Sentences with phrase «with spent fuel»

With a new federal nuclear waste program necessary and on the long - term horizon, the Natural Resources Defense Council sought to learn what state officials think should be done with the spent fuel and radioactive waste from America's 99 commercial nuclear reactors.

LFTRs consume 100 % of the thorium fed to them and can be started with spent fuel rods or old nuclear warheads.

Our last update reported that the first canister was loaded with spent fuel for dry cask storage in January 2018.

Storage is the main issue with spent fuel, and it is the biggest issue that faces nuclear power today.

(Even with all of the negatives it has with spent fuel storage and lifetime.)

The MCO loading system transfers baskets with spent fuel from the staging area into the MCO.

What will nuclear plants do with all their spent fuel in the meantime?

Not exact matches

After graduating with a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, she spent a year as Operations Manager aboard the record - breaking biofueled powerboat Earthrace, where she traveled 25,000 miles, visited 120 cities, and ran a campaign to promote the use of alternative fuels.

Apple today announced a new set of investments to build on its commitment to support the American economy and its workforce, concentrated in three areas where Apple has had the greatest impact on job creation: direct employment by Apple, spending and investment with Apple's domestic suppliers and manufacturers, and fueling the fast - growing app economy which Apple created with iPhone (R) and the App Store (R).

That's why analysts expect the government to look for operating expenditure cuts — such as cutting remaining fuel subsidies — even as it tries to keep up development spending and target lower - income households, often called the B40, or bottom 40 percent with incomes of less than around 2,500 ringgit a month.

But the deal with the NDP policy is that home heating fuel is a normal good — higher income people spend more on it.

Being in the enviable position of having its debt completely paid, and with record prices for oil fueling government revenues, the province found itself in a unique position: namely, where should revenues be spent?

A fleet manager can see the accurate amount of money being spent on fuel and check that with the actual mileage readings and even the trip histories.

And with oil likely to stay relatively low, the group forecasts that airlines will spend $ 135 billion on fuel in 2016, down nearly a quarter from $ 180 billion in 2015.

Fueling the rebound is rising demand amid tightening supplies, thanks in part to Donald Trump's stunning White House win and the likelihood that he'll move forward with a plan to spend $ 1 trillion on infrastructure over the next decade, driving incremental demand for zinc.

It was a development that saw advertisers threaten to pull media spend from the social network — Mozilla actually did so — and high - profile figures in the tech community adding fuel to the fire with barbed #DeleteFacebook comments.

«All things considered, the economy still appears to be on a solid footing, supported by a confident consumer sector — one with an optimism that is fueled by growing income and a strong labor market and is well positioned to spend more in the coming quarters,» said Jim Baird, chief investment officer for Plante Moran Financial Advisors.

The Federal Nuclear Waste Policy Act has mandated that deep - mine disposal of high - level radioactive effluent and spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors commence by 1998, but states with proposed geological sites are screaming foul.

At present 5,900 tons of high - level waste (HLW) in the form of spent fuel assemblies are sitting in pools next to operating reactors, together with 75 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste, plus 27 million cubic feet of trans - uranic waste (TRU).

In fact, with chipotles so readily available, it just doesn't add up to spend the time and the fuel to smoke them yourself.

Having fuelled an extraordinary jump in profits from China after re-positioning Penfolds as a luxury product with Wolf Blass in its slipstream, Mr Clarke will now spend much more of his time in the Treasury offices in California as he attempts an even tougher re-invigoration in the land of Donald Trump.

If you spend time with folks who eat really healthy foods, you will consequently take inspiration and be eating gloriously green, blueberry chia and super food fuelled meals and if you find yourself with positive and happy people who tend to see the brighter side of life, you will inevitably think of challenges as stepping stones.

Drivers had to start Q3 with the amount of fuel they were going to start the race with, which meant that much of the session was spent watching cars driving around trying to use as much fuel as possible in order to make their car as light as possible for their flying laps.

Why spent money on sports programs or academic challenges if you can't fuel your students with premium ingredients, which are not any more expensive when used wisely?

It turned out to be an incredible journey — one that has helped me to find my voice and to create a life (and livelihood) that is fueled by and built around spending time with my family.

