Sentences with phrase «other nuclear options»

TIME Magazine just penned a write - up of the Breakthrough report, a few months after The New York Times took note of thorium and other nuclear options.

Not exact matches

In November 2013, Senate Democrats used the nuclear option to eliminate filibusters on executive branch nominations and federal judicial appointments other than those to the Supreme Court.

There are numerous examples of the Senate being able to circumvent the rule directly that requires 60 votes to end a filibuster, and the threat to expand the nuclear option to other areas.

The only other real option is that China steps forward and removes North Korea's ability to produce nuclear weapons.

«We have other options, we don't need these nuclear plants.

Closing the older nuclear plants is not an option for many EU countries, which are facing an energy capacity crunch as other types of plant are being closed or mothballed because they can't cover their operating costs, or to meet stricter environmental regulation.

The option of vitrifying plutonium and other nuclear waste together also presents problems.

Other EPSRC - funded programmes and consortia include the Fusion Programme, the «Keeping the Nuclear Option Open» programme (nuclear fission), the UK Energy Research Centre, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the Carbon Vision Buildings Project, and Building Knowledge for a Changing CNuclear Option Open» programme (nuclear fission), the UK Energy Research Centre, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the Carbon Vision Buildings Project, and Building Knowledge for a Changing Cnuclear fission), the UK Energy Research Centre, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the Carbon Vision Buildings Project, and Building Knowledge for a Changing Climate.

Another project that will involve Energy Futures Lab and other universities is the # 6.1 million Keeping the Nuclear [Energy] Option Open Programme.

Following a technical assessment by the UK's National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), it was concluded that the NuScale Power Module is a credible technology, feasible for deployment within a ten year timeframe and, alongside other options, should be investigated further for potential UK involvement.

Nuclear is an established energy alternative that generates no carbon dioxide, so there is interest at the federal level to further study nuclear energy while also exploring new options such as hydrogen, solar, and other alternNuclear is an established energy alternative that generates no carbon dioxide, so there is interest at the federal level to further study nuclear energy while also exploring new options such as hydrogen, solar, and other alternnuclear energy while also exploring new options such as hydrogen, solar, and other alternatives.

Now, the response from the other side could be the nuclear option.

Clinton shows no awareness of how huge a task she's glibly suggesting, nor does she suggest that there are other options that should be considered long before this nuclear option, which should be at the bottom of the list.

There are other proposals to use a very modest tweak in fuel taxes to boost basic research and development funding aimed at expanding nonpolluting energy options (nuclear, solar, storage, etc)-- an arena that has been unbelievably underfunded for decades (see graph at link) compared to other areas of scientific inquiry.

It was always inconceivable that President Obama would consider using a nuclear explosion to cut the flow of oil from the unrelenting seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico — no matter how many other options faltered.

What's more notable this time is his inclusion of a link to presentations given Nov. 3 at a Washington workshop on non-polluting energy options by a dozen other specialists in a range of technologies and arenas, from energy efficiency to nuclear and solar power and the electrical grid.

If the United States starts weaning off of oil and coal and onto homegrown biofuels, renewables, nuclear and other options, how much land will be gobbled up by new forms of energy production?

Sierra Club Canada works to encourage Canada to follow the lead of other nuclear dependant countries, such as Germany and Belgium, that have legislated the planned phase - out of their nuclear reactors in favour of green energy options and energy efficiency.

the economics of nuclear power versus the economics of all other options dor significantly reducing global GHG emissions

Due to their high cost relative to other generating options, no new nuclear power units will be built in the US, an Exelon official said Thursday.

But there are three other major energy options that need to be considered to help fill this need for non-fossil energy by 2050, one or all of which may end up being more cost effective and thus less harmful to global economic growth: nuclear fission (chapter 7), fusion (chapter 8), and solar power collected in space rather than on Earth's surface (chapter 9).

The nuclear option seems to be ruled out by green activists and others who have been shocked by the Chernoble, Three Mile Island and Fukushima accidents.

Lovins said the reason for the decline is cost: on an even playing field with no hidden subsidies, nuclear is simply more expensive than other options, especially co-generation.

Because the amount of cooling necessary is much less per unit of electricity output in NGCC plants than in coal or nuclear plants, dry cooling systems are more economical for NGCC plants than for other thermoelectric options.

If we need to stop CO2 production then on the face of it nuclear is the cheapest alternative however there are many other options that are viable.

The President, to his credit, has been steadfast in his support for research and deployment of clean energy technology, although the heavy focus on renewables has left other options, particularly nuclear, wanting.

FACT CHECK: wind power contributes about 6 % of Ontario's electricity supply, at four times the cost of other power sources; wind power is not the «lowest - cost» option — the turbines are cheap to build but there are many other costs associated with wind power and its intermittency; wind power can not replace hydro and nuclear — the fact is, coal was replaced by nuclear and natural gas, a fossil - fuel - based power source.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its analysis of EPA's Clean Power Plan had to consider new nuclear capacity as a separate case analysis because construction of new nuclear capacity other than what is currently under construction or at risk for retirement is not a major compliance option based on EPA's proposed rule despite nuclear power's zero carbon dioxide emissions.

In their study published in February in Environmental Research Letters, Myhrvold and Caldeira looked at switching from one terawatt of coal power plants to natural gas - or to solar panels, or wind, or nuclear, or other options.

We have to quickly implement power generation facilities appropriate for every region on earth, for some nuclear may be the best option, for others, wind, geothermal, hydro, photo voltaics..

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In addition, they were roundly criticized as being far more expensive than a nuclear - based option, and in total too expensive for anything other than a wartime effort.