Posts Tagged ‘greenhouse gas’
Chapter 50: Nuclear Energy: Safety – Predisposal of Radioactive Waste – Processing Edited by Dr. Mir F. Ali
Waste that contains or is contaminated with radionuclides arises from a number of activities involving the use of radioactive material. Such activities include the operation and decommissioning of nuclear facilities; the use of radionuclides in medicine, industry, agriculture, research and education; the remediation of sites affected by [...]
Chapter 49: Nuclear Energy: Safety – Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants – Edited by Dr. Mir F. Ali
As of January 2012, 138 civilian nuclear power reactors had been shut down in 19 countries, including 28 in the United States, 27 in the United Kingdom, 27 in Germany, 12 in France, 9 in Japan and 5 in the Russian Federation. Decommissioning is a complex process that takes years. The United Kingdom, for instance, completed its first [...]
Chapter 16: Nuclear Energy: Applications – Nuclear Accelerators and Accelerator-Driven Systems (ADS) Edited by Dr. Mir F. Ali
1. Nuclear Accelerators: An Electrostatic Nuclear Accelerator is one of the two main types of particle accelerators, where charged particles can be accelerated by subjection to a static high voltage potential. The static high voltage method is contrasted with the dynamic fields used in oscillating field particle [...]
Chapter 15: Nuclear Energy: Applications – Nuclear Heat for Hydrogen Production Edited by Dr. Mir F. Ali
Nuclear heat for hydrogen production is another advanced application of nuclear energy. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and the third most abundant on Earth. Hydrogen gas does not exist on the earth or in our atmosphere in significant quantities. Instead, it reacts quickly with other elements to form more stable [...]
Chapter 14: Nuclear Energy: Applications – Seawater Desalination Edited by Dr. Mir F. Ali
Seawater desalination is one of the advanced applications of nuclear energy. Global shortage of potable water is a real calamity. Here are some limitations and realities associated with potable water that unfortunately, cannot be disregarded. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), nearly three quarters of the earth's [...]
Green machine: Cars could run on sunlight and CO2
Greenhouse-gas-pumping cars are, let's face it, never going to be green. But innovative sunlight-powered fuel production techniques could inch motor vehicles towards carbon neutrality. Experimental solar-powered reactors have shown they can create the building blocks for synthetic liquid fuels. They've got a way to go, but these projects [...]
British Columbia’s Approach to Climate Change
Dr. Mir F. Ali Like other Canadian provinces and territories across the country, British Columbia got sick and tired of waiting for the federal leadership for climate change and decided to adopt the attitude, reflecting the popular phrase – Lead, follow or get out of the way. Consequently, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act (GGRTA) was [...]
Carbon Neutrality
Dr. Mir F. Ali An incredible number of businesses, universities, and governments around the world are totally committed to the principles of sustainability and they are going through the process of taking inventories of their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with the objective to set reduction targets for their respective organizations and [...]
Municipalities must be vigilant in setting GHG reduction targets
Dr. Mir F. Ali It seems to be a popularity context in the midst of some municipalities to set higher targets for reducing GHG emissions with the ambition to be recognized as a national or global leaders depending upon the size of their ego. There are two things appear to be profoundly wrong with this picture: Somebody forgot to tell those [...]
