Sentences with phrase «spent fuel policy»

«We're saying, «You know, guys, this is one more reason you need a spent fuel policy.»»

We say, «You need a spent fuel policy,»» says Forsberg.

Not exact matches

But the deal with the NDP policy is that home heating fuel is a normal good — higher income people spend more on it.

The Federal Nuclear Waste Policy Act has mandated that deep - mine disposal of high - level radioactive effluent and spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors commence by 1998, but states with proposed geological sites are screaming foul.

Over the period of falling support the Labour leadership has announced or supported a raft of right - wing policies including: accepting the Tories 2015 - 16 spending plans, ending universal winter fuel payments, capping welfare spending, restricting migrants» rights and weakening Labour's union link.

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

Japan's nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing reactor fuel, authors of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on the nuclear fuel cycle said yesterday.

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks led to new requirements to safeguard spent fuel pools at U.S. reactors, but the overall policy toward the nuclear fuel cycle has been bound up in the fight over the proposed fuel repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, which the Obama administration wants to terminate.

MIT physics professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative and co-chairman of the spent fuel study, said that until now, U.S. policy on the disposition of spent reactor fuel has been an «afterthought.»

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.

But it makes no related policy recommendations, saying the Japanese disaster only strengthens the report's call for more research on spent fuel storage.

The 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) required DOE to begin accepting commercial spent nuclear fuel at a repository by January 31, 1998.

The Obama administration established the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future on January 29, 2010 to conduct a comprehensive review of spent fuel and high - level waste policies and recommend a new plan.

The union leadership sees this and gets all jizzy, thinking about how to steer some of that dough to their own pockets: «The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $ 2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.

All district residents will receive a carbon dividend, but given that low - and moderate - income residents spend a higher percentage of their income on fuel and energy - intensive goods, those residents will receive a bonus rebate under the proposed policy.

Markus Trilling, finance and subsidies policy coordinator at Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, said: «The current approach of the European Parliament to the future EU budget is clearly pointed in the right direction as it recognises how vital it is to make all EU spending work for the climate and to end any support for fossil fuels.»

Fossil fuels companies should also fully disclose the financial and physical risks of climate change, invest in low - carbon and renewable energy resources, support policies to shift away from fossil fuels, publicly disclose their direct and indirect political spending, and pay for their share of the costs of climate - related damages and climate preparedness.

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.

President Obama — whose energy policies are certainly worthy of scrutiny — has just spent much of his visit to Alaska raising awareness of the risks of climate change posed by fossil - fuel use.