Sentences with phrase «by nuclear scientists»

And the special high explosives fabricated by nuclear scientists to compress the plutonium cores in a deliberate detonation also have an unstable molecular structure.

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While the work there was classified, scientists were reportedly trying to invent a nuclear - powered airplane by exposing military equipment to radiation to see if it could hold up.

The «cosmic ray test» was developed by Silas Beane, a nuclear physicist at the University of Washington, and involves scientists building up a simulation of space using a lattice or grid.

Besides scientists, he encountered looters and nuclear workers who still work at the plants, which are to be completely decommissioned by 2020.

Sarov is an isolated city kept under constant guard by the Russian military, and only scientists and employees of the nuclear centre are allowed to enter, leave, or take residence in the city.

The same thing can be said of the decision to engage in nuclear tests that have consequences not foreseen by the scientists who plan them and affect distant nations that have no part in the decisions.

because it was scientists that created the Nuclear bomb, in fact it was science that created all weapons... so by your logic, Science is to blame for the Death of EVERY human being in Warfare throughout time except for those killed by rocks and sticks that are unsharpened and / or killed by use of barehands... Science has slaughtered BILLIONS...... of course that's nonsense right?

The other side of the «green» argument against nuclear power is the fear by some climate scientists that carbon emissions in New York could increase by more than 31 million metric tons during the next two years, if a number of nuclear power plants close.

In a recent experiment performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN, an international collaboration with scientists from eleven countries, led by scientists of the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC (Spain) and the RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan), made a very surprising observation: High - energy gamma rays — which are mediated by the electromagnetic force — are emitted in the decay of a certain excited nucleus — tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear force.

In 2006, 20 years after reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was encased in cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposed.

Their fundamental discoveries may aid research into the management of nuclear waste, by helping scientists understand how chemicals can be used to separate the most radioactive elements.

Other nuclear scientists are waiting to see how South Korea's new energy policy, due by the end of the year, might affect research, including work on fusion reactors.

Buoyed by an allocation of $ 1.25 billion in funding for reactor research from the 2005 Energy Policy Act, INL scientists are working to improve safety, boost efficiency, minimize waste, and decrease cost in a new generation of nuclear reactors.

Nuclear transfer — used to clone Dolly and now owned by Geron — may help scientists develop more potent stem - cell therapies

The organization's early years chronicled the dawn of the nuclear age and the birth of the scientists» movement, as told by the men and women who built the atomic bomb and then lobbied with both technical and humanist arguments for its abolition,» states the organization's Web site.

The discovery was made by a team of scientists from the Italian Universita» degli Studi di Milano (UniMi), the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) in Cracow, the Romanian National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN - HH), the Japanese University of Tokyo and the Belgian University of Brussels.

For decades scientists have sought to generate clean energy by instigating the kind of sustained nuclear fusion reactions that power the sun.

The Incredible Hulk was transformed from mild scientist into wild superhero by gamma rays from a nuclear explosion.

Four senior Pakistani nuclear scientists, including Khan, subsequently have been detained by Pakastani authorities for what has been described as «debriefing.»

Scientists are taking medical imaging research and drug discovery to a new level by developing a molecular imaging system that combines several advanced technologies for all - in - one imaging of both tissue models and live subjects, say presenters at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

Nearly 40 years ago, in the wake of Sputnik's launch, New Math was supposed to save America — perhaps by implanting creative concepts into the minds of future rocket scientists and nuclear engineers.

Overall, the study's data from mitochondrial DNA — different from nuclear DNA in that it helps scientists trace maternal lineages — reveal that population structure in humpback whales is largely driven by female whales that return annually to the same breeding grounds and by the early experience of calves that accompany their mothers on their first round - trip migration to the feeding grounds.

Scientists have improved their ability to detect underground nuclear explosions set off by rogue nations, a development sure to be of interest as the Nuclear Security Summit kicks off its 2016 meeting in Washington D.C.nuclear explosions set off by rogue nations, a development sure to be of interest as the Nuclear Security Summit kicks off its 2016 meeting in Washington D.C.Nuclear Security Summit kicks off its 2016 meeting in Washington D.C. today.

