Sentences with phrase «nuclear sources by»

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The whole thing started in 2015, when Stanford professor Mark Jacobson and some colleagues published a paper arguing that, by mid-century, the United States could be powered entirely by clean energy sources — and by clean, he meant the really clean stuff (wind, solar, hydropower), not the only - somewhat - cleaner - than - coal stuff like natural gas, nuclear energy, and biofuels.

A source close to Djalali revealed that in 2014 he was approached by agents of the Iranian military intelligence that asked him to collect information on Western chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear sites, as well as on critical infrastructures and counter-terrorism operational plans.

The company also thinks renewable sources will increase from around 2 percent today to 7 percent by 2035, while the prevalence of hydroelectric power and nuclear energy will remain mostly unchanged.

(By comparison, nuclear power was conceived in the late 1930s and didn't become a commercial energy source until the late 1950s.)

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

U.S. President Donald Trump has all but decided to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear accord by May 12 but exactly how he will do so remains unclear, two White House officials and a source familiar with the administration's internal debate said on Wednesday.

It will also expand use of natural gas and clean energy sources such as hydro, wind, geothermal and nuclear energy (specific targets include: 200 GW of installed wind capacity and 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2020).

It has been reported by many sources that there are more than enough nuclear bombs in South Korea to destroy the peninsula biologically forever.

In the intervening years, the energy policy would give utilities an incentive to use power generated by nuclear plants, which are considered clean sources, though not renewable.

The best case for nuclear having no place in a future UK energy policy is not made by considering whether it is safe as an energy source, because, by and large, it is.

And he argued the nuclear plants» output is needed as a bridge fuel to help the state reach a goal of half of all New York's power coming from renewable sources by 2030.

At the time of the agreement, Cuomo and the commission argued that the nuclear plants provide a clean bridge fuel while reaching the state's goal of getting 50 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2030.

Exelon officials have expressed support for Cuomo's new clean energy standard, which is expected to allow utilities to use nuclear power to fulfill a mandate to purchase 50 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2030.

The 650 - megawatt CPV plant in Orange County has already received a series of approvals from the Cuomo administration over the years, and is viewed by officials as key if the governor is to realize his long - term goal of shutting down the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County and replacing the energy it generates with other sources.

Cuomo will count nuclear power as renewable energy, at least temporarily, when the state issues new rules next year requiring utilities to procure half their power from renewable sources by 2030.

David Tillman, a spokesman for Exelon, which operates the Nine Mile Nuclear Power Station, said the company has offered to provide Fitzpatrick's fuel at cost so it can remain open while state officials work out the plan for how to achieve Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal to get 50 percent of state energy from renewable sources by 2030.

During nearly two hours of testimony in Oswego City Hall Tuesday, community leaders and Nine Mile Point Nuclear Plant employees begged staff from New York's Public Service Commission to support the proposed «clean energy standard» under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal to generate half of the state's energy from renewable sources, like wind and solar, by 2030.

Wind and solar energy will become major sources of power in New York — just in time to replace the 30 percent of the region's energy supplied by the Indian Point nuclear plant, which is closing.

They said subsidizing the nuke to keep it running would be a waste of money, and they criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to count nuclear power toward the goal of providing half the state's energy from renewable sources by 2030.

The wind energy industry, where Britain could be a world leader, has been thrown into disarray by a published letter to Cameron calling on him to withdraw subsidies to renewable sources of energy and stick with nuclear and fossil fuels,

The former EPA administrator also commented on Governor Cuomo's energy plan, to get 50 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2030 as a «step in the right direction,» but she disagrees with an $ 8 billion plan to finance upstate nuclear power plants, while Cuomo is at the same time pushing to close the downstate Indian Point nuclear power plant.

Defence sources told The Times the investment in «long - lead items» in the nuclear deterrent was key in order to prepare for the full replacement programme if renewal is ratified by MPs.

Indian Point nuclear power plant has been called on by environmental groups to shut down while officials investigate the source of its latest leak.

