Sentences with phrase «nuclear sources of»

Meanwhile, the source of energy has also evolved from wood to coal, to petroleum, natural gas and nuclear sources of electric power.

Not exact matches

The advantage of fossil fuels and nuclear power, that renewable sources still can't match, is the way they hold energy for use when you want it.

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.

Nuclear (/ ˈnukliː.ər /; noo - klee - ar) The energy source — and form of missile armament — is often the victim of mispronunciations, most commonly «nyoo - kyoo - lar.»

On Tuesday, Japan's Asahi TV quoted a North Korean source as saying that cave - ins in tunnels at the nuclear test site caused the death of up to 200 workers.

America's close ally Israel accused Iran this week of «brazenly lying» about its nuclear capabilities, and Israeli sources have said new evidence provides «proof of the very existence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program.»

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.

In contrast, a nuclear - powered approach could give patients as many as ten years, without the trouble of connecting to outside power sources.

Rogers said he thinks that energy in 2039 will be a dynamic mix of coal, solar, wind, gas, nuclear and oil, with no one power source dominating.

Nuclear power, in the light of the Fukushima disaster, graphically highlights the dangers inherent in that power source.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports on how nuclear gas prices are affecting other sources of energy in the U.S.

As our «System Overload» cover in April explained, every energy source is tainted right now, with oil and nuclear at the top of the list.

The country is looking to increase its use of sources such as wind and solar while at the same time moving away from nuclear power.

Senior Israeli sources told Israel's Channel 10 News that Iran chose the nondescript warehouse because it was trying to conceal over a decade of evidence of its nuclear activity from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency).

But U.S. owners and operators of commercial nuclear reactors purchase the vast majority of their uranium from foreign sources.

Before his death, King Abdullah ordered that other sources of energy be pursued, including nuclear and renewable energy.

Al Nowais worked on energy - related projects and programs, such as oil and gas initiatives, alternative sources of energy and most recently the UAE's nuclear program.

Two sources provide more than 99 percent of the power for our civilization: solar and nuclear.

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

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).

Nuclear power remains a reliable, low - emission source of baseload power for the world's electricity needs.

Once hailed as the world's «cleanest» source of energy, nuclear power is rapidly failing thanks to the rise of renewable energy.

Nuclear remains one of the low - cost sources of electric power, he says, and some major countries (China, Russia, India) are adopting it.

Transmission - based detection of nuclides with nuclear resonance fluorescence using a quasimonoenergetic photon source

In 2007, the success of Israeli Air Force's Operation Orchard against a Syrian nuclear installation was largely attributed to effectiveness of the Israeli Electronic Warfare platforms that supported the air strike and made the Syrian radars blind: some sources believe that Operation Orchard saw the baptism of fire of the Suter airborne network system against Syrian radar systems.

In 1931 he gave specific figures about nuclear fusion as a source of energy far superior to nuclear fission.

But equally important is the other pole, the commitment to the welfare of humanity, the commitment to justice, the commitment to peace, the commitment to an environment that promotes life rather than threaten to extinguish it, the commitment to eliminate toxic drugs and nuclear weapons» (A Source Book for the Community of Religions ed.

If only we had a giant source of energy... say a nuclear furnace of some sort... to bombard the earth with photons that could supply the energy for life processes.

One proposal that has received considerable scientific support has been to generate non-embryonic entities that can serve as a source of stem cells through a process termed Altered Nuclear Transfer (or ANT).

The second is slightly more friendly to non-science trained people but may still require some referencing of other sources to understand various details (e.g. the difference between mitochondrial and nuclear genetic sequencing).

Some believe that with nuclear fusion unlimited sources of energy will be ours and that we can chemically alter the earth's matter so as to replace exhausted resources with others.

An outstanding characteristic of the nuclear family since then is the extent to which some parents may be an almost exclusive source of affection for children.6

The nuclear sword of Damocles which hangs over our civilization is, even for the semi-aware, a realistic source of constant anxieties of major proportions.

Nuclear power threatens the survival of life on this planet, while at the same time it provides a new source of energy.

In recent years, as scholars have explored Ronald Reagan's foreign policy with greater access to primary - source documents, something utterly baffling to the conventional wisdom of his time (and ours) has come into focus: Reagan, determined to win the Cold War, was also eager to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Most recently, they have sought to wrestle — together with people of other faiths — with the awful issues everyone must confront today - nuclear war, hunger, disease, the despoiling of the ecosphere — and to reach into the various traditions as possible sources of values and visions for facing such horrors.

«We live in a world of tension and it is becoming abundantly clear that nuclear weapons do not make us safer but are themselves a source of fear and dispute.»

The DPRK has obvious reasons to maintain at least a small nuclear arsenal: nuclear weapons offer defense against an alliance possessing overwhelming military advantages, a source of international prestige, and a means to extort money and other benefits from neighbors.

Apart from the nuclear issue, the exploitation of Scotland's fossil - fuel resources is a major industrial activity, and even more a source of tax revenue, while there is outstanding potential for renewable energy generation, especially wind, wave and tidal.

It will also include incentives for upstate nuclear facilities, which provide a significant source of carbon - free power, but are struggling financially against natural gas plants.

In 2016, Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo directed the New York Public Service Commission to consider ratepayer - financed subsidies similar to those for renewable sources to keep nuclear power stations profitable in the competition against natural gas.

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.

Despite advertisements depicting nuclear energy as a «clean energy source,» the life cycle of generating nuclear power — from mining to refining to transportation to storage — requires a tremendous amount of energy.

The SNP believes Scotland has enough sources of renewable energy to make new nuclear power stations unnecessary and argues that, in any case, they pose unacceptable risks to the environment.

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.

Nuclear critics, on the other hand, have argued that it's time to shut down the aging reactor and focus on developing wind, solar and other clean sources of power.

Bloomberg's team was particularly nuclear with Golden, who, according to sources, told the mayor at the tail end of a budget meeting in Albany last week that he would likely get what he needed on the microstamping bill.

The administration's treatment of nuclear facilities could serve as a national model for other states, where nuclear plants are also struggling to compete against cheaper power sources.

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.