Sentences with phrase «nuclear waste storage at»
The budget also would include $ 140 million to restart licensing activities for nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain, a thorny issue on Capitol Hill.
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The recent accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant reinforces the need for renewed thinking about nuclear - waste storage and disposal.
While he promised to pursue cleanups at nuclear waste sites, he declined to take a position on opening the planned nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
During his final year, Bourtourault did a short research project on the detection of ozone, a second one on the storage of nuclear waste, and a 4 - month internship at the state - owned Aérospatiale company, where he worked on nonpolluting anticorrosion treatments.
The modern challenge of nuclear waste storage and disposal has researchers at Washington State University looking back at ancient materials from around the world.
We should ensure that any nuclear new - build and waste storage facilities are located at least 80 metres above current sea level.
«The sensing skin could be used for a wide range of structures, but the impetus for the work was to help ensure the integrity of critical infrastructure such as nuclear waste storage facilities,» says Dr. Mohammad Pour - Ghaz, an assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the work.
Yet, no country has developed an acceptable or permanent method for high — level nuclear waste storage, thereby leaving both present and future generations at great risk.
6/26/17 — Plans for building the nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, fell apart a decade ago because, in part, federal officials didn't do enough to win support from state and local residents, analysts have said in Issues.
The current nuclear waste that we have sitting at the bottom of spent fuel pools and in dry cask storage would be more than enough to fuel the first reactors.
For example, the mandate in Minnesota for 425 megawatts of wind power by 2003 was part of a settlement with Northern States Power (now Xcel Energy) to extend on - site storage of nuclear waste at its nuclear facility.
The Surfrider Foundation is opposed to permanent or long - term storage of radioactive waste at the recently deactivated San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) due to its proximity to the coastline, susceptibility to geological instability and location within a densely populated area.
Legislators approved a bill seeking to advance the permanent storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
The most wonderful illustration of this mismatch between what science can tell us and what politicians care about is the effort to build a long - term storage site for nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
Roger Johnson Comments: Consideration of safe storage of nuclear waste in California at April 27 Meeting
There are various types of technologies that can play significant roles in mitigating climate change, including energy efficiency improvements throughout the energy system (especially at the end use side); solar, wind, nuclear fission and fusion and geothermal, biomass and clean fossil technologies, including carbon capture and storage; energy from waste; hydrogen production from non-fossil energy sources and fuel cells (Pacala and Socolow, 2004; IEA, 2006b).
At the end of the two - year deliberations period, the BRC recommended that a new «single - purpose organization» be given the authority and resources to begin developing — using a «consent - based approach» — one or more nuclear waste repositories and consolidated storage facilities.
The choice to locate the pilot plant at the site of Bure Saudron was based in part on commitments made in 2006 to support the economic development of territories which are home to the laboratory research on the deep geological storage of nuclear waste.
Much tougher nuclear power plant waste storage and disposal, plant decommissioning, and security standards (and, because of the security and waste disposal problems, zero net increase in nuclear usage — which puts Monbiot at odds with a large new group of pro-nuke environmentalists such as James Lovelock)
How much more expensive is nuclear when you add in decommissioning (at least equal to building), nuclear accidents, illness and deaths from exposure, subsidies, long - term storage of waste, Hiroshima, etc, e.g.?