The agency is not adequately addressing deficiencies in its emergency evacuation planning and spent fuel storage standards.
Ceradyne also sells neutron-absorbing materials that can be used for nuclear fuel storage.
In January, two people were killed by a fire at a fuel storage terminal of state-run Indian Oil Corp.
Creating international nuclear fuel banks and shared management of enrichment, reprocessing and spent fuel storage facilities would make nonproliferation sense as well as supporting civil nuclear power in energy-thirsty Asia.
The company also announced last week that it received a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract for work on military fuel distribution systems and fuel-storage complexes.
But government has a long history of encouraging emerging technologies, and that continues, from energy storage to fuel cells.
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As with any novel fuel production or energy storage method, it is the numbers that matter: efficiency is king.
That boost is reflected in how much natural gas was pulled out of storage to fuel power plants and furnaces.
One proposed solution for long-term storage of used fuel is Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
While backup generators were on hand in some places, generators had to be brought to storage areas for fuel and de-icing fluid.
Transferring the spent fuel from wet to dry storage would allow the waste to be stored for decades longer or until a permanent home could be found, says GAO, in an earlier report.
Mr. GEOFF SUNDSTROM (Spokesman, Triple-A): What's occurring at the retail level and at the fuel distribution terminal is a complete draining of their gasoline inventory, the cleaning of all the equipment and storage, and then a refilling of that storage with the new Ethanol blend fuel.
In theory, the country could see mandates for renewable fuel use, investment in the storage of carbon dioxide and punishment for companies that engage in price gouging.
The House and Senate passed bills (HR1270, S104) in 1997 requiring the Energy Department to build a temporary storage site for spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.
We're mindful of the concerns about storage, of spent fuel, and concerns about security, but we still think it's the right thing to do if we're serious about dealing with climate change.
That could be a problem if the time comes to transport spent fuel from reactor sites to a central storage facility.
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In addition to this, there is an increasing demand for liquefied natural gas, as it is becoming realized as an important source of fuel due to the ease in its storage and transportation.
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The fuel will be shipped to Idaho for temporary storage, Maus said.
Pure Storage has been hiring aggressively to fuel demand.
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The proposals, for the south bank of the river, include storage facilities for imported wood pellet bio fuel.
The Russian government could contribute from its fuel stockpiles and convert selected military depots into agriculture storage facilities.
The carbon capture and storage technology can strip carbon from fossil fuel exhaust gases and store it in rocks, but it is unproven at scale, trials are years behind schedule and it may not work in some areas of the world.
Tepco fears some of the fuel rods may become exposed if the water in their storage pools is allowed to boil down too low.
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That is well above the base power load and the surge is supplied by less efficient fossil fuel power generators as well as some peak pumped water storage.
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Engineers put the vehicle's guts in an 11-inch-thick platform that contains the fuel cells, electric motors, brakes, suspension and hydrogen storage.
While the report focuses more on finding long-term storage for radioactive waste, it also considered the reprocessing of such fuel.
According to Sabine Schels, a commodity strategist at Merrill Lynch, seasonal swings in fuel prices are becoming more pronounced, thanks to a shortage of refining and storage capacity.
"Increasing the nation's use of natural gas for electricity generation could result in adverse economic consequences, " the report said, noting that natural gas prices are fickle and that fuel switching on a large scale would require regulators to approve more pipeline and storage capacity.
At present, 120 nuclear waste storage facilities exist in 39 states that hold 70, 000 tons of spent fuel, which is growing at 2, 000 metric tons a year.
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