Sentences with phrase «using nuclear sources»

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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.

The country is looking to increase its use of sources such as wind and solar while at the same time moving away from nuclear power.

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).

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.

Transmission - based detection of nuclides with nuclear resonance fluorescence using a quasimonoenergetic photon source

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.

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.

«As part of the shift to 50 percent renewables and emissions reductions, New York must use all of its existing carbon free power sources, including our upstate nuclear fleet, to continue our progress on climate change,» Kauffman wrote.

(Thanks to jamesqf's suggestion...) Many nations (such as France) have a long history of using Nuclear power as a major energy source.

A Republican source last month told The Hill that Schumer worked for six months to prevent the nuclear options from being used.

NYPIRG's Blair Horner says nuclear power is not the best bridge fuel to use in achieving greener energy sources.

They said they had achieved nuclear fusion at room temperature using a simple tabletop device, thus creating a revolutionary clean energy source they called «cold fusion.»

The work, published in Science, not only opens the door to expand the use of one of the most efficient energy sources on the planet, but also adds a key step in completing the nuclear fuel cycle — an advance, along with wind and solar, that could help power the world's energy needs cleanly for the future.

India's nuclear watchdog, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board in Mumbai, labeled the incident a «serious violation» and banned the University of Delhi from using any radioactive sources for several months.

This would preclude the need for batteries and nuclear power sources such as those used by the Chinese rover that recently landed on the moon.

So although nuclear fusion could in theory provide an effectively unlimited source of energy, if our energy demand keeps growing we will not be able to use it freely without significantly warming the planet.

Researchers used data from sensors designed to detect clandestine nuclear tests, among other sources, to identify airbursts with an energy equivalent to or larger than that released by 1 kiloton of exploding TNT.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

Although the KamLAND detector uses Japanese nuclear reactors as its neutrino source, Freedman says that the loss of the Fukushima reactor and ensuing radiation will affect the experiments little.

And, unlike Galileo, which used a nuclear power source, Juno's electricity comes from the sun — a first for a spacecraft operating in the outer solar system.

Since then, SRNL has developed process models and TEAs at various levels of detail for a variety of high - temperature water - splitting technologies, including thermochemical, hybrid, and electrolytic processes, and using solar as well as nuclear heat sources.

Ben received his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of California, Berkeley where he worked under Stephen R. Leone studying ultrafast electronic relaxation dynamics in atomic systems as well as competitive electronic - nuclear dynamics in superexcited states of small molecules using femtosecond soft X - ray / VUV light sources.

Hannah Willett of Physics at York uses the Binding Blocks chart to explain the process of nuclear fusion, and how creating «mini-suns» on earth could be an important clean energy source for the future.

Researchers determined the atomic structure of the MOFs and the bound molecules with X-rays at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS), and they also studied the MOFs using a technique called nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry.

«What it does is it takes different sorts of fuel materials such as plutonium or used nuclear fuel, it casts that into a metallic fuel, it puts it in a reactor that has liquid sodium as a coolant — and if you have liquid sodium as a coolant then the energies of the neutrons are higher so you can use a different fuel source.

Getting involved in the Open Source Malaria project meant they could send their samples to the university to be analysed using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) technology — expensive machines that would otherwise have been out of their reach.

[166] The study considered the mix of power sources for 13 U.S. regions that would be used during recharging of vehicles, generally a combination of coal, natural gas and nuclear energy, and to a lesser extend renewable energy.

Party Booby Trap is a palindrome, a device British artists Thomson & Craighead often use for their titles, and will see the pair install new work inspired by «sources ranging from nuclear waste to self - help literature and genetics».

The LANL report is a proposal to use combustion products (water and carbon dioxide are both combustion products, not sources of chemical energy) as feedstock for synthesizing a liquid that conveniently stores some of the energy produced by the nuclear power source.

Why are people so willing to expand the use of coal as a source of energy with all of the negatives associated with coal when nuclear energy has so much more potential.

Localization will help solve required transitions from high fossil fuel and nuclear energy costs and global problems created by Peak Oil.This will be done by moving quickly to mass public and commercial use of economic and greener energy supplies from solar, wind, hydro and geothermal energy sources.

The Council of the American Physical Society believes that the use of renewable energy sources, the adoption of new ways of producing and using fossil fuels, increased consideration of safe and cost effective uses of nuclear power, and the introduction of energy - efficient technologies can, over time, promote the United States» energy security and reduce stress on the world's environment.

Is there any indication that humans (and modern industrial capitalist society in particular) will use any vast new sources of energy any more wisely that we have used the ff and nuclear we have already expended?

To use a sports analogy (and setting aside, for the moment «stasists» locked into the status quo), the debate tends to break down to those pushing the ground game, investing in deployment of today's non-polluting sources like wind and solar, and those pursuing tough, but potentially game - changing advances in technologies like nuclear power.

But until we get to those stages, improved energy storage schemes such as hydrogen, could be used to run other sources of electricity, such as nuclear and clean coal plants, as base - load (24 hours a day) rather than cyce to respond to demand requirements.

According to new research from MIT and the Argonne National Laboratory, throttling the use of nuclear power plants could compensate the output of renewable energy sources and lead to lower energy bills.

Now, nuclear is a non-CO2 source, but it's had its own problems in terms of costs, big safety problems, making sure you can deal with the waste, making sure the plutonium isn't used to make weapons.

The heat used to boil water can come from burning of a fuel, from nuclear reactions, or directly from the sun or geothermal heat sources underground.

Ray Long, vice president of National State and Federal Government Affairs at NRG noted his company, one of the largest independent power producers in the nation, owns a fleet that uses diverse fuel sources, including nuclear, coal, gas, wind, and solar.

Nuclear fusion makes use of the same energy source that fuels stars, including our sun.

The rise in renewable energy has also dampened the use of fossil fuels; 2017 saw low - carbon sources, including nuclear power, reach 50 percent of electricity generation for the first time.

As an economy reduces its emissions it will start with the cheapest abatement measures (energy savings) and then move to the more expensive measures by replacing energy - using equipment and switching from high - emission sources such as coal to low emission sources such as natural gas and nuclear power.

With today's technology, it is possible to cater for all our energy needs with renewable sources by 2050, without the use of nuclear power plants.

For Europeans opposed to nuclear energy (the biggest source of low - carbon energy in the EU), the portmanteau places a huge bet on technologies such as wind and wave power, setting a target to triple Europe's overall use of renewable energies by 2020.

But the government does have plans to make use of renewable energies — wind and solar power, low - carbon sources such as gas, nuclear energy, and imported hydroelectricity — and wants to create «green jobs» that will take care of people and the environment.

The sources should be used in adaptation, nuclear energy etc..

Depending on what kind of technology you're using, solar could either be cheaper than coal, gas, and nuclear... or it could be one of the most expensive energy sources out there.

He repeatedly vilifies the oil, gas, coal and nuclear power that provide fully 94 % of US energy, calling it «a strategy that traps us in the past,» and using his Executive Branch powers to delay, obstruct and punish those vital fossil fuel and nuclear energy sources.

The EPA regulations call for increasing the use of state - of - the - art, natural gas - fired power plants in place of coal plants; increasing renewable energy sources; avoiding retirement of existing nuclear plants; and supporting energy efficiency.

Finally, it should be noted that socioeconomic hypotheses associated with the lower emission trajectories (such as the one commented upon by Tim Worstall) imply a greatly increased use of nuclear and fossil fuels, especially cooal and natural gas, and the share of renewable sources reaching much less than the «80 %» claimed by the recent «renewable energy» IPCC report.