Sentences with phrase «nuclear fuel resources»

Total global nuclear fuel resources — for this high temperature, gas cooled, fast neutron design — are some 300 times global oil reserves.

Not exact matches

Apart from the nuclear issue, the exploitation of Scotland's fossil - fuel resources is a major industrial activity, and even more a source of tax revenue, while there is outstanding potential for renewable energy generation, especially wind, wave and tidal.

My campaign is calling for 100 % Clean Energy in New York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grid.

In the one case, it is replaced with coal - based liquid fuels and in the other with renewable resources, such as wind, solar, or nuclear power.

Rich in fossil - fuel resources, Iran is pursuing a nuclear power program difficult to understand in the absence of military motives

«Today, we don't know whether spent nuclear fuel from light - water reactors is waste or a resource,» Moniz noted.

Interest in biofuels — fuel derived from living organisms including biomass or their metabolic byproducts, such as manure from cows — grew throughout the end of the twentieth century as these are renewable energy sources, unlike other natural resources such as petroleum, coal, and nuclear fuels.

Educational resources and information about Centrus» role in the nuclear fuel cycle and the important role nuclear power plays in our everyday lives

Yet more evidence that the world has vast commercially - exploitable wind and solar energy resources, that are more than sufficient to produce more than enough electricity for all current uses, plus the electrification of ground transport, without fossil fuels or nuclear power.

Hydrogen does n`t appear in nature as a fuel; it has to be refined from or manufactured from other energy resources (such as fossil fuels, nuclear, wind or solar).

From a global perspective, we are faced with daunting challenges as documented in World Resources, 1996 - 97: the accelerating confluence of population expansion, increased demand for energy, food, clean drinking water, adequate housing, the destructive environmental effects of pollution from fossil fuels and nuclear waste, plus the growing divergence between the haves and have - nots and the potential for ensuing conflicts.

I am convinced that we have a long time to go before carbon fuels and any other necessary resources become scarce as long as we prevent nuclear conflicts and control the destruction of habitats that ensure biodiversity.

Regardless of if someone accepts man made global warming or not, conventional fuels will not last much longer, even uranium resources will be used rapidly as countries shift to nuclear power.

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, 12 California, 7, 68, 102, 128, 169 - 170, 187, 196, 232 - 234, 245 California Energy Commission, 232 Cambridge Media Environment Programme (CMEP), 167 - 168 Cambridge University, 102 Cameron, David, 11, 24, 218 Cameroon, 25 Campbell, Philip, 165 Canada, 22, 32, 64, 111, 115, 130, 134, 137, 156 - 157, 166, 169, 177, 211, 222, 224 - 226, 230, 236, 243 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), 15 Cap - and - trade, 20, 28, 40 - 41, 44, 170, 175 allowances (permits), 41 - 42, 176, 243 Capitalism, 34 - 35, 45 Capps, Lois, 135 Car (see vehicle) Carbon, 98, 130 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), 192 Carbon Capture and Storage Association, 164 Carbon credits (offsets), 28 - 29, 42 - 43, 45 Carbon Cycle, 80 - 82 Carbon dioxide (CO2), 9, 18, 23, 49 - 51, 53, 55, 66 - 67, 72 - 89, 91, 98 - 99, 110, 112, 115, 118, 128 - 132, 137, 139, 141 - 144, 152, 240 emissions, 12, 18 - 25, 28 - 30, 32 - 33, 36 - 38, 41 - 44, 47, 49, 53, 55, 71 - 72, 74, 77 - 78, 81 - 82, 108 - 109, 115, 132, 139, 169, 186, 199 - 201, 203 - 204, 209 - 211, 214, 217, 219, 224, 230 - 231, 238, 241, 243 - 244 Carbon Dioxide Analysis Center, 19 Carbon Expo, 42 Carbon, footprint, 3, 13, 29, 35, 41, 45, 110, 132 tax, 20, 44, 170 trading, 13, 20, 40, 43, 44, 176, 182 Carbon monoxide (CO), 120 Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), 44 Carlin, George, 17 Carter, Bob, 63 Carter, Jimmy, 186, 188 Cato Institute, 179 CBS, 141, 146 Center for Disease Control, 174 Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, 62, 139 Centre for Policy Studies, 219 CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), 96 Chavez, Hugo, 34 Chicago Tribune, 146 China, 29, 32 - 33, 60 - 62, 120, 169, 176, 187 - 188, 211, 216, 225 - 226, 242 - 243 China's National Population and Planning Commission, 33 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 60 Chirac, Jacques, 36 Chlorofluorocarbons, 42 - 43, 50 Choi, Yong - Sang, 88 Christy, John, 105 Churchill, Winston, 214, 220 Chu, Steven, 187 Citibank (Citigroup), 40, 176 Clean Air Act, 85, 128 - 129 Clean Development Mechanism, 42 Climate Action Partnership, 14 Climate alarm, 4, 13, 21, 32, 35, 38, 56, 102 - 103, 115 - 117, 120, 137, 156, 168, 173, 182 Climate Audit, 66 Climate change, adaptation, 39, 110, 112 mitigation, 16, 39, 110 Climate Change and the Failure of Democracy, 34 Climate Change: Picturing the Science, 121 Climate Change Reconsidered, 242 Climate conference, 38 Cancun, 18, 29, 36 - 37, 124 - 125, 242 Copenhagen, 33, 36, 109, 125, 156, 158, 175, 241 - 242 Durban, 13, 36 - 37, 166, 242 - 243 Climategate, 2, 67, 152, 158 - 170, 180, 182, 242 Climate Protection Agreement, 12 Climate Research Unit (CRU), 48, 67, 120, 147, 152 - 153, 158 - 160, 162 - 163, 165 - 167, 169 Climate Science Register, 142 Climatism, definition, 2, 7 Clinton, Bill, 176, 178 Clinton Global Initiative, 176 CLOUD project, 96 Club of Rome, 21, 186 CO2Science, 59, 61 - 62, 66, 131 Coal, 19 - 20, 39 - 41, 80, 126, 128 - 129, 175, 185 - 186, 188 - 190, 192 - 196, 199 - 201, 209, 214, 217, 219, 222, 229 Coase, Ronald, 145 Coca - Cola, 138 Cogley, Graham, 156 Cohen, David, 220 Colorado State University, 117, 181 Columbia University, 7 Columbus, Christopher, 58 Computer models, 16, 51 - 53, 56, 67, 72, 74,77 - 79, 82, 87, 89 - 91, 94, 105, 110 - 111, 120, 124, 138 - 140, 168, 171,173, 181, 238, 240, 246 Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, 15 Consensus, scientific, 12 Copenhagen Business School, 134 Coral, 53 Corporate Average Fuel Economy, 22 - 23 Cosmic Rays, 72, 93 - 99, 180 Credit Suisse, 176 Crow, Cheryl, 30 Crowley, Tom, 167 Cuadrilla Resources, 224 - 225 Curry, Judith, 164, 167 Cycles, natural, 3, 16, 57, 62 - 63, 66 - 69, 72, 80, 99, 103, 138, 238, 240 Milankovich, 62, 67, 80 Cyprus, 134 Czech Republic, 12, 37

