Sentences with phrase «nuclear fire as»

On television recently, Garber jumps to nuclear fire as one half of the superhero Firestorm in the DC television universe.

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Trump's threat to hit North Korea came as that nation — reacting to new United Nations sanctions against its nuclear program — warned the U.S. would «pay dearly» and said it was examining plans to fire a missile toward an American military base on Guam.

Israel's decision on whether to bomb Iran's nuclear sites — as it has repeatedly threatened to do — could hinge on its estimate of the retaliatory costs, including damage inflicted by rockets fired from southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

I do not think that a person can have a role in the wartime firing of a nuclear device, or even in the development or production of a destabilizing weapon, as an agonized participant.

«Protracted» means prolonged, dragged out; does that mean that nuclear weapons would be fired as long as someone were left alive to push the buttons, long after major cities had been destroyed and millions of humans killed?

«There will be relatively high costs in developing this new nuclear facility but broadly comparable with other low carbon technologies such as offshore wind, and, potentially, carbon capture and storage applied to gas and coal fired power stations.

Regardless of how cheap such small modular reactors may allow nuclear to be in future, it is unlikely to be as cheap as natural - gas - fired turbines in the present.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.

The point was to prove that a nuclear power facility could be built as cheaply as a coal - fired power plant, and the key to that was a smaller safety system.

Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?

In fact, a typical coal - fired power plant exposes local residents to as many as 18 millirems of radiation yearly, whereas a nuclear power plant emits less than six millirems per annum, according to researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

However, as the UK has shifted focus from coal - and oil - fired electricity generation to being more reliant on natural gas as the fuel of choice (irrespective of wind, solar, nuclear and other alternatives), this makes the electricity grid somewhat vulnerable to accidental and incidental problems with the flow of data and to malicious manipulation for the sake of sabotage, criminal or online military / terrorist action.

December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity, led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy use by 2040

Response: Holtec is also an industry leader in designing nuclear systems to withstand cataclysmic natural events such as severe flood, hyper - wind, tornado, tsunami, fire, earthquake, and human mendacity such as a crashing aircraft or missiles, providing absolute and certain safety to the surrounding communities and environment.

Nuclear fires were spreading outward in a fifty - mile radius, just as Williams said they would.

By the same token, if you were on the very outside of the area targeted, and suffered fire as a result of a nuclear detonation that didn't otherwise impact you, that fire could be a covered cause of loss.

In the game, you play as Naked Snake, a CIA operative during the era of a new Cold War who has been given the important task of destroying the «Shagohod», a mobile missile launcher that has the capability of firing nuclear missiles at the United States.

Uranium features 150 fan - created Pokémon (including new «Nuclear» types), with characters such as Fox - Owl hybrid Owten and fire - dinosaur Raptorch looking just weird and adorable enough to be featured in the official Nintendo games.

There's no reason you couldn't use the heat to drive a steam turbine or Stirling engine, just as the steam turbines in a nuclear plant are basically identical to the ones in a coal - fired plant, or for that matter a solar thermal one.

Nuclear is likely to be out of the frying pan into the fire, a time bomb waiting for our kids, just as much as climate change.

Rough calculations show if you drill about a dozen mine shafts as deep as possible into the thing, and plunk megaton nuclear bombs down there, and then fire them off simultaneously, you'll get a repeat of the Long Valley Caldera explosion of about 800,000 years ago — which coated everything east of it with miles of ash and injected a giant aerosol cloud into the stratosphere — the ash layer alone formed a triangle stretching from the caldera to Louisiana to North Dakota, including all of Arizona and most of Idaho and everything in between — I bet that would have a cooling factor of at least -30 W / m ^ 2 — and you could go and do the Yellowstone Plateau at the same time — geoengineering at its finest.

And capitalist - technocratic, because the dominant narrative of the Anthropocene has technology as its driver: recent Earth history reduced to a succession of inventions (fire, the combustion engine, the synthesis of plastic, nuclear weaponry).

8:25 p.m. Updated There are some heated headlines out there as fires spring up in the zone contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster.

If plant cancellations were from the accidents, as is frequently claimed, then why did the backlash against nuclear not occur after the far more dangerous 1957 Windscale fire, which shot iodine - 131 across the English countryside, or after the 1966 Fermi - 1 sodium fast reactor fire?

If 100 Hiroshima - sized bombs, each as powerful as 15,000 tons of TNT, were exchanged in a war between two developing - world nuclear powers such as India and Pakistan, models show the resulting fires would send five million metric tons of black carbon into the upper troposphere - the lowest - altitude layer of the atmosphere.

It's another acknowledgement of the tough operating environment for nuclear facilities as gas - fired and renewable energy sources continue to grab more power generation market share in an era of lower electricity costs and slowing demand for electricity.

