Sentences with phrase «from nuclear proliferation»

The study also excludes aspects of nuclear power that can not be easily quantified, such as deaths from nuclear proliferation.

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.

Mr Brown himself said he would not be talking about a coalition government tonight, insisting that he would focus on «the major issues facing the world» - from nuclear proliferation to the global economy.

Not exact matches

Amid fears about global warming, terrorism, disease, and nuclear proliferation, the threat of rocks from space may seem more the province of bad Hollywood movies than front - page news.

Today's Nuclear Security Summit tackles proliferation, and scientists try a way to trace gases from secret bombs

Fast - neutron reactors could extract much more energy from recycled nuclear fuel, minimize the risks of weapons proliferation and markedly reduce the time nuclear waste must be isolated

Investigative journalist William Langewiesche tracks the proliferation of nuclear weapons, focusing his story on Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan, who stole plans and equipment from the West and peddled the technology to countries hostile to Western interests: «That same afternoon a small group of Pakistanis associated with the weapons program, including, of course, A. Q. Khan, gathered in a concrete bunker in Chagai, facing the chosen mountain seven miles away.

So that leaves the question of proliferation, particularly as many countries in Asia begin to build new nuclear power plants, ranging from the United Arab Emirates to Vietnam.

Of this passage Lomborg writes, «This is exactly the kind of exposition which I try to counter in my book without any references Holdren manages to describe everything as going ever worse and even include into the environmental agenda concepts that are far removed from its core, such as nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and economic recession from oil price hikes.»

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.

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.

Which is a good job, given the shortage of high - grade uranium ore, the huge unmanageable risks associated with nuclear plants and nuclear proliferation, the large amounts of embedded carbon in uranium refining and processing (and other GHG emissions from the nuclear industry), and the insanity of developing a huge strategic fuel dependence on countries such as Russia.

How do we compartmentalize the issue of nuclear weapons proliferation from nuclear power generation?

But many times in the past, the United Nations has helped governments to come together to tackle tough cross-border challenges, from ozone depletion to nuclear proliferation.

Is there no way to eliminate the risks of proliferation, reduce nuclear waste, and make the plant safe from terrorism and meltdown, all while making the reactor cheaply?

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.

In particular, advanced reactor design involves «eating» nuclear waste from current fission reactors, thus strongly reducing nuclear waste and proliferation problems.

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).

As has been learned from experience with nuclear weapons, proliferation concerns can not be addressed permanently through regulation and existing international humanitarian law.