Sentences with phrase «other fuel cycle»

Barriers have been erected around areas near a reactor and other fuel cycle areas to prevent workers being exposed to «light or moderate» contamination.

Not exact matches

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.

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.

He said Monju and other nuclear fuel cycle efforts would receive a «maintenance budget» of $ 445 million.

Fabrication differs greatly from other steps in the fuel cycle.

For existing commercial nuclear generators (and for any new facilities built in other countries), we should stick to the so - called «once through» fuel cycle, with direct disposal of spent fuel, and strongly encourage other countries to do likewise.

In contrast, PRISM, which is designed to refuel every 12 to 24 months, has primarily been focused on closing the fuel cycle by, among other things, consuming transuranics.

In fact, stress and sleep deprivation may fuel each other in a vicious cycle leaving you exhausted by the time the New Year rolls around.

Your body has more energy, is more efficient with fuel, and craving disappear, which means you lose the cycle of deprivation and binge eating, which is common with other diets.

Dropping the «food is just fuel» paradigm — or any other beliefs you have about food that encourage restriction, or make you feel ashamed of your relationship with food — is a good first step in ending the diet - binge cycle once and for all.

The BMW 116d powered by a 2 - litre four - cylinder 85 kW / 115 bhp diesel engine is available both in a 5 - door and a 3 - door version and, with a fuel consumption of 4.5 litres / 100 km in the EU test cycle, it offers better fuel economy than any other model of this series.

The second version of the RX is the 450h Hybrid, which is powered by a combination of a 3.5 - liter V6 Atkinson - cycle engine, electric motors, a small and light power - control unit and other fuel - saving innovations.

Fuel economy exceeds 27 km / L (3.7 L / 100 km, 63.5 mpg US) WMTC (World Motorcycle Test Cycle) mode by Honda's calculation and achieves an approximate 40 % improvement over other sports models in its class.

Fuel consumption is rated at 40 mpg for the combined cycle while other mechanical amenities include Subaru's Symmetrical All - Wheel Drive system and a torque vectoring feature.

The V6 diesel on the other hand promises fuel consumption figures of 40.1 mpg (EU) / combined cycle.

Clever turbocharger technology, as well as idle - stop system across the range and other up to date engine tweaks reduce fuel consumption of the front - wheel drive variant to 8.4 L / 100 km on the ADR combined cycle — 25 per cent better than the outgoing model.

As part of its retail branding program, gas stations / convenience stores across the U.S. are being branded as VP Racing Fuels, with each providing distribution for VP's other product lines, including ethanol - free VP Small Engine Fuels, formulated for 2 - and 4 - cycle outdoor power equipment; VP Madditive ™ performance chemicals; and VP / PowerMaster © hobby fuels for R / C RaFuels, with each providing distribution for VP's other product lines, including ethanol - free VP Small Engine Fuels, formulated for 2 - and 4 - cycle outdoor power equipment; VP Madditive ™ performance chemicals; and VP / PowerMaster © hobby fuels for R / C RaFuels, formulated for 2 - and 4 - cycle outdoor power equipment; VP Madditive ™ performance chemicals; and VP / PowerMaster © hobby fuels for R / C Rafuels for R / C Racing.

Winter is referring to the 150 - kW Electric Propulsion System in the Chevrolet Bolt EV) and the 130 - kW Fuel Cell / Electric Propulsion System in the Honda Clarity, and the electric motor assisted 2.5 - litre Atkinson - cycle 4 - Cylinder in the Toyota Camry Hybrid and the 3.6 - litre Pentastar V - 6 in the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid — the other returning winner.

The adoption of cylinder - on - demand and other fuel - saving features has brought about a claimed 10 % improvement in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions on the European test cycle.

Conversely, the Auris full hybrid returns class - leading fuel consumption figures of only 3.8 l / 100 km in the European homologation combined cycle and remarkably low, highly tax - efficient CO2 emissions of just 89 g / km - a figure unmatched by any other C - segment car.

The RX 450h's Lexus Hybrid Drive features a 3.5 - liter V6 Atkinson - cycle engine, electric motors, a small and light power - control unit and other fuel - saving innovations.

Called LCI (Life Cycle Impulse) in BMW parlance, the overhaul follows other Bavarian models in adopting more powerful and fuel efficient engines, new eight - speed transmissions and other detailed changes including a new front - end with corona lamps and an upgrade of the interiors across the range.

Because it fuels a cycle of low quality releases and poor value, as well as other anti-consumer practices like launch day DLC.

Other fossil - fuel replacements occasionally touted in print or on the Web include nuclear fission, subcritical thorium fission, high - altitude wind power, enhanced geothermal, hot dry (or hot fractured) rock geothermal, wave power, tidal power, open - cycle ocean thermal energy conversion, and advanced biorefinery products like 2,5 - dimethylfuran, various other furans and furfuOther fossil - fuel replacements occasionally touted in print or on the Web include nuclear fission, subcritical thorium fission, high - altitude wind power, enhanced geothermal, hot dry (or hot fractured) rock geothermal, wave power, tidal power, open - cycle ocean thermal energy conversion, and advanced biorefinery products like 2,5 - dimethylfuran, various other furans and furfuother furans and furfurals.