The NRDC cites the «2016 State of the Market» report by PJM, the largest grid operator in North America, as showing that «new entrant natural gas - fired combined cycle plants, combustion turbine plants, and solar are economical, but that new coal and nuclear plants are not.»

In December, however, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) suggested in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment that power generation from natural gas — fired units and renewable sources such as solar and wind will provide enough electricity to offset closures of coal and nuclear plants over the next decade, at least.

Of course, lower wholesale electricity prices hurt gas - fired power plants as well, but the low prices are «most harmful to coal - based generators and to a lesser extent nuclear - based generators.»

Power generation survived but got squeezed by nat gas and nuclear (as did oil fired power generation and industrial use of oil on the back of the 1970s oil shocks).

As we're gettng rid of our coal fired and nuclear power stations what is our advanced industrialised country supposed to use to power our indusries and how do we remain competitive against other countries paying lip service to the environment including your own

But in the real world, if coal - fired power plants are canceled (as many were last year), wind or nuclear power don't automatically substitute.

Thinking of the here and now rather than flights of fancy, use gas fired power plants, modern technology coal fired power plants, invest in modular nuclear power plants research as for example Thorium reactors, and continue on the quest for power storage solutions.

And just as political scientist Herman Kahn was the bard of nuclear terror, scientists like James Hansen and James Lovelock lay out our coming environmental apocalypse in gory detail: the droughts and fires, the drowned cities, the massive die - offs.

On the charge of dormant Commerce Clause breach, the judges found the plaintiffs» argument failed to show how out - of - state nuclear plants were suffering from ZEC implementation and that coal and gas - fired generators» interests are not protected under the Clause as non-nuclear entities.

The PWU doesn't like that — the fact that jobs at coal - fired power plants are being phased out and there is a significant threat to nuclear jobs as well.

Japan's reboot of nuclear power, expected to begin early next year, is set to punish oil imports the most as utilities slash the use of their highest - cost fuel and shut aging oil - fired plants, a survey of Japan's nine biggest power companies showed.

Instead of doing this, why don't we simply fix the broken permit process for new nuclear plants and give modest tax incentives to industries or individuals that implement «no regrets» initiatives to reduce CO2, such as: — replace new coal - fired power plants with nuclear or natural gas (where a gas supply exists)-- replace newnormal automobiles with hybrids — replace Diesel for new heavy transport with natural gas — install energy savings initiatives (waste recycling, better building insulation, etc..)

But let's be very clear: it is simply not realistic — as anti-nuclear energy activists like Ms. Collard argue — to replace existing nuclear and coal - fired plants, which currently make up 68 per cent of Ontario's electricity production, with renewables alone.

As an example, the 1,532 MW of emissions - free Bruce Nuclear refurbished generation, at a capacity factor of 90 % supplying 12.08 TWh, easily covered the loss of 4.1 TWh of coal - fired generation and left 8.7 TWh for added demand due to its flexibility to steam off or bypass the turbines.

After California's San Onofre nuclear plant closed, and the state suffered droughts that reduced hydroelectric output, natural gas - fired power increased from 45 to 61 percent of the state's electricity generation even as wind and solar capacity soared.

On the other hand, it is reasonable to assume that natural market factors will gradually result in a reduction of ever more expensive fossil fuel combustion as older coal - fired power plants are shut down and replaced by nuclear plants, as hybrid and electrical cars gradually replace gasoline and diesel driven ones, and as energy efficiency is improved and waste reduced.

To meet emissions reduction targets, the cost rises to # 960 billion with cuts coming from nuclear power and as - yet - unproven carbon capture and storage fitted to gas - fired plant.

[3] Each state has interim targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing demand - side energy - efficiency measures.

In the coming years, there are plans to retire the two largest coal - fired power plants in the region, as well as one of the region's nuclear units.

However, it is perfectly obvious I have little to lean here as the discussion starts with an assumption that nuclear is evil, and the objective is to fire off as many debating points as possible, no matter how ill thought out and unsubstantiated.

IGCC plants are exorbitantly expensive to build, costing twice as much as an ultra-supercritical coal - fired power plant, and nearly as much as a nuclear power plant.

Looking beyond the nuclear phase - out, other policies endanger its climate policy efforts, such as the use of the European Union's trading scheme for carbon dioxide to protect and promote coal - fired power generation.

The inflexibility of coal - fired and nuclear power stations is almost as great a limitation as the pseudo-random variation of wind power generators.

Let's say we shut down and decommissioned coal mines and coal - fired power plants, stopped new offshore drilling for oil and gas plus the development of shale oil and gas, moved away from nuclear power as too risky, spent trillions to subsidize non-viable windmills and solar panels to squeak by in avoiding a total blackout by imposing exorbitant taxes on energy in order to force people to cut back its use.