Unfortunately, the easiest way to make a more efficient engine, nuclear-electric propulsion, is controversial.
Clean energy technologies like wind, solar, nuclear, and electric vehicles are more expensive than carbon-intensive alternatives and suffer from limited performance and intermittency problems.
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And if all fossil-fuel power plants were converted to nuclear or hydro-electric power, a 35% reduction in emissions would result.
The owner of crippled the Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has requested further financial help from the Japanese government.
But many of those same unions are pro-nuclear, since Tokyo Electric Power, which runs the Fukushima plant among others, is a huge employer, as are such conglomerates as Hitachi and Toshiba, which build nuclear reactors.
The American Nuclear Society blog has a page here with links to update sites operated by Tokyo Electric Power, the Nuclear Energy Institue and others.
Its U.S.-based international nuclear business joint venture with General Electric Co.
But the announcement on January 9th that the government is to encourage the building of nuclear-power stations is more electric: overdue, perhaps, but important and controversial (as well as right).
Here are two plans for dealing with nuclear waste, one by General Electric, one by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said Tuesday that Lithuania is considering asking the European Union to impose restrictions on electricity trading by third parties that generate electric power without complying with nuclear safety requirements.
The same month he championed a successful bid by a chaebol-heavy consortium under the aegis of the Korean Electric Power Company to provide nuclear power to Abu Dhabi, pulling the rug from under industry leaders in France and Japan.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which operates the damaged nuclear plant, announced that all six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, designed by General Electric, and all four, undamaged reactors at the Fukushima Daini plant have been shut off.
Micropower systems have a niche, but some other scheme must be devised to replace the electric energy we now get from nuclear power and coal.
The disaster caused billions of dollars worth of damage to residential and commercial property and also damaged a nuclear reactor that was operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), sending dangerous levels of radiation out into the atmosphere.
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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.
The four units of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, owned by the Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, were gravely damaged in the 9.0 March 11 earthquake and resulting tsunami that took the lives of more than 10, 000 people and has the northern part of Japan, and its neighbors China and Russia, on high alert for nuclear radiation leaks.
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Nuclear: Nuclear is the energy source for the majority of electric power generation for the long term.
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Nuclear power, renewables, and a shift to electric cars will be most helpful.
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It also encourages electric generation from coal-fired, nuclear and hydroelectric sources.
Rare earth (RE) metals find application in a massive range of devices including wind turbines, hybrid and electric cars, LCDs, fuel cells, nuclear reactors and lasers.
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Nearly 2, 500 megawatts of electric generating capacity tripped offline, including two nuclear reactors in Virginia, after a magnitude-5.8 earthquake rocked vast swaths of the eastern United States on Tuesday.
As the world watches the disasters in Japan continue to unfold, there is much criticism of the performance of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, operator of the Fukushima nuclear power complex.
The good news is that the big names in nuclear energy -- like Areva, Hitachi, General Electric and Toshiba -- have recently been joined by a bevy of high-tech start-ups seeking to develop advanced nuclear-reactor designs for both fission and fusion energy production.
In October 2010, the British government gave the green light to building up to eight new nuclear power plants in the country, a year and a half after the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power caused much of the world to turn on the controversial clean burning super fuel.
Most nuclear plants throughout the world currently rely on a system of electric pumps to keep from overheating.
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The leaders of Japan wanted electric power generation to power their economic development and nuclear power seemed like a natural for a country without much coal or any oil.
The electroweak force is a synthesis of two previously identified forces of nature, electromagnetism (itself a synthesis, carried out in the 19th century, of the electric and magnetic forces), and the weak nuclear force, which governs radioactive decay.
It spares neither the government nor Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), the operator of the nuclear plant.
Hokuriku Electric said on Friday all three reactors at its Onagawa nuclear plant on the north-east coast shut down automatically after the quake.
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