Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons production in»

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In fact, according to a statement read on August 9, 2005, at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, he issued a fatwa declaring that «the production, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran shall never acquire these weapons.»

While defense contractors say that there is no moral or religious dilemma for their employees, church leaders say that there is a problem, but one that can be solved by refusing to participate in the development or production of nuclear weapons and technology.

I do not think that a person can have a role in the wartime firing of a nuclear device, or even in the development or production of a destabilizing weapon, as an agonized participant.

U.S. agents had intercepted a German ship named the BBC China carrying parts for a Libyan nuclear - weapons - production program, and Libya, in subsequently renouncing its nuclear ambitions, had named Pakistan, and particularly the Khan Research Laboratories, as the supplier of what was to be a complete store - bought nuclear - weapons program.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

Despite an admirable record and firm commitment to make safety a primary criterion in weapons design, production, handling, and deployment, and to ensure that nuclear material is protected against theft, there is growing apprehension about terrorists acquiring weapons or nuclear material.

It isn't easy, but Rutgers researcher Ashutosh Goel has discovered ways to immobilize such waste — the offshoot of decades of nuclear weapons production — in glass and ceramics.

And even in the U.S., the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico currently stores waste from the production of nuclear weapons.

Events such as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and nuclear weapons testing would have been expected to affect aerosol production in the atmosphere, but no such effects could be seen.

The site is one of nine such mills in Colorado used during the heyday of nuclear weapons production.

In another area, the proposed budget would provide almost $ 5.5 billion in new appropriations for DoE's environmental cleanup programs to address contamination from Cold War nuclear weapons productioIn another area, the proposed budget would provide almost $ 5.5 billion in new appropriations for DoE's environmental cleanup programs to address contamination from Cold War nuclear weapons productioin new appropriations for DoE's environmental cleanup programs to address contamination from Cold War nuclear weapons production.

Shuttering a key part of PF - 4 abruptly halted two types of sensitive work done nowhere else in the United States, for roughly the next four years: The invasive sampling and analysis of selected aging nuclear weapons cores to ensure that intact models could all still function as intended; and the production of new cores that could be fit into more modern nuclear weapons or replace those pulled apart in testing.

In an April report on costs associated with the NNSA's ongoing nuclear weapon modernization campaign, the GAO disclosed the existence of an internal NNSA report forecasting that PF - 4 will be unable to meet a congressional demand for production of 30 new pits per year by 2026, as part of a 30 - year, $ 1 trillion nuclear weapons update.

But Richard Garwin, a retired IBM physicist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who has long been a technical adviser on nuclear weapons and stockpile surveillance to the Defense Department and the NNSA, said the government had not been transparent enough about the long lapse in testing and production.

The plutonium produced in the blanket has a concentration of 98 % plutonium - 239, the most convenient plutonium isotope for nuclear weapons production.

The program ensures effective citizen involvement in decisions about the future of the nuclear weapons complex relative to stopping approval of new production facilities and promoting disarmament and safer waste management and disposal at Department of Energy (DOE) sites.

This radioactive metal is sometimes used in the production of nuclear weapons as a substitute for depleted Uranium.

To detect very small quantities of mobile radioactive elements in the groundwater at former nuclear weapons production sites, researchers have developed a new type of sensor.

Due to its properties, it is extensively used in nuclear power reactors and in the production of nuclear weapons.

This would help nations track and restrict the production of fissile materials that can be used in nuclear weapons.

Consortium run nuclear sites also oversee the production of plutonium pits, monitor the aging of nuclear weapons, manage the production of critical nuclear components like Tritium — which helps boost the yield in all nuclear weapons and initiate the fission stage in hydrogen bombs — and operate test reactors.

In a paper published online this week by the journal Quaternary International, 26 members of the working group point roughly to 1950 as the starting point, indicated by a variety of markers, including the global spread of carbon isotopes from nuclear weapon detonations starting in 1945 and the mass production and disposal of plasticIn a paper published online this week by the journal Quaternary International, 26 members of the working group point roughly to 1950 as the starting point, indicated by a variety of markers, including the global spread of carbon isotopes from nuclear weapon detonations starting in 1945 and the mass production and disposal of plasticin 1945 and the mass production and disposal of plastics.

On the recommendation of the ethics council, the Fund has disinvested from companies involved in the production of antipersonnel landmines, cluster munitions, and nuclear weapons.