Sentences with phrase «for nuclear matters»

«If we're really going to have an impact as to a reduction in the stockpile, we have to address the whole stockpile,» Steve Henry, deputy assistant to the secretary of defense for nuclear matters, said at a press conference announcing the design winner.

Not exact matches

Why this matters: Code governing control systems at industrial sites has already been the target of attacks, and US officials recently warned Russian hackers are probing for security holes in software controlling critical infrastructure like nuclear facilities and dams.

If Iran can get hold of a nuclear weapon, they are going to use it for sure against Israel, no matter how much consequences they might suffer.

I have to be honest, it seems like a damn free - for - all with zero checks and balances, and it's just a matter of time until the president unilaterally plunges the world into nuclear war.

«Of course, we should involve the House fully in a decision as important as the renewal of our nuclear deterrent, and in practical terms it is inevitable that there will therefore be a chance for the House to express its view on that important matter in a vote,» he added.

Whether or not one would resort to the nuclear option which my honourable friend suggests I think is a matter for the FA - but one we will need to discuss with them.»

At the NJ seaport, cement and steel casks of spent nuclear matter weighing up to 100 tons, would be placed on rail cars for a 2,600 - mile trip west to the Yucca Mountains.

Whether or not that seems like the best check on presidential nuclear power is a matter for Congress.

The nuclear phase diagram: RHIC sits in the energy «sweet spot» for exploring the transition between ordinary matter made of hadrons and the early universe matter known as quark - gluon plasma.

It can unite the strong and weak nuclear forces with the electromagnetic force and offers a candidate for dark matter.

«Such a sum would clearly destroy the project's economics (or the economics of any nuclear project for that matter),» the company said.

«This research illustrates a deep connection between two seemingly unrelated fields, and required contributions from an interdisciplinary team of condensed matter and nuclear physicists,» said James Misewich, the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Science at Brookhaven Lab and a professor of physics at Stony Brook University, who played the central role of introducing the members of this research team to one another.

Although it was not possible for him to raise these matters during his recent visit to Moscow, Major said Britain had taken other opportunities to ensure that the Russian government clearly understood the need to solve this problem if Western nuclear assistance programmes are to proceed.

When the Fangataufa atoll populations were decimated by the nuclear bombs, it opened up a new habitat to colonize for the free floating larvae, but which species happened to land on the reef is mostly a matter of luck.

The discovery, aided by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission, solves a mystery that has eluded astronomers for more than 30 years, and will allow them to map the behavior of matter very close to black holes.

One prize was for the discovery of quarks, the fundamental building blocks of nuclear matter.

Thanks to a new development in nuclear physics theory, scientists exploring expanding fireballs that mimic the early universe have new signs to look for as they map out the transition from primordial plasma to matter as we know it.

The U.S. agreement with Korea that governs nuclear materials including spent fuel, for example, stipulates that the United States will «consult with the Government of the Republic of Korea in the matter of health and safety.»

The QGP is an extreme state of matter comprising deconfined quarks and gluons (partons) that exists only at temperatures above approximately 160 MeV, a condition met for last time a few microseconds after the Big Bang, or at baryon densities five times higher than normal nuclear densities, speculated to exist inside the core of neutron stars.

It will be one of the hardest forms of damage to repair via rejuvenation biotechnology; the only one that springs to mind as likely being even more difficult is the matter of damaged nuclear pore proteins in long - lived cells, single molecules that might be as old as you are, doing the same job for an entire human life span.

Why It Matters: Recycling nuclear fuel can reuse uranium and plutonium - the majority of the used fuel - that would otherwise be destined for waste.

In 2011, Dragan Hajdukovic at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) proposed that empty space is filled with particles of matter and antimatter that are not only electrical opposites, but also gravitational opposites.

Derenzo and his colleague wrote that despite overwhelming evidence for dark matter, recent large - scale experiments designed to detect nuclear recoils from dark matter particles with masses of WIMPs have not yet seen a definitive signal.

