It is used to power nuclear plants, and it is used for medical diagnoses and research.
Among all the energy-supply technologies, the three with the biggest potential today are solar power, wind power and nuclear power.
Given its inherent risks, nuclear power has always been an exercise of mind over matter, in which human intellect seeks to harness the power of nuclear fission of radioactive materials.
In particular, Green candidates will highlight control of GM food and GM crops planted against local will, the failure of energy policy to get to grips with climate change, nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
Such decisions would nevertheless reflect a view shared by many, both from within the industry and among nuclear power opponents, namely that old nuclear power stations are considerably less safe - or more dangerous - than new ones.
Nuclear power and nuclear medicine.
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That event propelled the movie into a box office hit, and the coincidence of a well-made fictional film with a real-life event with a very similar plot line led to a huge increase of public fears around the safety of nuclear power, and likely set the nuclear power industry back by decades.
On nuclear power, however, there seems to be a big difference, with Ishihara supporting continuing nuclear power use, while Hashimoto has joined the anti-nuclear camp.
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The rise of solar power in Germany is directly related to the country's phase-out of nuclear power plants -- however in Japan, the issue of nuclear power is back in the news.
One final note about nuclear power: Most of the problems with nuclear power are perceptional, not real at all.
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To get 42 kWh per day per person from nuclear power would require 525 one-gigawatt nuclear power stations, a roughly five-fold increase over today's levels.
The earthquake launched a tsunami, which killed thousands, and knocked out the nuclear power plant at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, about 140 miles northeast of Tokyo, setting off a series of explosions, fires and large radiation leaks at the facility.
The session is part of an inquiry into the future prospects for nuclear power in the UK, with subjects covering how any new power stations would be financed, and the attitudes of the public towards nuclear power.
But President George W. Bush's administration has pushed nuclear power as a fuel of choice for the future through various financial incentives, including the "Nuclear Power 2010" initiative launched five years ago, which provides matching funds for the early stages of new plant development, as well as loan guarantees and tax credits offered to new nuclear developers in 2005's Energy Policy Act, sometimes known as EPACT.
No U.S. nuclear power plants use MOX, stemming from a 1977 ban by the Carter Administration on reprocessing uranium for domestic nuclear power.
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Now, here in Europe, there are some nations who get a lot of their energy from alternative sources of power such as nuclear power, such as wind.
The new nuclear power station will provide only a fraction of Pakistan's growing electricity needs, but supporters of the country's nuclear programme say nuclear power is the answer to increasing electricity demands.
But we are talking about a nuclear power company and the government has said it is taking part in the discussions because it has a responsibility for the safety of nuclear power.
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The damage done to Japanese nuclear facilities has given new ammunition to critics of nuclear power, just as the industry and many of its supporters in Washington were hoping for a revival of U.S. nuclear power as an alternative to coal-fired electricity generation.
This is where nuclear power has remained essentially flat, even with efforts to increase the power factors at existing facilities, as compared to wind, solar, and other clean renewable sources of energy which have huge potential in expansion capacity and can easily meet demands if we support them on an equal basis has we have fossil fuels and nuclear power.
France remains committed to nuclear power, which provides nearly four-fifths of its electricity, and exports both electricity and nuclear-power reactors.
The country becomes the first to swear off nuclear power in the wake of the recent nuclear emergency at the Fukushima power plant in Japan.
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It says wave energy in the Western Isles has the potential to generate as much power as dozens of nuclear power stations.
Japan has few natural resources and the cost of importing fuel has increased after a backlash against nuclear power following the Fukushima nuclear disaster two years ago.
Germany has recently announced that all of its nuclear power plants will be phased out by 2022, becoming the biggest industrial power to give up nuclear energy.
Both nuclear-power generation and nuclear-fuel production enjoy economies of scale.
But the company's California offices use power from wind and nuclear power sources as well--and consequently get the same amount of energy for a third of the carbon emissions.
It will say that the Scottish Executive and the UK Government will need to work together to make sure Scotland continues to have an uninterrupted power supply that includes nuclear power.
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