Sentences with phrase «u.s. nuclear sites»

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This formerly used defense site was engineered by the U.S. government in 1960 with nine - foot - thick walls to withstand a nuclear blast.

SEOUL, April 29 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to invite experts and journalists from the United States and South Korea when the country closes its nuclear test site in May, Seoul officials said on Sunday, as U.S. North Korea's state media had said before the summit that Pyongyang would...

SEOUL, April 29 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to invite experts and journalists from the United States and South Korea when the country shuts its nuclear test site in May, Seoul officials said, as U.S. North Korea's state media had said before the summit that Pyongyang would immediately...

In geopolitical news, Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, is set to invite U.S. experts and journalists to witness the shutdown of a nuclear site in May, Reuters reported.

There is currently no approved national repository to begin removing it from temporary spent fuel pools located on - site at Indian Point and other U.S. nuclear power plants across the country.

Global warming is altering — and threatening to erase — much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S..

As the U.S. makes new plans for disposing of spent nuclear fuel and other high - level radioactive waste deep underground, geologists are key to identifying safe burial sites and techniques.

Separately, physicists have conducted an unprecedented set of six explosions at the U.S. nuclear test site in Nevada.

At the Hanford nuclear site in eastern Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is building the world's largest radioactive waste treatment plant for cleanup of 56 million gallons of radioactive and chemical waste.

The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S. — 208 million liters — sits in decaying underground tanks at the Hanford Site (a nuclear reservation) in southeastern Washington State.

The detonations took place at the nuclear test site in southern Nevada, where between 1951 and 1992 the U.S. government set off 828 underground nuclear tests and 100 atmospheric ones, whose mushroom clouds were seen from Las Vegas, 100 kilometers away.

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«That earthquake becomes the design basis for engineering at that site,» says Scott Burnell, a spokesman for the AEC's successor, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

One intriguing wrinkle of JCPOA is a plan to create what U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz calls an «international physics center» at the Fordow nuclear site.

For all 65 nuclear sites in the U.S. there are resident NRC inspectors at the different sites.

The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump site in Nevada gets a $ 120 million reboot on licensing for the project in the White House's 2018 budget blueprint for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Nuclear Negligence examines safety weaknesses at U.S. nuclear weapon sites operated by corporate contrNuclear Negligence examines safety weaknesses at U.S. nuclear weapon sites operated by corporate contrnuclear weapon sites operated by corporate contractors.

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

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.

Over the years, science has given way to raw politics as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and supporters of DOE's repository project in Congress have sought to obfuscate and compensate for an ever - multiplying set of flaws and problems with the site and with the notion of transporting unprecedented amounts of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level nuclear waste across the country.

I lived within range of the Nevada nuclear test site, where the U.S. government was detonating bombs until I was 9 months old.

U.S. spy planes had detected what appeared to be nuclear missile sites being built on the island of Cuba, just ninety miles off the coast of Florida.

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Under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Nevada Test Site (now the Nevada National Security Site)-- located just 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — saw the detonation of 928 nuclear devices between 1951 and 1992.

A view of the Three Mile Island power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history.

In March, 2007, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the first request for a site permit in 30 yr.

Steckler wrote in his report that those sites have total generation capacity of 32.5 MW, which is nearly a third of the nation's total nuclear nameplate generation capacity of just above 100 MW, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The U.S. nuclear industry has long argued that new reactors are prohibitively expensive because of an overly burdensome site selection and permitting process, which they say unnecessarily drives up costs.

Every waste dump in the U.S. leaks radiation into the environment, and nuclear plants themselves are running out of ways to store highly radioactive waste on site.

The 1 MW plant on the site of half - built nuclear power plant in Tennessee is a harbinger of things to come in the U.S. and global electricity mixes, as demonstrated in March and April.