Sentences with phrase «nuclear fusion plants»

It seems likely to me that, within 100 years, Nuclear fusion plants will be a viable source of baseload power.

For example, the plasmas used in laboratories and nuclear fusion plants decay within milliseconds of the power being switched off.

The extra content will add four new multiplayer maps, including Core, set in a nuclear fusion plant in the Gobi desert; Urban, a small rooftop map located in Dallas; Sideshow, an abandoned motel decorated with clowns; and Drift, a ski resort in the Rocky mountains, complete with a timed avalanche.

Not exact matches

This radioactive isotope of hydrogen is only manufactured in nuclear power plants and would cost any fusion generator $ 100 million per week.

If electricity use continues to double every nine years, huge amounts of power will have to come from 500 years» worth of coal supplies and lots of nuclear power plants — by this time possibly breeder or fusion plants.

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

NIF has three purposes: To further our basic understanding of stars, to determine how the United States» aging nuclear weapons are holding up without engaging in underground testing, and to explore the enormous potential of nuclear fusion 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.

Even though a supporter of nuclear power, Charpak was one of three signatories to an editorial in the French daily Libération in August that called for a halt to the building of the experimental fusion reactor ITER in the south of France because the cost of the project has running out of control and the plant will be «unusable.»

Unlike the waste from conventional nuclear power plants, which remains radioactive for tens of thousands of years, the by - products of fusion decay within decades.

Scientists have long dreamed of harnessing nuclear fusion — the power plant of the stars — for a safe, clean and virtually unlimited energy supply.

«Scientists have long dreamed of harnessing nuclear fusion, the power plant of the star, for a safe, clean and virtually unlimited energy supply.

And compared to the byproducts of nuclear plants, which remain radioactive for thousands of years, the small amount of radioactive material produced in fusion reactions would remain radioactive for tens of years, Synakowski said.

If we could develop smaller more localised nuclear plants or, better yet, fund the Bussard fusion development, dropping line losses would easily make up for incandescents (and would also allow for electric cars.)

The only technically (and economically) viable alternate to fossil fuel fired plants today is nuclear fusion, which appears (post-Fukushima) not to be politically viable right now.

(It wouldn't matter whether improved nuclear plants, i.e. breeder reactor, thorium, or fusion were considered).

Georgetown University Medical Center (Washington, DC) 05/2007 — 01/2010 Imaging Science and Information Systems Center — Insert Title • Train, supervise, and assure the work quality of a team of 3 - 6 regional analysts • Write analytical summaries of open source collections of biological threats and other national security threats • Develop and refine indication and warning methodologies and taxonomies for biological and radiological threats • Offer guidance and expertise on intelligence community interagency fusion cell for H1N1 «swine flu» • Assist in research and development work on plant health project • Conduct case studies on state and non-state actor biological weapons programs and orphan source radiological incidents • Participate in multi-agency tracking of nuclear proliferation activities in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East • Perform project lead duties, participate in the selection process of new employees, and assist with performance appraisals • Awarded the National Intelligence Medallion for organizational work on Project Argus