Sentences with phrase «nuclear security say»

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Schneider confirmed that the incident had occurred and that it had issued a security alert to customers of the technology, which cyber experts said is widely used in the energy industry, including at nuclear facilities, and oil and gas plants.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang agreed on Monday to step up cooperation in the United Nations Security Council and in law - enforcement channels after North Korea's fifth nuclear test, the White House said.

SEOUL (Reuters)- U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday that he could not imagine United States ever accepting a nuclear North Korea, warning that its rapidly advancing nuclear and missile programs would undermine, not strengthen, its security.

«Both leaders condemned North Korea's September 9 nuclear test and resolved to strengthen coordination in achieving the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, including by invigorating cooperation in the United Nations Security Council and in law enforcement channels on North Korea,» a White House statement said.

Sebastian Gorka, a senior White House national security official, has reiterated President Donald Trump's threats against North Korea, saying on Wednesday that the US would respond to escalating threats from the nuclear - armed rogue state.

Pyongyang has long said the term «denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula» must include the United States pulling its 28,500 troops out of South Korea and removing its so - called «nuclear umbrella» security commitment to South Korea and Japan.

But the dominant system tries to neutralise these fears using a «non-proliferation treaty» of nuclear weapons which imposes what some call nuclear apartheid, that is to say, giving certain countries the right (the five of the Security Council, but also Israel) to hold such arms.

The Iran nuclear accord, assailed by President Trump and his revamped retinue of advisers, received a strong endorsement Monday from a bipartisan group of more than 100 national security veterans, who said the United States gains nothing by scrapping it.

Speaking earlier today, US president George Bush said the nuclear test was a «provocative act» and deserved an «immediate response» from the security council.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States will need to «provide security assurances» to North Korea's Kim Jong Un if the adversaries are to reach a nuclear deal.

Prime minister Shinzo Abe said Japan would make a firm response to North Korea's challenge against nuclear non-proliferation, calling its test a threat to Japan's security.

With nuclear capabilities, America is handing a fundamentalist regime the tools of Armageddon,» said Long Island State Senator Thomas Croci, a former commander in the U.S. Navy and chairman of the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs.

Arguing the need to maintain the UK's nuclear defence, he said it was «essential for security in an uncertain world», adding the only certain thing about the future is its unpredictability.

He said energy prices were rising, making nuclear energy an issue across the world; anxiety about climate change and the need to find clean energy sources was rising; and security of supply meant Britain must find new domestic sources of power.

Lancman has accused the other candidates of «sticking their heads in the sand» and ignoring the problems of Social Security, while Meng has accused Lancman of negative campaigning over campaign literature that features nuclear warheads, which she said «literally scared» her children.

«The nuclear deterrent remains essential, in my view, not just to Britain's security but, as our allies have acknowledged here today, to the overall security of the Nato alliance,» he said.

Gallagher had said it was nuclear proliferation, but Powell said there was no nuclear proliferation problem, and that «guns [are the] greatest national security threat.»

It is in the UK's national security interest to keep the Trident nuclear weapons system, a group of former ministers, diplomats and generals say.

Keeping the Trident nuclear weapons system would act as an effective deterrent in preventing threats to UK security, Sir Menzies Campbell has said.

«Such countries must demonstrate their ability to uphold high international standards» on nuclear plant safety, security and non-proliferation, the letter signers say.

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«This is an approach to providing a sustainable nuclear deterrent,» says Tom D'Agostino, interim head of the National Nuclear Security nuclear deterrent,» says Tom D'Agostino, interim head of the National Nuclear Security Nuclear Security Agency.

Security of nuclear materials worldwide «ranges from «better than probably necessary» to «absolutely appallingly bad,»» Bunn says.

«The NRC has been pressured by the nuclear industry, directly and through Congress, to low - ball the potential consequences of a fire because of concerns that increased costs could result in shutting down more nuclear power plants,» said paper co-author Frank von Hippel, a senior research physicist at Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security (SGS), based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

«Our role at Sandia is the national security - driven notion that it's in the interests of the U.S. to be one of the dominant nuclear suppliers,» Sanders said.

«I don't know anyone who believes that the physical security of U.S. nuclear weapons is in doubt,» says Ivan Oelrich, FAS's vice president for strategic security programs.

Technological advances and science diplomacy will be crucial to a new generation of nuclear security, said experts gathered at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

«If the United States, the strongest nation in the world, concludes that it can not protect its vital interests without relying on new nuclear weapons for new military missions, it would be a clear signal to other nations that nuclear weapons are valuable, if not necessary, for their security purposes, too,» Sidney Drell, arms control expert and physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center said at the American Physical Society Conference in Denver this past March.

«Under refurbishment, if we wanted to improve security interior to the warhead, we would have had to retrofit that into the warheads, which is difficult to do without nuclear testing,» NNSA's Harvey says.

