Sentences with phrase «u.s. nuclear policy»

To this end, the NPR mentions that the US will attempt to stick to the strategy of the minimum destruction possible, since «U.S. nuclear policy for decades has consistently included this objective of limiting damage if deterrence fails» (p 23).

The United States could be a leader on developing these technologies, but unfortunately U.S. nuclear policy remains mostly stuck in the past.

U.S. nuclear policy and strategy in this post-Cold War and post-9 / 11 security environment have not been well articulated and as a consequence are poorly understood both within and outside American borders.

But U.S. nuclear policy calls for an end to shipments outside the country in a few years.

As an evangelical Christian who has written on and taught graduate courses about U.S. nuclear strategy, I stand shoulder - to - shoulder with 2FP's multi-generational invitation to keep U.S. nuclear policy from devolving into a theology - free zone.

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In working in these three directions, the U.S. policy community would be employing the best sense of Ronald Reagan's «trust but verify» strategy regarding new information about the nuclear deal.

French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies during a visit to Washington, saying an international nuclear deal with Iran, which President Donald Trump has harshly criticized, was not perfect but must remain in place until a replacement is forged.

WASHINGTON, April 25 - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.

In a separate statement to reporters in Manila, North Korea called President Donald Trump's «America First» policy dangerous and said its nuclear program was necessary to avoid a U.S. invasion similar to those in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

«Neither shall we flinch even an inch from the road to bolstering up the nuclear forces chosen by ourselves, unless the hostile policy and nuclear threat of the U.S. against the DPRK are fundamentally eliminated.»

North Korea condemned the latest round of United Nations sanctions and reiterated that it wouldn't negotiate over its nuclear program until the U.S. ceases «hostile» policies.

The Obama administration held firm with the Saudis because it's one thing to cap nuclear technology where it already exists, but it's longstanding U.S. policy not to spread the technology to new countries.

The Trump administration is holding talks on providing nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia — a move that critics say could upend decades of U.S. policy and lead to an arms race in the Middle East.

Richard Nephew, the lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team that negotiated the nuclear deal, cautioned against drawing conclusions, noting that Trump has flip - flopped after appearing to announce a policy decision in the past.

A historian by training, her research interests include nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation, nuclear energy industry, East Asian security, U.S. foreign policy, two Koreas, and the Cold War.

Of an estimated 100 million television viewers — 10 times the number of people who tuned in for The Voice's season 1 finale — most stay up past the «main event» to watch former secretaries of the U.S. government debate nuclear policy with astronomer Carl Sagan.

Ali Akbar Velayati, foreign - policy adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted by a state television website as saying Iran will not remain in the nuclear deal if the U.S. withdraws, according to Arab News.

Aghast by the church's historical «moral sausage - making» when it comes to the political outworking of the gospel in the area of U.S. nuclear weapons policy, Tyler Wigg - Stevenson — a Baptist minister and a nuclear policy expert — responded by launching the Two Futures Project (hereafter 2FP).

In 2007 and 2008, four doyens of U.S. Cold War nuclear policy — Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn — penned two now - infamous articles in the Wall Street Journal.

Giuliani suggested that Trump plans to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear agreement, pointing to the presence in the president's inner circle of new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and long - time foreign policy hawk John Bolton.

Japan's nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing reactor fuel, authors of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on the nuclear fuel cycle said yesterday.

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks led to new requirements to safeguard spent fuel pools at U.S. reactors, but the overall policy toward the nuclear fuel cycle has been bound up in the fight over the proposed fuel repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, which the Obama administration wants to terminate.

A single nuclear power plant takes at least 10 years to build in the U.S., says Paul Genoa, director of policy development for the Nuclear Energy Insnuclear power plant takes at least 10 years to build in the U.S., says Paul Genoa, director of policy development for the Nuclear Energy InsNuclear Energy Institute.

«Since 9/11 the U.S. has had a major policy focus on reducing the danger of nuclear terrorism by increasing the security of highly enriched uranium and plutonium and removing them from as many locations as possible.

It's a busy time for nuclear - policy analysts: Just days after President Obama told a crowd of 20,000 in Prague that the U.S. had a «moral responsibility» to take the lead in ridding the world of nuclear weapons, two groups have come forward with their own blueprints for doing so.

But it seems clear that more flexible and broader targeting has officially been a part of U.S. nuclear weapons policy since at least 2003.

But the first Reliable Replacement Warhead — and Complex 2030 behind it — is not designed with that goal in mind and, in the absence of policy statements from the current administration, it remains unclear what the role for nuclear weapons — old or new — in the U.S. might be.

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.»

