Sentences with phrase «for nuclear proliferation»

Their 33 - year - old leader, Kim Jong - un, appears utterly unfazed, persistently pursuing a paranoid push for nuclear proliferation at literally all costs.

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He appealed to the U.S. to rejoin the Paris climate accord and create a «low - carbon economy» because «there is no Planet B.» He said remaining with America's allies in the Iran nuclear deal, at least until some replacement is negotiated, is the best path for fighting terrorism, preserving peace and avoiding nuclear proliferation.

First, the tail risks (low - probability, high - impact events) in the global economy — a eurozone breakup, the US going over its fiscal cliff, a hard economic landing for China, a war between Israel and Iran over nuclear proliferation — are lower now than they were a year ago.

Don't forget as well the potential epidemic of nuclear proliferation as other nations attempt to adjust to and defend themselves against Bush's preventive wars, while our own already staggering nuclear arsenal expands toward first - strike primacy and we expend unimaginable billions on futuristic ideas for warfare in outer space.

But nuclear proliferation would in turn alarm China, which for years has advocated a de-escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula.

The US is generally opposed to nuclear proliferation for the reasons that other answers have given.

The G8 leaders agreed to US president Barack Obama's proposal for a nuclear security summit held in Washington next spring to prepare for the review of the Non Proliferation Treaty.

The first collection of plays investigates the proliferation of nuclear weapons: In Calculated Risk, for example, America has dropped the A-bomb and a newly - elected Clement Attlee wonders how Britain should navigate a changed world.

The original application for the GE Hitachi plant in 2009 set off a protracted debate over whether the NRC, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, sufficiently weighs proliferation risks when licensing new types of enrichment technology (See «Laser plant offers cheap way to make nuclear fuel»).

The license allows for construction of a plant that uses a process that critics fear could pose a serious nuclear - proliferation risk

«We recognize that the gravest terror threat we face — a nuclear attack made possible by nuclear proliferation — requires a comprehensive strategy for reducing the world's nuclear stockpiles and preventing the spread of those armaments,» it says.

Blaming scientists for the extinction of such species is like blaming Albert Einstein or Marie Curie for cold war nuclear proliferation.

Sharon Squassoni, another board member and director of the Proliferation Prevention Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said nuclear disarmament efforts have «ground to a halt» and many nations are expanding, not scaling back, their nuclear capabilities.

Citizens» Nuclear Information Center * is deeply concerned about the grave risks involved with the restart of the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR).1 Safety, economic and nuclear proliferation issues are being ignored for purely bureaucratic rNuclear Information Center * is deeply concerned about the grave risks involved with the restart of the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR).1 Safety, economic and nuclear proliferation issues are being ignored for purely bureaucratic rnuclear proliferation issues are being ignored for purely bureaucratic reasons.

Clark's new techniques using capillary electrophoresis and microchip technology may allow for real - time field screening of plutonium and other materials by nuclear proliferation investigators and forensic scientists at the Department of Homeland Security.

This is not because of public opposition; not for want of a licensed geologic repository for the disposal of spent fuel; and not because of the proliferation risks associated with commercial nuclear power.

Also, recycling nuclear fuel (as is often but not always called for in fast reactor fuel cycles) brings up proliferation concerns that inspired the Jimmy Carter administration to cancel a large US effort to develop a fast - reactor system.

Flow cytometric technique provides a method for assessing the cells nuclear DNA content and proliferation rate by using the value of S - phase fraction (SPF)[12].

«Unlike today's nuclear reactor, the IFR [integral fast reactor] can generate unlimited amounts of inexpensive clean power for hundreds of thousands of years... It provides an excellent solution for what to do with our nuclear waste because it can use our existing nuclear waste for fuel and it is significantly more proliferation - resistant than other methods of dealing with nuclear waste... The IFR is also inherently safe.

We can continue down the same path for used nuclear fuel that we have been on for the last 50 years, or we can develop an approach that brings the benefits of nuclear energy to the world while also reducing proliferation concerns and nuclear waste.

This advanced nuclear power plant has major appeal in domestic and international markets, offering a right - sized, cost - effective solution for carbon - free energy, and ensuring attainable power options to existing and emerging global economies demanding increased certainty of public safety, environmental protection and security from intrusion and proliferation of nuclear materials.

For example, a recent study developed a cell proliferation signature that consists of the top 1 % genes whose expression is most positively correlated with that of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA).

Holdren is well known for his work on energy, climate change, and nuclear proliferation.

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Certain conditions related to nuclear proliferation must be met on the regional server for your corresponding gaming platform (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC (Steam).

Its story deals in a heady mix of nuclear proliferation, illegal cloning, double - crosses, and paranormal activity, and it moves at a rapid - fire pace for the duration of its 10 - hour campaign.

Grade Level: 9 - 12 The Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues is a one - stop source for anything dealing with the study of nuclear issues, including arms control and proliferation, weapons programs of various countries, the Manhattan Project, and mucNuclear Issues is a one - stop source for anything dealing with the study of nuclear issues, including arms control and proliferation, weapons programs of various countries, the Manhattan Project, and mucnuclear issues, including arms control and proliferation, weapons programs of various countries, the Manhattan Project, and much more.

