Sentences with phrase «spending on nuclear energy»

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The nuclear component of the Clean Energy Standard guarantees that more will be spent to keep nuclear facilities operating than will be spent on solar or wind.

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.

The next day the federal government nudged the high - energy physics community into the winners» circle by announcing plans to spend roughly $ 136 million over 5 years on operations and upgrades at the national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics.

A few years ago, DARPA, which prides itself on promoting far - out projects, proposed spending $ 30 million on a «hafnium bomb,» a type of nuclear weapon intended to release energy from atomic nuclei without either fission or fusion, using an approach similar to how energy is extracted from electrons in a laser.

As a result, one leading national laboratory began to impose mandatory 2 - day - per - month «unpaid holidays» on its science staff, several laboratories began laying off researchers, the U.S. portion of the international program to develop plentiful energy through nuclear fusion was reduced to «survival mode,» America's firms continued to spend three times more on litigation than research, and many young would - be scientists presumably began reconsidering their careers.

So we're doubling our spending on energy research with a major commitment to small modular nuclear reactors.

DENVER — Along the way to testing an old - but - new concept in nuclear waste storage — burying spent fuel in a hole drilled kilometers below the surface — the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its contractors relearned a lesson that seems frequently forgotten: Get the locals on board first.

RE # 27, Paul — to repeat, it still seems to be that if you have $ 4 billion to spend on non-CO2 producing energy sources, the better investment would be to build 40 solar - cell manufacturing facilities at $ 100 million apiece; for example see Honda Solar Factory; this would result in some 1,100 megawatts of solar cell capacity being produced per year, in comparison to a single nuclear power plant (typical power level: 600-1200 MW) being built.

The school will be structured around lectures delivered by members of CNL's research team and external experts in the mornings, followed by demonstrations and practical sessions in the afternoons during which students will spend time at the Zero Energy Deuterium (ZED - 2) reactor, as well as several other nuclear facilities located on the campus.

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, which Feinstein chairs and Alexander serves as the top Republican, may again include a mandate for DOE to designate a high level waste / spent nuclear fuel storage site, as they did in the 2012 bill that the last Congress did not pass.

We have continued to see additional steps domestically since Copenhagen — including new implementation efforts on energy efficiency and new spending plans for renewables and nuclear.

The budgets for nuclear energy research in the UK are, when compared to the money spent on renewables, mean, to say the least.

As such, it provides essential reading for all interested in energy and the way its use and supply has evolved over time and may do in the future with now additional data on energy efficiency and RD&D — for example showing that public RD&D spending on renewables and energy efficiency now both match nuclear.

So we spend # 13.84 per household (per year) on clean new sources of energy, nearly three times as much more to clean up the mess the nuclear industry has already made and up to eight times as much to subsidise fossil fuels.

Each dollar spent on a new reactor buys about two to ten times less carbon savings and is 20 to 40 times slower, than spending that dollar on the cheaper, faster, safer solutions that make nuclear power unnecessary and uneconomic: efficient use of electricity, making heat and power together in factories or buildings («cogeneration»), and renewable energy.

The money spent on the Flannery ads would have been far better spent on ads dispelling some of the misinformation concerning the safety of nuclear energy, which if adopted in place of fossil - fuel power generation will make a much bigger impact on global warming.

We know that the McGuinty government's real energy plan is to spend $ 40 billion on very expensive, unreliable and environmentally risky nuclear power plants.

Let's say we shut down and decommissioned coal mines and coal - fired power plants, stopped new offshore drilling for oil and gas plus the development of shale oil and gas, moved away from nuclear power as too risky, spent trillions to subsidize non-viable windmills and solar panels to squeak by in avoiding a total blackout by imposing exorbitant taxes on energy in order to force people to cut back its use.

Only a few energy bills have been introduced, with the greatest focus being on one permitting Xcel Energy to spend more than $ 1 billion on its nuclear fleet with only limited regulatory oversight of expendienergy bills have been introduced, with the greatest focus being on one permitting Xcel Energy to spend more than $ 1 billion on its nuclear fleet with only limited regulatory oversight of expendiEnergy to spend more than $ 1 billion on its nuclear fleet with only limited regulatory oversight of expenditures.

These ads reflect people's anxiety about the safety of nuclear reactors and the disapproval they feel about having their hard - earned money spent on something they clearly think is a bad idea, especially when safer, more affordable, less risky energy choices exist such as efficiency, wind, solar, and bioenergy.

Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less spent on renewable energy.

Studies show that every Euro spent on new nuclear power could save ten times more emissions if it was invested in energy conservation measures - thus also securing energy supply ten times cheaper.