Sentences with phrase «for nuclear materials»

«This is a development of considerable significance for nuclear materials science, where composites — particularly oxide dispersion - strengthened steels — have long been considered promising candidate materials for applications involving high temperature and high irradiation dose,» says Sergei Dudarev, a professor of materials science at Oxford University in the U.K., who was not involved in this work.

Former New Jersey Sen. Robert Torricelli stated the New Jersey ports should not be used «as rest stops for nuclear material.»

Recent accidents and increasing political instability make Russia a dangerous destination for nuclear material, say nuclear experts, but the International Atomic Energy Agency says it had no alternative after Britain and France backed down from their initial offer to take it.

He or she is using a Geiger counter to scan for nuclear material in a ship's cargo.

Not exact matches

In all seriousness, space experts estimate the market for the moon's materials — which include iron ore, precious metals, and helium - 3 gas that could be used to provide nuclear power — to be in the trillions of dollars.

That plan should also include an agreement for the full accounting of all of Kim's atomic arms; a listing of all materials he can use to make additional nuclear weapons as well as a detailed accounting of North Korea's various offensive missiles.

There, a nuclear explosion can suck up dirt, debris, water, and other materials, creating many tons of radioactive fallout — and this material rises high into the atmosphere, where it drifts for hundreds of miles.

As NRC explained in a March 2011 letter to Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Russian company would have to apply for and obtain an export license and «commit to use the material only for peaceful purposes» in accordance with «the U.S. - Russia Atomic Energy Act Section 123 agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation.»

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The Canada - India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement came into force in 2013, putting in place the necessary mechanisms for preventing the use of nuclear materials for non-peaceful puNuclear Cooperation Agreement came into force in 2013, putting in place the necessary mechanisms for preventing the use of nuclear materials for non-peaceful punuclear materials for non-peaceful purposes.

This paper is based in part on material from my book, Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age.

This individualism has dismissed both the extrinsic and the intrinsic value of each human being in favor of material and professional indices of success that most people believe are due to luck as much as anything else (hence the increasing popularity of lotteries) Because the apocalyptic worldview of the early church has now been replaced with the desperate and meaningless finality of possible nuclear annihilation, eschatological expectations and hope for reversal of human fortunes have given way to a «present - only» scheme of refetence even in Christian theology.

Some futurists envision among alternative prospects a world devastated by thermo - nuclear war, a vastly overcrowded, hungry population existing in misery, and a human race scratching in the earth with crude instruments because the raw materials necessary for an industrial technology have been exhausted beyond replacement.

Gillibrand also asked for an extra $ 20 million in funding, which she thinks is necessary to improve detection of nuclear materials and prevent a dirty bomb from being detonated.

When this was written, India's first PNE was viewed by the international community as a lesson learned; it was clearly an example of sensitive technology and nuclear material for peaceful purposes being diverted towards military use.

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.

An entire international body designed for restricting trade of nuclear materials was created in response to India's first test, and the US did impose sanctions on India for their tests in the 90's.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

Many also think that North Korea is more likely to exchange nuclear knowledge, equipment, and / or materials for money or oil.

Congressman Brian Higgins recently won unanimous support in Congress for a measure requiring the Department of Homeland Security to conduct a terrorism threat assessment on the transportation of chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological materials in the United States.

No - one who proposes this ever mentions how they plan to maintain flights from or to UK airports without an agreement on Open Skies, or transport nuclear materials without an agreement on Euratom, or get goods into and out of Britain without customs infrastructure in place on the Channel, or allow people to leave and enter the UK without an immigration system designed for them.

Also on the agenda at the summit will be protecting countries from cyber-attacks on their civil nuclear sites and preventing terrorists from obtaining the raw materials for a «dirty bomb».

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.

The Division provides planning and technical support for the County's inactive hazardous waste sites and participates in a number of coalitions organized to address these sites including the Coalition Against Nuclear Materials in Tonawanda and the West Valley Citizen's Task Force.

