Sentences with phrase «on nuclear waste storage»

Sequestering CO2 has much of the same problems on nuclear waste storage.

Not exact matches

While he promised to pursue cleanups at nuclear waste sites, he declined to take a position on opening the planned nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

During his final year, Bourtourault did a short research project on the detection of ozone, a second one on the storage of nuclear waste, and a 4 - month internship at the state - owned Aérospatiale company, where he worked on nonpolluting anticorrosion treatments.

The budget also would include $ 140 million to restart licensing activities for nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain, a thorny issue on Capitol Hill.

It's also critical to a future less dependent on foreign oil: Hydraulic fracturing, «clean coal» technologies, nuclear fuel production, and carbon storage (the keystone of the strategy to address climate change) all count on pushing waste into rock formations below the earth's surface.

DENVER — Along the way to testing an old - but - new concept in nuclear waste storage — burying spent fuel in a hole drilled kilometers below the surface — the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its contractors relearned a lesson that seems frequently forgotten: Get the locals on board first.

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, which Feinstein chairs and Alexander serves as the top Republican, may again include a mandate for DOE to designate a high level waste / spent nuclear fuel storage site, as they did in the 2012 bill that the last Congress did not pass.

In response to the Obama Administration's «Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future,» SRIC submitted various reports, participated in three meetings, and has provided information about WIPP and nuclear waste storage and disposal policies to the public, policymakers, and theNuclear Future,» SRIC submitted various reports, participated in three meetings, and has provided information about WIPP and nuclear waste storage and disposal policies to the public, policymakers, and thenuclear waste storage and disposal policies to the public, policymakers, and the media.

Brian Sales, distinguished research scientist and lead of the Correlated Electron Materials Group in the Materials Science and Technology Division, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «pioneering research for clean energy technologies, including thermoelectric and superconducting materials, and materials for nuclear waste storage.»

In discussing the issue of nuclear waste, the authors of the letter point to geological storage and the Blue Ribbon Commission's recommended path toward interim and final storage as the solution, but there is currently no movement forward on this front.

Lets see: Wind Farms: 1000s dead birds killed on the blades Nuclear: Terrorists, fail to manage the waste across many glacials etc etc and you have a sterile world Roof top solar: Energy storage for rainy days and nights Lower energy use: get real!

(Associated Press) • Nuclear waste from power plants around the country could be headed to West Texas for temporary storage as a result of a bill passed by the House on Thursday.

The report on externalities nicely glosses over the nuclear externality that our policy makers want to ignore — waste storage.

For example, the mandate in Minnesota for 425 megawatts of wind power by 2003 was part of a settlement with Northern States Power (now Xcel Energy) to extend on - site storage of nuclear waste at its nuclear facility.

My columns have covered LEDs, solar power, wind power, demand - response, green chemistry, smart grid innovation, water technologies, geothermal, biofuels (with a big focus on algae), electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, nuclear, wave and tidal power, biogas, waste reduction, energy storage, advanced materials... you name it.

We sent a questionnaire to state officials working on the issue, and the results showed that an overwhelming majority believe they should have additional regulatory authority over nuclear waste storage and disposal, similar to the authority states now have over hazardous waste.

If Yucca Mountain doesn't come to fruition and another geologic repository isn't developed, storing SNF in dry storage systems as they are currently (Figure 5) may be the nation's only recourse — other than hoping that a hard reality will serve to break the impasse on nuclear waste.

The choice to locate the pilot plant at the site of Bure Saudron was based in part on commitments made in 2006 to support the economic development of territories which are home to the laboratory research on the deep geological storage of nuclear waste.

While the senator did not comment on a long - term waste management effort, his spokesperson noted that in May 2017, Markey sponsored the Dry Cask Storage Act, a bill that would essentially allow the NRC to give nuclear generators grants from interest earned from the Nuclear Waste Fund to transfer SNF from pools to dry storage under NRC - approvedStorage Act, a bill that would essentially allow the NRC to give nuclear generators grants from interest earned from the Nuclear Waste Fund to transfer SNF from pools to dry storage under NRC - approvednuclear generators grants from interest earned from the Nuclear Waste Fund to transfer SNF from pools to dry storage under NRC - approvedNuclear Waste Fund to transfer SNF from pools to dry storage under NRC - approvedstorage under NRC - approved plans.

It's also critical to a future less dependent on foreign oil: Hydraulic fracturing, «clean coal» technologies, nuclear fuel production and carbon storage (the keystone of the strategy to address climate change) all count on pushing waste into rock formations below the earth's surface.

Also advising on commercial agreements between domestic and international customers relating to the storage, handling, reprocessing and transport of nuclear waste and the supply of mixed oxide fuel to the nuclear industry.