Sentences with phrase «first nuclear projects»

They have raised sharp concerns about the reactor design Westinghouse was peddling, and the company's ill - fated attempt to run one of America's first nuclear projects in decades.

The Prime Minister replied that the proposed investment of about # 177 million to complete the construction of two 440 - megawatt Soviet - designed VVER 213 reactors at Mochovce will be the first nuclear project financed by an international financial institution.

Obama through the U.S. Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program provided credit support to build our first nuclear project in decades (Georgia Power's Vogtle).

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May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

In 2006, sixty - one years after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Robert Harney and his colleagues published «Anatomy of a Project to Produce a First Nuclear Weapon.&rfirst atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Robert Harney and his colleagues published «Anatomy of a Project to Produce a First Nuclear Weapon.&rFirst Nuclear Weapon.»

When the votes were counted, the Jamesport nuclear project, without the first shovel in the ground, was dealt a resounding defeat.

They discuss Schneiderman's projects during his first year in office, including gun regulations, ethics reforms, Indian Point nuclear plant, and financial oversight.

Aaronson compares it to the first self - sustaining nuclear reaction, achieved by the Manhattan project in Chicago in 1942.

The first truly large - scale nuclear unit — a 428,000 - kilowatt installation at San Onofre, Calif. — was licensed for construction as recently as February 24, 1964, and announcements of commercial nuclear power projects did not begin to gain momentum until the fall of 1965; yet by the summer of 1966 nuclear power had drawn abreast of fossil power in the utility marketplace.

As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor.

However, he was an unlikely choice as leader of the team assembled to build the first nuclear weapons since he was not an experimental physicist, nor had he led any kind of project before.

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.

Habib leads the «Computing the Sky at Extreme Scales» project or «ExaSky,» one of the first projects funded by the recently established Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a collaborative effort between DOE's Office of Science and its National Nuclear Security Administproject or «ExaSky,» one of the first projects funded by the recently established Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a collaborative effort between DOE's Office of Science and its National Nuclear Security AdministProject (ECP), a collaborative effort between DOE's Office of Science and its National Nuclear Security Administration.

It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the Manhattan Project invented the first nuclear weapon, to 1987, when the last reactor shut down.

This rich account details everything from the project's first calculations run simulating nuclear explosions to its legendary parties that once drew poet Dylan Thomas.

«This is the first formal confirmation at that high level that those countries entered mainstream strategic nuclear war planning,» says Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at FAS, which obtained the excerpt from a 2002 U.S. Strategic Command (U.S. STARTCOM) briefing on the new war plan to take effect inuclear war planning,» says Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at FAS, which obtained the excerpt from a 2002 U.S. Strategic Command (U.S. STARTCOM) briefing on the new war plan to take effect iNuclear Information Project at FAS, which obtained the excerpt from a 2002 U.S. Strategic Command (U.S. STARTCOM) briefing on the new war plan to take effect in 2003.

If everything goes according to plan the first of two AP1000 reactors will go online in 2016 at Plant Vogtle in Burke County, Ga., marking the first U.S. nuclear construction project to break ground since the 1970s; the second is set to go online in 2017.

The Manhattan Project refers to the effort to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II by the United States with assistance from the United Kingdom and Canada.

We present the first results of project SUNBIRD (Supernovae UNmasked By InfraRed Detection), where we aim to uncover CCSNe that otherwise would remain hidden in the complex nuclear regions of LIRGs, and in this way improve the constraints on the fraction that is missed by optical seeing - limited surveys.

During our pilot program and subsequent first full year we have discovered three CCSNe and one candidate with projected nuclear offsets as small as 200 pc.

Brookhaven Lab health physicist Stephen Musolino describes the multi-lab project to demonstrate how equipment designed to interdict radiological and nuclear material could be repurposed to protect first responders and the public in the early aftermath of an incident that released such material.

In a statement the NNSA said that, before the first loading of materials, it had conducted a five - year safety review of the Taishan nuclear power project and dispatched on - site supervisors for the entire construction process.

