Would it make sense to embrace some sort of closed-fuel cycle, with limited reprocessing of spent fuel?
"This would really close the fuel cycle for us, " says Tammy Orr, the chief executive of the joint venture.
So we have more complex processes and more waste at beginning of the Thorium fuel cycle with chemically toxic metals.
We need a new institutional structure that creates incentives rather than disincentives for innovation at the back of the fuel cycle.
Governments that themselves benefit from nuclear energy and the fuel cycle.
This assessment does not preclude any decision about future fuel cycle options, but does indicate that retrievability it is not necessary for purposes of future reuse.
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The irradiated fuel can then be unloaded from the reactor, the U-233 separated from the thorium, and fed back into another reactor as part of a closed fuel cycle.
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Daniel Roderick, senior vice president of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between General Electric and Japan's Hitachi, told Bloomberg the company is looking to secure contracts to deliver reactor technology, nuclear services, and nuclear fuel cycle services to Saudi Arabia.
And the Russians said, well all right, if the Iranians want to possess the whole, what's called the nuclear fuel cycle, that is, to have a guaranteed stream of nuclear fuel for power plants, which involves enriching uranium, we'll do it in conjunction with Iran, but in Russia.
The time has come to fuel the mobile money virtuous cycle and to reach the more than one billion consumers in Africa and beyond that have access to a mobile phone but do not have a formal bank account.
To supply the extra juice, utilities turn on inefficient single-cycle gas turbines, which turn 25% of the fuel's energy into electricity, as opposed to 45% for combined-cycle plants that use turbine exhaust to make steam to run a second generator.
Activists argued that if all those who needed AIDS drugs could get them via this kind of funding, the very increase in the scale of production would drive drug costs down, which would in turn fuel further market growth, creating a virtuous cycle.
Pupils should cycle or walk to school where the fuel shortage has stopped their usual transport, the government is advising.
When powered by gasoline, the C-MAX Energi uses the all-new 2.0-liter Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder engine - powerful and fuel efficient and among the most advanced non-turbocharged four-cylinder powertrains Ford has ever offered.
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The credit will only apply to the first 100 gallons of Shell fuel purchased with your Shell Platinum Select MasterCard in that billing cycle.
It adopts the Atkinson cycle and D-4S direct injection technology to optimise both the power and fuel-efficiency benefits of Lexus Hybrid Drive.
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When life-cycle costs are compared, natural gas is currently a more economical decision than flex-fuel powered vehicles, although both are more expensive than gasoline at current figures (keep in mind that these dynamics could change due to oil shocks or increased demand for traditional fuels both real risks).
In this third cycle the unleashing of wireless broadband connectivity in handheld smart phones and smart tablets will be like proverbial fuel on the fire.
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By optimizing the split-cycle concept, the Scuderi engine is expected to reduce NOx emissions up to 80 percent and improve fuel efficiency by 50 percent, compared to a conventional gasoline engine.
Legge notes that newer fossil fuel plants use the heat that was once wasted to turn an extra steam turbine, a process known as combined cycle.
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