In her article, Ragalie stressed the whole - child approach to health that is reinforced by the values of the learning connection: «With American children spending more than 2,000 hours in school each year, it's clear that in - school wellness initiatives (e.g., Fuel Up to Play 60) and alternate school breakfast programs, can be an engine for positive change to help achieve wellness goals, including being a part of the solution to overcome food insecurity.»

In the meantime, highly radioactive waste is being stored on - site in spent fuel pools at each nuclear plant, with 1500 tons of waste are currently stored at Indian Point.

Those living with mental health problems are often prone to fuel poverty as individuals are often on low or fixed incomes, living in energy inefficient housing and spend more time at home thus have above average energy use.

The reason the UK has been running a trade deficit with the EU (and, for that matter, the rest of the world) has nothing to do with the EU - and everything to do with the debt - fuelled growth of consumer spending in the UK.

They also had a Windfall Tax on Utilities and auctioned 3 - G licences, raided Pension Funds and played with Fuel Duty... taxes rose quite considerably... it was spending totals they froze causing real problems in the NHs etc which then exploded after 2001 rather like binge - dieting

The signers of Monday's letter also argue that any of the fund's gains from such companies are zeroed out by the tens of billions of dollars spent each year to combat public health problems associated with fossil fuels.

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

He urged the President to pay more attention to the ailing economy of the country instead of junketing around the world, wasting $ 1 million per foreign trip, saying; «President Buhari has travelled to 24 countries in eight months, and will be spending 16 out of the 29 days in February outside the country, with over $ 500,000 being spent on estacode while the Presidential Air Fleet, which includes fueling of the planes and allowances for crew members is said to be in the range of $ 500,000.

Among the report's more controversial proposals is a plan to move spent fuel out of Indian Point in Buchanan along with 16 other power plants without direct access to railroad lines, by barge, down the Hudson River.

Those endorsements coupled with the Club's spending on ads bashing Owens and state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, the Republican nominee, have fueled Hoffman's rise.

Outlining an «alternative vision» for Britain that could be implemented in co-operation with Labour, Miss Sturgeon will today unveil a manifesto to «end austerity» with a # 180billion debt - fuelled spending spree.

Toss in some energy and innovation research and fuel it all with the largest boost in R&D spending in recent history.

In the U.S., because of a lack of a long - term plan for dealing with such nuclear waste, spent - fuel pools are even more densely packed, making it easier for a meltdown to occur in the event of a loss of water.

Many older plants have proved unprofitable, and some are being decommissioned at considerable expense, leaving in their wake contaminated buildings and piles of spent fuel all lit up with no place to go.

The issue concerns what to do with radioactive waste after uranium and plutonium have been recovered from spent nuclear fuel using reprocessing methods such as Plutonium Uranium Redox EXtraction (PUREX).

Japan's nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing reactor fuel, authors of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on the nuclear fuel cycle said yesterday.

With no permanent waste repository in sight, the nuclear industry is storing spent fuel at reactor sites.

The MIT report says that transfers of spent fuel in casks could begin with the leftover fuel at decommissioned U.S. plants — a first step that, if successful, could bolster public confidence in the process.

Given the fuel, Spilker says another decade spent at Saturn with Cassini would seem about right.

This process could help scientists and governments comply with the European Council Directive 2011 / 70 / EURATOM on the «responsible and safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste» which requires EU Member States to establish a dedicated policy, including the implementation of national programmes for the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste.

These spent satellites with attendant motors, fuel tanks, discarded instrument covers, bolts and the like form a growing population of debris which can become fragmented through collision with other debris or by explosion of residual fuel.

Reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi station runs on so - called mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, in which uranium is mixed with other fissile materials such as plutonium from spent reactor fuel or from decommissioned nuclear weapons.

«Our kids are likely going to spend a good part of their adulthood, maybe all of it, just dealing with the climate implications of our profligacy and now our leaders are telling them the way out is offshore drilling for more climate - changing fossil fuels.

Notably, that schedule is reasonably compatible with the planned timetable for shipment of spent thermal - reactor fuel to Yucca Mountain.

Steinberg said the Obama Administration intends to go forward with the next steps in implementing the agreement, although «there are still some technical issues to be worked out,» including whether India can reprocess spent fuel that originated in the United States.