Sentences with phrase «u.s. nuclear facility»

Once units 3 and 4 join the existing two Vogtle units already in operation, Plant Vogtle is expected to generate more electricity than any other U.S. nuclear facility, enough to power more than 1 million homes and businesses.

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Maria Korsnick, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute said the trade group was disappointed in the agency's order and warned that upholding the status quo would lead to the retirements of more reactors in the U.S. «Once closed,» she said, «these facilities are shuttered forever.»

Contract workers at the U.S. Department of Energys Pantex facility gingerly remove the plutonium cores from retired nuclear warheads.

The facility is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and is a key element of NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Program to maintain the reliability and safety of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without full - scale tNuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and is a key element of NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Program to maintain the reliability and safety of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without full - scale tnuclear deterrent without full - scale testing.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-- The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that it is entering negotiations with General Electric's nuclear division on a proposal to replace an aging uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky with a new facility.

Having gained strategic depth in Afghanistan, Iran has developed asymmetrical capability to disrupt U.S. operations or retaliate against American troops, should Iran's nuclear facilities be attacked.

The congressman said they want to see Iran's nuclear facilities, visit with detained Americans, meet with Iranian officials about their recent ballistic missile tests and the Jan. 12 detention of U.S. sailors, and observe Iran's Feb. 26 elections.

According to a report published by U.S. Department of Defense in 2001, China had provided Pakistan with nuclear materials and has given critical technological assistance in the construction of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development facilities, in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China even then was a signuclear materials and has given critical technological assistance in the construction of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development facilities, in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China even then was a signuclear weapons development facilities, in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China even then was a sigNuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China even then was a signatory.

Its recommendations include «mount [ing] a massive experiment to search for a hypothesized type of nuclear decay that is possible only if an elusive, nearly massless particle called the neutrino is — weirdly — its own antiparticle,» «building a new collider,» and «fully exploit [ing] the three major facilities U.S. nuclear physicists already have.»

But the contamination from the underground salt mine in the Chihuahuan Desert - where radioactive waste from U.S. nuclear labs and weapons facilities is deposited - was unlikely to have harmed the workers» health, inspectors said.

The U.S. continues to observe a moratorium on nuclear testing, so scientists, particularly at government facilities such as LLNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), develop ways to detect these events without creating an explosion themselves.

In 2008 the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission found fake and possibly faulty valves, pipes and electrical breakers — those not actually verified to stand up to the rigors posed by an operating reactor — at two nuclear facilities in tNuclear Regulatory Commission found fake and possibly faulty valves, pipes and electrical breakers — those not actually verified to stand up to the rigors posed by an operating reactor — at two nuclear facilities in tnuclear facilities in the U.S.

At the same time, the U.S. still lacks a long - term solution for nuclear waste due to the cancellation of a disposal facility being built at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, although President Obama has appointed a blue - ribbon commission to make recommendations.

That's similar to the shocking situation scientists found themselves in when analyzing results of spinning protons striking different sized atomic nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)-- a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory.

The research, described in a paper to be published as an Editor's Suggestion in Physical Review Letters, is only possible at RHIC, a 2.4 - mile circular particle collider that operates as a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory.

It is seriously vulnerable there, as the Fukushima accident demonstrated, and so the academy panel recommends that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and nuclear plant operators beef up systems for monitoring the pools and topping up water levels in case a facility is dNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and nuclear plant operators beef up systems for monitoring the pools and topping up water levels in case a facility is dnuclear plant operators beef up systems for monitoring the pools and topping up water levels in case a facility is damaged.

Currently, without any central repository, nuclear waste generated in the U.S. is stored at or near one of the 121 facilities across the country where it is generated.

Nuclear physicists create the fireballs by colliding ordinary nuclei — made of protons and neutrons — in an «atom smasher» called the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Long - term safety goals for next - generation nuclear facilities were formulated during the past year by international and domestic experts at the request of the U.S. Department of Energy.

The little - known hiatus has forced the directors of the three principal U.S. weapons laboratories to rely on other types of reliability tests, mostly conducted at other U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, when they promised in annual reports to the President and the Congress that the country's warheads will still explode in the manner intended by their designers.

While at the conference Kessel gave a plenary talk about the Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF), a proposed next step in the U.S. fusion program.

To see if their approach worked, the team examined the healed material using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and other tools at PNNL's Physical Sciences Laboratory along with the helium ion microscope at EMSL, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility.

Judge Thomas S. Moore of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) found that HRI's Restoration Action Plan (RAP)- a blueprint for calculating the amount of money that will be needed to restore contaminated groundwater, decommission surface facilities and reclaim disturbed lands at the end of mining - underestimated well - plugging, reclamation equipment and labor costs for independent contractors that would take over clean - up should HRI go bankrupt.

Sandia National Laboratories A series of research facilities run by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) will be a scientific user facility for the Office of Nuclear Physics in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOFacility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) will be a scientific user facility for the Office of Nuclear Physics in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOfacility for the Office of Nuclear Physics in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE - SC).

Her memoir is a brilliant piece of investigative journalism that reveals the truth about growing up in suburban Denver during the Cold War: next - door Rocky Flats was a U.S. Department of Energy facility that churned out plutonium «pits» for thousands of nuclear weapons.

Hopefully sooner than later, he will also propose that we ramp up the number of nuclear facilities in the U.S..

Who is actively fighting to ensure government policies shutter U.S. nuclear energy facilities; keep domestic coal, natural gas, and oil in the ground; force up energy prices through taxes and regulations; and endanger national security by installing wind farms near military bases?

«Since at least March 2016, Russian government cyber actors... targeted government entities and multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors,» according to an alert issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.

Camp Century is a U.S. military base built in northwestern Greenland in 1959 as a research facility to test nuclear missiles during the Cold War.

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The alert elaborates on «Russian government actions targeting U.S. Government entities as well as organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors» — a goal consistent with suspected Russian cyberattacks like last year's NotPetya malware which focused on industrial targets and past hacks of energy systems in Ukraine.

While U.S. nuclear and energy facilities are increasingly aware of the cyberthreats to their systems, we can expect to see more hacks testing the limits of critical infrastructure systems, both in the

Since at least March 2016, Russian government cyber actors have also targeted U.S. government entities and multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors.

gov - Since at least March 2016, Russian government cyber actors — hereafter referred to as «threat actors» — targeted government entities and multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors.

Since at least March 2016, Russian government cyber actors — hereafter referred to as «threat actors» — targeted government entities and multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors.

«This alert provides information on Russian government actions targeting U.S. Government entities as well as organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors.»