These materials include low-grade waste from power stations and small devices containing radioactive materials such as cesium-137, used in some cancer treatments, cobalt-60, used in food irradiation, or americum, incorporated in sensors for oil exploration.
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Transphorm aims to solve the multi-billion dollar problem of power waste whenever electricity from the grid is converted into usable electric power.
The proposed incinerator would burn 250, 000 tonnes of waste, provide power for the local community and create 200 jobs.
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Humanure toilets use the methane released by human waste to create power that is converted into saleable products, such as electricity.
Carl Iwan Clowes, of People Against Wylfa B (Pawb), said the waste from nuclear power stations created problems for future generations.
The result is a considerable waste of potential power.
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That is, here is a glaring waste of electric power, fully lighting a business through all its nighttime inactivity, every single night, for no purpose at all except to advertise its presence to almost empty midnight streets.
But the government says waste from any new power stations would be borne by the industry itself.
Its services include engineering, decontamination, radioactive waste processing, and removal, transportation, and disposal of waste for closed nuclear power plants and former weapons sites.
Campaigners had fought moves to use the lake for dumping waste ash from Didcot power station until owners Npower found an alternative use for the ash in 2008.
As the CEOs standing behind me will tell you, nuclear power generates waste, and we need to accelerate our efforts to find ways of storing this waste safely and disposing of it.
Lynch has his sights set on three core pillars for NASCAR Green: Waste, Emission, and Power Generation.
Broad Group, a Chinese maker of air conditioners, taps the waste heat from buildings to power its machines.
An energy firm has begun work on a new store for radioactive waste at Sizewell B nuclear power station.
For two weeks 20 Bechtelians tried to estimate the cost of repairing roads, airports, hospitals, power plants and waste treatment systems.
The centre, which will treat 100, 000 tones of waste each year and generate power, was opposed by local people and the borough council.
The Isle of Wight, off the south coast in the Solent, aspires to become self-sufficient in energy over the next few decades through a combination of tidal power, a waste-to-electricity plant and efficiency savings.
The ash is a waste product of the Kingston Fossil Power Plant which is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
That includes bridges and roads, drinking water and wastewater pipelines, levees, power lines, solid waste systems, and a host of other things.
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That figure includes mining uranium, designing power plants and reprocessing waste fuel.
And like the fighter he is facing, Donaire does not waste punches, but lands his power shots at a remarkable rate of 47%.
With sizable gains to be had for both consumers and businesses, we could be embarking on a sixth wave of innovation, fueled by smarter connected products and machines working to reduce waste, create new efficiency and power entirely new business models.
He set fire to an electric guitar alone onstage in front of a stunned crowd at the opening of Clarion Hotel Union Brygge in Drammen. (The newest addition to his empire opens Wednesday in Oslo, a luxurious art hotel named The Thief.) In Britain in 2002 he chained himself to the gate of a waste treatment plant to protest nuclear power.
When finished, the power station will convert municipal waste from Greater Manchester and Cheshire into energy.
Instead of sending their nuclear waste to France and Britain, the power stations will have to build local storage facilities.
Buckinghamshire County Council said the facility was expected to convert 300, 000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste a year into enough energy to power up to 36, 000 homes.
About 10 percent of the power is lost with each conversion step, and that can add up to terawatt-hours of power that just goes to waste.
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Waste Management is an investor in Harvest Power, as is venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins (home to billionaire venture capitalist John Doerr) and Munich Venture Partners.
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