For more than 150 years, Columbia Engineering has been transcending disciplines, educating leaders and transforming lives with inventions such as early steamboat technology, FM radio, and the Pupin coil, and have led groundbreaking projects, including New York's first subway and the world's first nuclear submarine.

First, such a planet is potentially close enough, at just over four light years, for us to reach and colonize it if we used nuclear rockets (NASA has proposed a plan for accomplishing this, dubbed Project Longshot).

The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

Chernobyl VR Project is a first - person virtual tour of the abandoned city of Pripyat and the neighboring Chernobyl Power Plant, a place known for a massive nuclear disaster a few decades ago.

Moore's piece was commissioned to commemorate the first successful nuclear fission, which took place on campus in 1941 and we now know it as the birthplace for the Manhattan Project.

Bruce Nauman first proposed his inverted pyramid, sunk into the ground in front of the University of Münster's Department of Nuclear Physics, for the first Münster project, in 1977.

MUCH WIDER THAN A LINE SITELINES SANTA FE 2016 Curated by Rocío Aranda - Alvarado, Kathleen Ash - Milby, Pip Day, Pablo León de la Barra and Kiki Mazzucchelli «Brighter than several suns at midday» was how Manhattan Project nuclear program director General Leslie Groves described the impact of the first controlled nuclear test in history, 1945's «Operation Trinity,»...

Officials, however, are still pursuing the seemingly quixotic construction of the country's first nuclear power plant, along with the controversial hydroelectric Ilısu Dam project.

One recent study, published by Yale Law School's Cultural Cognition Project, found that conservatives become less skeptical about global warming if they first read articles suggesting nuclear energy or geoengineering as solutions.

I will tell you about another scientist from an earlier time, Her name was Leona Woods Libby, she was the only woman that worked on the manhattan project, she was accomplished in developing the first nuclear reactor; after the war she went into the science of climate change based on natural cycles.

The CLOUD project at the European Center for Nuclear Research is probing the Svensmark - Shaviv hypothesis on the role of cosmic rays modulated by the solar magnetic field on the low cloud coverage; the first and encouraging results have been published in Nature.

The report was drafted by young people aged between 16 and 25 who visited power stations, nuclear plants and projects promoting renewable energy sources to investigate the issues at first hand and met with experts, industry, pressure groups and innovators, to look at how we can keep the lights on in 2050 while reducing carbon emissions.

The new FOA covers three funding pathways: First - of - a-Kind (FOAK) Nuclear Demonstration Readiness Project pathway, intended to address major advanced reactor design development projects or complex technology advancements for existing plants which have significant technical and licensing risk, and have the potential to be deployed by the mid-to-late 2020s; Advanced Reactor Development Projects pathway, covering a broad scope of concepts and ideas that could improve the capabilities and commercialisation potential of advanced reactor designs and technologies; and Regulatory Assistance Grants, providing support towards obtaining certification and licensing approvals for advanced reactor designs and capabprojects or complex technology advancements for existing plants which have significant technical and licensing risk, and have the potential to be deployed by the mid-to-late 2020s; Advanced Reactor Development Projects pathway, covering a broad scope of concepts and ideas that could improve the capabilities and commercialisation potential of advanced reactor designs and technologies; and Regulatory Assistance Grants, providing support towards obtaining certification and licensing approvals for advanced reactor designs and capabProjects pathway, covering a broad scope of concepts and ideas that could improve the capabilities and commercialisation potential of advanced reactor designs and technologies; and Regulatory Assistance Grants, providing support towards obtaining certification and licensing approvals for advanced reactor designs and capabilities.

Development is proceeding apace, yet the complexity of the project and its novelty as the first nuclear plant in a liberalised electricity market may give rise to obstacles or delays.

And though the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently approved the first new nuclear reactors in decades, the projects have been plagued by delays and highNuclear Regulatory Commission recently approved the first new nuclear reactors in decades, the projects have been plagued by delays and highnuclear reactors in decades, the projects have been plagued by delays and high costs.

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