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Blue Ribbon Commission On America's Nuclear Future
A Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future was appointed by US President Barack Obama to look into future options for existing and future High-level radioactive waste management, nuclear waste, following the ending of work on the incomplete Yucca Mountain Repository. In 2012, there were 70 nuclear power plant sites where of spent fuel is stored in the US. Each year, more than are added to this total.Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future Issues Final Report to Secretary of Energy, Jan 26, 2012. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yucca Mountain 2
''Yucca'' ( , YUCK-uh) is both the scientific name and common name for a genus native to North America from Panama to southern Canada. It contains 50 accepted species. In addition to yucca, they are also known as Adam's needle or Spanish-bayonet. The genus is generally classified in the asparagus family in Agavoideae, a subfamily with the ''Agave'', though historically it was part of the lily family. The species range from small shrubby plants to tree-like giants, such as the Joshua tree. All yuccas have Rosette (botany), rosettes of leaves that taper to points and inflorescences with many flowers that are mainly cream white with thick petals. Though adapted to a wide range of climates the plants are xerophytes, ones that specialize in dry living conditions. The tight relationship between the yucca plants and their pollinators, the yucca moths from the genera ''Tegeticula'' and ''Parategeticula'', is a well known example of evolutionary Mutualism (biology), mutualism. They are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Carnesale
Albert Carnesale (born July 2, 1936) is an American academic and a specialist in arms control and national security. He is a former chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, provost of Harvard University, and dean of the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. He was also acting president of Harvard while President Neil L. Rudenstine was on leave for three months. He has also been active in international diplomacy on nuclear arms control and nuclear non-proliferation. From 1970 to 1972, he was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) with the Soviet Union—a major step towards controlling nuclear weapons. Carnesale teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at UCLA on topics relating to U.S. national security. Early years Carnesale was born on July 2, 1936, in the Bronx, New York. His father was a taxi driver; his mother was an office clerk. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, where admission is based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuclear Safety In The United States
Nuclear safety in the United States is governed by federal regulations issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The NRC regulates all nuclear plants and materials in the United States except for nuclear plants and materials controlled by the U.S. government, as well those powering naval vessels. The 1979 Three Mile Island accident was a pivotal event that led to questions about U.S. nuclear safety. Earlier events had a similar effect, including a 1975 fire at Browns Ferry and the 1976 testimonials of three concerned GE nuclear engineers, the GE Three. In 1981, workers inadvertently reversed pipe restraints at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant reactors, compromising seismic protection systems, which further undermined confidence in nuclear safety. All of these well-publicised events, undermined public support for the U.S. nuclear industry in the 1970s and the 1980s. In 2002, the USA had what former NRC Commissioner Victor Gilinsky termed "its closest brush with disaster" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journey To The Safest Place On Earth
''Journey to the Safest Place on Earth'' is a 2013 documentary film written and directed by Edgar Hagen. It discusses the huge quantity of radioactive waste and spent fuel rod Nuclear fuel refers to any substance, typically fissile material, which is used by nuclear power stations or other nuclear devices to generate energy. Oxide fuel For fission reactors, the fuel (typically based on uranium) is usually based o ...s being stored at various locations on the planet. Charles McCombie is a Swiss-based nuclear physicist with 35 years of experience in this field, and he accompanies Hagen on a worldwide search for the best location. One disposal site in Texas is adjacent to a location where oil drilling is in progress. A proposed disposal site in Nevada is adjacent to the young volcano Yucca Mountain. See also * High-level radioactive waste management * List of films about nuclear issues References External links * 2013 films 2013 in the environment Documentary f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Into Eternity (film)
''Into Eternity'' is a 2010 Danish documentary film directed by Michael Madsen, released in 2010. It follows the construction of the Onkalo waste repository at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant on the island of Olkiluoto, Finland. Director Michael Madsen questions Onkalo's intended eternal existence, addressing an audience in the remote future. ''Into Eternity'' raises the question of the authorities' responsibility of ensuring compliance with relatively new safety criteria legislation and the principles at the core of nuclear waste management. When shown on the British More4 digital television channel on 26 April 2011, the name ''Nuclear Eternity'' was used. It received a special mention in the Sheffield Green Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2010. Background ''Into Eternity'' is a documentary about a deep geological repository for nuclear waste. The concept of long-term underground storage for radioactive waste has been explored since the 1950s. The inner part of the Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Nuclear Waste Treatment Technologies
Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. It is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, nuclear decommissioning, rare-earth mining, and nuclear weapons reprocessing. The storage and disposal of radioactive waste is regulated by government agencies in order to protect human health and the environment. Radioactive waste is broadly classified into 3 categories: low-level waste (LLW), such as paper, rags, tools, clothing, which contain small amounts of mostly short-lived radioactivity; intermediate-level waste (ILW), which contains higher amounts of radioactivity and requires some shielding; and high-level waste (HLW), which is highly radioactive and hot due to decay heat, thus requiring cooling and shielding. Spent nuclear fuel can be processed in nuclear reprocessing plants. One third of the total amount have already been reprocessed. With nuclear reprocessing 96% of the spen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Sharp (politician)
