Sentences with phrase «over spent fuel»

This item has been corrected 1 April: The original article stated that Henry Sokolski said that the law gave the U.S. «extensive» legal rights over spent fuel it sold to other countries and that it could ask for fuel back if it didn't like how the fuel was being handled.

No containment structures exist over the spent fuel pools; the pools are vulnerable to a loss - of - coolant scenario; mock attack drills reveal accessibility to and vulnerability of spent fuel buildings; and two of the spent fuel pools at Indian Point have been leaking radioactive materials.

Not exact matches

BEIJING, March 5 - China on Monday unveiled its largest rise in defence spending in three years, setting a target of 8.1 percent growth over 2017, fuelling an ambitious military modernisation programme amid rising concerns over its security.

BEIJING, March 5 - China on Monday unveiled its largest rise in defense spending in three years, setting a target of 8.1 percent growth over 2017, fueling an ambitious military modernisation program amid rising concerns over its security.

But for now, at least, Canadians had better get used to spending more on the stuff we've long taken for granted: the era of cheap food and fuel, it seems, is over.

Because consumers are such a crucial driver of GDP, governments the world over have spent the last several years trying to coax consumers to open their wallets to fuel economic growth.

The main benefactor of credit - fueled cash flows from the west over the past 15 years, China forgot that credit expansion is a finite cycle and spent like a drunken sailor throughout.

And then the government goes and spends whatever, a $ 100 billion funding alternative fuel and spends money over here and spends money over there.

Fueling the rebound is rising demand amid tightening supplies, thanks in part to Donald Trump's stunning White House win and the likelihood that he'll move forward with a plan to spend $ 1 trillion on infrastructure over the next decade, driving incremental demand for zinc.

In tiny El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts, the U.S. government spent about $ 700 per minute ($ 1.4 million per day), largely on military aid, over the past ten years fueling a deadly civil war and in effect paying the military slayers of the six Jesuits in November 1989.

Brazil has also recently been gripped by an anti-establishment mood, fueled by anger over spending on mega-events such as the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, while many ordinary people believe that services such as education, health care and transportation languish.

Fuel poverty is defined as the need to spend over 10 % of household income on fuel costs to maintain adequate warmth for health and comfFuel poverty is defined as the need to spend over 10 % of household income on fuel costs to maintain adequate warmth for health and comffuel costs to maintain adequate warmth for health and comfort.

Over the period of falling support the Labour leadership has announced or supported a raft of right - wing policies including: accepting the Tories 2015 - 16 spending plans, ending universal winter fuel payments, capping welfare spending, restricting migrants» rights and weakening Labour's union link.

Federal authorities in May gave approval for a company to truck spent nuclear fuel over the Peace -LSB-...]

«The days of spending taxpayer dollars to fuel poverty - wage jobs are over.

Although unrelated to the May approval, the routing of spent nuclear fuel over the Peace Bridge was a source of concern for state officials in 2000.

Fuel poverty is currently defined as the need to spend over 10 % of household income on fuel costs to maintain adequate warmth for health and comfFuel poverty is currently defined as the need to spend over 10 % of household income on fuel costs to maintain adequate warmth for health and comffuel costs to maintain adequate warmth for health and comfort.

The Fuel Poverty Group claims that within two years, over a million households will spend at least a tenth of their annual income on fuel - meeting the definition of fuel poveFuel Poverty Group claims that within two years, over a million households will spend at least a tenth of their annual income on fuel - meeting the definition of fuel povefuel - meeting the definition of fuel povefuel poverty.

He urged the President to pay more attention to the ailing economy of the country instead of junketing around the world, wasting $ 1 million per foreign trip, saying; «President Buhari has travelled to 24 countries in eight months, and will be spending 16 out of the 29 days in February outside the country, with over $ 500,000 being spent on estacode while the Presidential Air Fleet, which includes fueling of the planes and allowances for crew members is said to be in the range of $ 500,000.

Over N4.5 tn was spent on fuel subsidy in just two years under the PDP!»

Most controversially of all, if the government believes that working families should keep more of their earnings (to spend more effectively than government can) then why means - test child benefit - the only remaining recognition in the tax system of the cost of raising a family - in order to preserve free bus rides and winter fuel payments to well - off over 60s?

At a time when public spending is to be cut, how vital is it to retain universal welfare benefits, such as child benefit, winter fuel allowances and free bus passes for the over 60s?

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks led to new requirements to safeguard spent fuel pools at U.S. reactors, but the overall policy toward the nuclear fuel cycle has been bound up in the fight over the proposed fuel repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, which the Obama administration wants to terminate.

Transfers of casks from operating reactors could follow, and the report authors said that would help resolve a long - running court dispute over payments nuclear plant operators are required to make to the federal government in return for federal storage of the spent fuel — a bargain the federal government has not kept.