Despite the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 — and thus the end of the cold war policy of mutually assured destruction — the U.S. maintains a stockpile of roughly 10,000 nuclear weapons.

From 1990 to the formation of NEI in 1994 he was the Vice President of Technical Programs at the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness (USCEA) where he was responsible for ensuring the technical accuracy and effectiveness of USCEA's industry communications and also led the regulatory, policy and R&D activities associated with supporting companies in the front - end of the nuclear fuel cycle.

However, U.S. government policy is to handle UET as wastes, not a uranium resource, and to build multi-billion-dollar conversion plants to remove the depleted uranium and to dispose of that waste through shallow land burial at low - level nuclear waste disposal sites.

Marv Fertel retired at the close of 2016 as president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) which is the policy organization for the U.S. nuclear industry and represents the industry in addressing generic technical and regulatory issues before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; as well as policy and legislative activities with the Congress and the Executive Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) which is the policy organization for the U.S. nuclear industry and represents the industry in addressing generic technical and regulatory issues before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; as well as policy and legislative activities with the Congress and the Executive nuclear industry and represents the industry in addressing generic technical and regulatory issues before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; as well as policy and legislative activities with the Congress and the Executive Nuclear Regulatory Commission; as well as policy and legislative activities with the Congress and the Executive Branch.

Dr. Thomas Cochran of the Natural Resources Defense Council contributes a major environmental organization's views on the present reality and future of nuclear power in the U.S. and alternative policies, especially in the West, that would provide a better energy future.

His responsibilities spanned the range of U.S. energy policies and programs — hydrocarbons, renewables, nuclear, and efficiency — including cybersecurity, project management, national security, and international cooperation.

The U.S. currently has a policy in place allowing first - use of nuclear weapons.

As far as I can tell, the only places where nuclear has been built out significantly more than in the U.S. are countries that have relied a great deal on public financing and highly centralized policies (with the possible exception of Finland).

Source: «Early Nuclear Retirements in Deregulated U.S. Markets: Causes, Implications and Policy Options,» MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (March 2017)-- Copy and artwork by Sonal Patel, a POWER associate editor.

Most recently, Dr, Makhijani has authored Carbon - Free and Nuclear - Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (IEER Press), the first analysis of a transition to a U.S. economy based completely on renewable energy, without any use of fossil fuels or nuclearNuclear - Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (IEER Press), the first analysis of a transition to a U.S. economy based completely on renewable energy, without any use of fossil fuels or nuclearnuclear power.

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?

SUMMARY: This declaration is based in large measure on my book, Carbon - Free and Nuclear - Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, as well as on research that I have done since that time up to the time of preparing this declaration.

Several sensitivity cases prepared for EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2018 (AEO2018) show the potential effects on the U.S. nuclear power fleet of different assumptions for natural gas prices, potential carbon policies, and nuclear power plant operating costs.

Using a «high - resolution electricity system planning model» of the DOE's two - year - old SunShot Initiative (meant to knock down the cost of solar electricity to market prices by 2020) alongside likely carbon - limitation policies, Kammen and company found that it's not unrealistic for solar to capture a third of the Western U.S. electricity market within 40 years, displacing currently more - attractive technologies like nuclear and natural gas.

It supports numerous far - left causes such as unilateral reduction in U.S. nuclear weapons stockpiles, opposes the vast majority of American foreign policy decisions, opposes pesticides and genetically engineered foods, opposes capitalism and actively promotes opposition to fossil fuel producers.

But a much more sweeping reform of U.S. nuclear energy policy is required.

Indian utilities may also want to consider a coal retirement policy previously used to help utilities retire nuclear assets through private - sector bonds, now being considered by utilities in Western U.S. states like Colorado and New Mexico to transition from coal to clean.

Dr. Makhijani has a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and has authored many publications on energy policy, including nuclear power and the first ever assessment of the energy efficiency potential of the U.S. economy.

Consensus is that the unsurmountable effort to implement any solid policy relating to long - term management of nuclear waste in the U.S. is centered around Yucca Mountain (Figure 3).

WHEREAS, America's 99 commercial nuclear plants generate 20 percent of the Nation's electricity with remarkably high levels of efficiency and reliability while producing zero emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases; and WHEREAS, the U.S. Congress enacted the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 and directed the Department of Energy (nuclear plants generate 20 percent of the Nation's electricity with remarkably high levels of efficiency and reliability while producing zero emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases; and WHEREAS, the U.S. Congress enacted the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 and directed the Department of Energy (Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 and directed the Department of Energy (DOE)...

Energy Secretary Rick Perry has directed his department to conduct a wide - ranging study of the U.S. electric grid, with a particular emphasis on recent coal and nuclear plant closures and whether environmental policies may be driving them.

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