Sentences with phrase «safer nuclear power»

While there will be no single technological silver bullet, the time has come for those who take the threat of global warming seriously to embrace the development and deployment of safer nuclear power systems as one among several technologies that will be essential to any credible effort to develop an energy system that does not rely on using the atmosphere as a waste dump.

In it, he called for international intervention before the Tokyo Electric Power Company began to move fuel rods from the spent fuel pool for reactor unit 4 and urged the four climate scientists who recently called for a big push to advance safer nuclear power plant designs to go to the site.

Much more funding for development of solar power, wind power, geothermal power, and the like, and efforts to develop safe nuclear power.

We are pleased to announce that Holtec's engineers have succeeded in designing SMR - 160 into a «walk - away» safe nuclear power plant, which means that if a calamity were to strike — similar to the tsunami that devastated Fukushima ̶ the plant will passively (without human intervention) switch to and remain in a safe shutdown and cooled configuration for an unlimited period.

Developing stronger research partnerships with our educational institutions is a priority for developing environmentally responsible, reliable, and safe nuclear power to serve the United States» future energy needs.»

«Understanding how defects are formed helps us understand how material is changed by radiation, which is important for safe nuclear power and space exploration,» added Weber, who is a Laboratory Fellow and a Fellow in the Materials Research Society.

A terrific thriller that incidentally raises the most unsettling questions about how safe nuclear power plants really are.

11 billion people can have a middle class life style while making more room for biodiversity and nature, thanks to clean safe nuclear power.

Clean safe nuclear power, http://thoriumenergyalliance.com/ThoriumSite/Katie.html this is the best quick overview I have seen.

Similarly, how realistic is it to expect to have safe nuclear power in fragile states now?

C. Technically, it is still possible to solve the climate problem, but there are two essential requirements: (1) a simple across - the - board (all fossil fuels) rising carbon fee [2] collected from fossil fuel companies at the domestic source (mine or port of entry), not a carbon price «scheme,» and the money must go to the public, not to government coffers, otherwise the public will not allow the fee to rise as needed for phase - over to clean energy, (2) honest government support for, rather than strangulation of, RD&D (research, development and demonstration) of clean energy technologies, including advanced generation, safe nuclear power.

How often have you heard phrases such as «clean coal,» «safe nuclear power,» «clean diesel,» or «low - level radioactive waste»?

Fan, OTOH I suggest you read Caldeira, Emanuel, and Hansen's letter to enviormental groups supporting safe nuclear power published in the NYTs in an article by Revkin.

A Presidential directive for prompt investigation and proto - typing of advanced safe nuclear power is needed to cover the possibility that renewable energies can not satisfy global energy needs.

While everyone wants a safe nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon, this project was not the right way to get there, says Dr. Chad Nelsen, Surfrider Foundation's Environmental Director.

The problem is it won't be the cheapest without major technological breakthroughs in safe nuclear power generation and / or fossil fuel reserves become so depleted the cost of recovery makes the price surpass that of current nuclear power generation.

Page 9 «Second, the United States and China should agree to cooperate in rapid deployment to scale in China of advanced, safe nuclear power for peaceful purposes, specifically to provide clean electricity replacing aging and planned coal - fired power plants, as well as averting the need for extensive planned coal gasification in China, the most carbon - intensive source of electricity.14»

pg 9 «Second, the United States and China should agree to cooperate in rapid deployment to scale in China of advanced, safe nuclear power for peaceful purposes, specifically to provide clean electricity replacing aging and planned coal - fired power plants,....»

I don't know of any alternatives — you have hydropower, for a certain amount, in certain countries, but I think we should have been working with China to develop safe nuclear power.

Not exact matches

«If we discovered nuclear power today, we would be working like mad to make it as safe and cheap as possible,» Stanford University climate scientist Ken Caldeira tweeted last summer.

Nuclear power stations produce hardly any atmospheric pollution and provide by far the safest way to generate energy (with the possible exception of gas).

Governments realise that the only practicable way to provide this is by nuclear power, and so many more power stations are being planned, using new designs that are even safer and more economical than those presently in operation [2].

It is in the long - range interest of both sides of the nuclear power debate to produce a safe permanent disposal program.

Saturday, SAFE founder Jim Fitzgerald and program development director Jim Murphy welcomed Capt. James Edwards, commander of the West Milton Naval Nuclear Power Training Unit, and Petty Officer First Class and hull technician Chris Merrow to meet the child athletes, their families and the program volunteers.

