are a very good use of nuclear electricity to heat houses and water.

France can import much natural gas from the north sea fields in exchange for nuclear electricity.

The use of nuclear energy to produce liquid fuels is very economic at this point of time, and whilst the production of hydrogen from nuclear electricity is expensive the cost can be reduced by using high temperature steam from nuclear reactors for high temperature electrolysis.

Germany, which in 2011 produced 5 % of the world's nuclear electricity, is abandoning it, as are some smaller countries.

World nuclear electricity - generating capacity has been essentially flat since 2007 and is likely to fall as plants retire faster than new ones are built.