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The NuScale spent fuel pool provides storage for up to 10 years of spent fuel storage, plus temporary storage for new fuel assemblies.

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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.

BEIJING, March 5 - China on Monday unveiled its largest rise in defence spending in three years, setting a target of 8.1 percent growth over 2017, fuelling an ambitious military modernisation programme amid rising concerns over its security.

BEIJING, March 5 - China on Monday unveiled its largest rise in defense spending in three years, setting a target of 8.1 percent growth over 2017, fueling an ambitious military modernisation program amid rising concerns over its security.

China's economy expanded at a steady 6.7 % in the third quarter and looks set to hit Beijing's full - year target, fueled by stronger government spending, record bank lending and a red - hot property market that are adding to its growing pile of debt.

Gains in the job market have fueled the recent strengthening in consumer confidence and spending, which is likely to continue into the second half of this year.

The serial entrepreneur and investor, who serves on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, spent several years as a kid living in Tokyo and fueled a lifelong zest for travel, which his international consulting practice provides plenty of today.

Because consumers are such a crucial driver of GDP, governments the world over have spent the last several years trying to coax consumers to open their wallets to fuel economic growth.

Higher gasoline prices encourage more judicious use of vehicles, which translates into drivers spending less on fuel in a given year.

Because of possibly rising gasoline prices, U.S. drivers are expected to spend about $ 52 billion more at the gas pump this year compared to 2016, according to GasBuddy's 2017 Fuel Price Outlook.

The main benefactor of credit - fueled cash flows from the west over the past 15 years, China forgot that credit expansion is a finite cycle and spent like a drunken sailor throughout.

Gasoline prices up: Americans are expected to spend an average of $ 400 per household more on fuel this year than in 2016, as the rebound in crude prices is reflected in the cost of petrol at the pump.

In recent years, oil and gas majors like Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell have invested billions of dollars into LNG projects in countries like Australia and Qatar, while further vast sums have been spent on plants that turn LNG back into gas in consuming countries, all in the belief the world's need for the fuel would rise rapidly — especially as countries, particularly in Asia, sought to move away from more polluting -LSB-...]

Our office has spent the last eight years hosting the Climate Justice Project, a research and public engagement network that has produced a large volume of work about how to transition off fossil fuels in a just and equitable manner — an alliance that brings together a wide range of NGOs and academics.

And if that's the case it makes little economic or ecological sense to spend billions of dollars building new fossil fuel infrastructure and increasing capacity, particularly when that infrastructure has a working life span and expected financial return that well exceeds thirty years.

In tiny El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts, the U.S. government spent about $ 700 per minute ($ 1.4 million per day), largely on military aid, over the past ten years fueling a deadly civil war and in effect paying the military slayers of the six Jesuits in November 1989.

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.»

Without urgent and ambitious government intervention, NEA estimates that in the next 15 years the cumulative effect will be 125,000 premature deaths as a result of living in cold homes; # 950m of fuel debt which will not be spent in local economies; and # 22 billion spent by the NHS in treating cold - related conditions.

Maybe they can put 50 years worth of spent fuel rods in plastic bags and store them in your backyard.

«We had a $ 138 million deficit, we were the most fiscally stressed county in New York, our bonds were near junk and people were reeling from years of double digit tax increases fueled by an endless tax - and - spend cycle.»

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.

Figures show average motorists spend # 1700 per year on fuel - a tenth of their income.

Last year, southern shoppers spent nearly $ 500m north of the border, fuelling a mini-boom in many northern shopping towns, because of the strength of the Euro.

The Fuel Poverty Group claims that within two years, over a million households will spend at least a tenth of their annual income on fuel - meeting the definition of fuel poveFuel Poverty Group claims that within two years, over a million households will spend at least a tenth of their annual income on fuel - meeting the definition of fuel povefuel - meeting the definition of fuel povefuel poverty.

It's just the latest in a series of high - profile catches for Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who has spent the last four years lassoing one corrupt city politician after the next — fueling renewed speculation that the self - appointed Sheriff of Albany might harbor political ambitions of his own.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Niger Delta said it would spend N2.5 m on generator maintenance and N10m on fuelling in the 2017 fiscal year.

