Sentences with phrase «time nuclear industry»

In this Radio Ecoshock program I interview Arnie Gundersen, a long - time nuclear industry executive, who left the field after blowing the whistle on unsafe reactors.

But is it necessary for every aspect of nuclear power to be re-examined by a cascade of public inquiries every time the nuclear industry proposes to build a reactor, especially when it is virtually identical to its predecessor and on a site which has already been licensed?

Not exact matches

• The Lone Analyst Who Said Sell Valeant When Hedge Funds Piled In (Bloomberg) • The Great Investment Advice Hidden in Warren Buffett's Annual Letter (Fortune) • Why America abandoned nuclear power (and what we can learn from South Korea)(Vox) • Former hedge fund manager Phil Falcone spoke in public for the first time in years, and slammed the industry (Business Insider) • Swedroe: EM Looks Terrible — Time To Buy (ETF) • The U.S. Could Use a New Economic Strategy (Bloomberg View) • How Marissa Mayer Keeps Talent: Meet Yahoo's $ 18 Million CRO (Re / code) • Does a Carbon Tax Wtime in years, and slammed the industry (Business Insider) • Swedroe: EM Looks Terrible — Time To Buy (ETF) • The U.S. Could Use a New Economic Strategy (Bloomberg View) • How Marissa Mayer Keeps Talent: Meet Yahoo's $ 18 Million CRO (Re / code) • Does a Carbon Tax WTime To Buy (ETF) • The U.S. Could Use a New Economic Strategy (Bloomberg View) • How Marissa Mayer Keeps Talent: Meet Yahoo's $ 18 Million CRO (Re / code) • Does a Carbon Tax Work?

But NK has an habit to show - off how developed its nuclear and missile industries are as a way to get - what they believe to be - some leverage, and each time they do so the threat becomes more credible and the USA has more justification for a preemptive strike.

In the 20 years since one - hit wonder Timbuk 3 made nuclear science the pop cliché for career promise, the nuclear power industry has fallen on hard times.

But power industry executives say that the Chinese state - run nuclear power companies and local governments lack the communication skills to reassure the public at a time of heightened fears about safety.

Well, five years from now the official industry forecast suggests that decentralized low - and no - carbon generators will be adding 160 times as much capacity as nuclear will add up to that year.

And this every time the industry proposes to enlarge its nuclear capacity.

But that doesn't mean its boom time for the U.S. nuclear industry.

Our electrified economy does not require that at this time,» says Marvin Fertel, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, a lobbying group for the nuclear inNuclear Energy Institute, a lobbying group for the nuclear innuclear industry.

Ian Poll, professor of aerospace engineering at the Cranfield University in England, in a recent lecture covered by the Times of London called for a «big research program to help the aviation industry convert from fossil fuels to nuclear energy.»

You know, we've underwritten fossil fuel for very long time and continue to, you know; even the new energy bill is supposed to you know give unbelievable gifts to the nuclear industry; the «clean coal» industry, on and on and on.

Good luck to the people working in the Euro nuclear industry — I hope they can deliver something that works in a time frame that is relevant.

Today, in times of resource scarcity, global warming and impending nuclear conflict, this claim is being boldly asserted once again — in the form, however, of a private - sector undertaking driven primarily by US tech billionaires from the new space industry, not least — as they claim — in order to secure the survival of mankind against home - made planetary collapse.

If the nuclear industry was deregulated as I suggest (over time), it would greatly improve its design and safety, like the aviation industry has and in contrast to the excessively but poorly regulated healthcare industry.

Between 2004 and 2009, wind energy capacity in the United States grew by 423 %, while solar energy capacity expanded by 150 %.30 Yet over the same time frame, nuclear energy managed to increase by only 1 percent.31 By 2020, wind energy will grow by another 82 %, while nuclear power is only on track to expand by 10 %.32 A clean energy standard would help lift the dormant U.S. nuclear industry off the mat while also ensuring that the market for traditional renewables, like wind and solar, continues to grow through aggressive state mandates.

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.

Having been involved in that «war» for nearly 30 yrs at that time, it was clear to those of us in industry engaged in nuclear weaponry, as well as those in USG agencies and the national labs, the we needed to redirect our efforts post haste because the funds were going to be cutoff.

«On behalf of the millions of people in the world who live with the threat of a nuclear disaster ruining their lives, we are writing to ask you to recognize that now is the time to put people ahead of the nuclear industry and hold the industry fully liable for the risks and damages of its disasters.

-- Instruct the new Energy Secretary to work with oil and gas industry to put together and implement an energy independence plan, with the clear goal of making the USA a net exporter of energy products within four years, at the same time creating millions of new jobs — Instruct the EPA Director to work with coal burning companies to encourage «clean coal» projects (eliminating pollution), by offering tax incentives for those who invest in these projects — Instruct the new Energy Secretary to set up a special task force to encourage the expansion of nuclear power and ease the permit procedure for new or expanded plants, with the goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 20 % to 25 % within four years

Ed Crooks, Kana Inagaki, and Leo Lewis, «Downfall of Toshiba, a nuclear industry titan,» Financial Times, February 14, 2017

Fortunately for the nuclear industry, we started off from ground zero with the leadership of a man like Hyman Rickover, who was adamant about doing things right the first time and not taking short cuts.

A 2009 report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace concluded that nuclear power would not «make a big difference in reducing carbon emissions in the next two decades, when the biggest reductions will have the most impact,» because the industry could not build enough reactors during that time.

This case study, the second in the series, follows the recent development of wide - body aircraft as a model, and at times a cautionary tale, for similar innovation in the nuclear industry.

I think it is high time we demand the same kind of software verification and validation for climate models in particular that we demand for codes used in, say, the nuclear industry.

Update from 28 April 2014 New York Times: Nuclear Industry Gains Carbon - Focused Allies in Push to Save Reactors