Sentences with phrase «nuclear fuel travelling»
Who is comfortable with nuclear fuel travelling through populated suburbs.
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Briefly, fissioning atoms in the nuclear reactor's fuel emit neutrons that are traveling too fast to efficiently cause other atoms to fission.
The many serious technical deficiencies of the Yucca Mountain site and DOE's flawed approach to geologic disposal notwithstanding, the most potentially explosive aspect of the federal program is the reality that tens of thousands of shipments of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive waste will travel the nation's highways and railroads - through 43 states and thousands of communities, day after day for upwards of 40 years.
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The General Atomics project involves stock standard Brayton cycle gas turbines with a travelling wave nuclear fuel cycle and silicon carbide cladding.
Over the last two years, as I've travelled around the world speaking out in defense of nuclear plants at risk of being replaced by fossil fuels, I am invariably asked two questions.
As for solutions if CO2 is a big problem: I think we should just replace coal - fired power stations with nuclear, and then shift terrestrial transportation first to natural gas and then hydrogen, leaving the fossil fuels for air - travel.