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A New Specialized Train Is Ready to Haul Nuclear Waste

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The result is Atlas, a multi-car system designed to move about 217 tonnes of SNF and high-level radioactive waste to future storage and disposal destinations. While trucks’ legal weight limit is 36 tonnes , rail can efficiently handle high-capacity SNF casks and contaminated soil from cleanup sites in one shipment.

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President’s Budget for FY 2013 boosts discretionary funds for DOE, cuts fossil fuel subsidies

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the SunShot Initiative; $95 million for wind energy, including off-shore wind technologies; and $65. nuclear waste that supports the implementation. Works through the President’s Better Building Initiative to make non-residential buildings more. electricity generation, including: $310 million for. reactors R&D.

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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

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At COP27, he said that even though the first legally binding international treaty on climate change, known as the Paris Agreement , was adopted nearly a decade ago, countries have yet to come to a consensus on how to stop burning fossil fuels, among other issues. We don’t have enough solar energy and wind energy.”

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Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

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Electricity sector gains mask challenges from transportation, buildings, and industry. This year’s Index finds that 2017 marked the first time that a greater portion of California’s power mix came from renewable sources such as wind and solar than it did from fossil fuels. million tons of waste, up 7.4% —Adam Fowler.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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Its wholly interpretive guidelines can be used to approve or disapprove a building, addition or remodel completely on subjective principles. These zoning decisions blow in whatever direction the development winds are gusting in the city at the moment and there is no consistency, logic or equity in the decisions made. What happened?”.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

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And do you also worry about algorithmic bias and automated decision-making systems that may be used in judicial systems, or legal systems, or medical contexts, things like that? A lot of people apply for a job, and most people who apply for a job think that they are qualified or they’re not going to waste their time applying for the job.

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BMW unveils the production i3 in New York, London and Beijing; efficiency, dynamics and a supporting ecosystem of services

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The high-voltage system is designed to cope with accidents beyond the legal requirements, with the high-voltage battery including features that ensure its safe reaction even in situations such as this. All the electricity used to produce the BMW i models at the Leipzig plant is wind-generated.

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