Sentences with phrase «nuclear fuel likely»

Not exact matches

It has been speculated for some time that a Nuclear War between Russia and the United States would not likely start with one side surprising the other with a total launch (for one thing, it takes a few hours / days to properly fuel all of Russia's ICBMs... they not only by internal policy only have second strike capability... they also actually only have it.

Japan's nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing reactor fuel, authors of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on the nuclear fuel cycle said yesterday.

That makes it likely that other groups will be able to quickly follow their lead to make a wide array of high - strength stainless steel parts for everything from fuel tanks in airplanes to pressure tubes in nuclear power plants.

What remains unclear is how much of the nuclear fuel at any of the three Fukushima Daiichi reactors has melted down, though TEPCO has announced that the fuel is likely damaged in all three reactors that were operating there at the time of the earthquake.

The EIA says world energy consumption is likely to grow by more than 50 percent over the period 2010 to 2040, with fossil fuels supplying 80 percent of the total, despite a growth in renewables and nuclear power.

Therefore, either reprocessing or recycling spent nuclear fuel, as the French and Japanese do, is likely to be a waste of money better spent on improving the light - water reactors presently in use.

Germany's «Energiewende,» the effort to transition away from nuclear and fossil fuels toward renewables, is likely to continue no matter what coalition forms.

In 2013, Congress likely will consider nuclear waste legislation for a new spent nuclear fuels storage facility and perhaps more comprehensive nuclear waste legislation.

If barriers to nuclear persist, the energy gap will likely be plugged by more fossil - fuel power plants, which would render the cleanliness of China's wind farms academic.

The developments are likely to fuel concerns among the many environmental campaigners who oppose nuclear power that the industry has unfair access to the government, as well as benefiting from hidden subsidies.

African American communities, including workers, are most likely to be exposed to the pollution from fossil fuel based energy production through coal plants, oil and gas refineries, as well as pollution from energy production through nuclear facilities and waste incinerators.

Beyond coal and nuclear plants, gas generators that can also burn diesel are likely to stockpile that fuel to meet the 90 - day requirement, Kavulla said.

The future of nuclear fuels seems quite likely to be focussed on fuel recycling and re-fabrication rather than mining and geological storage.

Given the evident concern about nuclear waste, it will be interesting to see if there is any reactions from young people to the governments recent admission that, on current NDA plans, the proposed Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) is not expected to be available to take spent fuel from new nuclear power stations until around 2130, which they note «is approximately 50 years after the likely end of electricity generation for the first new nuclear power station».

You might like to ponder what has changed since I wrote a letter on 16 Feb 1979 quoting the Chairman of the U.K. Central Electricity Generating Board, Mr R England, who wrote ``... the only proven way in which the predicted shortage of fossil fuels can be counterbalanced in the field of electricity generation is by increasing out investment in nuclear power... In view of the drawbacks involved, the CEGB is not carrying out any work of its own on harnessing solar energy... it is too early to say whether geothermal energy is feasible, or what the likely cost would be...»

Atmospheric CO2 is likely to increase to around 640 ppmv *, assuming — There will be no global Kyoto type climate initiatives — Human CO2 emissions increase with human population — Global per capita human fossil fuel use increases by 30 % by 2100 (it increased by 20 % from 1970 to today)-- Population growth is estimated to slow down sharply, with population reaching 10.5 billion by 2100 (* Note that this could be lower by around 60 ppmv if there is a concerted switch to nuclear power instead of coal for new power plants)

If fossil fuels continue to become more difficult and expensive to extract and as alternates, such as nuclear or renewable sources, become cost competitive, the rate of CO2 increase will most likely slow down.

This demand is likely to be met by increasing use of fossil fuels along with other sources, such as nuclear and renewable.»

When C and E are no longer the most cost effective solutions to reductions in fossil fuel consumption, we go to the next most cost effective method, which will likely be nuclear.

I think that Pr Q's point that nuclear doesn't look economical without a strong carbon price is where the most likely answer lies; put a big price on Carbon and a lot of alternatives to fossil fuels, including nuclear, will look more attractive.