In the first quarter of 2011, renewable energy production in the United States surpassed nuclear production in overall quantity and percentage.
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According to a Navy Environmental Impact Statement, the reactors will be put on barges, floated up the Columbia River to the site of the former Hanford nuclear production complex where they will be buried in a huge trench near reactors from smaller decommissioned naval warships.
Apparently everyone from the New York Daily News to TV stations in Portland, Oregon has forgotten that nuclear weapons production from WWII and early in the Cold War has nothing to do with a nuclear power plant today.
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Before the meeting, Larijani repeated Tehran's rejection of Russia's main condition, a moratorium on Iran's own nuclear fuel production.
Iranian negotiators are due to arrive in Moscow tomorrow for discussions about moving Tehran's nuclear fuel production to Russia.
The U.S. today "has no nuclear weapon production capacity, " he says flatly.
Traditional blue-collar labor is often associated with rational control, along with modern high-reliability organizations, such as military, public safety, nuclear energy production, and oil platform operations.
While nuclear energy production has steadily increased, its piece of the global electricity pie is shrinking compared to traditional sources such as coal and alternatives like wind and solar power.
Current law is aimed at phasing out U.S. exports of highly enriched uranium (HEU) precisely to reduce the risk of the material being stolen or diverted by proliferating states for nuclear weapons production.
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Analysts note the biggest rises in nuclear-power production aren't slated to begin until after 2020.
The International Atomic Energy Agency predicts nuclear-power production will rise between 35% and 100% over the next 20 years.
Both nuclear-power generation and nuclear-fuel production enjoy economies of scale.
Tehran also notified the IAEA last week that it was installing more advanced centrifuge machines at its uranium-enrichment facility in the city of Natanz, potentially providing Iran the ability to triple its nuclear-fuel production at the site.
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In an interview with the Financial Times of London, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator said yesterday that if that happens, Iran will resume full scale production of nuclear fuel.
The relentless rise in demand for electricity has resulted in nuclear reactors ramping up production almost to capacity.
The United States and other Western nations have demanded that Iran stopped its uranium-enrichment program, which they perceive as a precursor to production of nuclear warhead-grade material.
The IAEA is helping countries use nuclear technology to boost food production and fight disease.
For conservation, but he just says no to lower gas taxes, no to nuclear, no to more production, no new solutions.
The president said that the solutions will include preventing the production of more nuclear weapons, negotiating a new international treaty and strengthening the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The Navy continues to buy a small number of rocket motors each year to maintain a warm industrial base, but the government is reluctant to engage in any purchases that would signal production of new nuclear weapons.
He directed a Nuclear Policy Review that committed the government to reducing the role of nuclear weapons in national strategy, scaling back the size of the strategic arsenal, and continuing a 20-year moratorium on production of new nuclear warheads.
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From 2000 to 2008, nuclear energy dropped from 16.7% to 13.5% of global energy production, according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009.
KEDO, the organisation responsible for building two nuclear reactors and making interim deliveries of fuel oil in return for a freeze on the North's production of plutonium, from which nuclear bombs can be made.
But handing out public money to the nuclear-power industry (through production or investment tax credits, for example) is an inefficient way for governments to discourage global warming.
Even though the plant shut down the production of electricity, the nuclear reaction keeps generating heat.
The island's nuclear station Wylfa is due to end production by 2014 but there are hopes of a new station.
China stalled its production of dozens of new nuclear power stations, but has since returned to building out the clean-burning, but potentially hazardous, energy source.
During the Cold War, Hanford was a buzzing hive of activity, eventually becoming the main source of plutonium production for the nation's nuclear weapons program.
The U.S. and its allies are seeking to gain Iran's willingness to suspend its production of near weapons-grade nuclear material at its uranium-enrichment sites in return for economic incentives.
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Today, sources of tritium include commercial nuclear reactors and research reactors, and government weapons production plants .
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