Sentences with phrase «nuclear fission plants»

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.

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.

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».

An equally expensive and widely unpopular alternative is construction of many new nuclear fission plants for generation of electricity or production of secondary fuels.

Dave wrote in Comment 9: ``... they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create waste that can't be disposed of» and «Wind / Solar et al. is nice but is getting no funding and going nowhere fast right now, not to mention the fact that it might not do us much good anyway on the kind of unsustainable economic scales we (at least Americans) want to live at.»

My own take on this is that people will take the short - term most efficiently expedient actions, which is also the worst thing they can do — they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create radioactive waste that can't be disposed of....

Bergeron explained the basics of overheating at a nuclear fission plant.

Not exact matches

The nuclear power plants in use around the world today use fission, or the splitting of heavy atoms such as uranium, to release energy for electricity.

The competing SFR design banks on a novel fission concept: bombarding uranium atoms with neutrons of much higher energy than those used in a traditional nuclear plant.

This is especially important for formulating fusion and new kinds of fission nuclear power plants.

When the head of the Atomic Energy Commission at the time, Lewis Strauss, infamously quipped in 1954 that electricity would become «too cheap to meter,» he was likely referring to nuclear fusion, not nuclear fission, the atom - splitting reaction that powers conventional nuclear power plants today.

Today's nuclear power plants use the heat from uranium fission reactions to do nothing more complicated than boil water, making pressurized steam that spins turbines to generate electricity.

«Once you build the power plants, it just keeps producing energy,» Judge said, noting the potential benefits of electricity generation from nuclear fission.

Regardless of Hansen's dubious claims about CO2, America must build another hundred nuclear fission power plants for more electric power production.

Mike: Nuclear fission in a power plant is a very controlled situation, unlike the natural tendency of an accumulation of a sufficient amount of the fuel.

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.

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

For something as complicated as climate science, the long run is longer than for making a bomb and nuclear power plant after the discovery of fission, which itself was a long time coming after the discovery of radioactivity.

Nuclear power plants, however, heat the water using fission reactions, splitting atoms of uranium or plutonium and producing no carbon emissions.