Sentences with phrase «spent fuel all lit»

Many older plants have proved unprofitable, and some are being decommissioned at considerable expense, leaving in their wake contaminated buildings and piles of spent fuel all lit up with no place to go.

Not exact matches

Drivers had to start Q3 with the amount of fuel they were going to start the race with, which meant that much of the session was spent watching cars driving around trying to use as much fuel as possible in order to make their car as light as possible for their flying laps.

«The entire spent fuel management system — on - site storage, consolidated long - term storage, geological disposal — is likely to be reevaluated in a new light because of the Fukushima storage pool experience,» the report says.

Therefore, either reprocessing or recycling spent nuclear fuel, as the French and Japanese do, is likely to be a waste of money better spent on improving the light - water reactors presently in use.

For example, an entire nuclear cycle involving light - water reactors, reprocessing of the spent fuel, and disposal of small «packages» of highly radioactive nuclear waste in deep boreholes could prove an attractive option, Moniz noted.

«Today, we don't know whether spent nuclear fuel from light - water reactors is waste or a resource,» Moniz noted.

It is a light water reactor with the reactor, steam generator, and spent fuel pool located inside the containment.

For my fuel economy testing and light - load hauling, I spent the vast majority of my testing in the two - wheel drive setting.

Families talk about having more opportunity to spend time together, to eat together and to spend time chatting — time they didn't have before when light ran out, either due to limited income to buy fuel or its scarcity.

-- Energy Future Coalition, Letter to Pres. Bush by 31 former national security advisors; report did not address PHEVs, but newly - aware speakers at press conference supported «plug power» PHEVs and a government commitment to spend $ 1B on lighter, fuel - efficient vehicles.

Without the federal government capping nuclear industry liability (i.e. Price Anderson Act), signing contracts to take custody and dispose of spent nuclear fuel (i.e. Nuclear Waste Policy Act), bankrolling civilian and military atomic research and development for light water and breeder reactors (i.e. Atomic Energy Act), and other programs, the industry would not exist.

«In spite of these efforts, and in light of the hazards that are here and worsening, Plaintiffs are spending, and must continue to spend, millions of dollars to protect their property and residents from the impacts of climate change... Despite receiving the warning that «fossil fuel use should not be encouraged,» Defendants spent decades selling and promoting fossil fuels without disclosing the dangers that continued fossil fuel over-use posed.»

Fact — If the money being used to subsidize wind power was spent on conservation, insulation, energy efficient lighting and heating equipment, and fuel efficient vehicles, the reductions in fossil fuel use would be many times greater than the benefits provided by wind power.