Sentences with phrase «of used fuel»

People tend to have fears about the safety of the plants themselves as well as the management of used fuel.

Finnish and Swedish nuclear companies have been researching the safe disposal of used fuel for decades.

This includes the storage and transportation of used fuel and the recycling and reuse of nuclear fuel in some countries.

The reactor hall also contains fuel pits for temporarily storage of used fuel.

«Instead of using fuel for energy, they switch to using fuel to build new cells,» Saunders says.

NAC is well positioned to not only support the storage initiative, but also to support the shipments of the used fuel from nuclear plant sites with its dual purpose solution design, transportation cask availability, and transportation experience.

The San Francisco - based Sierra Club threw its full weight behind the Ohio effort, hiring lobbyists, twisting the arms of local politicians, filing lawsuits and frightening local parents about the shipment of used fuel rods.

Recycling nuclear fuel can reuse uranium and plutonium — the majority of the used fuel — that would otherwise be destined for waste.

PLAN TO SHIP NUCLEAR WASTE DOWN HUDSON CAUSES DEBATE In recent months, routes to dispose of 76,000 metric tons of used fuel have been discussed in Congress.

The fission products, which make up about 5 percent of the used fuel, are the true wastes — the ashes, if you will, of the fission fire.

The winning HI - STAR 100 MB cask also completes Holtec's fleet of transport casks for relocation of used fuel from decentralized storage facilities to the HI - STORE Central Interim Storage (CIS) Facility We are pleased to report that HI - STAR 100 MB [USNRC docket #...

What I mean by that, is instead of using the fuel cell to produce electricity, is there a product where the fuel cell is used to split water and half the gas is used for the ICE and the other goes...

I felt a mix of awe and fascination — and, yes, a tingle of fear — as I stared into the green depths and absorbed that the reactor's entire legacy of used fuel since it began producing power in 1976 was there in that small space.

Finland is set to be the first country in the world to have a final disposal facility in operation when Posiva starts disposing of the used fuel in the 2020s.

Seth Dunn, a climate and energy analyst at the Worldwatch Institute, a private environmental group, said that a key to any initiative this fall will be to show the economic sense of using fuels sparingly and developing new sources of energy that do not add to the atmosphere's greenhouse burden.

«Earlier this year we marked a troubling milestone: 20 years of government failure to meet its legal obligation to take possession of used fuel.

Why It Matters: Recycling nuclear fuel can reuse uranium and plutonium - the majority of the used fuel - that would otherwise be destined for waste.

Although some have argued that current methods of managing nuclear waste present problems, I would affirm that safe, effective management of used fuel and other radioactive material have been consistently demonstrated over several decades.