Sentences with phrase «promise by the nuclear powers»
To oversimplify a bit, you consent to not building nuclear weapons, and you get peaceful nuclear power, and a promise by the nuclear powers not to be threatened with their nuclear weapons.
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Russia has built the Busher nuclear power plant in Iran partially at her own expense on the promise by Iran that they will be buying nuclear fuel from Russia for this plant to operate.
One version of the Republican energy bill rejected by Congress last year promised $ 37 billion to coal, oil, and nuclear power over the next 10 years, six times the proposed spending on renewables.
One step further down that path comes via the Des Moines Register which reports that a memorandum of understanding between the USDA and the Navy has been signed which promises to help it reach its greener fighting goals: Great Green Fleet to Sail by 2016 The first of those is demonstrating a so - called Green Strike Group by 2012 composed of «biofuel - powered nuclear vessels and ships,» and then, by 2016 sail it as a «Great Green Fleet» made up of nuclear ships and «surface combatants equipped with hybrid electric alternative power systems running on biofuel.»
John Dudley Miller, a former nuclear engineering officer in the Navy with a doctorate in social psychology and a long career in journalism, sent this «Your Dot» critique of «Pandora's Promise,» the new documentary defending nuclear power, and the more recent videotaped discussion of nuclear energy by the climate scientist and campaigner James E. Hansen [Updated, 12:27 p.m. Hansen has responded below.]
Officials promised to replace nuclear power with wind or solar, but this caused the price of electricity to rise by 20 percent.
Davey, meanwhile, should reflect on his own role in creating the mess that the government is seeking a way out of — his party promised a commitment to a 100 % reduction of CO2 emissions by 2050, and the abolition of nuclear power and the petrol engine.
A new film about nuclear energy, Pandora's Promise, which appears in theaters in June and will be broadcast by CNN in the fall, features five «converts» who argue that the dire threat of climate change requires humanity to embrace nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels.
Despite their promise, organic solar cells will be only one part of the quest to bring photovoltaics to the point where their cost - per - kilowatt is competitive with electrical power generated by fossil fuels or nuclear energy, Chan says.