Sentences with phrase «use nuclear fission»

As a final remark - CO2 capture and storage can only be a transitional technology - it can herald the hydrogen economy - it can also give us a choice not to use nuclear fission whilst fusion is still being dveloped.

As a final remark - CO2 capture and storage can only be a transitional technology - it can herald the hydrogen economy - it can also give us a choice not to use nuclear fission whilst fusion is still being dveloped.

(All existing reactors operate using nuclear fission, rather than fusion, which is a very different process.)

Well, if we think that cleaner modes of delivering power will help, then it is falling down obvious that we should be using nuclear fission.

Well, if we think that cleaner modes of delivering power will help, then it is falling down obvious that we should be using nuclear fission.

Not exact matches

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.

The competing SFR design banks on a novel fission concept: bombarding uranium atoms with neutrons of much higher energy than those used in a traditional nuclear plant.

Most nuclear reactors use uranium fuel that has been «enriched» in uranium 235, an isotope of uranium that fissions readily.

All commonly used medical radioisotopes can be produced without using nuclear reactors or enriching uranium, or can be replaced with other isotopes that can be produced without a fission reaction, or by alternative technologies.

A few years ago, DARPA, which prides itself on promoting far - out projects, proposed spending $ 30 million on a «hafnium bomb,» a type of nuclear weapon intended to release energy from atomic nuclei without either fission or fusion, using an approach similar to how energy is extracted from electrons in a laser.

Today's nuclear power plants use the heat from uranium fission reactions to do nothing more complicated than boil water, making pressurized steam that spins turbines to generate electricity.

Enriched uranium oxide is formed into rods and water is used both as a coolant, flowing through the reactor core to transfer heat away, and as a moderator, slowing down neutrons released by fission so that they promote further nuclear reactions.

To set off an H - bomb, a nuclear fission blast is used as a detonator.

American researchers have shown that prospective magnetic fusion power systems would pose a much lower risk of being used for the production of weapon — usable materials than nuclear fission reactors and their associated fuel cycle.

We produce neutrons by nuclear fission for use in research.

Brian Wirth, UT - ORNL Governor's Chair for Computational Nuclear Engineering, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «advancing knowledge of radiation damage mechanisms and fuel performance in fission and fusion energy via multiscale modeling using high performance computing validated by experiments.»

LWR used nuclear fuel is composed of 95 % uranium, one percent transuranics, and four percent fission products.

I am therefore surprised that Ike Solem (# 14), Joseph Romm (# 15) and SecularAnimist (# 18) all prosetalise about the risks we face and the benefits of wind and solar energy solutions but, nevertheless, appear to turn their faces against any major expansion in the use power from nuclear fission, apparently regardless of the type of fission.

If you want to go even further into energy density you can use the stored energy of the Big Bang in nuclear fission or the simple conversion of mass to energy in nuclear fusion.

As for how to meet increasing demand for electricity without using more fossil fuels, I think nuclear fission is the only currently viable option.

Nuclear power plants, however, heat the water using fission reactions, splitting atoms of uranium or plutonium and producing no carbon emissions.

There are various types of technologies that can play significant roles in mitigating climate change, including energy efficiency improvements throughout the energy system (especially at the end use side); solar, wind, nuclear fission and fusion and geothermal, biomass and clean fossil technologies, including carbon capture and storage; energy from waste; hydrogen production from non-fossil energy sources and fuel cells (Pacala and Socolow, 2004; IEA, 2006b).

Nuclear fission, as you all know better than I, as a long term alternative to fossil fuels, depends on development and wide use of nuclear breeder reactors with concomitant problems of proliferation of atomic weapons matNuclear fission, as you all know better than I, as a long term alternative to fossil fuels, depends on development and wide use of nuclear breeder reactors with concomitant problems of proliferation of atomic weapons matnuclear breeder reactors with concomitant problems of proliferation of atomic weapons materials.

Unless this report has addressed the diseconomies of atomic fission, then it may be used to endorse «nuclear energy» as «clean, renewable energy.»

It is that nuclear element that provides our theme today for the 304th edition of Blawg Review, because March 28 is a date of some significance in relation of Our Friend, the Atom, and to both the military and civilian uses of the power of nuclear fission.