Sentences with phrase «by nuclear processes»

Researchers have been able to demonstrate how elements might be created in stars by nuclear processes occurring at very high temperatures and densities.

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Meitner's work in elucidating the process of nuclear fission in 1938 is well accepted by her fellow physicists — but Otto Hahn, who won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry «for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei,» barely acknowledged her contribution.

Small businesses generally participate in the nuclear industry by supplying parts to the giant multinationals that do the actual construction and processing.

As much as Australia might benefit from a cut in official interest rates, it would definitely benefit from encouraging a new industry, such as the nuclear - fuel processing facility being championed by the South Australian government, and supported by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

They are employed by pulp and paper processing companies, nuclear and hydro power generating companies, mining, petrochemical and natural gas companies, industrial instrument and other manufacturing companies, and by industrial instrument servicing establishments.

Before we understood the process of nuclear fusion, we were off by orders of magnitude.

In recent years there has risen a new type of the same concern in that the advancement of human ability to control and manipulate the natural forces by means of science and technology has created life threatening situation in terms of the pollution, nuclear weapons, and intervention of the natural process with the unforseen consequences.

Not only have such negotiations never been held before — nuclear weapons remain the only class of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) not explicitly prohibited by international law — the process itself also marks a turning point in multilateral diplomacy.

Conservatives, by contrast, are committed to allowing the replacement of existing nuclear power stations provided they are subject to the normal planning process for major projects (under a new national planning statement) and provided also that they receive no public subsidy.

Yesterday's document stated: «We have agreed a process that will allow Liberal Democrats to maintain their opposition to nuclear power while permitting the government to bring forward the national planning statement for ratification by parliament so that new nuclear construction is possible.»

Netanyahu plans to use the address to warn the U.S. about what he views as the danger of negotiating with Iran over limits to its nuclear program, a process in which President Barack Obama has been endorsed by the leaders of Britain and Germany.

As the relicensing process for New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant crawls forward, federal regulators have issued decisions on contentions raised by the state and an environmental group.

Unilateral nuclear disarmament did not cause the secession of the SDP, since it did not become Labour Party policy until two years and a General Election after that direct intervention in the British electoral process by a President of the European Commission as such, a true betrayal of Gaitskell, Bevan, Bevin, Attlee, the lot.

«No matter what, this fund is to only be used in the event the plant is actually shut down, a process closely monitored by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission,» said spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office had raised the issue during the ongoing relicensing process and appealed the initial decision, saying there needed to be a new analysis of the impacts caused by potential severe accidents at the Buchanan nuclear facility and potential upgrades to protect the public against such accidents.

These 10 sets encode proteins responsible for four related bioenergetic processes: nuclear - encoded mitochondrial electron transport (the key energy - extracting operation), mitochondrial biogenesis (by which new mitochondria are formed) as well as glucose utilization and glucose sensing (processes by which glucose levels are evaluated and modified).

In the short term, the Federal government can encourage increased use of nuclear energy by streamlining the permitting process and by backing necessary financing to get new facilities online.

Nuclear fusion in stars and supernovae is the primary process by which new natural elements are created.

Right now, it can only be made by processing uranium in a nuclear reactor or particle accelerator.

Fusion aims to generate power by melding light nuclei together to make larger ones, a process during which some of the nuclear mass is converted into energy.

Plants perform these regulations mainly by regulating nuclear gene expression and multiple intracellular signaling pathways have been shown to play a role in the genomic response of plants to stress, but the processes are not well understood.

The story of the nuclear processes that built the elements in your body was essentially told in a seminal paper in 1957 by Fred Hoyle, William Fowler, and Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge.

Fleischmann and Pons said this process could not be caused by any known chemical reaction, and the nuclear reaction term «cold fusion» was attached to it.

Researchers from The University of Manchester have taken a major step forward by describing the quantitative modelling of the electronic structure of a family of uranium nitride compounds — a process that could in the future help with nuclear waste recycling technologies.

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

The Homestake experiment detects the high - energy neutrinos that are produced by two minor branches of the «proton - proton chain», the process of nuclear fusion in which sets of four protons combine to make nuclei of helium - 4.

