Sentences with phrase «enough nuclear material»

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Ironically enough, the issue of «nuclear security» should be viewed as a consequence of the failure of the existing nuclear regime, proven to be incapable of controlling either the illicit transfer of nuclear technology or preventing the military use of nuclear material intended for peaceful purposes.

«The highly unpredictable and aggressive regime in North Korea recently conducted its third nuclear test and could already have enough fissile material to produce more than a dozen nuclear weapons,» he wrote in the Telegraph.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to overhaul its licensing protocol for obtaining radioactive materials, citing a recent report that a fictitious company got a license for enough material for a dirty bomb.

If enough material, mostly in the form of hydrogen gas, accumulates on the surface of the white dwarf, nuclear fusion reactions can occur and intensify, culminating into a cosmic - sized hydrogen bomb blast.

Just one ton of separated plutonium is enough material to make more than 120 crude nuclear weapons.

If the neutrons hit uranium or any other fissionable nuclear material, they will release gamma rays energetic enough to penetrate most types of shielding.

The pools — water - filled basins that store and cool used radioactive fuel rods — are so densely packed with nuclear waste that a fire could release enough radioactive material to contaminate an area twice the size of New Jersey.

US spy satellites had identified only one small nuclear reactor in China capable of making the material for a bomb, and the report concluded that it could not produce enough until 1965.

The nuclear - weapon states still have enough fissile materials in their weapon stockpiles for tens of thousands of nuclear weapons.

As of December 2013, the program has been completed: 500 metric tons of bomb - grade highly enriched uranium have been recycled into more than 14,000 metric tons of low enriched uranium — permanently eliminating enough bomb - grade material for 20,000 nuclear warheads.

Nuclear has in fact started in the USA, although the raison d'etre was more connected to collecting enough fissile material for their military requirements rather than civil power generation.

Considering that, the people who wish us ill are highly unlikely to get their hands on enough — or any — actually dangerous nuclear material with which to stage an attack.