Sentences with phrase «for nuclear»

Funding for the nuclear R&D sector is much lower than many international competitors and negligible for research into future generations of fission reactors.»

A collaboration of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, reported production of the element in 2003.

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics.

So far, 350 metric tons of Russian HEU has been converted into 10,160 metric tons of the more diluted stuff, suitable for nuclear reactors.

«In order to spread nuclear technologies, you have to have the people who have the expertise in nuclear engineering, who know about nuclear materials and chain reactions and things like that — the same expertise for nuclear bombs.

It's a busy time for nuclear - policy analysts: Just days after President Obama told a crowd of 20,000 in Prague that the U.S. had a «moral responsibility» to take the lead in ridding the world of nuclear weapons, two groups have come forward with their own blueprints for doing so.

Using a new model of dusty galaxies developed by Richard Tuffs of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Driver then recalculated how much energy the dust blocks for 10,000 galaxies.

As the nation gears up for a nuclear revival, stories like Hayes» bring lessons from the past into sharp focus.

It also includes $ 765 million for nuclear energy research.

Sanders said mini-reactors are ideal to sell to developing countries that want to boost their manufacturing might and that would otherwise look to other countries for nuclear technologies.

Nevertheless, the job market for nuclear engineers is stronger than it has been in many years.

Pending the review, there should be a moratorium on all further nuclear activity, and revocation of recent clearances for nuclear projects.»

«For nuclear weapons reduction, a way to verify without revealing: New isotope - detection method could prove compliance but avoid divulging secrets.»

The question that should be asked is why zirconium is still used in cladding for nuclear fuel rods after being implicated in the Three Mile Island disaster.

To build the accelerator, the government said that it will provide $ 250 million with additional funding from Italy's Institute of Technology and National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), which is coordinating the project.

This permits prolonged occupation of the marginal environment, giving sufficient time for nuclear DNA mutations to generate anatomical structures appropriate for exploiting more abundant food resources in the new environment.

New research has shown that the benchmark used by the Office for Nuclear Regulation for judging how much should be spent on nuclear safety has no basis in evidence and places insufficient value on human life.

A team led by Yuri Oganessian of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, reports smashing together calcium - 48 — an isotope with 20 protons and 28 neutrons — and berkelium - 249, which has 97 protons and 152 neutrons.

The Physical Review Letters paper announcing the find is headed by Yuri Oganessian, a nuclear physicist at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia — a lab that was born in secrecy immediately after World War II and only emerged into daylight in the 1950s.

«One can only welcome the introduction of a competitive funding system,» says Valery Rubakov of the Russian Academy of Sciences» (RAS's) Institute for Nuclear Research.

They have the same markers as Missy for the nuclear DNA, but divergent mitochondrial DNA, which proves they are clones.

«US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster: Nuclear spent fuel fire could force millions of people to relocate.»

The mass of wiring and circuitry built into the wall of the Minuteman I rocket, just below the warhead, is the first digital flight computer for nuclear missiles.

- The Department of Energy is warning that the 77,000 - ton limit set for nuclear waste at the Yucca Mountain Repository already falls short of our needs.

The struggles of Japanese roboticists came despite a national program in the 1980s to develop robotics for nuclear power plants.

Ultimately, if consent - based siting efforts fail, in favor of the common good the federal government must exercise its power of eminent domain to overcome local opposition, creating a deep geologic repository for nuclear waste.

«Almost immediately it occurred to many people around the world that this could be used to make power and that it could be used for nuclear explosives,» another immigrant who worked on the Manhattan Project, the German physicist Hans Bethe, told me during an interview in 1997.

And Senator Patty Murray (D — WA) hopes to add money for the nuclear waste site at Yucca mountain, which Obama zeroed out in his 2011 budget request.

In March 2003, for instance, seismometers detected a disturbance coming from near Lop Nor, a dried - up lake in western China that the Chinese government, which signed but hasn't ratified the test ban treaty, has used for nuclear tests.

The White House announced this week that it will nominate Warren (Pete) Miller, a long - time researcher and administrator at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Department of Energy's Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy.

This has applications for nuclear plant safety, as well as national security and nuclear nonproliferation monitoring.

Researchers at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and the Russian Research Center of the Kurchatov Institute have presented plans for a 1,000 - ton detector at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory beneath the Caucasus Mountains.

In terms of safety, we are still using 1960s technologies for our nuclear plants.

«For any one point on the ground, the damage was less than you might expect for a nuclear weapon,» she says.

That was the message from James Steinberg, the United States's new deputy secretary of state, and Shyam Saran, the Indian Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Nuclear Issues and Climate Change, at an event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., today.

As administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration and undersecretary for nuclear security at the Department of Energy, D'Agostino oversees the nation's three weapons labs — Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia.

«Every robot needed differs according to its purpose and the damage,» says Tomohisa Ito, a spokesperson for the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning in Tokyo, a consortium of nuclear plant companies that aims to develop new technologies for cleaning up the Fukushima plant.

Sources told Reuters in May that German utilities were in talks with the government about setting up a «bad bank» for nuclear plants, in response to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to close them all by 2022 after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster.

From a strategic standpoint, which is the bigger competitor for nuclear: incumbent coal, oil and gas technologies or other alternative energy technologies?

In addition, a bill has been introduced in the Georgia General Assembly to allow the inclusion of construction work in progress (CWIP) for nuclear projects in the rate base.

CLOUD is an international collaboration [sponsored by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN] that is taking place in Geneva, but it's going to take a while before any results come out of that.

Before John Major's recent visit to Moscow I brought to his attention Debora MacKenzie's article on assistance for nuclear safety projects in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

To find these elements he and colleagues at Livermore and Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research collided ions (charged atoms) with other, target atoms in a cyclotron, a machine that accelerates the nuclei to high speeds with a magnetic field.

The initial plan was to create 20 «superposts» at the Institute for Nuclear Physics and another 40 in the National Research Council.

«We think that differentiation is a way that opens some doors and makes it easier for nuclear transfer programming to go back into embryonic stem cells.»

Uranium - 235 (U-235) is an isotope of uranium widely used for nuclear power generation and, like all other radioactive isotopes used in medicine, it has been also employed for diagnosis and treatment of diseased organs and tumors.

ElBaradei said that the IAEA is investigating individuals and companies operating in at least five countries that the agency believes are involved in a black market for nuclear weapons technology.

The DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy develops, manufactures, tests and delivers radioisotope power systems for space exploration and national security missions and maintains responsibility for nuclear safety throughout all aspects of the missions.

Much productive work might be achieved if this book became required reading for nuclear weapons scientists and antinuclear activists, as a way of overcoming the stereotypes that preclude debate.

The early site permit (ESP) process enables companies to obtain approval from the NRC for a nuclear power plant site before deciding to build a plant.