Sentences with phrase «use nuclear energy»

Since we probably don't want nuclear ground transportation, best to use nuclear energy for electrical power plants.

The administration's decision to withdraw the application for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, lacks scientific justification and could hamper the nation's effort to use nuclear energy to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

It makes sense to use nuclear energy in combination with renewable technologies to create a sustainable, clean energy portfolio to meet rising electricity demand while reducing carbon emissions.

To stop the possible increase of carbon emissions, the administration says it wants to use nuclear energy to help bridge the state until it expands its renewable energy options.

The country plans to stop using nuclear energy by 2022, but Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has resisted calls to set a deadline for ending the use of coal.

We have likewise been storing spent nuclear fuel at our nuclear plant sites since the country began using nuclear energy.

Using the nuclear energy in the fuel assemblies, these facilities produce more than 2.5 trillion kilowatts of electricity each year.

The 54 percent opposing it is up significantly from 43 percent a year ago, while the 44 percent who favor using nuclear energy is down from 51 percent.

Have you seen this: http://bravenewclimate.com/2013/01/16/zero-emission-synfuel-from-seawater/ unlimited hydrocarbon synfuels from seawater (using nuclear energy) at $ 3 - $ 6 / gallon using current technollogy according to US Navy Research (Audi also estimated the same cost).

Thermal plants using nuclear energy or gas turbines to run steam - electric units are among these technological advances.

(However, the Los Alamos Natural Laboratory has proposed Green Freedom, which is a carbon - neutral version of the process using nuclear energy, along with atmospheric CO2 as the carbon source.)

«While 62 % recognised cost advantages in using nuclear energy, only 42 % believed that they reduced CO2 emissions.»

A country using nuclear energy is therefore rated as a country using gas, the most efficient fossil fuel.

Anyhow, it seems if what think as very unlikely [or impossible] were to occur, that people living in 2040 would see there is a problem and get serious about building and using nuclear energy so as to reduce future CO2 emission.

And in terms using nuclear energy, it seems currently both China and India and moving in the correct direction, whereas Germany has moved and is moving in the wrong direction.

Vendicar Decarian: Please find where I suggested using nuclear energy as the sole power source for the human race.

And we work to minimize the environmental harm and security risks that come with using nuclear energy to supply emissions - free power.

Not exact matches

The advantage of fossil fuels and nuclear power, that renewable sources still can't match, is the way they hold energy for use when you want it.

As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

Schneider confirmed that the incident had occurred and that it had issued a security alert to customers of the technology, which cyber experts said is widely used in the energy industry, including at nuclear facilities, and oil and gas plants.

On the supply side, IEA said governments need to develop policies that encourage the spread of offshore wind power, nuclear energy and natural gas, while discouraging the continued use of the most inefficient coal - fired technology.

The list of matters he wanted probed was wide ranging, but included the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, various dealings of the Clinton Foundation and several matters connected to the purchase of the Canadian mining company Uranium One by Russia's nuclear energy agency.

As NRC explained in a March 2011 letter to Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Russian company would have to apply for and obtain an export license and «commit to use the material only for peaceful purposes» in accordance with «the U.S. - Russia Atomic Energy Act Section 123 agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation.»

To estimate economic impacts, the report uses publicly available economic data from announced pipeline projects, energy demand forecasts, and announced retirements of nuclear generators.

Higher use of oil and gas in transport, heating and industry would lead EON and RWE to export its surplus energy from coal, gas, and nuclear to other European markets that are lagging behind.

It will also expand use of natural gas and clean energy sources such as hydro, wind, geothermal and nuclear energy (specific targets include: 200 GW of installed wind capacity and 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2020).

LNG will play its part in this dynamic, offering a cleaner energy solution to the coal Japan is burning to replace its broken nuclear capacity and China is using to fuel its rapid acceleration through a phase of industrialization.

Helion Energy, located in Redmond, Washington, believes they are only a few years away from creating nuclear fusion that can be used as a source for electricity.

The nuclear power plants in use around the world today use fission, or the splitting of heavy atoms such as uranium, to release energy for electricity.

It's only who controls them» (the words are reminiscent of those we used to utter in defense of nuclear energy).

In fact, according to a statement read on August 9, 2005, at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, he issued a fatwa declaring that «the production, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran shall never acquire these weapons.»

Nuclear energy may be used to make bombs or to generate electricity.

The NCC's concern for energy issues dates back to fall 1974 when the Division of Church and Society (DCS) asked Margaret Mead and René Dubos to chair a study of the implications of using plutonium as fuel in the nuclear cycle.

The U.S. could take stronger initiative in the global development of nuclear power; we are regarded as the creators of atomic energy, but so far military uses have been more impressive than peaceful ones.

This is a good idea; the use of HEU is dominant in civilian nuclear energy plants, but it can also be used to producing a nuclear bomb.

In the intervening years, the energy policy would give utilities an incentive to use power generated by nuclear plants, which are considered clean sources, though not renewable.

They are currently being used by corporations to sue, for instance, Uruguay for putting health warning on cigarette packages, Quebec for placing a moratorium on fracking, Germany for phasing our nuclear energy and Egypt for raising the public sector minimum wage.

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarNuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarnuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarnuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarnuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.

The investment in truly clean and green energy production such as wind, solar, and biofuels, and offering incentives to encourage Smart Energy use by consumers would drastically reduce our contributions to global warming and reduce our dependency on nuclear energy production such as wind, solar, and biofuels, and offering incentives to encourage Smart Energy use by consumers would drastically reduce our contributions to global warming and reduce our dependency on nuclear Energy use by consumers would drastically reduce our contributions to global warming and reduce our dependency on nuclear power.

Trade and industry minister Lord Truscott makes the case for nuclear power as just one part of an overall strategy, which includes greater energy efficiency and more use of renewables such as wind, wave and solar power.

He warned that the Chinese could use their role in the programme (designing and constructing nuclear reactors) to build weaknesses into computer systems which allow them to shut down Britain's energy production at will and»... no amount of trade and investment should justify allowing a hostile state easy access to the country's critical national infrastructure.»

The Council called on all states to sign up to the NPT and to set «realistic goals» to strengthen, at the 2010 Review Conference, all three of the Treaty's pillars - disarmament of countries currently possessing nuclear weapons, non-proliferation to countries not yet in possession, and the peaceful use of nuclear energy for all.

The technical advantage is that local generation eliminates the enormous losses of wasted heat and long transmission that consume more than half the energy used in electricity generation by fossil fuels or nuclear.

Indian Point is the Existing Bridge to a Clean Energy Future The Indian Point nuclear power plant, located in Westchester, provides 25 percent of the power used in New York City and Westchester every day.

Exelon spokesman David Tillman said the company was hopeful it would prove a «constructive step» toward using nuclear to promote the transition to clean energy.

Exelon officials have expressed support for Cuomo's new clean energy standard, which is expected to allow utilities to use nuclear power to fulfill a mandate to purchase 50 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2030.

Labour and the Conservatives both believe the use of nuclear power can complement the use of renewable energy.

And then there's Owen's vision of an «energy island», generating work and prosperity through the use of nuclear, windmills and marine turbines, is making real progress.

Sarkozy's successor, François Hollande, went so far as to accuse him of using religion to sell nuclear energy to Muslim countries.

His research interests include the safety regulation of the nuclear industry as well as energy use and safety regulation of transport systems.