In a statement summarizing the new policy, Obama said that «the greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.»

These slim advantages are far outweighed, Tobey says, by the downsides: possible retaliation, reduced chances for diplomacy, tighter security around nuclear installations and a pretext for Iran to impede the IAEA.

Allowing Libyan nuclear scientists to study in the United States could provide a security benefit, said Representative Zoe Lofgren (D - CA).

The president agreed that the government should fund both academic and military science, Greenberg said, but Eisenhower also had a history of staying out of science - policy clashes such as the Oppenheimer affair, when the former Manhattan Project director was stripped of his security clearance after voicing ethical concerns over nuclear weapons.

«We're talking about trillion - dollar consequences,» says panelist Frank von Hippel, a nuclear security expert at Princeton University.

Now, scientists at the French Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Security (IRSN) in Paris say the isotope may have been released from the Mayak nuclear facility near Ozyorsk in southern Nuclear Security (IRSN) in Paris say the isotope may have been released from the Mayak nuclear facility near Ozyorsk in southern nuclear facility near Ozyorsk in southern Russia.

But Neile Miller, who was then the acting head of the National Nuclear Security Administration in Washington, says those experts specifically told her that Los Alamos didn't have enough personnel who knew how to handle plutonium so it didn't accidentally go «critical» and start an uncontrolled chain reaction.

«National security is our number - one priority, and this bill will fund essential programs that maintain our nuclear deterrence posture in the face of growing global threats — including North Korea and other countries that are testing the tolerance of the international community,» House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen said.

«NNSA pursues its mission in nuclear security through the application of world - class capabilities, and meets the evolving challenges of tomorrow through our commitment to innovation and research in the fundamental sciences needed to adapt to this dynamic yet enduring nonproliferation and nuclear security mission,» said Anne Harrington, NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, in a rnuclear security through the application of world - class capabilities, and meets the evolving challenges of tomorrow through our commitment to innovation and research in the fundamental sciences needed to adapt to this dynamic yet enduring nonproliferation and nuclear security mission,» said Anne Harrington, NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, in a rnuclear security mission,» said Anne Harrington, NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, in a rNuclear Nonproliferation, in a release.

The world's nuclear enrichment programs should be under international control to prevent the development of nuclear weapons after the new arms deal with Iran expires in 10 to 15 years, said Frank von Hippel, a senior Princeton University research physicist and a former security advisor during the Clinton Administration.

As it is, the name sounds too much like a mispronunciation of «nuclear» when you say it too fast, and that's not a word you want to stumble into when you're at an airport security checkpoint.

NuScale also said the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy has awarded the company $ 40 million in cost - sharing financial assistance under a federal grant program that supports early stage research and development to promote U.S. energy independence, grid resiliency, national security and clean baseload power.

As more coal and nuclear plants close, PJM wants to make sure the region or parts of it don't become overly dependent on a single source of fuel, PJM President and CEO Andrew Ott said during an April 30 press call announcing the fuel security initiative.

«Having nuclear power in the state is an important thing and I think it's important for our energy security to have it and I think it's a positive thing from an environmental perspective to have nuclear here,» Christie said.

Some experts share the view of the Director General of the United Kingdom Security Service, who said in August 2003: «It will only be a matter of time before a crude version of a [chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear] attack is launched at a major Western city»...

Our national security is inextricably linked to our country s energy security, said retired Navy Admiral Frank Skip Bowman, who was director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion program.

«There are so many [problems] from which to choose,» Sharon Squassoni, a military strategy expert and member of the Bulletin's Science and Security Board, said with a little laugh that I'll hear in my head as the nuclear fallout fills my lungs.

He also said that: «There is a clear commitment to energy security through oil stocks well exceeding the 90 days obligation and the recent referendum on nuclear energy is significant because it allows the government to pursue energy policies aiming at the 3Es (energy security, economy and environment).»

Robert Socolow, a member of the Science and Security Board, professor, of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and co-principal investigator, Carbon Mitigation Initiative, at Princeton University, USA, says, «Obstacles to a world free of nuclear weapons remain.

«I might say, parenthetically, I believe there are national security and common security aspects to the whole globalization challenge that I really don't have time to go into today, so I'll just steer off the text and say what I think briefly, which is that as we open borders and we increase the freedom of movement of people, information and ideas, this open society becomes more vulnerable to cross-national, multinational, organized forces of destruction: terrorists; weapons of mass destruction; the marriage of technology in these weapons, small - scale chemical and biological and maybe even nuclear weapons; narco traffickers and organized criminals, and increasingly, all these people sort of working together in lines that are quite blurred.

Michael A. Levi, a CFR expert on nuclear issues, says Iran's response to the Security Council's demand to halt its nuclear processing in return for concessions appears to be a compromise between hard...