Sentences with phrase «nuclear energies»

The more the world feels the powerful effects of climate change and the longer we wait to reduce emissions the more attractive nuclear energy could become.

Each cluster is a collaboration of businesses, non-profits and academic institutions to advance a specific sector, ranging from nuclear energy to agriculture.

Increasingly, that something appears to be a shift in our attitudes toward nuclear energy.

Unlike fire, the written word, gunpowder, the wheel, modern monetary systems, political parties, nuclear energy, television, the internet, Facebook, and Twitter, blockchain will be unique among all the other things human beings have invented and will be impervious to corruption, greed, and the lust for power.

The data give a range of deaths for each type of power, but the ranking consistently places hydroelectric power as more deadly than nuclear energy and natural gas:

Maria Korsnick, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute said the trade group was disappointed in the agency's order and warned that upholding the status quo would lead to the retirements of more reactors in the U.S. «Once closed,» she said, «these facilities are shuttered forever.»

Swiss voters rejected a plan to force their government to accelerate the country's exit from nuclear energy in a referendum Sunday, turning down an initiative that would have seen the last plant shut in 2029.

The pro-apartheid government pursued nuclear energy and weapons development from the 1960s to the 1980s.

In a recent Compas Inc. poll, Canadian CEOs said the crisis in Japan is bad news for new nuclear energy installations in the short term, until safety reviews are completed, and ranked the statement a 5.6 on a 7 - point scale, where 1 means strongly disagree and 7 means strongly agree.

CEOs are somewhat concerned that the Canadian nuclear industry will be negatively affected, saying that risks associated with nuclear energy will cause buyers to favour suppliers who have built reactors more recently.

It opts not to include nuclear energy, which — while emission - free — relies on finite uranium deposits.

The whole thing started in 2015, when Stanford professor Mark Jacobson and some colleagues published a paper arguing that, by mid-century, the United States could be powered entirely by clean energy sources — and by clean, he meant the really clean stuff (wind, solar, hydropower), not the only - somewhat - cleaner - than - coal stuff like natural gas, nuclear energy, and biofuels.

For example, Argentina with nuclear energy, Peru with climate change, Chile with mining, and Brazil with deep - water oil drilling.

The technology for nuclear weapons is different from that for nuclear energy, but there is some overlap.

Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Edward McGinnis said the administration wants to revitalize the U.S. nuclear energy industry, including by pursuing exports to Saudi Arabia.

An eccentric inventor and a murky group of retired military brass — most of them with plenty of medals but no experience in commercial nuclear energy — have peddled various incarnations of the plan for years.

In hindsight, creating nuclear weapons and controlled fission in the form of nuclear energy was easy.

The company also thinks renewable sources will increase from around 2 percent today to 7 percent by 2035, while the prevalence of hydroelectric power and nuclear energy will remain mostly unchanged.

The nuclear energy industry, and the grey metal that powers it, struggled to overcome the Fukushima disaster that, directly or indirectly, led to numerous power plant closures this year.

And submarines and nuclear energy are inventions that also count sci - fi as inspiration.

Within the world of Western media, Iran rarely grabs headlines for topics outside of politics, oil sanctions, human rights violations, or the quest for nuclear energy.

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.

On the supply side, IEA said governments need to develop policies that encourage the spread of offshore wind power, nuclear energy and natural gas, while discouraging the continued use of the most inefficient coal - fired technology.

«There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.

On June 8, 2010, Uranium One announced it had signed an agreement that would give «not less than 51 %» of the company to JSC Atomredmetzoloto, or ARMZ, the mining arm of Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy agency.

The list of matters he wanted probed was wide ranging, but included the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, various dealings of the Clinton Foundation and several matters connected to the purchase of the Canadian mining company Uranium One by Russia's nuclear energy agency.

Last week I said I would write about a couple of nuclear energy ETFs.

The U.S. Chamber's Global Energy Institute has joined a broad coalition to send a letter to Senate and House leaders urging them to preserve the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program for nuclear energy.

While Germany's official Energiewende strategy calls for a transition from fossil fuel and nuclear energy to renewable energy, and reduction of emissions by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, the recently formed German government is more conservative than the previous governments.

Her chapter on the early history of South Korea's nuclear energy industry has been also published in an edited volume, Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene: Perspective on Asia and Africa.

Investments by Chinese state - owned or state - directed companies have targeted sensitive industries such as nuclear energy, transport infrastructure, energy, telecommunications, and real estate.

A historian by training, her research interests include nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation, nuclear energy industry, East Asian security, U.S. foreign policy, two Koreas, and the Cold War.

The global nuclear energy industry is at a crossroads as demand for nuclear energy shifts from North America and Europe to developing Asia.

Third, Prime Minister Harper should propose the development of a comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Canada - India co-operation on civil nuclear energy.

It would also send a clear message to the Indian bureaucracy that the Prime Minister of India supports nuclear energy engagement with Canada.

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

Prime Minister Modi's visit provides a perfect opportunity for Canada to give the Canada - India civil nuclear energy relationship a shot in the arm.

At a recent meeting of Indian provincial environment and forestry ministers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that nuclear energy will play a critical role in helping the country to meet both its energy security and climate change mitigation goals.

The Joint Statement issued by the prime ministers emphasized that Canada and India would collaborate as equal partners in nuclear energy technology and services.

Many Indian and foreign nuclear energy technology companies have not been willing to supply nuclear technology and services to India because laws in the country leave suppliers open to financial liability for damages to third parties in the case of a nuclear accident.

This opened the door for the sale of uranium and nuclear energy technology and services between the two countries, but trade outcomes have been limited.

This document would go beyond the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement to highlight specific areas of collaboration on nuclear energy, including research and development and the exchange of regulatory and operations expertise, amongst other areas.

It would highlight India's achievements in the area of civil nuclear energy technology, setting a tone of mutual collaboration between the two countries.

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

It will also expand use of natural gas and clean energy sources such as hydro, wind, geothermal and nuclear energy (specific targets include: 200 GW of installed wind capacity and 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2020).

In 2011, following the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan shut down and reviewed its nuclear energy system.

To put this all in perspective: «Solar employs slightly more workers than natural gas, over twice as many as coal, over three times that of wind energy, and almost five times the number employed in nuclear energy,» the report notes.

Leslie Palti - Guzman (Rapidan Energy Group) discusses the impact of Chinese demand for LNG, the outlook for markets in South Asia, South Korea's proposal to phase out nuclear energy, and challenges to constructing the infrastructure needed to support growing LNG demand.

«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.»

While there are well - regarded Indian companies in Canada and well - regarded Canadian companies in India along with some co-operation in the area of high technology — from nuclear energy to avionics to solar cells — these are still only the beginnings.