A radioactive material has been detected in the groundwater below the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County and New York's governor Saturday called for state officials to investigate.

The University of Manchester, in collaboration with other universities, industrial partners, and various other agencies, sponsors training centers where students can earn doctoral degrees in areas that target such skill deficits as next - generation nuclear technologies or materials for demanding environments.

They showed that although these genomes are separate physical entities, the mitochondrial genome affects the evolution of the nuclear genome, the genetic material responsible for variations in most traits such as hair color and height.

Space in the new Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials Research — a # 235 million (US$ 338 million) publicly funded facility scheduled to open in 2019 that will be supported by six UK partner universities — is already dedicated to research on nuclear technologies.

These beams were then delivered into one of the lab's three experimental areas, called halls, where they were directed into the nuclei of target materials for nuclear physics experiments.

Questions over safety, disposal of waste and the possibility that plants could make material suitable for weapons have slowed the spread of nuclear technology

This work could also lead to radiation - tolerant materials for potential use in nuclear power generation.

These results show that understanding how the nanostructures are formed could lead to the ability to design materials with properties ranging from high surface area to high strength for batteries, nuclear reactors, and other energy applications.

And here at TRIUMF, I work on nuclear physics accelerators and the cyclotron, which is used for materials science and nuclear medicine.

Due to the limited number of specimens and difficulties in obtaining endogenous DNA from such old material, the number of Neandertals for which nuclear genomes have been sequenced is still limited.

The researchers expect that the new equations will be a basis for formulating more reliable and efficient predictions of the usable lifetime of materials in nuclear reactors and other environments with high levels of ionizing radiation.

But in the post-9 / 11 mind - set, nuclear plants loom as potential terrorist targets and as possible sources of raw material for nuclear weapons.

Understanding the nature of radiation damage in materials is of paramount importance for controlling the safety of nuclear reactors, using ion implantation in semiconductor technology, and designing reliable devices in space.

«The explanation is, in brief, that in metals, irradiation produces on picosecond time scales a liquid - like zone, which during the cooling - down phase recombines much of the initially produced damage, leading to a factor of 1/3 reduction in damage,» says Professor Kai Nordlund who was in lead of the team on search for more accurate predictions of usability of materials in nuclear environments, that now present their results freshly in Nature Communications.

1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectra should be included in supplementary materials for all synthesized organic compounds.

The group's findings potentially have serious implications for the selection of materials for nuclear applications.

Pervez Hoodbhoy, a Bulletin member and head of Quaid - i - Azam University's physics department in Pakistan, called for a moratorium on the development of materials that go into nuclear weapons and on testing nuclear weapons.

This property could help scientists develop better methods for handling and purifying nuclear materials.

«It's a very important prerequisite for the control of nuclear materials,» says Brian Chow of the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, who has analysed ways of reducing the world's plutonium stockpile.

Mitochondrial fingerprinting is normally used when the genetic material in a sample is degraded, for while there are only two copies of each nuclear gene in a cell, there are often hundreds of copies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).

The TEPCO operators of the stricken nuclear power plant — a minimal staff of 50 as all non-essential personnel have been evacuated — now face a balance between venting the steam building up in the reactor (since the main danger for a widespread release of radioactive material is steam bursting the thick steel container holding the reactor) and keeping any radioactive materials inside the power plant itself.

Small quantities of nuclear material are now turning up for sale in the West.

Aside from battery studies, the researchers say that NDP also holds promise for examining certain materials for solar cells and catalysts, including materials that are used to treat nuclear waste.

A likely factor is the problem that DNDO has run into with its Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (ASP) program, which was started in 2004 to screen cargo at land and sea borders for signatures of nuclear material.

In the study published in Nature, autophagy is shown, for the first time, to digest nuclear material in mammalian cells.

This material «measured in tens of tons — which could be used for making thousands, if not tens of thousands,» of nuclear bombs, he says.