That is why the United States must lead the world in transforming our energy system away from nuclear power and fossil fuels and towards energy efficiency and renewable energies like wind, solar, geothermal and biomass which will provide safe and clean energy and create millions of good - paying jobs.

Cuomo addressed that seeming contradiction in a briefing at Indian Point on Sunday, saying the difference is that the Westchester nuclear power plant is near one of the world's largest population centers, and logistically, there can be no safe way to evacuate people if something major goes wrong.

He noted that though the nuclear power plant is known for high energy density without green house gases emissions and Few Recourse limitations, it can not compare to the safe, efficient newly invented (Green) «EX5» solar Quantum physics energy generator (nuclear replacement plant) which only needs a solar panel for 8seconds.

«Ministers should reverse green technology cuts and invest in building a safe and secure low - carbon economy through a green investment bank - saying yes to renewable energy like wind, wave and solar but no to nuclear power.»

They argued that releasing detailed information about nuclear power and pesticides would convince the public that these industries were safe.

The industry and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) claim that nuclear power is safe, but their lack of transparency does not inspire confNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) claim that nuclear power is safe, but their lack of transparency does not inspire confnuclear power is safe, but their lack of transparency does not inspire confidence.

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.

And if we can do that, there might be nothing stopping us from unlocking nuclear fusion, a theoretically limitless source of clean, safe power that could solve all our climate woes.

A new report finds that nuclear power plants can not be built quickly enough and in a safe and secure manner to be a major global solution for climate change

Nuclear Energy: Is Nuclear Power Safe?

This is recognised by the nuclear power industry and its regulators, whose aim is to make the risk of accidents as low, and thus the reactors as safe, as is reasonably achievable.

Fail - safe technology is an essential goal in all nuclear power generation, and yet it continues to be ignored by an...

If you replace these power plants with modern, safe nuclear reactors you could do a lot of [pollution reduction] quickly.»

2 Fusion On Tap Plasma physicist Eric Lerner has a dream: a form of nuclear energy so clean it generates no radioactive waste, so safe it can be located in the heart of a city, and so inexpensive it provides virtually unlimited power for the dirt - cheap price of $ 60 per kilowatt — far below the $ 1,000 - per - kilowatt cost of electricity from natural gas.

«New nuclear fuel - rod cladding could lead to safer power plants.»

Nuclear power has been staggeringly safe, but that doesn't stop people being anxious about it, just as airplanes and trains are an amazingly safe way to travel but people still worry far more about plane crashes than car crashes.

For starters, retrofits could make U.S. reactors safer — and maybe even make nuclear power more palatable

Scientists have long dreamed of harnessing nuclear fusion — the power plant of the stars — for a safe, clean and virtually unlimited energy supply.

«Scientists have long dreamed of harnessing nuclear fusion, the power plant of the star, for a safe, clean and virtually unlimited energy supply.

A study projects 130 future cancer deaths from the meltdowns at the reactors in Fukushima last year, but does that suggest nuclear power is safer than fossil fuel alternatives?

Originally developed to detect and remove errors in software that keeps aircraft aloft and nuclear power plants safe, the technique is now widely used to eliminate bugs in commercial software, such as Microsoft's Windows packages.

A new era for nuclear power is taking shape as third - generation reactors, designed to be simpler and safer, inch through the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) design certification pnuclear power is taking shape as third - generation reactors, designed to be simpler and safer, inch through the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) design certification pNuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) design certification process.

Then it insisted on changing all references to environmentally sound technology to «safe and sound» technology, which was widely taken as an attack on nuclear power.

Take a look at nuclear power, best safety record of any form of energy (even safer than wind), and even in the face of CO2 induced «climate change», they still are going to phase it out.

«Unlike today's nuclear reactor, the IFR [integral fast reactor] can generate unlimited amounts of inexpensive clean power for hundreds of thousands of years... It provides an excellent solution for what to do with our nuclear waste because it can use our existing nuclear waste for fuel and it is significantly more proliferation - resistant than other methods of dealing with nuclear waste... The IFR is also inherently safe.

Their goal was to mitigate the premier concerns associated with nuclear power: waste, economics, proliferation, fuel supply, and improved safety to lead a transformation to a new, safer, and more secure approach to nuclear energy.