Because the world's uranium supply is finite and the continued growth in the numbers of thermal reactors could exhaust the available low - cost uranium reserves in a few decades, it makes little sense to discard this spent fuel or the «tailings» left over from the enrichment process.

The half - lives (the period in which radioactivity halves) of these atoms range up to tens of thousands of years, a feature that led U.S. government regulators to require that the planned high - level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada isolate spent fuel for over 10,000 years.

At Yucca, spent fuel housed in steel canisters would be sealed within tunnels above the water table, in a manner meant to minimize corrosion and possible leakage of radioactive material, even over geologically long periods.

Over the years, science has given way to raw politics as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and supporters of DOE's repository project in Congress have sought to obfuscate and compensate for an ever - multiplying set of flaws and problems with the site and with the notion of transporting unprecedented amounts of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level nuclear waste across the country.

To ensure that moving spent radioactive fuel is being carried out with the minimum of risks, Sandia National Laboratories recently completed a nuclear «triathlon» of a simulated cargo of spent fuel rods over 14,500 mi to record the stress and jolts that fuel undergoes in transit.

In a news release dated Feb. 5, 2014, Mark Sternberg, the foundation's director of Systemic K - 12 Education Reform reported that the foundation has kick - started more than 1,500 schools, approximately one out of four charters in the country.8 Over the last five years, the foundation has spent between $ 63 million and $ 73 million annually to fuel new charter openings.

Oh, and also spending at least 20 times (gut feeling it's more like 100 times) the amount of fuel towing someone with an electric vehicle in «release» / «unclutched» mode over 4 miles would cost.

The official combined fuel economy figure for the Up GTI is 58.9 mpg, but during our test, where we covered over 100 miles and spent nearly five hours behind the wheel, we averaged just over half that, with 31mpg.

An annual fuel cost figure is also included, as well as a comparative fuel cost figure that notes the additional funds you'll be spending on fuel over five years compared to the average new car on sale today.

Despite the price difference, the hybrid is a sensible solution for anyone who spends most of their time behind the wheel in stop and go traffic, as fuel efficiency in that type of situation has been improved by 50 percent over the standard RX 350.

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With over $ 8,000 additional spent in recent engine, fuel injection and ignition upgrades.

Add to that, if running costs are such a concern, the new CoD model should extend its fuel lead over the 90kW base model on longer journeys or spending more time in the suburbs.

But if you're going to buy a honking boat of a muscle car, one already burdened with its share of shortcomings (size, weight, poor visibility, so - so fuel economy), and you're going to spend well over $ 30,000 on it, do yourself a favor and get the one you really want.

Just checked and serviced by us and less than 4k miles ago it had over $ 10k spent on a full engine reseal that involved disassembly, replacement of all common wear items and reassembly, plus fuel pump, soft top cables, etc..

Incredible original condition Just in from Southern California Rare European model — sold new in Sweden 47,940 actual miles (77,152 KM) Matching numbers original engine Beautiful, factory correct paintwork Wonderfully original interior Over $ 27,000 spent on recent service work completed by a marque specialist that included complete brake, cooling, exhaust, fuel injection system rebuilds and more Documentation includes factory books, radio books, service records, $ 27,000 in recent service receipts, copy of build data card, factory tools and more Options include: New whitewall tires Becker Europa radio Rare 4 - speed manual transmission Drives and performs incredibly well!

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, you can expect to spend just $ 950 per year on fuel with the Avalon Hybrid, which amounts to $ 2,250 in savings over five years, when compared to the average new car.

Rant over, on to the driving: Honda's V6 remains one of the smoothest powerplants in the business and returns damned fine fuel economy — the in - dash trip computer was showing as much as 27 mpg, admirable for an AWD three - row crossover spending its weekend sloshing through snowy / icy roads.

If you drive 12,000 miles per year at the current rate of about $ 3 per gallon and you car gets 25 MPG, you're going to spend about $ 7,200 over the first five years of your car's life on fuel.

Compare that amount to how much you spend on food for entertainment purposes, like going out to dinner with friends over the weekend and for your necessities, like eating lunch to fuel your workday.

Rork said they spent over $ 800 on fuel alone for Friday's flight, which they pay for through donations.

If you are able to normally spend $ 5,000 over the course of 3 months, (internet, cable, cell phone, groceries, insurance, fuel, business expenses, etc.) this offer might be for you.

This is where you'll spend GMP and use resources found and collected all over the open world, such as fuel or plants.

The state's move fuels one of the fiercer debates bubbling over about using a national cap and trade: that is, what's the most responsible way to spend all the money it'd make?

The Wildlife Conservation Society spent nearly $ 50 million over six years to create a small patch of Madagascar in the city, and to draw attention to the plight of an island with an extraordinary ecological bounty that has been relentlessly destroyed by a struggling, poor population trying to expand rice farming and find wood for fuel and construction.

They have joined Set America Free, a group that wants the government to spend $ 12 billion over four years on plug - in hybrids, alternative fuels and other measures to reduce foreign oil dependence.