Sentences with phrase «world than all nuclear power»

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By that time, nuclear power plants will be spread throughout the world, and it is predicted that more than 35 countries will possess nuclear weapons (as opposed to seven now).

The EIA says world energy consumption is likely to grow by more than 50 percent over the period 2010 to 2040, with fossil fuels supplying 80 percent of the total, despite a growth in renewables and nuclear power.

Nuclear power is in the midst of a resurgence in the U.S. — the first application for a new reactor in more than 30 years was filed in September 2007 — and a construction boom of new reactors is underway around the world.

That hydrogen buildup was the result of hot steam coming into contact with overheated nuclear fuel rods covered by a cladding of zirconium alloy, or «zircaloy» — the material used as fuel - rod cladding in all water - cooled nuclear reactors, which constitute more than 90 percent of the world's power reactors.

The M.I.T. report predicts that even if the world's fleet of more than 400 nuclear power plants grew to be 4,000 such plants that then operated for a century, the cost of the electricity from those facilities would rise by a mere 1 percent as a result of the increased demand for uranium.

More than 10 years ago, it took a nuclear explosion under the Nevada desert to power the world's first X-ray laser, in an experiment carried out by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that is still highly classified.

The French get more than three - quarters of their electricity from nuclear power, the largest share of any country in the world.

Experts suggest that without nuclear power the world has little chance of restraining global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius

WIPP's budget clearly has much more to do with rewarding and encouraging political power than any results for waste emplacement in the world's first nuclear waste repository.

There is almost no geologic setting in the world more dangerous for nuclear power than Japan — the third - ranked country in the world for nuclear reactors.

According to the film, those who can control the world of computers can hold power more destructive than any nuclear weapon.

There are more than 24,000 residents in the city, which is the location of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant - once the world's largest nuclearNuclear Power Plant - once the world's largest nuclearnuclear plant.

I would dare humanity to live in a world where are the fossil fuel energy is instead produced by nuclear power: our «date with destiny» would be just around the corner; in less than geologic time.

Yet more evidence that the world has vast commercially - exploitable wind and solar energy resources, that are more than sufficient to produce more than enough electricity for all current uses, plus the electrification of ground transport, without fossil fuels or nuclear power.

I am 55 and I expect that within my lifetime, wind and solar will be generating a larger share of the world's electricity than nuclear power does today — perhaps much larger.

And, so, nuclear power is doing more to de-nuclear-weaponize the world than any other thing that we do.

More times than I can remember I've had pro-nuclear friends and acquaintances look at me with sad eyes after I've told them that our ambition is to save nuclear power — everywhere in the world, all at once.

More than that, they are blaming environmentalists, suggesting that the opposition to nuclear power stands between all of us and a two - degree world.

Ms Ward has much to say about the cost of wind power, in fact a report from the World Energy Council places it as similar to coal and gas and cheaper than nuclear.

Breakthrough explains that the reactors are inherently safer and operate more efficiently than the fleet of inferior conventional reactors that occupy the world's nuclear power landscape today.

China is building more than a third of the world's nuclear reactors currently under construction, and has plans to triple its nuclear power capacity by 2020.

¶ The world invested more in solar power than coal, gas, and nuclear combined last year.

In short, if we want a 100 percent renewables world, with no coal, gas, or nuclear, we'll need to build more power generation capacity, faster, than at any time in history.

About 112 nuclear power reactors run in six countries in Asia, and more than 264 are planned for construction, according to the London - headquartered World Nuclear Assocnuclear power reactors run in six countries in Asia, and more than 264 are planned for construction, according to the London - headquartered World Nuclear AssocNuclear Association.

With all due respect, Rod, I see the ongoing transition to clean renewable energy sources through paying very close attention to what is actually going on in the real world, including for example the fact that for the last two years, in both the United States and Europe, more renewable power capacity was added than coal, gas and nuclear combined.

There are more than 24,000 residents in the city, which is the location of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant - once the world's largest nuclearNuclear Power Plant - once the world's largest nuclearnuclear plant.