Sentences with phrase «nuclear energy program»

China has the most ambitious nuclear energy programs in the world but low demand for nuclear globally and the slow pace of innovation make the diffusion of advanced nuclear reactors unlikely before 2040.

Furthermore, even as the industry struggles for survival, scientists and engineers who make it through the nation's few remaining nuclear energy programs draw top salaries and many job offers (see sidebar).

The problem here was that at the time, not only did the US not want Iran to do any fuel cycle work, the US also opposed any nuclear energy program in Iran.

We should bring greater openness and transparency in the decision - making processes relating to our nuclear energy program.»

Peter Lyons, who heads the Energy Department's nuclear energy program, told a House Appropriations subcommittee in March that DOE is seeking funding for two modular reactor programs in fiscal 2012: $ 67 million for a licensing demonstration project and $ 30 million for a review of advanced modular reactor concepts.

India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh has said that the country should expand its nuclear energy program mainly by using its indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors, of which the country now has 18 installed.

A key part of Japan's nuclear energy program, the 280 MWe Monju FBR in Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture, initially started in 1994.

A key part of Japan's nuclear energy program, Monju initially started in August 1995, but was shut down only four months later after a serious incident.

But in order to play this role, they need to be catastrophic, like the accidents in Chernobyl in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011 that led governments to suspend and even abolish their nuclear energy programs.