The group, led by Hwang Woo Suk at Seoul National University, cloned human embryos using somatic cell nuclear transfer, a process that biologists have used to clone live animals.

Hindering that process were a lack of regulations as well as «a collusion between the government, the [nuclear] regulators and [plant operator] Tepco and the lack of governance by said parties ``, Kurokawa's panel said in an English - language summary.

But Daya Bay's nuclear reactors produce billions of trillions of electron antineutrinos every second, emitted by neutrons during a process called «beta decay,» and scientists have finally been able to measure their metamorphosis as they pass through a series of detectors positioned outside the reactors.

Long before descending into scientific infamy, Hoyle made what should have been a lasting contribution with a 1954 Astrophysical Journal paper laying out a process by which stars heavier than 10 suns would burn hydrogen and helium at their cores into heavier elements through a progressively hotter series of nuclear fusion reactions.

December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity, led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy use by 2040

The elements are synthesised by the nuclear combustion process in stars and driven out into space when the star dies and explodes.

Collectively, our results indicated that RASSF1 acts to restrict EMT and invasion by indirectly controlling YAP nuclear shuttling and activation through a RhoB - regulated cytoskeletal remodeling process, with potential implications to delay the progression of RASSF1 - hypermethylated lung tumors.

An American research team in January discovered a way to initiate nuclear fusion reactions in a process called «fast ignition» by using a high - intensity laser, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

nuclear power Energy derived from processes that produce heat by splitting apart the nuclei of atoms (fission) or forcing atomic nuclei to merge (fusion).

Presumably, the strong stellar wind emitted by giant stars eventually blows the titanium oxide out of the star's outer regions (along with hydrogen and helium gases and dust made of elements and molecules like carbon) into interstellar space, until vigorous convection brings out more titanium and oxygen that are created from nuclear processes deeper in the star.

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.

A rare, premature aging disease, Hutchinson - Gilford progeria is caused by a single point mutation in the gene encoding lamin A, which forms a protein scaffold on the inner edge of the nucleus that helps maintain chromatin structure and organize nuclear processes such as RNA and DNA synthesis.

In casting off its outer layers, however, such an evolved companion star would have contaminated Gacrux with the later by - products of its more advanced nuclear processes.

The key idea is the use of the substantial second order coupling between the nuclear spins obtained through a strongly detuned NV centre which is periodically reinitialized by a dissipative process.

Additionally, by engineering FP fusions associated with cellular organelles, scientists have been able to study many cellular processes, including mitosis, mitochondrial fission / fusion, nuclear import, and neuronal trafficking.

However, there are several outstanding challenges caused by the relaxation and decoherence processes of the NV center electron spin as these limit quantum gate fidelities on nuclear registers as well as spectral resolution, selectivity and signal to noise ratio in sensing applications.

However, law requires a exhaustive review process for nuclear space missions by the Department of Energy and an interagency panel to report to NASA, which then must submit a request for permission to launch to the White House.

Other types of RNA play important roles in regulating gene expression (microRNAs), RNA processing by the spliceosome (small nuclear RNAs or snRNA), and protein translation (tRNAs).

In a recent study of 10 lean healthy individuals, both nuclear transcription factor - κB activation and nitrotyrosine were acutely increased ≤ 3-fold after a high GI meal by comparison with a low GI meal, suggesting that high - normal physiologic increases in blood glucose after meals could aggravate inflammatory processes (6).

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For roughly three decades, twin sisters Jane and Louise Wilson have created large - scale photographs inspired by important events in European history — in the process, capturing the nuclear site at Chernobyl and the former headquarters of the East German secret police.

I made the prints by combining time - lapse photographs of both the Hanford Reach and the mouth of the Columbia River with layers of text derived from stories told by Nagasaki bombing victims, data regarding the environmental and health effects of nuclear processing at Hanford, and poems by Dylan Thomas and Mary Oliver.

Zhong Zhong (left) and Hua Hua are the first primate clones made by somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same process that created Dolly the sheep in 1996.

The leaded gas adventurers have profitably polluted the world on a grand scale and, in the process, have provided a model for the asbestos, tobacco, pesticide and nuclear power industries, and other twentieth - century corporate bad actors, for evading clear evidence that their products are harmful by hiding behind the mantle of scientific uncertainty.