Sentences with phrase «of nuclear power technologies»

We also support continued research and development of nuclear power technologies that are safer, more secure, and lower cost.

States that desired the benefits of nuclear power technology could sign the treaty and promise not to acquire nuclear weapons, whereupon the weapons - holding nations agreed to assist the others with peaceful applications.

Art Lembo, group general manager and president of AECOM's Construction Services power business unit stated, «We are proud to be a member of the PRISM development group supporting commercial deployment of the next generation of nuclear power technology.

His message sounds authoritative since he is an expert of climate change, but he is neither an expert of nuclear power technology nor one of hazards of radioactive nuclides.

Not exact matches

On the supply side, IEA said governments need to develop policies that encourage the spread of offshore wind power, nuclear energy and natural gas, while discouraging the continued use of the most inefficient coal - fired technology.

BEIJING (AP)-- On a seaside field south of Shanghai, workers are constructing a nuclear reactor that is the flagship for Beijing's ambition to compete with the United States, France and Russia as an exporter of atomic power technology.

Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

As our knowledge of nuclear power, for example, increased and we built more and more nuclear power plants, we discovered how little we really knew about the new world of technology we ushered ourselves into, with risks previously unknown and unanticipated.

Amongst other things it talks about how microscope and telescope technology has changed, how nuclear power works, and lasers, although I had to turn this page over quickly as pictures of eyes freak me out a bit.

Political communism failed due to the policy of encirclement by the Western powers, a war of attrition fought through proxy wars - otherwise known as the Cold War - a hot war between the two main powers would have been simply too dangerous given the preponderance of nuclear weapon technology on both sides.

He condemned Tony Blair's support for nuclear power as a way of reducing Britain's reliance on fossil fuels, saying: «Nuclear technology is tried, tested and nuclear power as a way of reducing Britain's reliance on fossil fuels, saying: «Nuclear technology is tried, tested and Nuclear technology is tried, tested and failed.

Heath said relying on nuclear power to meet environmental goals ignores many costs inherent in the technology, including the uncertain prospects for disposing of nuclear waste.

The design for that was a huge challenge, Aderin - Pocock says, as the team had to pack three types of technology — metal detection, ground - penetrating radar, and nuclear quadrupole resonance — into a handheld box while keeping the cost and power consumption low.

Some estimates have put the cost of each shuttle mission at as much as $ 1.5 billion — NASA itself reckons $ 450 million — and NASA has been drawing up wish lists of technologies it would like to use the spare cash to create, such as nuclear - powered rockets for trips to Mars and vehicles able to reach Earth orbit using power from ground - based lasers.

I was encouraged by President Obama's calls for the construction of more nuclear power plants, as well as for increased offshore exploration of oil and natural gas, and the further development of clean coal technologies.

The development and deployment of major technologies potentially crucial to more sustainable energy — such as nuclear power, wind and solar power, biomass conversion and transport infrastructure — are matters of systems design requiring a mix of public and private decision making.

An international research team reports results of a three - year study of sediment samples collected offshore from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in a new paper published August 18, 2015, in the American Chemical Society's journal, Environmental Science and Technology.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Its underwater robots, shipping anti-rolling technology, integrated navigation, acoustic positioning and nuclear power simulation have occupied advanced domestic and international positions, leading HEU to become one of the main forces in the basic and applied research of China's ship science and technology.

With what EPRI calls a «full» portfolio of technology options, including new nuclear, expanded wind power and carbon capture, the price of electricity in current dollars would climb by 80 percent in 2050.

Instead, B&W suggests that the fundamental problem facing the adoption of nuclear power is not the technology itself, but the financial risk of committing to a build a big nuclear reactor.

Despite dozens of new nuclear plants ordered or built in Asia in recent years, «increased deployment of nuclear power has been slow both in the United States and globally,» wrote the authors of a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology review of the state of nuclear power.

Friedman: Well, it -LSB-'s] precisely because — and again [this] goes back to the thesis — in a world that is hot, flat, and crowded, clean power, clean technology, the ability to have your energy in both the clean form where you know the cost of your power and you can control that much better; that's going to be a source of power generally and that's going to be a currency of power, every bit Is [as] much as tanks, planes, and nuclear missiles have been during the cold war.

A long - awaited report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sees nuclear power as an important component of the U.S. energy supply, a message not affected by last month's nuclear disaster in Japan.