Philip Riley Sharp (born July 15, 1942) is an American politician and nonprofit executive who served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Democratic representative from Indiana from 1975 to 1995. In 1988 and 1990, Sharp defeated future U.S. Vice President Mike Pence. Early life and education Sharp was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1942. He grew up in Elwood, Indiana. After graduating as a valedictorian from Wendell Willkie High School in 1960, he attended DePauw University in 1961. He then transferred and graduated ''cum laude'' from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1964. In 1966, he enrolled in graduate courses at Exeter College, Oxford University in 1966 before returning to Georgetown University to earn his Ph.D. in 1974. Between 1967 and in 1974, he taught political science as an assistant professor, and later associate professor, at Ball State University. Career Between 1964 and 1969, he served as a Leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rowe (Exelon)
John William Rowe (1945 – September 24, 2022) was an American attorney and energy executive. He served as the chairman and chief executive officer of the energy corporation Exelon Corporation, a utility holding company headquartered in Chicago that had the largest market capitalization in the electric utility industry. Early life and education Rowe was born in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, in 1945. He was raised on a farm close to his hometown. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Wisconsin in 1967. He was then accepted into the University of Wisconsin Law School and obtained a Juris Doctor three years later. During this time, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa society and the Order of the Coif. Career After graduating, Rowe first worked as an associate for Isham Lincoln & Beale starting in 1970. He was promoted to partner seven years later and remained with the firm until 1980. He represented Commonwealth Edison, as well as the bankruptcy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Moniz
Ernest Jeffrey Moniz, Order of Prince Henry, GCIH (; born December 22, 1944) is an American nuclear physicist and former government official. From May 2013 to January 2017, he served as the 13th United States secretary of energy in the Obama administration. Prior to this, Moniz served as associate director for science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and Under Secretary of Energy for Infrastructure, undersecretary of energy from 1997 to 2001 during the Clinton administration. He is currently the co-chair and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), as well as president and CEO of the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI), a nonprofit organization funded by the natural gas industry that works on climate and energy technology issues, which he co-founded in 2017. He notably oversaw the production of a MIT Energy Initiative Report, which promoted natural gas as a clean energy source despite sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Meserve
Richard Andrew "Dick" Meserve (born November 20, 1944, in Medford, Massachusetts) is an American lawyer and scientist. He served as Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1999 to 2003 and served as President of the Carnegie Institution for Science from 2003 to 2014. Early life and education Meserve received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University in 1966 He then began pursuing his doctorate in physics at Stanford University. While doing his graduate research, he decided to attend law school as well, and entered Harvard Law School, where he received a J.D. in 1975. He received a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford in 1976, after completing his dissertation. Meserve married Martha "Marty" Meserve (Richards) on September 20, 1966, and they have two daughters: Amy Meserve (b. Nov. 1966) and her husband, Jeffrey "Jeff" Bergstrom, and Lauren Meserve (b. June 1971), and three granddaughters: Sophie (b. Oct. 2001), Sydney (b. Dec 2003), and Sylvie Bergstrom (b. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison M
Allison may refer to: People * Allison (given name) * Allison (surname) (includes a list of people with this name) * Eugene Allison Smith (1922-1980), American politician and farmer * Allison family, a family of RMS Titanic passengers Companies * Allison Engine Company, American aircraft engine manufacturer * Allison Transmission, American manufacturer of automatic transmissions and hybrid propulsion systems * Allison & Allison, American architectural firm * Allison & Busby, English publishing house * Cummins Allison, American manufacturer of currency handling and coin handling systems Literature * ''Allison'' (novel series), a novel and anime series by Keiichi Sigsawa * ''Allison'', a picture book by Allen Say Music * Allison (band), a Mexican pop punk band ** ''Allison'' (album), their 2006 album * The Allisons, an English pop duo * The Allisons (American group) * "Allison", a song by American Hi-Fi from '' Blood & Lemonade'' * "Allison", a 2007 song by Permanent M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Lash
Jonathan Lash (born August 12, 1945) is an American attorney who was the sixth president of Hampshire College (2011–2018) and member of the board of directors of the World Resources Institute where he served as president from 1993 to 2011. He resigned as president of Hampshire effective June 30, 2018. He assumed the role of sixth president of Hampshire College in May, 2011 and was inaugurated on April 27, 2011. In 1993, he became president of the World Resources Institute. From 1993 to 1999, Lash was co-chair of the President's Council on Sustainable Development. He played a key role in the creation of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, which in 2007 issued the "Call to Action" on global warming.World Resources Institutebr>Biosketch of Jonathan Lash Accessed August 9, 2014. From 1987 to 1990, Lash served as Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, having served the previous two years as Vermont's Commissioner of Environmental Conservation. During his tenure in V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
