Sentences with phrase «nuclear needs a level»

On the policy side, nuclear needs a level regulatory playing field.

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Professor Liddle, Head of Inorganic Chemistry and Co-Director of the Centre for Radiochemistry Research at The University of Manchester, added: «We need to reduce the volume of nuclear waste in order to make it easier to handle and process it to remove benign elements or separate the high level from low level waste.»

The level of expertise needed to build a radio is just a little less than that required to build a nuclear weapon, they argued, so just as a civilization starts tuning up its transmitters, some internal spat causes it to go off the air in a storm of mushroom clouds.

This kind of imagery was, for much of the 20th century, part of the eyes - only world of intelligence; from the design of a nuclear submarine to the movement of Israeli troops, one needed high - level clearance for a glimpse.

All funding for Yucca development would end, the White House says, because President Obama has «made clear that the nation needs a better solution» for disposing high - level nuclear waste.

Nuclear Security — To address our national security needs and meet emerging threats from around the globe, the bill provides a total of $ 13.9 billion for DOE's nuclear weapons security programs, including Weapons Activities, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Naval Reactors — a $ 976 million increase above the fiscal year 2017Nuclear Security — To address our national security needs and meet emerging threats from around the globe, the bill provides a total of $ 13.9 billion for DOE's nuclear weapons security programs, including Weapons Activities, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Naval Reactors — a $ 976 million increase above the fiscal year 2017nuclear weapons security programs, including Weapons Activities, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Naval Reactors — a $ 976 million increase above the fiscal year 2017Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Naval Reactors — a $ 976 million increase above the fiscal year 2017 level.

To evaluate ceramic waste form performance over the time scales needed to store nuclear waste, around 100,000 years, scientists need a thorough understanding of the fundamental physics at the atomic level.

At the end of the day, it depends of users» needs and the level of acceptable risk they are willing to take when building on the coast (e.g. building a nuclear power plant v. a community centre).

As long as solar is a relatively small part of the mix, it actually helps level the load curve, because demand is so much higher during the day than at night, and particularly if you have a lot of nuclear in the mix, solar will reduce the need for peaking generation.

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When global warming causes the inevitable sea level rise, the US Navy will be able to float nuclear power plants wherever they are a needed.

We do not need subsidies any more for alternative energy, we need the other technologies to fully pay for the «externalities» of their operations, such as damaged kids, shortened lives, remediation of their damages, safe and permanent handling of their wastes, (such as coal ash and high level nuclear waste), and the like.

The so called Renewable Energy technologies such as Wind and Solar even if further refined and made more efficient, sought after efficiency increases that are now running into the problems of ever diminishing returns for the investments needed to raise those levels of efficiency, are now just one of the limiting factors in the hope of the so called Renewable Energy systems ever replacing today's base load coal, gas, oil, nuclear powered generators.

Moreover, I'm not sure that building a large nuclear fleet at the global level is even reasonably feasible — I'm skeptical that there are enough skilled personnel to do the building on the scale that would be needed.