Sentences with phrase «proliferation risk»

And modern nuclear technology can reduce proliferation risks and solve the waste disposal problem by burning current waste and using fuel more efficiently.

If history is any guide, the development of AI as a weapon would inevitably lead to an arms race in this field as well as increased proliferation risks.

It must produce significantly less costly, cost - competitive clean electricity, be safer, produce significantly less waste and reduce proliferation risk.

That prompted the American Physical Society (APS) in College Park, Maryland, to file a formal petition with the NRC asking that such licences be subject to a formal review of proliferation risks.

A decision to not extend the waivers will worsen proliferation risks in the Middle East and undermine U.S. credibility.

The original application for the GE Hitachi plant in 2009 set off a protracted debate over whether the NRC, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, sufficiently weighs proliferation risks when licensing new types of enrichment technology (See «Laser plant offers cheap way to make nuclear fuel»).

If the United States is not participating in that market, he said, it becomes hard to steer buyers away from technologies that pose greater proliferation risks.

This presents an immense opportunity for Australia to create a «closed cycle» nuclear industry, virtually eliminating the industry's risk to populated areas while simultaneously eliminating nuclear proliferation risk through containing the entire industry in one highly secure location.

The following morning the final session, also on security, features speakers from Australia, Denmark, and Singapore and focuses on proliferation risks, including to non-state actors and terrorists, and military value / operational risks of the deployment in different scenarios.

Fuel is encapsulated in the core, which the company says significantly reduces proliferation risk and enhances overall safety for the user.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) this week granted a licence to allow construction of a plant that uses a controversial uranium enrichment process — one that critics fear could pose a serious nuclear - proliferation risk.

The license allows for construction of a plant that uses a process that critics fear could pose a serious nuclear - proliferation risk

This is not because of public opposition; not for want of a licensed geologic repository for the disposal of spent fuel; and not because of the proliferation risks associated with commercial nuclear power.

The strategies investigated include an evolutionary transmutation strategy in which the ADS provides additional flexibility by enabling plutonium utilisation in conventional reactors and confining the minor actinides to a small part of the fuel cycle, and two innovative transuranics (TRU) burning strategies, with an FR or an ADS, in which plutonium and minor actinides are managed together to minimise the proliferation risk.

More generally, the authors talk about the possibility that future technologies will provide reactor designs that are safer, more secure, and less of a proliferation risk.

So it is pretty clear that nuclear / hydro build out is best suited to places with strong, stable (got ta last more than a decade, let's not talk about the proliferation risk) and well funded central governments, China, France, Russia, maybe India.

Internationalization of both ends of the fuel cycle can reduce proliferation risk.

Reduction is particularly needed at the front end, and a well - designed fuel supply system can allow big reductions in proliferation risk.

We would have all of the proliferation risks associated with spreading nuclear power across the planet.