Sentences with phrase «nuclear future»

The Government's Nuclear Industry Strategy was announced at the same time as a report from an ad hoc Nuclear R&D Advisory Board, under the leadership of Chief Scientist Sir John Beddington, which looked at the implications for R&D of a wide range of nuclear futures.

The Toshiba - Westinghouse AP1000 reactor remains a symbol of the U.S. nuclear future to supporters and opponents alike.

The 2012 presidential Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future recommended more research, and the U.S. Department of Energy is now developing an R&D plan.

The report appears ahead of one from the White House Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future due out in June.

The research review led by Professor Philip Thomas from the University of Bristol and Dr Ian Waddington and published in the journal Nuclear Future, examined the evidence for the «value of a prevented fatality» (VPF) currently used as a safety guideline by the Office of Nuclear Regulation, the Health and Safety Executive and numerous Government departments.

Tom Sanders, president of the American Nuclear Society and manager of Sandia National Laboratories» Global Nuclear Futures Initiative, has been stumping for small rectors for more than a decade.

Nuclear with Chinese characteristics China's new nuclear future is a mix of its own and foreign reactor designs.

Nuclear future China leads the world in new nuclear reactors, with 29 currently under construction and another 59 proposed, according to the World Nuclear Association.

As President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear industry.

More clarity on Japan's nuclear future came today as the first unit slated for restart gained technical approval, while two further older reactors were announced for retirement rather than being put through the restart process.

So we are down to this: nuclear futures dominated by China, Russia, India, Iran and North Korea: good luck with that.

There isn't a stray word, or unimportant idea, in Frank N. von Hippel's op - ed article on America's nuclear future published in The New York Times today.

Reference: OUR NUCLEAR FUTURE: THE PATH OF SELECTIVE IGNORANCE by Alex Gabbard Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN Selections from the 19th Annual Conference SOUTHERN FUTURE SOCIETY March 14,15,16, 1996 Nashville, Tennessee

As Switzerland and Germany opt out of a nuclear future, however, doubling down an unpopular, highly politicized energy source looks increasingly expensive, as EDF must build ever - more political risk into the price tag.

The Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future wasn't specifically asked to decide the viability of a permanent nuclear waste repository in remote Yucca Mountain, Nev..

The House of Commons voted last night to renew Trident, in the first time MPs have taken a decision on the UK's nuclear future.

A scaled - down nuclear future?

The draft bill includes many of the suggestions made by the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.

But while those countries recoil from atomic energy, others are committing to a nuclear future.

She joined GMU in 2006, and in 2010 the Obama Administration picked her to serve on the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, which in January issued recommendations on how to break the gridlock in the United States over building new nuclear power plants and disposing of nuclear waste.

Over the years, Ms. Eisenhower has served as a member of three blue ribbon commissions for the Department of Energy for three different secretaries: The Baker - Cutler Commission on U.S. Funded Non-Proliferation Programs in Russia; The Sununu - Meserve Commission on Nuclear Energy; and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, which released its findings on a comprehensive program for the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle in the winter of 2012.

Despite all the industry hype about a nuclear future, private investors are openly skeptical.

Senator Ron Wyden (D, OR) has sponsored S1240, the Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2013, which implements key recommendations of the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.

Instead, the administration appointed the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future to address, once again, the country's efforts to store and dispose of high - level radioactive wastes.

Allison Macfarlane, chair of the BAS Science and Security Board, member of the Blue Ribbon Commission on American's Nuclear Future, and associate professor at George Mason University, in Virginia, says, «The global community may be near a point of no return in efforts to prevent catastrophe from changes in Earth's atmosphere.

Intent on forging a strategy that didn't include Yucca Mountain, the Obama administration also established the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (BRC), a nine - member panel of nongovernmental experts tasked with development of alternative waste disposal strategies.