Why it matters: By facilitating the writing of computational software and providing a «shared - memory» programming interface that greatly simplifies the development of programs for unconventional architectures on distributed - memory computers, the GA helps scientists conducting scientific studies on alternative fuels, nuclear safety, and environmental remediation.

As associate director of the Physical & Life Sciences directorate, he has responsibility for research and development, including nuclear, particle and accelerator science; condensed matter and high - pressure physics; fusion energy; medical physics and biophysics; earth sciences, chemistry optical sciences and instrumentation; and high - energy - density physics.

The Heart of the Matter: Inside CERN, The World's Largest Particle Accelerator CERN (The European Center for Nuclear Research, in French).

But if its aesthetic deals with subject matter that is «tragic and timeless,» that subject matter was unique to its times — the holocaust, threat of nuclear annihilation, the subsequent search for meaning.

The «subsidies» that wind power has received to date are miniscule compared to the historic and ongoing subsidies to nuclear power — and to the fossil fuel industry, for that matter.

There's no reason you couldn't use the heat to drive a steam turbine or Stirling engine, just as the steam turbines in a nuclear plant are basically identical to the ones in a coal - fired plant, or for that matter a solar thermal one.

The «low» emissions are far higher than those for gas - fired power, let alone renewables or, for that matter, nuclear energy (another uneconomic option).

CSP and yes, some nuclear are the best bets we have for displacing coal, which is the only objective that matters.

Failing to capitalize the M in the abbreviation for megawatt hour in the context of nuclear power plant output is not a sign of ignorance in the subject matter.

Many of these obstacles have nothing to do with the fear - mongering of the anti-nuclear movement or, for that matter, the regulatory hurdles imposed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and similar agencies around the world.

With regards India, nuclear power (or any baseload for that matter) for the majority of Indians (mostly rural) is a cruel joke.

The clarity provided by this corrupt deal allows us to focus on what matters: using the March as a strategic retreat to develop our political, legal and organizing strategy to achieve victory — not just for Diablo Canyon, but all nuclear plants threatened by anti-nuclear organizations, corrupt unions, craven policymakers and short - term corporate executives.

From Sweden and France to New Jersey and Illinois, nuclear plants can be kept on - line, but they must be constantly fought for against those who have, for four decades, sought to replace them with fossil fuels and renewables — no matter the economic or environmental cost.

Barry, and for that matter, all guests in the debate on the show who commented on the role of Three Mile Island played as the new build nuclear industry ground to a halt in the US, downplayed the TMI effect.

With that, nuclear may start to outcompete coal + sequestration, or for that matter maybe all the renewables we all love would become the winners.

This matters because the climate change debate has been hi - jacked, emissions made worse by the net effects of renewables for a fast lobbyist buck in fact, driven by ignorance and misleading attacks that lump clean low carbon gas with dirty high carbon coal, and old school anti-nuclear activists who oppose nuclear generation on factualy spurious grounds, while it is in physics and engineering fact by far the best solution on any measure, through promoting irrational fear unsupported in any area of the facts and proven physics they deceive the unknowing about with simply false or msleading «sience».

Selected as a Preferred Provider for Litigation & Investigations and Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)-- Product & Nuclear for GE, responsible for handling complex commercial litigation matters in excess of $ 2 million, as well as various EHS matters.

Obtained dismissals and favorable settlement for airlines and airport vendors in several matters involving the application of the Montreal Convention, an international treaty that limits the liability of airline carriers and their contracting agents, one involving the international transportation of a nuclear missile.

That strongly suggests that we have a nearly zero risk of a non-state actor successfully staging a nuclear attack of any kind within the United States — or anywhere else, for that matter.

The letter states that autonomous weapons have been describes as «the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms» and argues it would only be a matter of time before they fall into the hands of terrorists, dictators and warlords who may use them for ethnic cleansing and to control their populace.

For decades the only opinions that seemed to matter about nuclear weapons were those of the five nuclear weapon states (the US, the UK, France, Russia and China) and occasionally their allies.

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