Starting off with nuclear proliferation, the game discusses the history of failed nuclear energy development and poor disposal policies and procedures for nuclear warheads.

Certain conditions related to nuclear proliferation must be met on the regional server for your corresponding gaming platform (PlayStation ® 4, PlayStation ® 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 ®, PC (Steam ®)-RRB-.

This exhibition will focus on the decade when our artists, very much alongside our photographers, film stars, musicians and fashion designers, captured the world's imagination, creating the idea of «Swinging London», the city that was the symbol of all that was new and exciting for a generation finally throwing off the trauma of the Second World War and facing the future with an optimism born from prosperity and political freedom, despite the shadow of nuclear proliferation and the continuation of the Cold War.

The program became a platform for politically provocative art, aiming to raise consciousness around issues such as gentrification, misogyny, nuclear proliferation, and poverty.

It examines questions about the safety and costs of nuclear power relative to coal and other choices for electricity generation, along with the risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons and emissions of greenhouse gases relative to other energy sources.

Dr. Holdren has been widely praised by the scientific community for decades of work on issues ranging from nuclear proliferation to climate and energy policy.

According to the Houston Chronicle, Hyperion Power Generation (HPG) has commercialized a nuclear «battery» that runs of low grade, proliferation - proof uranium hydride fuel that can't melt down, that produces enough electricity for 20,000 homes, and is small enough that it can be sealed at the factory and then shipped on a big truck to it's operational site.

The report concludes with a dozen recommendations for policymakers, including reducing subsidies to existing reactors, adopting market - oriented approaches to uranium mining royalties and waste management financing, and incorporating the costs of preventing nuclear proliferation and terrorism into economic assessments of new reactors.

This shift in power is not a zero - sum game, nor should it be: the U.S. and Asia should avoid trade wars at all costs, and we should seize opportunities for partnership on a range of issues, from climate change to nuclear proliferation.

For developing countries the US (or EU, etc.) capable of constructing these can sell capacity etc to other countries, thus solving emissions and nuclear proliferation issues simultaneously.

Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change, produced by the non-profit Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), documents accident, proliferation and contamination threats associated with reviving the nuclear industry as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emiNuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change, produced by the non-profit Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), documents accident, proliferation and contamination threats associated with reviving the nuclear industry as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas eminuclear industry as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Rapid identification of trace gases — offered by IRcell — is critical when working to detect toxic industrial chemicals, disease indicators or when monitoring for the proliferation of nuclear or chemical weapons.

If proliferation is one reason for treating the spread of nuclear power with caution, renewable energy is another.

But «off - the - shelf builds» are pure vapourware: every nuclear enthusiast has their own pet type of reactor — «4th generation», thorium - fuelled, fast breeder... which will (supposedly) solve the fuelling, safety and proliferation problems of previous designs, but we have no «off - the - shelf builds» for any of them.

Here the letter conflates the issue of opposition to the current crop of nuclear power plants — which are simply uncompetitive quite separate from the very legitimate issues of safety, waste disposal, proliferation, and water consumption — with a supposed lack of support for next generation nuclear power plants (that will be magically cheaper, despite all trend data to the contrary).

The National Iranian Tanker Company is the main carrier for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps - designated National Iranian Oil Company and a key element in the petroleum supply chain responsible for generating energy revenues that support the illicit nuclear proliferation activities of the Government of Iran.

Friends of the Earth Europe has expressed alarm that the Heads of State cast a role for nuclear power in Europe's energy future, without offering solutions to its unsolved problems: how to treat and store waste for thousands of years, the risk of serious accidents, the proliferation of nuclear weapon material and how to secure nuclear plants against terrorist attacks.

Similar reasoning was applied in three different contexts; the employment tribunal, a case relating to Iranian nuclear proliferation and a claim for damages for foreign torture.

In addition, the question whether some measure is apt to limit the risk posed for the national interest by nuclear proliferation in a foreign country, depends on an experienced judgment of the international implications of a wide range of information, some of which may be secret.

Still, while the Obama version envisaged biological and chemical weapons development as additional scenarios to trigger nuclear response to non-nuclear threat, Trump's NPR reserves a much broader room for action by referring to «the evolution and proliferation of non-nuclear strategic attack technologies» (p 21).

Georgetown University Medical Center (Washington, DC) 05/2007 — 01/2010 Imaging Science and Information Systems Center — Insert Title • Train, supervise, and assure the work quality of a team of 3 - 6 regional analysts • Write analytical summaries of open source collections of biological threats and other national security threats • Develop and refine indication and warning methodologies and taxonomies for biological and radiological threats • Offer guidance and expertise on intelligence community interagency fusion cell for H1N1 «swine flu» • Assist in research and development work on plant health project • Conduct case studies on state and non-state actor biological weapons programs and orphan source radiological incidents • Participate in multi-agency tracking of nuclear proliferation activities in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East • Perform project lead duties, participate in the selection process of new employees, and assist with performance appraisals • Awarded the National Intelligence Medallion for organizational work on Project Argus