Sentences with phrase «nuclear fission -lsb-»

There is math involved in this, but it sure isn't rocket science or nuclear fission.

Damages and losses that incur due to nuclear fission and contamination will not be covered by the car insurance plan.

It is that nuclear element that provides our theme today for the 304th edition of Blawg Review, because March 28 is a date of some significance in relation of Our Friend, the Atom, and to both the military and civilian uses of the power of nuclear fission.

But as such, I don't rule out nuclear fission as a potentially, if not likely necessary, part of a carbon - neutral energy economy.

But then I went on to envisage, at least in my own mind, a time when large fossil fuel generators had all closed own — mainly in order to avoid ruining our one and only habitable planet — and that the 24/7 power supply would be a mix of Solar PV, solar thermal (eg CSP), wind and the lesser sources such as hydro, tidal, geothermal etc having taken over the complete electricity supply — especially since Australia doesn't have, and is almost certain never to have, nuclear fission plants.

I do recall some time ago, from a scientific paper, that nuclear fission was a very important heat contributor to the biosphere and that it contributed 50 % of the heat necessary to sustain life.

Whereas, I might just agree with ProfQ that nuclear fission power has still got major thresholds to cross.

I can illustrate this with an example: Nuclear fission is a positive feedback process.

-LSB-[Nuclear fission works now.

Well, if we think that cleaner modes of delivering power will help, then it is falling down obvious that we should be using nuclear fission.

Nuclear fission works now.

would scream just as loud at nuclear fusion as they do at nuclear fission.

In effect, this means nuclear fission.

All energy (besides nuclear fission and high pressures that keep the mantle melted) on Earth indirectly comes from the Sun.

NUCLEAR ENERGY Heat energy produced by the process of nuclear fission within a nuclear reactor.

Fusion remains the holy grail of clean energy research, because the fusion reaction generates new elements that are not radioactive, unlike nuclear fission which leaves us with hazardous fuel wastes that require generations of management.

Government and industry must decide whether to invest vast sums, of the order of hundreds, perhaps even thousands of billions of dollars in production of synthetic liquid fuels from coal or oil shale, an equally expensive and widely unpopular alternative is construction of many new nuclear fission plants for generation of electricity or production of secondary fuels.

If the mix of energy technologies cheap, powerful and acceptable enough to bring this shift about includes one or more of solar, nuclear fusion or nuclear fission (and who, seriously, thinks it won't?)

As this paper states, «Covering 0.16 % of the land on Earth with 10 % efficient solar conversion systems would provide 20 TW of power, nearly twice the world's consumption rate of fossil energy and the equivalent 20,000 1 - GWe nuclear fission plants».

Nuclear fission, as you all know better than I, as a long term alternative to fossil fuels, depends on development and wide use of nuclear breeder reactors with concomitant problems of proliferation of atomic weapons materials.

In the long run, next - generation solar, advanced nuclear fission, and nuclear fusion represent the most plausible pathways toward the joint goals of climate stabilization and radical decoupling of humans from nature.

There are various types of technologies that can play significant roles in mitigating climate change, including energy efficiency improvements throughout the energy system (especially at the end use side); solar, wind, nuclear fission and fusion and geothermal, biomass and clean fossil technologies, including carbon capture and storage; energy from waste; hydrogen production from non-fossil energy sources and fuel cells (Pacala and Socolow, 2004; IEA, 2006b).

Electricity generation emerged as the best civilian application for nuclear fission.

Unlike nuclear fission, nuclear fusion would produce little radioactive waste.

The reactor overhead generates hydrogen by neutron - emission followed by neutron - decay to hydrogen, just like nuclear fission reactors.

We already have a way of producing energy in the amounts we need without CO2 emissions — it's called «nuclear fission».

As for how to meet increasing demand for electricity without using more fossil fuels, I think nuclear fission is the only currently viable option.

Deep in the psyche of these over 50s men, other than those like me who have resisted the nuclear siren's call, there is a non-rational belief in the endless safe power of nuclear fission and delusions of fusion.

Replacement of the current thermal variety of nuclear fission reactors with nuclear fission fast reactors, which are 100 times more fuel efficient, can dramatically extend nuclear fuel reserves.

But, unlike the sum of these energies, nuclear fission energy has sufficient capacity to replace fossil fuels as they become scarce.

Before nuclear fission, all US aircraft carriers burned diesel fuel; now none of them do.

Nuclear Fission already produces a substantial share of the world's energy needs.

A 77 % first order feedback for a complex system is extraordinarily high — not unprecedented, because nuclear fission is higher — but high enough that it defies nearly every intuition I have about dynamic systems.

There's no certainty that massive investments in nuclear fission won't become «sunk costs» in the face of exponentially cheaper solar power.

Since nuclear fission does not enhance global warming, it is «back on the table».

Nuclear fusion energy has none of the major problems of nuclear fission energy.

There are various types of nuclear fission reactors.

And if it turns out that nuclear fission is the necessary way to go, the energy from that can also be fed into the electrolytic / methane conversion process, allowing much cheaper transport of energy than long - distance electrical transmission.

Nuclear fission also occurs in a nuclear bomb, but for nuclear energy the fission process is controlled and takes place in a nuclear fission reactor (Cattenom is pictured).

It is important to note that nuclear fission energy is NOT nuclear FUSION energy.

They outline the need to reduce demand but also to build large - scale infrastructure in the form of concentrated solar power, fourth - generation nuclear fission and high - voltage direct current transmission.

Extra heat from all sources — including the interior of the planet, fossil fuel burning, nuclear fission, solar radiance, north - south asymetry and — the big one — cloud radiative forcing — is retained in planetary systems as longwave emissions and shortwave reflectance adjusts to balance the global energy budget.

Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Biofuels (2nd, 3rd generation), Geothermal Energy, Fusion Energy (not fission), Ocean and Wave Energy, Nuclear Fission Energy, Phasing Out Fossil Fuels, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change, Waste Management and Energy, GRIDS - Electricity Power Transmission

When powered by cheap virtually unlimited nuclear fission or in future nuclear fusion energy we'd have unlimited liquid transport fuels.

If you want to go even further into energy density you can use the stored energy of the Big Bang in nuclear fission or the simple conversion of mass to energy in nuclear fusion.

Find out how a nuclear fission reaction allows us to produce this power, and how a nuclear power plant works.

You mention that replacing new coal - fired electrical generation capacity with nuclear fission is a no - cost approach to reducing CO2 emissions.

But there are three other major energy options that need to be considered to help fill this need for non-fossil energy by 2050, one or all of which may end up being more cost effective and thus less harmful to global economic growth: nuclear fission (chapter 7), fusion (chapter 8), and solar power collected in space rather than on Earth's surface (chapter 9).

Today's nuclear fission faces great political challenges, largely caused by the same green knuckleheads that are now screaming about carbon dioxide, but taken up by the general public and politicians in many countries.

In almost all locations of this world (except on top of a coal mine, as in Australia) today's nuclear fission technology competes with new clean coal plants with no carbon tax figured in.