Sentences with phrase «of nuclear industry»

Our comprehensive technical knowledge in all facets of the nuclear industry, combined with an understanding of the legislative and policy landscape, facilitates an objective assessment of the issues.

Over the past 20 years, Asia has been the leading light of the nuclear industry.

@Ernestine Gross Ernestine — thanks for this link on the residual risk of the nuclear industry.

Given the entrenched political power of the nuclear industry — as reflected in the Obama administration's continued support for huge subsidies for new nuclear, Fukushima be damned — it is possible that one or two new nuclear power plants may be built in the USA in the next decade or so.

Nuclear energy has been promoted as green energy, but the negative environmental impacts of the nuclear industry are substantial.

Of course, the Achilles heel of the nuclear industry is the fear of «radiation» and ionizing radiation in particular.

These are not corporate stooges of the nuclear industry; to a person, their embrace of nuclear power is motivated by a deep concern about climate change and the conviction that no other carbon - free source of energy is sufficient (and safe) enough to replace coal and gas.

Greg Dalton: David Baker, what does this say about the economics of industry of nuclear industry; is this is going to spread to other states.

Yet despite five new reactors under construction and a wave of license extensions, post-Fukushima the center of the nuclear industry is shifting to places like China and India.

Beyond the propoganda of the nuclear industry, I haven't seen a single credible study that calculates the cost of (new) nuclear to ratepayers below 13 cents per kilowatt - hour.

an agent of the nuclear industry??

Congress should establish financial incentives for power plant owners to purchase safer reactor designs and make safety upgrades by increasing the liability of the nuclear industry for a nuclear accident.

Marking the occasion, Les Amis de la Terre / Friends of the Earth Wallonia and Climaxi / Friends of the Earth Flanders marched in Antwerp, calling for the closure of Belgium's nuclear power plants, a full transition to renewables, and a just transition: good jobs for all those who would be affected by the closure of the nuclear industry.

This book provides an entertaining and accurate portrait of the nuclear industry today and how a nuclear accident would be handled.

«On behalf of the millions of people in the world who live with the threat of a nuclear disaster ruining their lives, we are writing to ask you to recognize that now is the time to put people ahead of the nuclear industry and hold the industry fully liable for the risks and damages of its disasters.

He's presenting faulty arguments yet again, because he is AGAINST COAL, he is a huge supporter of the nuclear industry and the nuclear industry helped set up CRU to alter temperature records worldwide.

I think we'd all be shocked if the various costs / subsidies of the nuclear industry were added together.

The Harmony goal, put forward on behalf of the nuclear industry by World Nuclear Association, is a vision of a future energy system where nuclear energy supplies 25 % of global electricity demand by 2050 as part of a low - carbon generation mix, which would require 1000 GW of new nuclear build.

Development of small to medium reactors (SMRs), is regarded as crucial to the future of the nuclear industry as it struggles to remain competitive against the rapidly falling cost of renewable wind and solar power.

Like Canada, both Germany and Belgium are Kyoto signatories, but in spite of the nuclear industry's claim that nuclear power is a viable solution to climate change, these countries have recognized that you don't trade one environmental problem for another.

The contrast between safety culture in the aviation and healthcare industries is interesting and is relevant to regulation of the nuclear industry.

«The fundamental problem of the nuclear industry is not reactor safety, not waste disposal, not the dangers of nuclear proliferation, real though all these problems are.

Development of the nuclear industry has been choked and constrained.

Just 5 % of this resource could provide a similar generation capacity to that of the nuclear industry.

We are watching that process play out, for instance, and the Vogtle plant, currently under construction in Georgia — where, with the familiar pattern of cost overruns, and construction snafus, it seems possible that taxpayers will be taking yet another bath, courtesy of the nuclear industry.

The film's main flaw is its finger - waving and dismissive approach to critics of the nuclear industry.

I think the film suffers by not incorporating input from reasoned critics of the nuclear industry, many of whom are not entirely opposed to harnessing the atom.

In the magazine, she criticizes Stone for the film's dismissive treatment of critics of the nuclear industry (I concur) but still calls the film «compelling» (I concur).

However French oil company Total has already spoken up for future involvement in nuclear, with incoming CEO Christophe de Margerie declaring that the company will one day have to be part of the nuclear industry.

Excellent learning and peer - to - peer networking opportunities with a cross-section of the nuclear industry.

Our professionally facilitated workshops and training courses provide excellent learning and peer - to - peer networking opportunities with a cross-section of the nuclear industry — from licensees and regulators to security experts, academics, law enforcement and vendors.

However, people around the country, congresspersons, scientists, and even some of the nuclear industry are not supporting it (page2).

Commercially, plants using «clean coal» technology can be more attractive than new reactors, says the company in its submission to the government's review of the nuclear industry.

, who once described climate change as a «hoax,» told members of the nuclear industry earlier in the day that the Clean Power Plan has nuclear in its crosshairs and that carbon regulations are still a net negative for the nuclear industry (Greenwire, May 14).

The wavering fortunes of the nuclear industry have led to a dearth of research on new designs that take advantage of better materials and manufacturing techniques that could drive down costs.

The report effectively put a brakeon the expansion of the nuclear industry.

With the aid of nuclear industry promotional pamphlets and detailed advice he obtained from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (to which he misrepresented himself as a physics professor), Hahn removed radium from old clocks, extracted americium from smoke detectors, stole tritium from borrowed night - vision equipment, and even ordered a sample of uranium - bearing ore from a company in the Czech Republic.

This month, Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor was supposed to begin generating power, a tangible sign of the revival of the nuclear industry outside of Asia after nearly 30 years of no new construction because of accidents, cost - overruns and other issues.

His research interests include the safety regulation of the nuclear industry as well as energy use and safety regulation of transport systems.

«This government is the first one in a generation to invest in the future of the nuclear industry,» a Conservative party spokesperson said.

«We're proud to launch this statewide grassroots campaign against Governor Cuomo's bailout of the nuclear industry.

«There's really unique circumstances in Copeland, the Labour vote has been eroding over a number of elections now but this issue about the future of nuclear industry clearly dominated that election campaign, «he told BBC News.

Mr McDonnell insisted the unique importance of the nuclear industry in Copeland had led to Labour's defeat.

Not exact matches

«I am quite sure that nuclear power generation will at least maintain its footprint,» he said, suggesting the nuclear industry will continue to increase capacity and remain part of a wider energy mix worldwide.

Schneider confirmed that the incident had occurred and that it had issued a security alert to customers of the technology, which cyber experts said is widely used in the energy industry, including at nuclear facilities, and oil and gas plants.

Under the Obama administration, sanctions on the oil industry in Tehran were lifted in exchange for limits on the country's nuclear program as part of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

The result has been a nuclear - like transformation of the industry in which companies have combined, split and recombined at a breakneck pace, emerging with all new identities and properties.

Low oil prices, a retreat of the coal industry, solar and battery booms, and the return of nuclear are all trends you should watch next year.

Higher use of oil and gas in transport, heating and industry would lead EON and RWE to export its surplus energy from coal, gas, and nuclear to other European markets that are lagging behind.

Her chapter on the early history of South Korea's nuclear energy industry has been also published in an edited volume, Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene: Perspective on Asia and Africa.