Sentences with phrase «on nuclear fuel»

When the SA Royal Commission on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle brought down its report, I welcomed the conclusion that there was no serious prospect that nuclear power generation would be feasible in Australia.

He has produced many studies and articles on nuclear fuel cycle related issues, including weapons production, testing, and nuclear waste, over the past twenty years.

And when there is more demand on nuclear fuel?

Mr. Dyke has 30 years of experience and leadership in the nuclear industry focusing on the nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear nonproliferation issues.

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 industry.

Japan's nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing reactor fuel, authors of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on the nuclear fuel cycle said yesterday.

His eulogy of Dr Lovelock's recent book, «The Revenge of Gaia», in support of urgent reliance on nuclear fuel as the solution to our energy needs may also require correction.

Not exact matches

Jenkins wrote on Twitter that Germany's shift in energy policy was misguided and resulted effectively in fossil fuels replacing much of the missing nuclear power — a pattern that's playing out at home, as well.

Perry has repeatedly said that storing fuel on site makes coal and nuclear plants less prone to shutdowns than other power generators in the event of disasters and attacks.

It is a possible fuel for nuclear fusion that could solve energy demand on Earth for 10,000 years, at least.

«There is enormous pressure when a missile reenters the atmosphere... If (electrical) circuits break and a trigger device fails to detonate nuclear fuel, you can imagine that only some twisted metal will fall on Alaska or Hawaii, even if North Korea fires missiles at them,» said Kim Dong - yub, an analyst at Seoul's Institute for Far Eastern Studies.

Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Marmion says Queensland's looming ban on mining uranium is an opportunity for Western Australia to capitalise on mining the nuclear fuel ore.

General Atomics has received two awards from the U.S. Department of Energy totaling more than $ 3.26 million to continue the San Diego - based company's work on developing new types of fuel for advanced nuclear reactors.

(Nuclear plants also typically have 90 days» worth of fuel on site, DOE's absurd metric of resilience.)

Russia has built the Busher nuclear power plant in Iran partially at her own expense on the promise by Iran that they will be buying nuclear fuel from Russia for this plant to operate.

The reasons for the continuing support for nuclear energy by political parties of all colours is simple: our dependence on fossil fuels poses real risks to the country's energy security, the environment and energy prices.

There is currently no approved national repository to begin removing it from temporary spent fuel pools located on - site at Indian Point and other U.S. nuclear power plants across the country.

In the meantime, highly radioactive waste is being stored on - site in spent fuel pools at each nuclear plant, with 1500 tons of waste are currently stored at Indian Point.

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.

The deal, long in the making after Entergy signaled it would shutter the FitzPatrick plant in 2017, comes after state regulators put the final approval on new subsidies for renewable fuels, including nuclear power, potentially worth millions of dollars.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed the new energy standard last year as a means of reducing the state's reliance on fossil fuels and focusing on renewable energies such as wind and solar as well as subsidize nuclear power.

... Stein calls for the transition of the U.S. energy system and economy to completely rely on clean, renewable energy by 2030, and the ridding of fossil fuels, gas extracted through fracking and nuclear power.

My campaign is calling for 100 % Clean Energy in New York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grid.

The wind energy industry, where Britain could be a world leader, has been thrown into disarray by a published letter to Cameron calling on him to withdraw subsidies to renewable sources of energy and stick with nuclear and fossil fuels,

Such stars burn through their nuclear fuel so slowly that they can live for many billions of years, which gives any life on their planets a long time to grow and evolve.

A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., plant officials said.

Some older nuclear plants simply can't compete on cost with gas - fuelled rivals.

The rise of renewables helps, but in order to eliminate fossil - fuel pollution nuclear power is also required, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Other goals include increased funding for nuclear weapons research; increased research on nanotechnology; space station, moon, and Mars projects at NASA; work on hydrogen fuels; and support for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project.

For years, he documented how the NRC dropped the ball on the handling of nuclear fuel and security in nuclear plants.

Instead, Nuclear Electric is considering storing the irradiated fuel in a specially constructed dry store on the Sizewell site.

A leading ecologist with decades of experience in the effects of disturbance on ecosystems, Woodwell shows that diverse industrial activities — from nuclear power production to fossil - fuel burning to contemporary agricultural practices — are affecting the chemical processes that underpin all life on Earth.

After all, no one has ever died in a commercial nuclear power accident on American soil; in contrast, emissions from fossil - fuel plants kill 24,000 Americans each year, according to a 2004 report commissioned by the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental group.

That makes nuclear fission look a bit more competitive, at least until the price comes down on solar, wind, biomass, fuel cell, and other, less controversial emissions - free energy sources.

Dr Gareth Law, Senior Lecturer in Analytical Radiochemistry at the University of Manchester and an author on the paper, says: «Our research strongly suggests there is a need for further detailed investigation on Fukushima fuel debris, inside, and potentially outside the nuclear exclusion zone.

On the other hand, early massive stars could have collapsed into black holes when they exhausted their nuclear fuel.

He was convinced early on that solar and wind power presented an alternative — not just to fossil fuels and nuclear power, but to wars over oil and to the potential for nuclear conflict.

Any future discussion of nuclear power will have to take a hard look at regulation and safety, in particular the practice of storing spent nuclear fuel rods on - site

The work, published in Science, not only opens the door to expand the use of one of the most efficient energy sources on the planet, but also adds a key step in completing the nuclear fuel cycle — an advance, along with wind and solar, that could help power the world's energy needs cleanly for the future.

The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought on by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.

Aaron Kreider, a Web developer in Philadelphia who runs a site called the Energy Justice Network, a nonprofit group that supports clean energy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United States.

Reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi station runs on so - called mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, in which uranium is mixed with other fissile materials such as plutonium from spent reactor fuel or from decommissioned nuclear weapons.

Turning down Keystone makes the statement that it is time to stop investing in technologies that lock us into continued fossil fuel use, and to make a bigger play on efficiency and carbon - neutral energy (including nuclear).

Naked Gun 2 1/2, which is a perversely, though funny, movie really about environmental regulation; and it's a Leslie Nielsen movie, and he is a cop who is basically been called upon to protect, in a fictional Bush administration, the president has decided we're going to have a whole new fuel system which isn't going to be nuclear or kind of fossil fuels, coal and oil — it is going to be based on alternatives.

For example, a tax on fossil fuel burned would spur investment in cleaner energy technologies, such as renewables or nuclear power.

That helps explain why such a large earthquake was unexpected in the region, resulting in catastrophic consequences that included more than 24,000 people dead or missing and fuel meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the coast.

Appropriators in the Senate, meanwhile, endorsed plans for a center dedicated to the modeling and simulation of nuclear reactors, and gave qualified support to two more: A hub to make fuels directly from sunlight and another on energy - efficient buildings.

Lake Barrett — director of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant during its decommissioning after a partial meltdown at the Middletown, Pa., facility in 1979 — says TEPCO will use robots to remotely dig out the melted fuel and store it in canisters on - site before shipping to its final disposal spot.

A «Postscript» to the MIT report, added since last fall's preliminary report, says that the Fukushima event will probably make nuclear power more expensive and focus more attention on safety and spent fuel.

Thermal fluids are used to alleviate wear on components and tools and for machining operations like stamping and drilling, medical therapy and diagnosis, biopharmaceuticals, air conditioning, fuel cells, power transmission systems, solar cells, micro - and nanoelectronic mechanical systems and cooling systems for everything from engines to nuclear reactors.