"The dumping of illegally laundered fuel waste is costing ratepayers thousands of pounds every year by Councils having to remove the waste and these sums are coming straight from the rates of local people, " he said.
The No. 4 unit doesn't have live fuel in its reactor, but still holds waste fuel from earlier generation operations.
It will temporarily store old vessels to start stripping fixtures and fittings and remove waste fuel.
Rob Routs of Royal Dutch Shell says the company is exploring fuel made from waste.
Grassley, R-Iowa, a longtime backer of ethanol and fuel from animal waste.
That figure includes mining uranium, designing power plants and reprocessing waste fuel.
This type of ethanol refers to fuel made from waste, wood, plants and other products, as opposed to the now widely produced corn ethanol.
Sure, you don't need to waste fuel flying around an empty airliner, but even the company's small jet can burn through quite a bit of cash.
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The remaining two-third of the energy contained in the fuel is lost as waste heat.
Next year, he plans to fly from the UK to China powered by fuel created from landfill waste.
The brothers power their farm and cheese factory using an anaerobic digestion system, which turns organic waste into fuel, and cuts down on greenhouse gas emissions.
Watkins' one-person energy shop, Watkins Pencor , is a principal owner in Masada Oxynol , a Birmingham company that has devised a way to turn municipal solid waste into fuel-grade ethanol.
Katerva, a new nonprofit set up to recognize and support stand-out sustainability efforts around the world, has just announced the winner of an award competition it hopes will be like a Nobel prize in the broad and somewhat amorphous field of sustainability: Sanergy, a company that builds low-cost toilets in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya and converts the waste into fuel and fertilizer.
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Among other things, his team has designed a nuclear reactor that would use nuclear waste as its fuel.
The three options are to export the waste, use heat treatment or make the waste into a fuel which would then be exported.
It would work by using the neutrons from fusion to help turn nuclear waste into nuclear fuel and then burn it until almost none is left.
His suggestion would be to reconsider some of the previously discarded options, with preference towards more modern thermal treatment processes, or systems of pre-treating the waste and creating fuel from it.
Other similar projects to save the world: generating electricity from rice husks in Cambodia, planting tens of millions of eucalyptus trees in the Amazon and transforming waste into cooking fuel in Nepal.
By limiting the speed limit of its trucks to a maximum 60 miles per hour, the company estimates that it can save 3.75 million gallons of diesel fuel and cut carbon dioxide waste by 83 million pounds per year.
But Big Oil, Big Ethanol and tiny start-ups like Verenium have all failed to meet federal mandates for so-called advanced biofuels, fuels produced with agricultural waste or dedicated fuel crops like switchgrass instead of from edible grains like corn.
Other similar projects to save the world: generating electricity from rice husks in Cambodia, planting tens of millions of eucalyptus trees in the Amazon (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) and transforming waste into cooking fuel in Nepal.
Sending oil elsewhere to be refined will waste massive amounts of fuel for transportation.
The only emissions from the fuel cell itself are water and waste heat, which can be captured and put to use.
At present, says Dr Demkowicz, reactors burn only around 1% of their fuel, so even a modest increase in fuel burn would leave less radioactive waste.
President George W. Bush approved Yucca Mountain as the site to store the U.S.'s spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste, but President Barack Obama cancelled work on the project in 2009.
So the robot would be powered by what it eats, stores and produces as waste to be reused as fuel.
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The team is also looking to see if the bacteria can convert any other products into fuel, such as human or animal waste.
The company also develops Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) from the remaining waste but said "there is little opportunity to sell this material in the UK" .
Advanced bio-fuel centers, which can take landfill waste and wood chips to make cellulosic ethanol, are also part of that universe and are attracting enthusiasts and naysayers alike.
If the U.S. finds a place for its nuclear waste to go, some fuel assemblies will have to be removed from casks and transferred to transportation packs, a dangerous enough task without the prospect of fuel rods ruptured or crumbling.
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