«There are economies of small, too,» says Jose Reyes, chairman of OSU's nuclear engineering department and chief technology officer at nearby NuScale Power, a commercial spin - off of the department.

While the industry was in deep freeze, they were pressing ahead with one of the most promising emerging technologies in energy: micro-size nuclear reactors, fully functional power plants a good deal closer to the size of the test reactor I'm standing near.

The U.S. government is also interested in recycling the spent nuclear fuel, as France, Japan, Russia and the U.K. do, under the terms of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, a consortium of 21 foreign countries as well as domestic nuclear technology firms formed to promote nuclearnuclear fuel, as France, Japan, Russia and the U.K. do, under the terms of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, a consortium of 21 foreign countries as well as domestic nuclear technology firms formed to promote nuclearNuclear Energy Partnership, a consortium of 21 foreign countries as well as domestic nuclear technology firms formed to promote nuclearnuclear technology firms formed to promote nuclearnuclear power.

The advantages of thorium nuclear power (26 March, p 8) seem mostly unproven in practice, and the technology will probably take more than a decade to develop if a decision is taken to extract power from this element.

The advantages of thorium nuclear power (26 March, p 8) seem mostly unproven in practice, and the technology will probably...

Because the government clearly wants more nuclear power, the review recommends that it set up «a new R&D programme which explicitly supports the potential deployment of future nuclear energy solutions in the UK through the creation of the necessary technology, facilities and skills.»

With the governments of major economies like China, Russia and Japan putting support and cash into nuclear technologies, the power plants are here to stay, he believes.

And that's why Hansen, among others, such as former Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, thinks that nuclear power is a key energy technology to fend off catastrophic climate change.

Nuclear power is one of the few technologies that can quickly combat climate change, experts argue

At the same time, the Chinese have taken the lead in producing clean energy — from topping the world in the production and installation of solar power to building an entire new series of nuclear power plants, making use of the latest technology.

The greatest objection to the spread of nuclear technology and power reactors to developing countries, however, is that it will increase the risks of nuclear weapons proliferation.

But one major owner of coal - fired power plants, Southern, has so far lingered on the sidelines and publicized its investments in clean coal technology and nuclear power.

As President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear inNuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear innuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear innuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear innuclear industry.

Poll, head of technology for the British government — funded Omega Project, a division of Manchester Metropolitan University that partners with industry to study the environmental impact of aviation and offer possible solutions, pointed out the need for nonkerosene - powered aircraft «I think nuclear - powered airplanes are the answer beyond 2050,» he said, concluding, «If we want to continue to enjoy the benefits of air travel without hindrance from environmental concerns, we need to explore nuclear power.

Knowledge the team gained may aid efforts to control thermal transport in a wide range of energy - related technologies, including thermal barrier coatings, nuclear fuels and high - power electronics.

Some people argue that we can meet the goal with the technology we already have, whether it be CO2 capture and storage for fossil fuels and nuclear power or more renewables or all of the above, to use a phrase.

Many environmental groups oppose nuclear power and any use of coal, even with carbon capture and sequestration technology.

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.

At the leading edge of U.S. nuclear technology development, Centrus is dedicated to the long - term growth of the commercial U.S. nuclear fuel supply and the expansion of the commercial nuclear power industry worldwide.

The small, modular design of the technology offers the prospect of deploying nuclear power in a range of locations.

«In a market economy, private investors are the ultimate arbiter of what energy technologies can compete and yield reliable profits, so to understand nuclear power's prospects, just follow the money.

What is the role of nuclear technology in a world of growing alternative power and digital innovation?

On December 12, 2013, NuScale Power was selected as the winner of the second round of DOE's competitively - bid, cost - sharing program to develop nuclear small modular reactor (SMR) technology.

In January 2016, NuScale Power announced the completion of a study commissioned from the UK National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) supporting the suitability of NuScale's world - leading Small Modular Reactor technology for the effective disposition of plutonium.

The technology brings together the power of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which yields a remarkable peek into molecular interactions, and the ability to re-create the extreme conditions found on the tundra, in the deep ocean, or underground — conditions relevant to some of the biggest questions that scientists at DOE laboratories such as PNNL ask.

In an emergency, unlike today's reactors, it shuts down without human intervention and without requiring electric power... Hundreds of nuclear scientists believe this technology has the ability to generate carbon - free power at a cost per kW less than coal.»