Sentences with phrase «by nuclear materials»

Is there a need for a greenhouse gas effect when none of the Energy balances issued from 1824 to the present include the «heat of the earth itself» There is a layer of molten material below the surface of the earth (probable keep hot by nuclear materials reactions) that CAN ACCOUNT FOR MUCH OF THE EARTHS CONTINUING TEMPERATURE WHEN ADDED TO THE SOLAR ENERGY INPUT FROM THE SUN.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Author Paul Meyer argues that despite the challenge of a restrictive definition of nuclear security, Seoul has the opportunity to «brand» its own summit success by supporting practical results to secure vulnerable nuclear material and enlarging the summit scope to address threats to the nuclear order of greater saliency and priority than those associated with putative terrorists.

Some futurists envision among alternative prospects a world devastated by thermo - nuclear war, a vastly overcrowded, hungry population existing in misery, and a human race scratching in the earth with crude instruments because the raw materials necessary for an industrial technology have been exhausted beyond replacement.

I would invite all Christians — evangelicals or not — to visit 2FP's website, closely read the background and FAQ material (including the «Four Horsemen» articles), as well as Wigg - Stevenson's Fermi Project paper («A World Without Nuclear Weapons»), his and Wilbanks» Relevant articles and the Spring 2009 issue of Yale Divinity School's Reflections, which was devoted to «Faith and the Future of Nuclear Weapons» and was guest - edited by Wigg - Stevenson.

When this was written, India's first PNE was viewed by the international community as a lesson learned; it was clearly an example of sensitive technology and nuclear material for peaceful purposes being diverted towards military use.

Pyongyang could still use a «dirty «nuclear bomb by installing raw nuclear material in short range missiles aimed at Seoul.

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.

Space in the new Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials Research — a # 235 million (US$ 338 million) publicly funded facility scheduled to open in 2019 that will be supported by six UK partner universities — is already dedicated to research on nuclear technologies.

A Chernobyl can not happen here — a survey by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) established that our reactors are free of the design flaws that permitted Chernobyl to explode, and in the United States a typical reactor core is surrounded by multiple enclosures to block the escape of radioactive material even in the event of an accident.

[1] Long - lived fission products (LLFPs): Radioactive materials with long half - lives produced by nuclear fission.

Materials provided by The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences.

The findings are presented this week in the journal Nature, in a paper by Ju Li, professor of nuclear science and engineering and of materials science and engineering at MIT, and seven others at MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, and universities in China and Germany.

At the summit, 47 countries pledged to prevent the theft of fissile material, which could be used to create a nuclear bomb, by securing all stockpiles within four years.

This raised the original rating from level 5 and puts the Fukushima Daiichi disaster technically in the same category as Chernobyl, although the quantity of discharged radioactive materials in Japan so far is about 10 percent of what was released by the Chernobyl reactor explosion, considered history's worst nuclear accident.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

That hydrogen buildup was the result of hot steam coming into contact with overheated nuclear fuel rods covered by a cladding of zirconium alloy, or «zircaloy» — the material used as fuel - rod cladding in all water - cooled nuclear reactors, which constitute more than 90 percent of the world's power reactors.

The knowledge gained from such research could inform the design, selection, and improvement of adsorbent materials and membranes for capturing gases such as radioactive krypton and xenon generated by nuclear power plants.

The scientists, Nicole King and Arielle Woznica of the University of California, Berkeley, with collaborators Jon Clardy and J.P. Gerdt at Harvard Medical School in Boston, discovered that within minutes after exposure to a chonodroitin sulfate (CS) lyase produced by V. fischeri, S. rosetta cells aggregate into mass mating swarms, entering into cell and nuclear fusion while duplicating and recombining their genetic material.

In a bid to restart discussion of what to do with the nation's nuclear waste, four U.S. senators today unveiled a draft plan to create a federal agency that would oversee short - and long - term storage of the highly radioactive materials produced primarily by commercial power reactors.

A team led by Tom Scott, a reader in nuclear materials at the University of Bristol, has found a way to do just that.

Nuclear Elec - tric, which regularly assesses the level of neutron damage at its stations by monitoring the condition of samples of construction materials placed in the reactor, decided to shut down the plant's two reactors to investigate what was happening more thoroughly.

The radioactive material was reprocessed by the French company Cogema in La Hague and will be used in Japan's fast - breeder nuclear reactor programme.

In its 2017 Budget - in - Brief, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security lists among its priorities allocating $ 103.9 million for radiological and nuclear detection equipment «to keep U.S. ports of entry safe and secure by detecting and interdicting illicit radioactive or nuclear materials.»

COULD the mysterious bursts of gamma rays that come from all parts of the sky be caused by distant collisions between balls of nuclear material measuring just 10 kilometres across?

In subsequent experiments, Hwang's team claimed to have overcome this concern by taking nuclear material from one volunteer and placing it in the egg of another, thus creating an embryonic clone matched to the nuclear donor.

Then on June 21, 2016, after technicians working in a glove box spilled about 7 tablespoons of a liquid containing plutonium, workers violated safety rules by sopping up the spill with organic cheesecloth and throwing it in waste bins with other nuclear materials, according to an internal Los Alamos report.

Clark's new techniques using capillary electrophoresis and microchip technology may allow for real - time field screening of plutonium and other materials by nuclear proliferation investigators and forensic scientists at the Department of Homeland Security.

The nucleus is surrounded by a double membrane (commonly referred to as a nuclear envelope), with pores that allow material to move in and out.

