Sentences with phrase «spent fuel produced»

The nuclear spent fuel produced during 14 years of operation at Rancho Seco was kept cool in a water pool on site and is now in protective dry storage.

The spent fuel produced by nuclear power plants will emit harmful radiation for hundreds of thousands — even millions — of years.

Not exact matches

But, while those are cultivated specifically to produce fuel, spent coffee grounds are waste,» Chuck added.

Our office has spent the last eight years hosting the Climate Justice Project, a research and public engagement network that has produced a large volume of work about how to transition off fossil fuels in a just and equitable manner — an alliance that brings together a wide range of NGOs and academics.

The fact that it takes only 8.8 pounds of plutonium to produce an atomic bomb in the one - kiloton range makes spent fuel rods an alluring target for sophisticated revolutionary groups.

Straus and a local mechanic spent eight years developing an environmentally - friendly alternative to diesel - fueled trucks: The feed truck's motor is charged from electrical power generated from methane gas produced by the cows» own manure.

Heath said nuclear power produces spent fuel rods which are radioactive and require constant maintenance.

Ironically Cuomo's attempt to hype and spin a record of fiscal restraint into much more — as reflected in his boast of producing a non-existent $ 2 billion «surplus» — is actually fueling calls for higher spending than he wants to tolerate.

But in the post-Rio world, the environmental risk of spent nuclear fuel must be weighed against the potential environmental harm of the CO2 produced by burning fossil fuels.

The authors see this as a stopgap step while an extensive research program investigates the potential for recycling spent fuel to produce new supplies.

An Outdated Strategy Early nuclear engineers expected that the plutonium in the spent fuel of thermal reactors would be removed and then used in fast - neutron reactors, called fast breeders because they were designed to produce more plutonium than they consume.

While several have fuel cell prototype vehicles on the road — Toyota and Honda are even leasing them to the public in Japan and California — they are spending upwards of $ 1 million to produce each one due to the advanced technology involved and low production runs.

It also produces large volumes of spent nuclear fuel that must be disposed of in a safe fashion.

Its five reactors, which used to produce plutonium for bombs, have now been closed down, but Mayak still reprocesses spent fuel from civilian reactors.

Iran agreed to ship spent nuclear fuel out of the country and promised not to produce weapons - grade plutonium.

The Annual Fuel UtilizationEfficiency rating tells you how much heat a furnace produces compared to the energy it uses to produce it.If an older furnace operates at 50 % AFUE, 50 cents of every dollar spent is, well, going up in smoke.

I spent some serious effort calculating just how many of the new NRC reactors we'd need to produce to effectively move away from fossil fuels.

After a thousand years or so, those have mostly decayed away and the spent fuel is less biologically hazardous than the uranium ore used to produce it.

Our nation's world - class refineries are also committed to the environment and spent more than $ 160 billion between 1990 and 2015 on producing cleaner - burning fuels.

After all, the critics say, lower - income households spend a higher percentage of their budgets on energy than rich ones do, and the price of energy produced from carbon - intensive fuels is likely to rise.

Choose to spend your money with businesses and industries that are fuel efficient and investing in renewable energy and LEED certified buildings, producing products sustainably and reducing use of packaging.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

Taking action to produce cleaner operations and cleaner products takes money — and industry is spending it to invent substitute and less carbon - intensive fuels, by supporting technologies such as wind, solar, biofuels, geothermal and others, and by improving efficiency and pursuing technologies such as carbon capture and storage and advanced technology vehicles.

In the United States, some 60,000 tons of nuclear waste have already been produced, and existing reactors add some 2,000 metric tons of spent fuel annually.

An amendment to a major military spending bill before the House would rescind a 2007 federal law barring the Defense Department from using alternative fuels, like synthetic oil made from coal, that produce more climate - altering pollution than conventional fuels.

It is telling that while there are thousands of articles, studies, books and movies about the relatively miniscule quantities of well - managed spent fuel that comes out of nuclear plants, there is to date only one estimate of how much solar waste the world is on track to produce, and it was calculated for the first time by an 18 - year - old nuclear engineering student from UC Berkeley and (proudly) published yesterday by Environmental Progress.

Once the relatively clean - running nuclear plant is online, it produces radioactive waste in the form of spent fuel rods.

In 1991, the Western Fuels Association spent $ 250,000 to produce a propaganda video which was shown extensively in the George Bush White House as well as in the capitals of OPEC.

Canada Post (CP) has a very large fleet of vehicles, most of which spend most weekdays on the road, stopping and starting, idling... This is expensive in fuel costs, and it produces a lot of

It's going to cost the UK roughly the same amount of money to produce a «low carbon economy» over the next eight years as the entire world spends in a year on «subsidising fossil fuels» in a year.