Sentences with phrase «spent fuel management»

Already on this thread, I showed that claims about the «prohibitive» cost of Indian nuclear power had little basis and the levies on nuclear power generation in the US for decommissioning and spent fuel management to be small fraction of the renewables levy in Germany

The NAC - MPC is compatible for storing and transporting spent fuel from many older U.S. nuclear plants, with widespread applications for U.S. government spent fuel management and worldwide.

But the best way for the United States to engage with foreign nations on bolstering safe spent fuel management is through multilateral organizations such as the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, he argues.

«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.

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This process could help scientists and governments comply with the European Council Directive 2011 / 70 / EURATOM on the «responsible and safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste» which requires EU Member States to establish a dedicated policy, including the implementation of national programmes for the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste.

The spent fuel pools are of significant concern, Marvin Resnikoff, a radioactive waste management consultant, said in a Wednesday press briefing organized by the nonprofit organization Physicians for Social Responsibility.

HGS has the specialized knowledge and experience to adapt the commercial sector SNF and HLW technology to the US DOE and US Navy spent nuclear fuel, GTCC, and defense HLW management needs.

A reactor physicist by education and training, Mr. Marcille became the GE - Nuclear Chief Technologist and responsible engineer for control blades, nuclear fuel design and performance, spent fuel criticality and thermal management, nuclear cross-sections and deterministic and stochastic methods.

Executive Chairman Mr. Beckman has forty - five years of experience in the management, operation, maintenance, design, and regulation of nuclear power plants, spent nuclear fuel and nuclear waste, and US Department of Energy nuclear research and defense facilities.

According to a paper by Xuegang Liu of the Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Engineering, The Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing («Spent Nuclear Fuel Management in China,» NAPSNet Special Reports, Aug. 5, 2014), because China has chosen to use a closed - cycle fuel path, it has less need for long - term SNF storFuel Management in China,» NAPSNet Special Reports, Aug. 5, 2014), because China has chosen to use a closed - cycle fuel path, it has less need for long - term SNF storfuel path, it has less need for long - term SNF storage.

To pave the way for a new generation of nuclear power plants, we must provide greater certainty on issues from licensing to responsible management of spent fuel.

The truth is that the irradiated fuel in the Unit 4 spent fuel pool does pose some hazard and the prudent management of that risk is to remove it from its present location to a safer, more secure location.

I'm convinced that the United States will be better off keeping existing nuclear power stations running, where their management can be demonstrated to be reliable, rather than initiating a decades - long decommissioning process that would not resolve community concerns about spent fuel and many other sources of risk.

I agree that the procrastination of the US federal government in getting on with the business of using the $ 25 + billion in the spent fuel fund to set a proper long term waste management facility falls well short of discharging their responsibility.

These include utility program spending, Energy Efficiency Resource Standards (EERS), appliance efficiency standards, building codes, combined heat and power, mass transit spending, state facility and fleet management, and vehicle fuel economy.

After the Obama administration effectively paralyzed the much - delayed Yucca Mountain project in 2009, the NRC studied and determined in 2014 that spent fuel could be safely stored for up to 60 years in spent fuel pools and indefinitely in dry casks — assuming the casks could be replaced once every 100 years and that utilities could implement aging management programs to maintain cask safety.