Since the end of the Soviet Union, the U.S. and Russia have been engaged in a nuclear non-proliferation effort designed to reduce the world's supply of HEU by diluting, or «blending down,» the weapons grade material into reactor grade material, sometimes called «turning megatons into megawatts.»

In this role he is responsible for a broad range of fundamental research at PNNL sponsored by the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science, including work in advanced computing, chemistry, materials science, and particle / nuclear physics.

Nuclear Materials in Coal Ash by Vladimir Xyro.

Summary: Gibbsite (α - Al (OH) 3) is an important natural and industrial material that is used in a wide variety of energy applications, and is a significant component of some of the high - level nuclear waste stored in large quantities at the Hanford Site, Washington, U.S.A., and at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, U.S.A. Industrial - scale processing of these materials requires an understanding of their behavior in highly alkaline solutions (often called Bayer liquors); processing of slurries and precipitates from these liquors is facilitated by controlling the nanoparticulate gibbsite morphology.

Brian Sales, distinguished research scientist and lead of the Correlated Electron Materials Group in the Materials Science and Technology Division, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «pioneering research for clean energy technologies, including thermoelectric and superconducting materials, and materials for nuclear waste storagMaterials Group in the Materials Science and Technology Division, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «pioneering research for clean energy technologies, including thermoelectric and superconducting materials, and materials for nuclear waste storagMaterials Science and Technology Division, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «pioneering research for clean energy technologies, including thermoelectric and superconducting materials, and materials for nuclear waste storagmaterials, and materials for nuclear waste storagmaterials for nuclear waste storage.»

Researchers are investigating a new material that might help in nuclear fuel recycling and waste reduction by capturing certain gases released during reprocessing.

By using electro - metallurgical separations, PRISM is designed to perform the recycling of the 96 percent of the fissionable material (uranium and transuranics) remaining in used nuclear fuel.

During the Clinton administration, Dr. Holdren served as a member of PCAST through both terms and in that capacity chaired studies requested by President Clinton on preventing theft of nuclear materials, disposition of surplus weapon plutonium, the prospects of fusion energy, U.S. energy R&D strategy, and international cooperation on energy - technology innovation.

Sponsored by DOE's Office of Fossil Energy, the High Performance Computing for Materials (HPC4Mtls) Program is part of the larger HPC4 Energy Innovation Initiative, a Department - wide effort comprised of the Office of Fossil Energy, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and the Office of Nuclear Energy.

«Understanding how defects are formed helps us understand how material is changed by radiation, which is important for safe nuclear power and space exploration,» added Weber, who is a Laboratory Fellow and a Fellow in the Materials Research Society.

Abstract: The edge - on starburst galaxy M82 exhibits complicated distributions of gaseous materials in its halo, which include ionized superwinds driven by nuclear starbursts, neutral materials entrained by the superwinds, and large - scale neutral streamers probably caused by a past tidal interaction with M81.

In accordance with the latest international regulations and supported by our large fleet of spent fuel transport casks, our proven team of cask operators and field engineers constantly provide full scope services to relocate and manage nuclear materials domestically and internationally.

This material has been enriched by nuclear reactions deep within the star and includes many of the elements necessary for forming rocky planets like our Earth, such as silicon and magnesium, and which are also the basis for life.

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The future of Darwyn's cell is altered when he urges the FBI to intercept a shipment of nuclear material arriving at the Port of Los Angeles - sent by none other than Farik; Ilija faces his past when he arrives home in Sarajevo.

ARTIST STATEMENT: My research is the nuclear spectrum: touching that which would be the sign or the form of the nuclear effect by imagining a radiant body, a material live, mutant and bombarded with isotopes.

Energy Probe has also been successful in stopping the export of Canada's Candu nuclear reactors, most of which have been sought by states with nuclear weapons aspirations — the Candu design lends itself to surreptitious diversion of spent fuel suitable for reprocessing into weapons grade material.

Uranium and thorium are the natural resources for nuclear energy; they are primordial materials and are not renewed by natural processes.

The IAEA has categorized four potential nuclear security threats (or, more accurately, nuclear security risks): the acquisition of nuclear weapons by theft; the creation of nuclear explosive devices using stolen nuclear materials; the use of radioactive sources in radiological dispersal devices (RDDs); and the radiological hazards caused by an attack on, or sabotage of, a facility or a transport vehicle.

So this is what Green Audit and other anti-nuclear campaign groups thrive on: distrust of both the nuclear industry and official health protection and regulatory agencies, allowing them to invoke shadowy conspiracies by men in white lab coats who presumably enjoy foisting dangerous radioactive materials on an unwilling public, all no doubt controlled by a sinister mastermind bearing a striking resemblance to Mr Burns off the Simpsons, the evil boss of Springfield Nuclear Powernuclear campaign groups thrive on: distrust of both the nuclear industry and official health protection and regulatory agencies, allowing them to invoke shadowy conspiracies by men in white lab coats who presumably enjoy foisting dangerous radioactive materials on an unwilling public, all no doubt controlled by a sinister mastermind bearing a striking resemblance to Mr Burns off the Simpsons, the evil boss of Springfield Nuclear Powernuclear industry and official health protection and regulatory agencies, allowing them to invoke shadowy conspiracies by men in white lab coats who presumably enjoy foisting dangerous radioactive materials on an unwilling public, all no doubt controlled by a sinister mastermind bearing a striking resemblance to Mr Burns off the Simpsons, the evil boss of Springfield Nuclear PowerNuclear Power Plant.

... The document shows Trump advisers contemplating ways to keep aging U.S. nuclear power plants on line, including by addressing concerns about the long - term storage of spent radioactive material.