Nuclear's share of electricty will drop from 75 percent to 50 percent by 2025 due to loss of know - how and requirements for more renewable sources

«The Obama Administration and the Energy Department are committed to an all - of - the - above energy strategy that develops every source of American energy, including nuclear power,» said Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in a statement announcing the funding, which aims to get such modular reactors hooked into the grid by 2022.

Stone highlighted the planned construction, beginning in 2018, of the Iranian Light Source Facility (ILSF), which would be the country's first synchrotron and its «biggest basic science project ever,» as «a testament to the country's determination to do science in spite of turmoil, political interference, and the viselike grip of economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies to block Iran's suspected effort to develop nuclear weapons.

In the U.S., the number would be jumping from 100 to 300 gigawatts of nuclear - sourced electricity by 2050.

Sources told Reuters in May that German utilities were in talks with the government about setting up a «bad bank» for nuclear plants, in response to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to close them all by 2022 after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster.

This would preclude the need for batteries and nuclear power sources such as those used by the Chinese rover that recently landed on the moon.

«Quarks» may be source of quasars» energy — The mysterious nuclear particles called «quarks,» which have not yet been detected but might nevertheless be basic building blocks of the atom's core, could be the source of the tremendous energy generated by the puzzling star - like objects known as quasars....

The tests were part of phase one of the Source Physics Experiment, a $ 40 - million project run by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.

However, sources tell ScienceInsider that several prominent scientists and nuclear policy heavyweights rejected the Administration's overtures, and that other candidates were thought to carry too much political baggage to be confirmed by the Senate.

TINY stars are being created by the world's largest and most energetic lasers in the hope of tapping what could be a relatively clean energy source — nuclear fusion.

Researchers used data from sensors designed to detect clandestine nuclear tests, among other sources, to identify airbursts with an energy equivalent to or larger than that released by 1 kiloton of exploding TNT.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

Some scientists propose creating power sources and electricity by igniting fusion reactions with lasers that trigger nuclear fission that can consume spent nuclear fuel.

At the same time, he argued, despite the safety risks and environmental hazards posed by nuclear and large hydro, respectively, the climate would be in far worse condition had countries not developed those sources.

Strategies to meet the goal would vary by country and largely rely on advanced technology such as capturing the carbon dioxide spewed by coal - burning power plants; the Bush vision also foresees gasoline alternatives, nuclear power and an international clean technology fund to promote research into carbon - free energy sources.

The unlikely source of much of the recent information comes from data sent back to earth by a small satellite designed to detect clandestine nuclear weapons tests.

And yet on 15 March the building exploded, apparently fueled by hydrogen, leaving nuclear engineers to speculate about the source.

Share of China's energy needs met by low - carbon sources, including nuclear, hydro, wind and solar.

Reprogramming by nuclear transfer might provide an important source of pluripotent stem cells from human beings, including patients needing cell therapies.

In the UK, electricity is generated largely by coal and gas — around 40 per cent and 30 per cent respectively — followed by around 15 per cent nuclear and other sources in increasingly small percentages.

The first automobile with a built in nuclear electric source has now been put in service by its makers within the last few days, It is not known how many miles it will travel on this energy, but half the energy will be gone in 80 years.

By power source, coal generated 33 % of Southern Company's total megawatt hours in 2015, gas accounted for 47 %, nuclear was 16 %, and hydro power was 3 %.

Party Booby Trap is a palindrome, a device British artists Thomson & Craighead often use for their titles, and will see the pair install new work inspired by «sources ranging from nuclear waste to self - help literature and genetics».

The world's second fastest - growing source of energy is projected to be nuclear power, with consumption increasing by 1.5 % per year over that period.»

Reducing CO2 emissions by replacing combustion with other energy sources (solar, wind, nuclear, etc.) is a much longer - range goal that would involve rebuilding most of our industrial infrastructure.

The LANL report is a proposal to use combustion products (water and carbon dioxide are both combustion products, not sources of chemical energy) as feedstock for synthesizing a liquid that conveniently stores some of the energy produced by the nuclear power source.

A standardized design set in stone and approved by the NRC, that is free of political and legal interference from anti-nuclear activists, would make nuclear power the cost effective alternative energy source that its backers have always argued that it could be.