Sentences with phrase «nuclear research gets»

Nuclear research gets almost 7 per cent more, aeronautics gets 6.2 per cent more and the human genome project and AIDS research receive some 10 per cent more.

Not exact matches

«Only two out of the 54 are operating, and these utilities are trying to work their way through the mechanics to get permission to restart,» said Neil Wilmshurst, vice president for the nuclear sector at the U.S. industry's Electric Power Research Institute.

Much of what people do here is really very dirty work like getting down on your knees, pulling cables,... working long hours, just sitting around waiting for the beam to come back on,» says Michael Doser, a physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Switzerland, who helps run a Summer Student Programme there.

After a bit of research I realized that the amount of heat (while awesome) was pathetically small and that, by comparing it to volcanoes, instead of warming we would get cooling from the dust throw up (this was before Nuclear Winter was put forward as a compelling reason against limited nucleaNuclear Winter was put forward as a compelling reason against limited nuclearnuclear war).

After reading yesterday's post on the brewing fight over funding for nuclear fusion research, Robert L. Hirsch, who directed the country's fusion energy program in the 1970s through the Atomic Energy Commission, got in touch to describe how his views of the prospects of harnessing fusion as a practical energy source have evolved.

Arjun Makhijani, President of Institute for Environmental and Energy Research, Amory Lovins, co-founder and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and Rifkin have all demonstrated how a nuclear «renaissance» — to replace the 400 old reactors now rattling apart worldwide and get to the total of 1,600 that Rifkin says are needed for a minimum impact on climate disruption — would require that we build three new reactors every 30 days for 40 years.

That reminded me of one of the reasons why I got out of nuclear research.

Academic research has shown that for the UK to meet the emissions reductions targets implied by the 2008 Climate Change Act would require an effort the equivalent of 30 new nuclear power plants by 2015, just to get part way to the target.

A search of the Science Citation Index, the comprehensive scientific journal database that indexes virtually every citation a journal article gets in the peer - reviewed scientific literature, reveals that this paper, which Dr. Singer calls a «key research publication», has been cited exactly zero times, as of 2004 (for comparison, Dr. Steven Schneider's 1988 publication in Nature on the same topic, «Simulating the climatic effects of nuclear war», has gotten 16 citations).