Sentences with phrase «nuclear energy in»

Gazprom did indeed do this, by employing former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on a lavish salary, as a reward for his imposing a phase - out of nuclear energy in Germany.

Fortum energy strategy is large investments in the nuclear energy in Finland, Sweden and Russia.

We offer a view that Didcot has caused far more deaths from respiratory diseases than all the deaths ever associated with nuclear energy in the UK, and that coal power is a far more legitimate target of environmental protest than nuclear.»

California, in particular, has embraced extremely ambitious clean energy policies, even as nuclear energy in the state is set to be phased out entirely.

But even King Hubbert himself, according to Wikipedia, «believed that solar power would be a practical renewable energy replacement for fossil fuels, and that nuclear energy in breeder reactors would be able to sustain us for centuries.»

The 90 - minute panel hosted by U.S. representatives was meant to highlight the benefits of fossil fuels and nuclear energy in combating climate change.

Ken Silverstein, «Can The Modern Environmental Movement Save Nuclear Energy in California?»

While the mainstream media has yet to decipher fact from fiction in the «clean coal» marketing campaign, a graduate assistant at a college in Ohio managed to cap»n trade some of the comments and ads of presidentialr candidates Barack Obama and John McCain (and the erstwhile Hillary and Bill Cinton) on the role of coal and nuclear energy in their campaigns.

A stand - alone policy to support nuclear energy in Ohio or Pennsylvania is unacceptable.

Global electricity generation from nuclear energy in 2011 was 2,518 TWh: http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/documentlibrary/reliableandaffordableenergy/graphicsandcharts/worldnucleargenerationandcapacity/]

The IEO2017 Reference case forecasts renewable and nuclear energy in OECD countries to rise from 21 % of OECD countries» energy consumption in 2015 to 25 % in 2040, with the United States expected to remain the largest emitter of energy - related CO2 emissions among OECD countries through 2040.

EP has published two investigative pieces on work by Greenpeace [also in Korean] and Friends of the Earth (FOE)[in Korean] to kill nuclear energy in South Korea.

The country, she added, welcomes partners to help construct, train and develop nuclear energy in line with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) standards.

Hubbert believed that solar power would be a practical renewable energy replacement for fossil fuels, and that nuclear energy in breeder reactors would be able to sustain us for centuries.

It makes sense to use nuclear energy in combination with renewable technologies to create a sustainable, clean energy portfolio to meet rising electricity demand while reducing carbon emissions.

-- Estimated abatement cost with renewable energy in Australia = $ 300 / t CO2 — Estimated abatement cost with nuclear energy in Australia = $ 65 / t CO2 — Nordhaus «Low - cost backstop» technology (assumes) = $ 270 / t CO2 — CO2 Abatement cost if / when we allow low - cost nuclear = < $ 0 / t CO2

Just to keep the costs in perspective with alternatives here are the alternatives again: — Current EU carbon price = $ 10 / t CO2 — Estimated abatement cost with renewable energy in Australia = $ 300 / t CO2 [3]-- Estimated abatement cost with nuclear energy in Australia = $ 65 / t CO2 — Nordhaus «Low - cost backstop» technology (assumes) = $ 270 / t CO2 [4]-- CO2 Abatement cost if / when we allow low - cost nuclear = < $ 0 / t CO2 [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

The starting point for any country that wants to include nuclear energy in its generation mix is to require a political and «social» operating licence for utilities running nuclear plants and facilities.

Delivering a lecture on «Challenges of promoting a green economy» at the International Centre of Goa, Dona Paula, on Tuesday, Kakodkar said that the only other energy form that compares favourably with nuclear energy in the safety aspect is solar energy.

While coal will continue to dominate its energy mix, the shares of oil, natural gas and nuclear energy in China's primary fuel mix will grow.

Before joining CGD, she conducted independent field research on Ghana's power sector and the potential role of solar and nuclear energy in consolidating electricity access.

We count 35 GW of nuclear energy in the «Triple Risk» because they are in de-regulated markets, uneconomical (according to BNEF) and up for relicensing before the end of 2030.

But I lamented that the agenda lacked any discussion of the role of nuclear energy in moving beyond fossil fuels in this century.

As conservation scientists concerned with global depletion of biodiversity and the degradation of the human life - support system this entails, we, the co-signed, support the broad conclusions drawn in the article «Key role for nuclear energy in global biodiversity conservation» published in Conservation Biology (Brook & Bradshaw 2014).

By comparison, the transition to nuclear energy in France, Belgium and Sweden in the 1980s led to reductions of 4 percent per year, but they only lasted for a decade.

Both projects have gaps — echoing the «reality gap» in the Paris climate agreement — including scant focus on the world's continuing underinvestment in basic energy sciences and the role of nuclear energy in helping fill a post-carbon clean - energy portfolio.

See, electric relies on energy generated by burning coal and nuclear energy in most parts of the world.

Using the nuclear energy in the fuel assemblies, these facilities produce more than 2.5 trillion kilowatts of electricity each year.

Most of the anticipated growth in nuclear energy in the developing world is commonly ascribed to China and India.

In fact, no serious technical obstacles exist that would hamper the expansion of nuclear energy in the U.S..

The average cost of generating nuclear energy in the United States was less than two cents per kilowatt - hour in 2006, according to the Atlanta - based utility data provider Ventyx, which puts it on par with coal.

Cuomo personally drove his team to think creatively about FitzPatrick and nuclear energy in late 2015, before his state of the state address in mid-January.

My debate team's topic is about the use of domestic nuclear energy in the United States.

Yesterday prime minister Gordon Brown made clear his support for an expansion of nuclear energy in Britain beyond existing plans.

I am specifically arguing the use of nuclear energy in space through SpaceX.

The Lib Dems adopted to support fracking and nuclear energy in a policy motion at their party's autumn conference in Glasgow.

Gordon Brown threw his weight behind an accelerated push for nuclear energy in Britain last night.

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.

Not exact matches

Jenkins wrote on Twitter that Germany's shift in energy policy was misguided and resulted effectively in fossil fuels replacing much of the missing nuclear power — a pattern that's playing out at home, as well.

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

«The energy in a large nuclear weapon is but a drop in the bucket compared to the energy of a [naturally] occurring tsunami,» Spriggs previously told Business Insider.

In the past, it's been a give and take: North Korea has agreed to take certain steps to dismantle its nuclear facilities in return for energy and food aiIn the past, it's been a give and take: North Korea has agreed to take certain steps to dismantle its nuclear facilities in return for energy and food aiin return for energy and food aid.

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

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.»

After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, the Swiss government adopted a gradualist approach toward transitioning the country to renewable energy by 2050.

«This will come as an additional shock to Toshiba «s institutional investors that may further undermine confidence in company management, as well as significantly weakening its international nuclear credentials,» said Tom O'Sullivan, founder of energy consultancy Mathyos Japan.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature retirement of baseload power plants that provide nonstop power, like those fired by coal and nuclear fuel.

Under pressure to resign as leader of a country ravaged by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, Naoto Kan's last act in August 2011 was to transform Japan's energy policy.

Frederick W. Buckman, a PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT, is a veteran energy executive and CEO of Powerlink Transmission Co.; Jacques Besnainou is the former president and CEO of Areva Group North America, a global player in nuclear power.

The budget for the Department of Energy would include $ 120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project that has been stalled for years because of lawsuits and local opposition.