Sentences with phrase «nuclear generating system»

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The group analysed publicly available reports from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in areas such as failures of safety systems, the percentage of time that a reactor is not generating, and workers» exposure to radiation.

Nuclear generating plants are generally the largest on our system because of the necessary economies of scale.

We owe the wonderful images of the outer solar system taken by the Galileo and Cassini spacecraft to the power generated by Cold War surplus nuclear isotopes.

As the new year dawned, nuclear fusion researchers in the European Union woke to a new funding system aimed at sharpening their focus on generating energy.

Renewable energy currently tends to have higher up - front costs than fossil fuel - based power systems do, but in the long run equipment depreciation is lower and the fuel (sunlight and wind) is free, thus any honest cost analysis over the lifetime of the power - generating equipment will conclude that solar is cheapest, wind second, nuclear third, and fossil fuels are unworkable in the long run due to the global warming issue.

His team focused on the black smoke generated by a nuclear blast and firestorms — intense and long - lasting fires that create and sustain their own wind systems.

While many electric utilities have built their capital intensive infrastructure around the availability of fossil energy to drive their generators, utilities have had the choice to lead the transition to a zero net emissions energy system via the use of renewable and nuclear energy to generate electricity.

Besides its role in ensuring that no nuclear explosion escapes detection, the system generates a wealth of scientific data that can be applied, for example, to tsunami warnings, probing the Earth's structure, tracking emissions from nuclear accidents, analyzing meteor blasts and volcano eruptions, listening to whales or environmental monitoring of the atmosphere and oceans.

Subtitle C: Next Generation Nuclear Plant Project -(Sec. 641) Instructs the Secretary to establish the Next Generation Nuclear Plant Project consisting of design, construction, and operation of a prototype plant, including a nuclear reactor: (1) based on Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems Initiative research and development; and (2) used to generate electricity or produce hydrogen, or dNuclear Plant Project -(Sec. 641) Instructs the Secretary to establish the Next Generation Nuclear Plant Project consisting of design, construction, and operation of a prototype plant, including a nuclear reactor: (1) based on Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems Initiative research and development; and (2) used to generate electricity or produce hydrogen, or dNuclear Plant Project consisting of design, construction, and operation of a prototype plant, including a nuclear reactor: (1) based on Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems Initiative research and development; and (2) used to generate electricity or produce hydrogen, or dnuclear reactor: (1) based on Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems Initiative research and development; and (2) used to generate electricity or produce hydrogen, or dNuclear Energy Systems Initiative research and development; and (2) used to generate electricity or produce hydrogen, or do both.

That is because there may not be enough stream flow for hydroelectric stations, and coal and nuclear power plant may not be able to get enough water through the cooling systems to keep generating at peak capacity, especially in the summer months.

Under each scenario examined, the economically optimal system configuration includes a nuclear reactor generating a thermal product such as steam or a heat transfer fluid — a configuration that can economically reduce GHG emissions from industry.

N - R HES systems are managed by a single entity that link a nuclear reactor that generates heat, a thermal power cycle for heat - to - electricity conversion, at least one renewable energy source, and an industrial process that uses thermal and / or electrical energy.

Now it faces new challenges: retirement of coal, oil, and nuclear baseload generation; the rise of renewables and how to fit them into the region - wide generating system while continuing to provide reliable service; and the potentially game - changing role of energy storage, if it actually becomes economically competitive.

In a recent study, Synapse found that energy efficiency, wind, and solar resources, along with transmission system improvements, can replace power generated by Indian Point Energy Center after the nuclear power plant retires in 2021.

Allowing RTO / ISOs to use a dispatch system that gives wind and solar preference over traditional methods of generating electricity, which is driving nuclear and coal - fired generation off the grid, and which will ultimately also drive natural gas generation from the grid.

It might help you if you had a few concepds in mind too when considering this subject, like «space» is the big energy «sink» with old sol (and the internal heat generating processes (including nuclear) of the earth) as sources... any mechanism that results in a delay of energy leaving earth, such as a «bounce - back» or a re-rad of energy (like back radiation) certainly is going to increase the «energy flux» in the system, and this in any way you want to frame the argument translates to a «higher» energy state, and a higher so - called temperature» (movement in matter, velocity of air molecules or oscillations in certain «resonant molecules) as well.