Sentences with phrase «nuclear power generation»

The panel contends that atomic energy is an option for building a low - carbon society on grounds that nuclear power generation doesn't emit carbon dioxide.

This combination would be safer and also cheaper — the cost long - term would be half of current nuclear power generation.

How does the question of reactor waste disposal relate to the overall issue of whether or not we should employ nuclear power generation at all?

Even if all reactors scheduled to come online by 2015 make it, the projected closing of 93 nuclear reactors by then will drop nuclear power generation roughly 10 percent below the current level.

This work could also lead to radiation - tolerant materials for potential use in nuclear power generation.

A massive component of nuclear power generation is the water used for steam production and for cooling the nuclear fuel.

Public Radiation Exposure From Nuclear Power Generation in the U.S., Report No. 92, 1987, 72 - 112.

Insistence on generating a uniformly positive glow around nuclear power generation clearly isn't working.

As nuclear power generation disappears by 2022, electricity production from natural gas will play an important transitional role in Germany in order to fill the gap left open from the closing of nuclear capacity.

While Cuomo has seized upon every hiccup at the Indian Point nuclear plant downstate to amplify his calls for its closure, he has touted the benefits of the FitzPatrick plant and other upstate nuclear power generation.

«There is no talk of stopping nuclear power generation all at once,» Nakagawa said.

URS has provided engineering and construction services for the installation of nuclear power generation since the 1960s in the U.S. and abroad through its heritage companies Ebasco, United Engineers & Constructors, and Gibbs & Hill, and pioneered the concept of nuclear contract maintenance and modifications, and large - scale modular construction through predecessor companies Catalytic and Stearns - Roger.

Low - energy nuclear reaction (LENR) research has the potential to open the door to a new kind of nuclear power generation without harmful radiation emission, greenhouse gas production, or the possibility of runaway chain reactions.

The chairman of Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) has called on Australian governments to embrace the potential to expand the country's uranium mining industry and be prepared for an expansion in nuclear power generation worldwide.

And in Japan, the quick suspension of nuclear power generation after the Fukushima disaster led to more natural gas and oil use, pushing emissions up 1 percent to 336 million tons in 2012.

Through administrative moves, he has indicated that he sees the need to responsibly exploit the state's enormous gas resource while moving toward ending nuclear power generation near New York City and its suburbs.

Japan says its focus will be promotion of energy efficiency «at the same level as the significant energy efficiency improvement after the oil crisis», as well as «maximum introduction of renewable energy, promotion of high efficiency in thermal power generation, and utilization of nuclear power generations whose safety is approved».

It operates in the southeast United States and is the parent company to the Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power and Mississippi Power utilities, as well as other subsidiaries that include nuclear power generation.

Both countries should quickly resolve to scale back coal and nuclear power generation while working to implement the energy transition in Europe,...

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.

Worldwide, nuclear power generation actually declined in 2008 while wind electric generating capacity increased by 27,000 megawatts, enough to supply 8 million American homes.

We have had, at a time when nuclear technology holds the promise of solving a perplexing problem, a shocking lack of commitment to developing improved nuclear power generation.

Nuclear power generation provides emissions - free baseload power and can complement other renewables, alongside gas turbines for peak power.

Tar sands mining and other extreme forms of energy extraction like Arctic drilling, shale fracking, and nuclear power generation send us in the exact opposite direction that we, as a civilization, must go to ensure global survival.

This one principle invalidates nuclear power generation because it has wastes that are useful to no other element, e.g. Second, if you have no waste, there is no issue of transport.

The total nuclear power generation «lost» in this scenario totals 399 billion kilowatt - hours (kWh) in 2030.

However, Japan is estimated to have just 23.5 GW in geothermal potential, only enough to displace 36 % of planned nuclear power generation in 2030.

Already on this thread, I showed that claims about the «prohibitive» cost of Indian nuclear power had little basis and the levies on nuclear power generation in the US for decommissioning and spent fuel management to be small fraction of the renewables levy in Germany

2:25 p.m. Updated There are many worthwhile discussions underway exploring whether it's possible to avoid a culture of complacency and transparency around nuclear power generation.

The report says, for example, that the standards for education, training and professional certification in the oil industry are lower than those in other hazardous industries, such as nuclear power generation and chemical manufacturing.

Uranium - 235 (U-235) is an isotope of uranium widely used for nuclear power generation and, like all other radioactive isotopes used in medicine, it has been also employed for diagnosis and treatment of diseased organs and tumors.

Coal and nuclear power generation don't need a second system like pumped hydro, mythical mega-batteries -LSB-...]