This technology depletes valuable fossil fuel resources and is more expensive than CST and nuclear (4).

you assume «our energy resource» is fossil fuels here, along with nuclear power, which is stated in that link you provided.

Reduce dependency on (imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years

Nuclear power in its current form is not competitive (in the US and other regions with multiple fuel resources) because the technology is toô expensive to build and operate, relative to the competition.

Developing nuclear power is critical in order to have a diversified portfolio mix of electricity generation resources to address fuel price risks.

According to the energy model we used, any carbon emissions generated by an average fuel mix used by the utility (meaning electricity made from some portion of coal, gas, nuclear, and renewable resources) will be offset by the electricity provided by the solar panels.

As for the breakdown of electricity rates, more detailed information needs to be disclosed, such as (1) «wheeling charges» (cost of transmitting electricity); (2) the cost of generated electricity equivalent to the amount of expenses shared to cover the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, etc. (included in the wheeling charges; legislation requires all electricity users to pay a share of this cost); and (3) the amount of a «promotion of power - resources development tax,» which is used to subsidize local governments hosting nuclear power plants.

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«The annual - only requirement prefers baseload fuel - burning resources, including coal and nuclear as well as gas, over cheaper resources like renewables and demand response,» said Jennifer Chen of the Natural Resources Defenseresources, including coal and nuclear as well as gas, over cheaper resources like renewables and demand response,» said Jennifer Chen of the Natural Resources Defenseresources like renewables and demand response,» said Jennifer Chen of the Natural Resources DefenseResources Defense Council.

Hopefully the political economics will allow use of the gas resource as a transition fuel to renewables and nuclear power, fusion or advanced reactors.

With a new federal nuclear waste program necessary and on the long - term horizon, the Natural Resources Defense Council sought to learn what state officials think should be done with the spent fuel and radioactive waste from America's 99 commercial nuclear reactors.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-China-plans-for-nuclear-growth-2011144.html Fast reactors — make maximum use of uranium resources by generating a certain amount more fuel than they consume — are seen as the main technology for China's long - term use of nuclear energy.

Concerns about pollution, climate change, and the finite nature of fossil fuel and nuclear power resources have led to demand for and development of energy from renewable resources.

It is this fuel - mix diversification argument that every pro-nuclear U.S. Electric Utility CEO makes «front and center» in their support of developing nuclear generation (base load) resources.

In order to fulfill the vision, the GOB has prepared short -, medium -, and long - term power generation plans using gas, coal, duel fuel, nuclear and renewable energy (RE) resources.

The only option is to use carbon - neutral renewable energy resources in place of fossil fuels (including nuclear).

Prospecting, mining, storing, transporting, refining, burning, cleaning up the mess from, fighting wars over, wild price fluctuations, huge military costs for protection, blowing the tops off thousands of mountains or billion gallon coal fly ash sludge spills, or oil spills or nuclear accidents or radioactive waste storage problems, or running out of fuel resources.

Orbach said he sees the Energy Institute as a unifying collaborator to help The University of Texas at Austin mobilize its faculty and academic resources, as well as talent from other universities in The University of Texas System, to make «transformational changes in energy production and usage» of fossil fuel, renewable and nuclear energy resources.

The coalition wrote that coal and nuclear power have proven to be uncompetitive in wholesale markets, and that «there is no evidence demonstrating that RTOs / ISOs need to subsidize resources with 90 days of on - site fuel in order to maintain reliable service during severe weather events or otherwise.»