Sentences with phrase «from nuclear testing»

Radiation from nuclear testing, banned hopefully before it was to late, has been a source of tracing in the environment ever sense.

About «nuclear winter», is it foolish to think that aerosols released from nuclear testing in upper atmosphere have contributed to the cooling phase 1950 - 70?

The actual lifetime of CO2 in the atmosphere is 16 years (half - life 11 years) as determined by the excess C14 from nuclear testing.

And it was her recognition of an exact parallel with the steady rain of fallout from nuclear testing that helped her explain what we knew... and didn't know... about the consequences and potential collateral damage from heedless tampering with global ecosystems.

In other projects, he's conquered themes from nuclear testing to the extinction of plant species, and has traveled from the salt flats of Bolivia to a former Soviet nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan.

He is still in mourning for the death of his wife, whose cancer was caused by radiation poisoning from nuclear testing.

Study suggests that key geological markers align towards a start for the Anthropocene somewhere between 1952 to 1955 based on signals from nuclear testing and fossil fuel burning

The group has found that a broad range of potential physical, chemical and biological markers characterise the Anthropocene, the clearest global markers being radionuclide fallout signals from nuclear testing and changes in carbon chemistry through fossil fuel burning — these in particular show marked changes starting in the early to mid-1950s.

FULL - BLOWN FALLOUT Remnant radiation levels from nuclear testing near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, as seen in this explosion in 1946, are far higher than previously predicted, new research shows.

So, the funding situation that we are in right now — in 1990s, we launched a program called the Stockpile Stewardship Program; it was intended to maintain the existing nuclear arsenal for a number of decades, if not indefinitely and that has been a huge bonus in terms of actually understanding the physical processes of nuclear weapons and getting away from nuclear testing.

To put these numbers in perspective, the average person encounters 360 millirems of annual «background radiation» from natural and man - made sources, including substances in Earth's crust, cosmic rays, residue from nuclear tests and smoke detectors.

A bill introduced by Senator Tom Udall (D - N.M.) and Congressman Ben Ray Lujan (D - N.M.) would expand the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, making it easier for uranium workers and residents downwind from nuclear test sites to get federal cash and medical help.

A big reason for the surge in interest is the growing number of monitors capable of picking up reverberations from nuclear tests, a mandate of the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

This article appeared in print under the headline «Glass from nuclear test site shows moon was born dry»

The US evidence is likely to provoke demands for other countries to face up to the death toll from nuclear tests.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso said Japan had detected seismic waves, but could not confirm whether they were from a nuclear test.

The conclusion of the studies of 14C distribution from nuclear tests was that the stratosphere took several years to equilibrate between hemispheres.

Not exact matches

Kim also told Moon he would soon invite experts and journalists from the United States and South Korea when the country dismantles its Punggye - ri nuclear testing site, the Blue House said on Sunday.

SEOUL, April 29 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to invite experts and journalists from the United States and South Korea when the country closes its nuclear test site in May, Seoul officials said on Sunday, as U.S. North Korea's state media had said before the summit that Pyongyang would...

SEOUL, April 29 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to invite experts and journalists from the United States and South Korea when the country shuts its nuclear test site in May, Seoul officials said, as U.S. North Korea's state media had said before the summit that Pyongyang would immediately...

North Korea had already made some concessions ahead of the summit, including a declaration that it would stop missile and nuclear tests and drop its previous demands for US troops to withdraw from the peninsula.

South Korea's intelligence service on Thursday warned that it saw «active movement» at North Korea's missile research facility and that the world should expect more nuclear and missile testing from Pyongyang, according to Yonhap News.

From August 5 to September 27, 1962, the USSR conducted a series of nuclear tests over Novaya Zemlya.

According to geologists from the University of Science and Technology of China, the collapse took place minutes after Kim Jong - un's regime conducted its last nuclear test in September of last year.

No one knows exactly why it's called Area 51, but one theory suggests it came from its proximity to the Nevada Nuclear Test Sites.

Korean leaders to meet at North - South border on Friday: BBC Chinese geologists say N. Korea's main nuclear test site has likely collapsed: WaPo China air force intimidates Taiwan with military flights around island: Reuters Conservative Supreme Court justices appear to back Trump's travel ban: The Hill French president expects Trump will withdraw from Iranian nuclear deal: BBC Rising interest rates keep Wall Street on edge: CBS Investors will focus on various inflation numbers in days ahead: Bloomberg A closer look at the 10 - year Treasury yield's rise to 3 %: Calafia Beach Pundit T. Rowe Price's assets under mgt top $ 1 trillion — a sign of active mgt growth: P&I World trade volume slumped 0.4 % in Feb, first monthly loss since Oct: CPB

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to shut down the country's nuclear test site in May and open the process to experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States, Seoul's presidential office said Sunday.

Kim also vowed during his meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae - in on Friday to shut down the North's nuclear test site in May and disclose the process to experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States, Seoul's presidential office said.

Analysts believe the latest case may be another effort to engage American leadership in talks about lifting sanctions that resulted from illegal nuclear weapons tests...

He considers the H - bomb, of which he has been called «the father,» to be the only deterrent to nuclear war; compared to all - out war, any loss of life from testing is insignificant.

Speaking earlier today, US president George Bush said the nuclear test was a «provocative act» and deserved an «immediate response» from the security council.

Embryos created through somatic cell nuclear transfer, which uses skin cells taken from the sick child, could also be used to test therapies.

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«From 21 April, North Korea will stop nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles,» the country's state news agency said.

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12.32 - Interesting question from a Conservative MP on Britain's nuclear test veterans.

The amount of radioactive tritium leaking from the Indian Point nuclear power plant is growing, according to tests released today.

Despite opposition from its left wing the Labour party supported British nuclear weapons but opposed tests, and Labour Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell and shadow foreign secretary Aneurin Bevan agreed with Sandys on the importance of reducing dependence on the American deterrent.

When the public began to question the safety of nuclear testing and of radiation emitted from televisions, the government took notice.

NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear explosive testing; works to reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

By the following February, however, Telstar 1 had been completely fried by energetic electrons from a U.S. high - altitude nuclear test.

Working near the original test site revealed personal stories from the dawn of the nuclear age to the show's cast and crew.

The worries come against the backdrop of North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile tests (SN: 8/5/17, p. 18) and an upcoming missile defense review from the U.S. Department of Defense, expected in May.

A group of nuclear power experts and former regulators from 11 nations, responding to Japan's nuclear disaster, is calling for «stress tests» on the world's reactors to determine their ability to withstand extreme earthquakes, flooding or other natural disasters that strike singly or in combination.

Cesium - 137, on the other hand, is also present from nuclear weapons tests and discharge from nuclear power plants.

Depletion of Kap104p resulted in a rapid shift of Nab2p from the nucleus to the cytoplasm without affecting the localization of other nuclear proteins tested.

Pakistan has replied to India's recent round of nuclear tests with five underground explosions today in the desolate Chagai region in Baluchistan province barely 50 kilometers from the Iranian border.

FALLOUT FORENSICS A new technique allowed researchers to accurately estimate the energy release from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico (shown).

By Barani Krishnan (Reuters)- A federal nuclear inspector urged U.S. regulators to shut down a California nuclear power plant until tests showed its reactors could withstand shocks from nearby earthquake faults, according to the Associated Press and an environmental group.

Tests of water off the U.S. West Coast have found no signs of radiation from Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, although low levels of radiation are ultimately expected to reach the U.S. shore, scientists said on Tuesday.