It will temporarily store old vessels to start stripping fixtures and fittings and remove waste fuel.
The No. 4 unit doesn't have live fuel in its reactor, but still holds waste fuel from earlier generation operations.
That figure includes mining uranium, designing power plants and reprocessing waste fuel.
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 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.
"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.
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.
Rob Routs of Royal Dutch Shell says the company is exploring fuel made from waste.
So the robot would be powered by what it eats, stores and produces as waste to be reused as fuel.
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Grassley, R-Iowa, a longtime backer of ethanol and fuel from animal waste.
This type of ethanol refers to fuel made from waste, wood, plants and other products, as opposed to the now widely produced corn ethanol.
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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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.
So we have more complex processes and more waste at beginning of the Thorium fuel cycle with chemically toxic metals.
Doing so allows them to easily spot waste, in terms of both fuel and time, and pinpoint opportunities for adding value to customers.
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And then there are some really nasty forms of industrial waste, such as spent nuclear fuel, for which no universally accepted disposal methods have thus far been developed.
From wind and solar, to waste and biomass to energy, fuel cells, co-generation, natural gas, and smart grid, speakers and attendees discussed a diverse portfolio of advanced energy technologies that are being developed and deployed in Ohio.
Maybe some company could offer a reprocessing service that gives the utility a smaller quantity of waste for the repository plus some nuclear fuel to help offset the cost.
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.
The only emissions from the fuel cell itself are water and waste heat, which can be captured and put to use.
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