Fossil - fueled peaking / backup plants will produce little CO2 output as long as their duty cycle is small, and their other pollutants become more tolerable too.

And, rather spectacularly, this is the 3D view of the yearly CO2 cycle, 2014 - 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syU1rRCp7E8 You can really see the localized emissions from areas with large fossil fuel use, as well as from large fires in other parts of the world.

So, if you could create liquid hydrocarbons that are compatible with gasoline cars, then the adoption cycle would be a lot easier than switching over to electric or hydrogen or some other type of fuel for cars.

But historically CO2 follows temp; so the cycle is a boom and bust one; the little mothers eat the CO2 and produce their cooling; the CO2 runs out and the dieback commences till the cooling mechanisms are reduced sufficiently so that heating resumes and CO2 increases follow, fueling another expansion; or does some other factor produce heating with the lm's then producing the cooling?

It is rapidly expanding energy use, mainly driven by fossil fuels, that explains why humanity is on the verge of breaching planetary sustainability boundaries through global warming, biodiversity loss, and disturbance of the nitrogen - cycle balance and other measures of the sustainability of the earth's ecosystem.

Carbon and Other Biochemical Cycles: On cumulative fossil fuel emissions for the 2012 - 2100 period, China, Kenya and Venezuela, opposed by Germany, said presenting figures for the means together with the ranges created confusion.

Roberts then asks us to panic about the possibility of the political voice of fat Americans being used to demand, elevators, escalators, and other forms of labour - saving mechanisation, which in turn worsens the cycle of increasing fuel use, carbon emissions, and the world's waistlines.

I am not discounting the human contribution to atmospheric CO2, but for you to write criticism of others knowledge of the carbon cycle, and then see you write about the increase in atmospheric CO2 - «this is ALL attributable to humans burning fossil fuel.»

The deployment of CCS would also not reduce other harmful pollutants produced across the fuel cycle of coal.

Yes I can say Muller misstated the difference in emissions between coal, oil and gas, because the other components of life cycle emissions (such as the fugitive emissions you referred to) are small compared with emissions from fuel combustion.

The incremental developments in other words are in the fuel cycle and materials science.

Energy efficiency and reducing reliance on coal for electricity generation not only reduces emissions of greenhouse gases, but also reduces emissions of fine particles which cause many premature deaths worldwide as well as reducing other health impacts from the coal fuel cycle.

France and Japan, on the other hand, routinely extract and reprocess plutonium for reuse as reactor fuel, but the dual - use potential of this process has led Holdren and his coauthors to recommend a «once - through fuel cycle» in which the spent fuel is not reprocessed, but instead goes directly into a storage repository.

But a natural cycle of change in the North Atlantic may for the time being have countered the consequences of human combustion of fossil fuels, the rise of greenhouse gases and other impacts in the Arctic.

Efforts include a life cycle analysis of broadcast operations both at the venue and in the studio, as well as engaging suppliers to increase their alternative fuel use and source other materials responsibly.

The huge influx of political spending by the fossil fuel sector in the last campaign cycle has also pushed Republicans to the barricades, said Dotson and other Washington observers.

Its pages cover a range of topics, sometimes technical, including the planetâ $ ™ s carbon cycle, fossil fuels, greenhouse gases and sea - level rise, among others.

It's only when deforestation and other land use changes made a net shift of carbon in the short term carbon cycle from plants back into the atmosphere, that humans began to make a net positive return of CO2 into the atmosphere (although deforestation is essentially reversible in principle), and it's very true to point out that industrial scale animal husbandry with its high cost in fossil - fuel - derived energy does mean that what might otherwise be a relatively closed system of cycling CO2 from the atmosphere through plants and then animals and back to the atmosphere, does become net positive with respect to CO2 emissions.

Human use of biomass for food, feed, fiber, fuel, and materials has become a primary component of global biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, and other nutrients.

There is a wide range in the estimated heat - trapping emissions and other environmental impacts from each biofuel over its life cycle (i.e., from farm to finished fuel to use in the vehicle), depending on the feedstock, production process, and model inputs and assumptions.

Fuel economy figures quoted are based on the European Fuel Economy Directive EU 80 / 1268 / EEC and will differ from fuel economy drive cycle results in other regions of the woFuel economy figures quoted are based on the European Fuel Economy Directive EU 80 / 1268 / EEC and will differ from fuel economy drive cycle results in other regions of the woFuel Economy Directive EU 80 / 1268 / EEC and will differ from fuel economy drive cycle results in other regions of the wofuel economy drive cycle results in other regions of the world.

During the past 500 years or so, human activities have released mercury from its relatively stable and water - insoluble form (cinnabar) in rocks and soil through mining, fossil fuel combustion, and other activities, and so have increased the portion of mercury that is actively cycling through the atmosphere, surface waters, plants, and animals as it changes chemical and physical form.

Partners start doing a dance with each other, where one partner's insecurities fuels the other partners insecurities in a never - ending cycle: