Sentences with phrase «of nuclear electricity»

I am aware of people making the argument that the big push by the nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of nuclear power on the basis that nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of global warming, and I make that argument myself (because even a quite large expansion of nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).

Earth and water source heatpumps are a very good use of nuclear electricity to heat houses and water.

The opponents have painted grim pictures of prices hikes, blackouts, increased use of coal, with more emissions, and massive imports of nuclear electricity from France and gas from Russia.

Given the higher cost of nuclear electricity in Australia.

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North Carolina gets 32 percent of its total electricity from five nuclear reactors currently in operation in the state.

«This is a much - needed, pragmatic look at U.S. electricity reliability and resilience, including the priority of maintaining critical clean baseload power as electricity markets change,» said Rich Powell, director of ClearPath, which advocates for nuclear and hydropower.

Last year, new photovoltaic panels installed in the U.S. had the capacity to generate up to 4.2 gigawatts of electricity, about as much as four nuclear reactors.

The program is currently supporting construction of new nuclear units that add emissions free electricity capacit to our grid, and help strengthen our diversity.

In the US, for instance, a proposal to force California's two nuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in Nonuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in NoNuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in November.

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

Also, the French believe that Frau Merkel played politics and an anti-French card by moving to halt electricity production at seven NUCLEAR POWER plants, thus making the French look bad as well as having the impact of driving up electricity prices.

The nuclear power plants in use around the world today use fission, or the splitting of heavy atoms such as uranium, to release energy for electricity.

Modern humanity has become expert in its knowledge of the scientific, exterior forces in the world — electricity, gravity or nuclear force — but we know little about the existential forces of the inner world — love, hate, hope, fear, doubt and faith.

If electricity use continues to double every nine years, huge amounts of power will have to come from 500 years» worth of coal supplies and lots of nuclear power plants — by this time possibly breeder or fusion plants.

But as Bill maher once said: «I could believe in the Bible if it would mention one of the following words: electricity, nuclear power, computer, laser and evolution... Instead the god in the OT kills over 2 million men, women and children for being disobedient or collecting sticks on a Sabbath.

The white paper on Electricity Market Reform has mapped out a new policy to encourage the billions of investment that we need in all three families of low carbon electricity generation — renewables, nuclear and clean coElectricity Market Reform has mapped out a new policy to encourage the billions of investment that we need in all three families of low carbon electricity generation — renewables, nuclear and clean coelectricity generation — renewables, nuclear and clean coal and gas.

The latter has set itself against the development of any new nuclear capacity, but trying to work out how far that will dictate the future of electricity generation draws us into a complex area of the current devolution settlement.

The government has shown its commitment to replacing our ageing energy infrastructure, and the Electricity Market Reform (EMR) proposals are intended to provide the economic and commercial underpinning to investments in a range of low - carbon technologies, including nuclear.

Nuclear energy currently accounts for 20 per cent of the UK's electricity generation.

And, while some tout nuclear energy as the solution to the global energy crisis, it actually accounts for only 2.5 percent of the world's electricity needs.

The world's first nuclear power plant to produce electricity from the atom: Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, in the Great Basin Desert of Idaho.

The technical advantage is that local generation eliminates the enormous losses of wasted heat and long transmission that consume more than half the energy used in electricity generation by fossil fuels or nuclear.

Putnam County is provided with the majority of its electricity from the nuclear Indian Point Energy Center in Westchester County.

Like every form of electricity generation, nuclear needs support from government.

He stressed that,» Nuclear power in Germany accounted for 17.7 % of national electricity supply in 2011, compared to 22.4 % in 2010.

«The upstate nuclear plants provide carbon free electricity — 27.6 million megawatt hours of zero - emissions benefits per year.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

Upstate electricity prices will go «materially higher» by the summer of 2017 if both the FitzPatrick and Ginna nuclear plants shut down as expected, a Wall Street analyst predicts.

The proposal comes as state energy officials continue crafting a Cuomo - backed clean energy plan (Clean Energy Standard) that would include unspecified subsidies to financially stressed nuclear plants, which currently provide about 30 percent of the state's total electricity.

With four years to plan for the nuclear plant's closure, some of those reliability issues may be resolved as other electricity generating resources come online.

One big benefit of nuclear power generally, and Indian Point specifically, is that all that electricity is generated carbon - free.

«There's a current Nuclear Regulatory Commission study being undertaken, but we also have to be realistic and say, you get 25 percent of the electricity in the greater New York City area from Indian Point,» she said.

Azulay went on to say «every dollar spent on nuclear subsidies is a dollar out of the pocket of New York's electricity consumers - residents, businesses and municipalities.»

Nuclear plants provide about 30 percent of the state's electricity.

Peculiarities of the electricity system in New York State, including its unusual independent status, would make it difficult and expensive to replace electricity from the Indian Point nuclear power plant if Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo succeeds in shutting it down, experts on the grid warn.

Renewable sources, not including nuclear, accounted for 25 percent of New York's electricity in 2014.

After the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, Germany adopted a policy of phasing out nuclear energy by 2022 and ensuring that 80 percent of the country's electricity supply comes from clean energy by 2050, or more than three times the level of 2010.

James Clerk Maxwell combined electricity, magnetism and light into a single theory of electromagnetism; a century later physicists added the weak nuclear force to form a unified «electroweak» theory.

Prior to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Japan was gearing up to boost its nuclear power reserves to account for half of its electricity needs by 2030.

In 1980, American nuclear power plants were generating electricity only 56 percent of the time because they frequently needed special maintenance or repair.

Lacking the rich oil, coal and other energy reserves of many other nations, Japan relies on nuclear power for some 30 percent of its electricity.

In 2016, the nation's 25 reactors generated nearly one - third of its electricity and made it the world's fifth largest producer of nuclear energy, according to the World Nuclear Assocnuclear energy, according to the World Nuclear AssocNuclear Association.

Nuclear power supplies a sixth of the world's electricity.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

The current cost of delivering nuclear - generated electricity is low in part because many plants were paid for long ago, Lovins notes.

Meanwhile, the shutdowns of the Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex and other nuclear plants after the earthquake have led to electricity shortages in Tokyo and neighbouring prefectures, where temporary outages are planned every day.

Even if renewable energy goes mainstream, INL researchers still believe nuclear will be essential for supporting the electrical grid's base load — that portion of the nation's electricity that must be supplied at a constant rate, in contrast to the variable supplies from the sun and wind.

«While the up - front costs of building new nuclear generation are not cheap, in the long run it's one of the most economical ways to make electricity.»

Taking into account that wind turbines produce electricity only about a third of the time, that's roughly the equivalent of building one standard one - gigawatt nuclear power plant a year.

The extra electricity, which can increase by as much as a gigawatt — or the output of a large nuclear power plant — in under an hour, must be quickly sold to other utilities or in many cases it is wasted.