Many of the folks who are involved in building the last round of nuclear weapons or even the first round of nuclear weapons are either passing away or retiring or otherwise their knowledge is becoming inaccessible; and of course there are records, but there is, as many physicists who I interviewed said, «There is nothing like learning by doing and if we want to maintain the ability to build nuclear weapons for the indefinite future, then some argue that we need to continue to build them to train up this next generation of potential nuclear weapon scientists.»

Russian scientist Natalya Pugach from the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University discovered this yet to be explained effect with her British colleagues, whose theory group headed by Professor Matthias Eschrig.

Early on, a number of young scientists set out to replicate the attention - grabbing findings of Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, and many of them did just that: They «verified» that Fleishmann and Pons had succeeded in achieving nuclear fusion by electrolyzing heavy water, he says.

Many of those scientists were not Americans, though, but immigrants appalled by Hitler and horrified at the prospect that he might acquire a nuclear fission weapon.

However, sources tell ScienceInsider that several prominent scientists and nuclear policy heavyweights rejected the Administration's overtures, and that other candidates were thought to carry too much political baggage to be confirmed by the Senate.

The Union of Concerned Scientists has organized a letter, signed by Nobel prize — winning physicist Leon Lederman, urging President Obama to aggressively cut the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal.

By combining data from two high - energy accelerators, nuclear scientists have refined the measurement of a remarkable property of exotic matter known as quark - gluon plasma.

NEW DELHI — A group of scientists has stirred a controversy within India's research community last week by calling for a moratorium on new nuclear plants.

But a document newly obtained by the Washington, D.C. — based Federation of American Scientists (FAS)-- founded by the creators of the original nuclear bomb in 1945 and monitoring the weapons ever since — reveals that in recent years the U.S. target list has expanded to include so - called «regional proliferators,» smaller states seeking to acquire such weapons of mass destruction.

But at a workshop cosponsored by AAAS, experts said the crisis also was an inflection point, leading to agreements to limit nuclear testing and curb proliferation and driving a cohort of scientists and engineers into the fields of arms control and science diplomacy.

A third of these are warheads — dubbed W76 — which, since 1978, have been deployed atop submarine - based ballistic missiles or stored in what is known as the Enduring Nuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal everNuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal everNuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal evernuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal evernuclear arsenal ever since.

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.

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.

By poring over images from commercial satellites and freely available seismic data, a scientist in London has pieced together a detailed picture of China's secret nuclear weapons testing site.

As President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear inNuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear innuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear innuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear innuclear industry.

Some scientists propose creating power sources and electricity by igniting fusion reactions with lasers that trigger nuclear fission that can consume spent nuclear fuel.

Ruff, who was in Paris last week as part of a last - ditch attempt by members of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War to stop the tests, says that 60 underground tests have been carried out by the French since the 1983 scientific visit and that in 1987 scientists found caesium - 137 on Mururoa.

By tracking the particles that emerge from the fireballs, scientists can learn about nuclear phase transitions — both the melting and how the quarks and gluons «freeze out» as they did at the dawn of time to form the visible matter of today's world.

New Scientist, in a powerful comment «Welcome winds of change» (Editorial, 29 July), suggested that Japan was in the best position to persuade France to abandon its nuclear madness by boycotting all French luxury goods.

Soviet scientists made redundant by the end of the Cold War want to earn a living by incinerating toxic chemicals and old nuclear reactors in underground nuclear blasts.

The discovery of element 118 was by scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russia and at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US, and it was my colleagues who proposed the name oganesson.

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.

To try to find a definitive answer, scientists led by George Daley of Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, compared the genetic signatures of mouse ES cells made through nuclear transfer and those made from parthenogenetic embryos.

More than 50 years later, scientists have found a way to use radioactive carbon isotopes released into the atmosphere by nuclear testing to settle a long - standing debate in neuroscience: Does the adult human brain produce new neurons?

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by scientists who created the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project and wanted to raise awareness about the dangers of nuclear tScientists was founded in 1945 by scientists who created the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project and wanted to raise awareness about the dangers of nuclear tscientists who created the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project and wanted to raise awareness about the dangers of nuclear technology.

The Congress, Co-sponsored by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and Johns Hopkins Medicine, welcomed physicians, chemists, physicists, technologists, and all scientists and clinicians interested in translational research and current state - of - the - art molecular imaging using Ga - 68 PET radiopharmaceuticals and radionuclide therapy.

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.