Sentences with phrase «of nuclear energies»

Maria Korsnick, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute said the trade group was disappointed in the agency's order and warned that upholding the status quo would lead to the retirements of more reactors in the U.S. «Once closed,» she said, «these facilities are shuttered forever.»

In hindsight, creating nuclear weapons and controlled fission in the form of nuclear energy was easy.

Last week I said I would write about a couple of nuclear energy ETFs.

It's only who controls them» (the words are reminiscent of those we used to utter in defense of nuclear energy).

The discoveries and scientific creations of recent years in the field of nuclear energy, transforming our period into a new power age, are directly traceable to the discoveries of radioactive elements by Becquerel and the Curies, inaugurating the new physics.9 A new depth of relations and energy revealed in both earlier and more recent experiments has routed the world - view of mechanism which Newton and his followers through the nineteenth century had come to take for granted.

Thus considered, the fact of the release of nuclear energy, overwhelming and intoxicating though it was, began to seem less tremendous.

Neither shall I here attempt to examine the economic and political problems created by the intrusion of nuclear energy upon human affairs.

In modern forms it grants that through human sin and folly life may indeed end on this planet — a possibility that has become the more acute through the unleashing of nuclear energy and the advance of ecological destruction.

See three articles in The Futurist by Seaborg: «Some Long - Range Implications of Nuclear Energy» (February 1968), pp. 12 - 13; «The New Optimism» (December 1969), pp. 157 - 160; and «The Birthpangs of a New World» (December 1970), pp. 205 - 208.

This view is «pessimistic about the prospects of solar energy» and argues for the «substitution of nuclear energy and coal for oil and gas.»

This is especially true of nuclear energy, which does not belong in an ecological civilization.

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.

The Council called on all states to sign up to the NPT and to set «realistic goals» to strengthen, at the 2010 Review Conference, all three of the Treaty's pillars - disarmament of countries currently possessing nuclear weapons, non-proliferation to countries not yet in possession, and the peaceful use of nuclear energy for all.

I am specifically arguing the use of nuclear energy in space through SpaceX.

Yesterday prime minister Gordon Brown made clear his support for an expansion of nuclear energy in Britain beyond existing plans.

«This state can not lose our supply of nuclear energy because it's important to keep the balance of supply,» Cuomo said at Tuesday rally in support of the plant.

«The ramifications of nuclear energy disappearing in New York would be catastrophic to ratepayers and to the environment,» he said.

That legacy of nuclear energy development continues today at The University of Manchester in the form of research on new reactor technologies and related areas, says Denecke.

The Office of Nuclear Energy would similarly see a reduction in several activities, with its innovation hub on modeling and simulation zeroed out.

ANNE THOMPSON: A lot of people were warming up to the idea of nuclear energy as a carbon - free alternative to fossil fuels.

«They were concerned venting might allow a flow of radioactive materials into the air, and they had not yet fully evacuated the area,» explains mechanical engineer Vijay Nilekani of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), an industry group.

In the short term, the Federal government can encourage increased use of nuclear energy by streamlining the permitting process and by backing necessary financing to get new facilities online.

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 Association.

-- From the Summer 2001 Edition of University Currents, a publication of DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology.

But scientists at the INL quietly soldiered on, and now the tide may be turning: The imperative to limit greenhouse - gas emissions is sparking an atomic renaissance on the very site of nuclear energy's birth.

The amendment did exclude those research and technology programs administered by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the nondefense Office of Nuclear Energy, as well as other DOE activities related to radioactive waste cleanup.

That includes at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, and Fossil Energy Research and Development program.

Maria Korsnick, the new head of the Nuclear Energy Institute, told skeptical Wall Street analysts in New York today that supporting financially struggling, aging reactors is critical to curbing heat - trapping emissions, and that states like Illinois, New York and now Connecticut are stepping up with financial support (Energywire, Feb. 9).

Only 10.1 percent said that the use of nuclear energy should be maintained, and a mere 1.7 percent said that it should be increased.

The DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy develops, manufactures, tests and delivers radioisotope power systems for space exploration and national security missions and maintains responsibility for nuclear safety throughout all aspects of the missions.

In fact, no serious technical obstacles exist that would hamper the expansion of nuclear energy in the U.S..

Despite long - standing public concern about the safety of nuclear energy, more and more people are realizing that it may be the most environmentally friendly way to generate large amounts of electricity.

Given limited public knowledge about the details of nuclear energy and encumbered access to disaster sites, the media have disproportionate power around the globe to shape public knowledge, perception, and reaction to nuclear crises, Pascale said.

In short, the area surrounding Fukushima may remain a no - go zone for years to come — another name on the list of unexpected nuclear parks and another reminder of the peril of nuclear energy.

But you also have treatments of nuclear energy and coal energy; I mean, you really are looking at everything here.

Seventy - plus years into the era of nuclear energy, Remo says, «that technology is advanced and well - tested.

Bill Wicker, a spokesman for DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy, reiterated that the search for a place to take the waste is on a separate track from the borehole test.

2 Fusion On Tap Plasma physicist Eric Lerner has a dream: a form of nuclear energy so clean it generates no radioactive waste, so safe it can be located in the heart of a city, and so inexpensive it provides virtually unlimited power for the dirt - cheap price of $ 60 per kilowatt — far below the $ 1,000 - per - kilowatt cost of electricity from natural gas.

These are fairly obvious: the research agendas of nuclear energy, rocketry, genetics, cancer and ecology were all expedited by the war.

Despite repeated promises over the past 18 years, the US Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) is unlikely to deliver on its mission to develop and demonstrate an advanced nuclear reactor by the mid-21st century.

Our electrified economy does not require that at this time,» says Marvin Fertel, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, a lobbying group for the nuclear industry.

Funding for the Office of Nuclear Energy would decline from $ 1 billion to $ 969 million.

Q: Last March, China and the E.U. held their first joint meeting under the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy [PUNE] agreement.

Ted Jones of the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group in Washington, D.C., says the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is already deeply engrossed in international nuclear safety efforts.

YOU could be forgiven for thinking a new era of nuclear energy is under way in the US.

These studies lived through a golden age after the end of the Second World War and played, in the shadow of nuclear energy (the physics topic of the time), an important political role.

SRNL originally developed this capability for the Office of Nuclear Energy's Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative, publishing its first nuclear HyS conceptual design in 2004.

PRISM utilizes fourth generation nuclear power technology today, and this technology is what many experts are saying represents the future of nuclear energy going forward.

We conduct work for DOE «s Office of Science, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, and Office of Nuclear Energy.

Moreover, there are «very real and specific dangers of nuclear energy,» including the reactor's «potential for massive destruction in an immediate danger,» plants are potential terrorist targets, plants provide «the means and excuse» to build nuclear bombs, and they create wastes that persist for thousands of years, and uranium mining causes lung disease and large volumes of wastes.