Sentences with phrase «nuclear energy prevents»

The researchers also find that nuclear energy prevents emissions of huge quantities of greenhouse gases.

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The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarNuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarnuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarnuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarnuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.

But New York regulators stepped in to prevent its closure, passing a comprehensive clean energy plan that will the state's financially struggling nuclear plants, including FitzPatrick, with subsidies that are scheduled to kick in tomorrow.

According to the Nuclear Energy Institute, U.S. nuclear plants prevented the emissions of more than 642 million metric tons of carbon dioxide iNuclear Energy Institute, U.S. nuclear plants prevented the emissions of more than 642 million metric tons of carbon dioxide inuclear plants prevented the emissions of more than 642 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2010.

During the Clinton administration, Dr. Holdren served as a member of PCAST through both terms and in that capacity chaired studies requested by President Clinton on preventing theft of nuclear materials, disposition of surplus weapon plutonium, the prospects of fusion energy, U.S. energy R&D strategy, and international cooperation on energy - technology innovation.

I, on the other hand, may think that nuclear energy is our best hope of reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and thus preventing global warming.

The scientists will outline how only a combined strategy employing all the major sustainable clean energy options — including renewables and nuclear — can prevent the worst effects of climate change by 2100, such as the loss of coral reefs, severe damages from extreme weather events, and the destruction of biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide.

Yes to winding back the mass of irrational, unjustifiable impediments that are preventing nuclear power competing on a level playing field for energy supply.

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

My anti-nuclear, pro-renewable relatives now living in California believe it is only the entrenched opposition of well - financed nuclear and fossil fuel interests which prevents America's rapid transition into a mostly wind and solar energy future.

He became an advocate of the nuclear energy option for preventing global warming through CO2.

Greenpeace India campaigns to protect India's forests, for clean air and water, to promote renewable energy especially solar power, to prevent the dangerous impacts of climate change and nuclear power, for safe food and ecological farming and to protect freedom of speech.

However, apparent cost is the constraint that prevents nuclear and renewable energies from fully supplanting fossil fuel electricity generation.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is expected to act by January 10, 2018, on the Department of Energy's notice of proposed rulemaking on «grid resiliency pricing,» which directs the commission to impose rules that would prevent early retirement of coal and nuclear - fired power plants in the Eastern United States.

For nuclear energy to remain viable accidents like Tshernobyl and Fukushima must be prevented very effectively.

* Make solar energy economical * Provide energy from fusion * Develop carbon sequestration methods * Manage the nitrogen cycle * Provide access to clean water * Restore and improve urban infrastructure * Advance health informatics * Engineer better medicines * Reverse - engineer the brain * Prevent nuclear terror * Secure cyberspace * Enhance virtual reality * Advance personalized learning * Engineer the tools of scientific discovery

The USA can be most effective in that by removing the impediments that are preventing the world from getting low cost nuclear energy.

What is the probability that alternative polices are more likely to succeed (such as removing the political and regulatory impediments that are preventing the world from having low cost nuclear energy and allowing lightly regulated markets to deliver the benefits at least cost)?

Then we need to remove the impediments that are preventing nuclear energy from being developed so that it becomes cheaper than fossil fuel energy.

It also drives home the point that nuclear energy has prevented many more deaths than what it has caused.