Sentences with phrase «first nuclear facility»

TVO's plans for a new nuclear power plant have drawn considerable attention since it would be the first nuclear facility to be built in a liberalised marketplace.

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First authorized by President Bush and then re-authorized by President Obama, the top secret computer worm was designed by the US and Israel to infect an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz.

Iran is adhering to the restrictions imposed on its nuclear program under a 2015 agreement, the United Nations agency charged with monitoring the country's facilities has said in its first report since President Trump refused to certify the Islamic republic's compliance.

The first, simply called Rosatom, reveals the location of each Russian nuclear facility as well as radiation monitors across the country that would pick up any potential leaks.

In addition to tapping $ 1.5 billion in core facilities that include the first supercomputer in the region, an industrial - class a nofabrication lab, a top - rated visualization center, and a dozen state - of - the - art nuclear magnetic resonance machines, faculty members will get from $ 400,000 to $ 800,000 apiece per year for 5 years to outfit and staff their labs.

Stone highlighted the planned construction, beginning in 2018, of the Iranian Light Source Facility (ILSF), which would be the country's first synchrotron and its «biggest basic science project ever,» as «a testament to the country's determination to do science in spite of turmoil, political interference, and the viselike grip of economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies to block Iran's suspected effort to develop nuclear weapons.

A succession of mishaps and a scandal over an attempt to cover up an accident have kept the facility shut down for all but a few months since it first achieved criticality, or a sustained nuclear reaction, in 1994.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) recently completed its first integrated ignition experiment.

The Laboratory has received approval from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to take a first step toward building a new facility for the High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC) in the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC).

The nation's first ZEC programs began in New York and Illinois and require load - serving entities (e.g. electric utilities) to purchase ZECs from specified, in - state nuclear facilities (note: only certain nuclear units in New York and Illinois qualify).

Given the evident concern about nuclear waste, it will be interesting to see if there is any reactions from young people to the governments recent admission that, on current NDA plans, the proposed Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) is not expected to be available to take spent fuel from new nuclear power stations until around 2130, which they note «is approximately 50 years after the likely end of electricity generation for the first new nuclear power station».

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They apply to workers under federal jurisdiction such as those employed in banks, telecom or broadcast firms, postal services, airlines, surface transportation, airports and seaports, grain handling facilities, nuclear facilities and First Nations governments.

Advising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on the transfer of the world's first uranium - enrichment facility in Capenhurst to URENCO.

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