And it also means that he has to stop supporting the use of fossil fuels, including his idea to spend perhaps a hundred million dollars to expand the gas plant that is heating the Empire State Plaza and lock in gas emissions into a low - income people - of - color community for the next 30 years in the Arbor Hill area.»

The NHS budget will, as expected, rise above the rate of inflation from # 104bn this year to # 114bn by the end of the four - year spending period, and universal benefits for pensioners including free eye tests, prescription charges, bus passes, TV licences for the over-75s and winter fuel payments will be maintained.

The real solution, according to Lochbaum and other experts, is to require spent fuel to be moved from pools to more permanent storage in massive concrete and steel casks after five years of cooling down.

The nation's 104 reactors generate roughly 800 billion kilowatt - hours a year and contribute about 2,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel a year.

From the outset, on - site stores were planned at the plant to take up to 20 years» worth of spent fuel.

As it stands, however, the Navy has spent more than $ 5 billion more than budgeted in the past year just on oil and it has set a goal of securing half its fuel needs from biofuels by 2020.

After all, the spent fuel pools that may have been exposed by the power plant explosions contain more than 200 metric tons of used uranium fuel rods that have been cooling for weeks, months or even years — and smoke or steam continues to billow from the exposed spent fuel pool of reactor No. 3.

The half - lives (the period in which radioactivity halves) of these atoms range up to tens of thousands of years, a feature that led U.S. government regulators to require that the planned high - level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada isolate spent fuel for over 10,000 years.

Last year Finland showed this when it approved construction of the Onkalo facility, which is expected to become the first geologic repository for spent fuel when it begins operations in the 2020s.

The spent fuel produced by nuclear power plants will emit harmful radiation for hundreds of thousands — even millions — of years.

One was a measure prohibiting plant owners from densely packing spent - fuel pools, requiring them to expedite transfer of all spent fuel that has cooled in pools for at least five years to dry storage casks, which are inherently safer.

The problem of spent fuel storage Nuclear reactor operators must store spent fuel removed from reactor cores for several years at least, in large pools at reactor sites until the remaining heat from the uranium fuel cools sufficiently.

Every year, countries spend about a trillion dollars on energy infrastructure, and right now coal is still the fuel of choice.

The DOE has chosen Yucca Mountain to be the store for spent fuel and high - level waste with a half - life of 24 000 years.

On September 15, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission affirmed its expert opinion that spent nuclear fuel could be safely stored on nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.»

Sixty - five years later, says Weiss, «no system of inspection and material accountancy can substitute for international monopoly ownership» of spent nuclear fuel.

The southern Urals are home to the secretive Mayak facility, the scene of one of the world's worst nuclear accidents 60 years ago, and speculation soon turned to a possible accident at its reprocessing plant, which extracts isotopes from spent nuclear fuel.

The nuclear spent fuel produced during 14 years of operation at Rancho Seco was kept cool in a water pool on site and is now in protective dry storage.

Though the concept of borehole disposal, which would see radioactive waste entombed far deeper than traditional repositories, has existed for decades, the idea has been revived in recent years, spurred by troubles in finding a long - term home for the country's spent fuel.

The many serious technical deficiencies of the Yucca Mountain site and DOE's flawed approach to geologic disposal notwithstanding, the most potentially explosive aspect of the federal program is the reality that tens of thousands of shipments of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive waste will travel the nation's highways and railroads - through 43 states and thousands of communities, day after day for upwards of 40 years.

Over the years, science has given way to raw politics as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and supporters of DOE's repository project in Congress have sought to obfuscate and compensate for an ever - multiplying set of flaws and problems with the site and with the notion of transporting unprecedented amounts of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level nuclear waste across the country.

Executive Chairman Mr. Beckman has forty - five years of experience in the management, operation, maintenance, design, and regulation of nuclear power plants, spent nuclear fuel and nuclear waste, and US Department of Energy nuclear research and defense facilities.

Finally, if we close the fuel cycle and recycle spent fuel, then it decays to safe levels in several hundred years rather than hundreds of thousands.

Laura Sorensen, Founder of Stonefruit Espresso Kitchen, has spent the last 7 years in New York City fueling a successful career in education and retail for a few prominent, luxury, niche beauty lines.