Sentences with phrase «about nuclear security»

IF POLITICIANS are serious about nuclear security, they should start listening to scientists.

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That was what prompted yesterday's unedifying performance at prime minister's questions in parliament yesterday: Liam Fox and the PM, both gung - ho for nuclear weapons, reducing what should be a serious discussion about Britain's security needs to a bout of junior common room point - scoring.

North Korea appears to have achieved its goal of being able to threaten the U.S. with nuclear weapons, which combined with President Trump's rhetoric about North Korea means that South Korea and Japan have to wonder how much U.S. interests line up with their security concerns.

Arguing the need to maintain the UK's nuclear defence, he said it was «essential for security in an uncertain world», adding the only certain thing about the future is its unpredictability.

He said energy prices were rising, making nuclear energy an issue across the world; anxiety about climate change and the need to find clean energy sources was rising; and security of supply meant Britain must find new domestic sources of power.

For the first part of your question only (national security threat), from an author I don't fully agree with on Uranium and Russia (he thinks the sanctions on Russia are really about natural gas and he thinks the sanctions are foolish)- he proves that Russia is a large producer of Uranium while the US is seeing a decline in production and imports quite a bit of Uranium for nuclear energy production (sourced from the EIA).

Rachel Staley, of the British American Security Information Council, calls on Obama and Cameron to begin talking about nuclear disarmament, in a comment piece for politics.co.uk.

In his speech, Singh declared that «the people of India have to be convinced about the safety and security of our own nuclear power plants.

«Restoring normal operations at the National Nuclear Security Administration can take more than a week and labs and plants are likely to have lost at least three weeks of mission work, or about 6 percent of the year's productivity, due to the shutdown.»

The workshop, held 3 to 4 October, attracted two dozen nuclear arms and security experts from government and diplomacy, industry, academia, and non-governmental organizations for off - the - record discussions, followed by a presentation for about 150 Georgia Tech students and faculty members.

This situation has led to doubts and uncertainties about the roles and missions of nuclear weapons and their value against 21st century security threats, including allies» uncertainties about U.S. assurances as they relate to emerging nuclear - armed neighboring states.

«We're talking about trillion - dollar consequences,» says panelist Frank von Hippel, a nuclear security expert at Princeton University.

Funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program, El Capitan will be NNSA's first exascale supercomputer, capable of at least a quintillion calculations per second, about 50 to 100 times greater performance than the current fastest U.S. supercomputers.

«Sens. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.) asked about the situation in a Tuesday letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry, citing documents that appear to show that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) paid more than $ 24 million to the partnership of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for costs from a series of whistleblower cases.»

Supporting the mission of the Office of Nuclear Physics in DOE - SC, FRIB will enable scientists to make discoveries about the properties of rare isotopes (that is, short - lived nuclei not normally found on Earth), nuclear astrophysics, fundamental interactions, and applications for society, including in medicine, homeland security, and inNuclear Physics in DOE - SC, FRIB will enable scientists to make discoveries about the properties of rare isotopes (that is, short - lived nuclei not normally found on Earth), nuclear astrophysics, fundamental interactions, and applications for society, including in medicine, homeland security, and innuclear astrophysics, fundamental interactions, and applications for society, including in medicine, homeland security, and industry.

He knows what he's talking about too... the former Soviet is currently an expert consultant to the US Marine Corps, the US Secret Service, and federal nuclear security teams.

Our crew goes looking for rogue Dom and Cipher and after a tense encounter or two (one in New York, where nuclear security codes are lifted from a Russian official), the action shifts over to icy Russia, where World War III seems about to break out at a secret hijacked naval base as tanks and a nuclear submarine take chase after our heroes.

If you know about nuclear winter, maybe you can ask him some good questions so he will see through this silly paper that is an embarrassment for a security agency.

Concerns about rising fossil fuel prices, energy security, and greenhouse gas emissions support the development of new nuclear generating capacity.

It's like worrying about the state of security of Soviet nuclear warheads, but where you have no idea what kind of terrorists there might be out there and what their capabilities are — and on what time scales they operate.

I've read reports in the past about the huge cost to both the UK and US about the cost of decommissioning plants let alone the nuclear waste or security.

Electricity generation from nuclear power worldwide increases from 2.6 trillion kilowatthours in 2010 to 5.5 trillion kilowatthours in 2040, as concerns about energy security and greenhouse gas emissions support the development of new nuclear generating capacity.

The Pugwash conferences were conceived in the 1950s as a forum for scientists concerned about the global security implications of emerging technologies, namely nuclear energy.

Nuclear disarmament has often been characterized as the ultimate hard security topic — one that has be talked about in «serious» state security and arms control terms.