Sentences with phrase «if nuclear projects»

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Physicists had to design computer simulations, tested against those mid-century analyses, to «predict what would happen if a weapon went off,» says Greg Spriggs, a nuclear weapon physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who is leading the project to scan and declassify the films.

If it is not, coal at power plants could be replaced by natural gas, nuclear power and large - scale renewable energy projects.

Poll, head of technology for the British government — funded Omega Project, a division of Manchester Metropolitan University that partners with industry to study the environmental impact of aviation and offer possible solutions, pointed out the need for nonkerosene - powered aircraft «I think nuclear - powered airplanes are the answer beyond 2050,» he said, concluding, «If we want to continue to enjoy the benefits of air travel without hindrance from environmental concerns, we need to explore nuclear power.

If everything goes according to plan the first of two AP1000 reactors will go online in 2016 at Plant Vogtle in Burke County, Ga., marking the first U.S. nuclear construction project to break ground since the 1970s; the second is set to go online in 2017.

First, such a planet is potentially close enough, at just over four light years, for us to reach and colonize it if we used nuclear rockets (NASA has proposed a plan for accomplishing this, dubbed Project Longshot).

To illustrate this, could you imagine if during the effort to convince the U.S. government to embark on the Manhattan Project, the word «physics» was hardly ever used by the advocates of atom bomb development (who were simply known in this alternate reality as «nuclear * scientists *»), to such an extent that many well - placed non-physicists didn't even realize that the claims of destructive power were based on it?

Tanaka said concerns about the safety of nuclear energy, if they derailed nuclear power projects, would also hurt efforts to limit carbon emissions and contain global warming.

One recent study, published by Yale Law School's Cultural Cognition Project, found that conservatives become less skeptical about global warming if they first read articles suggesting nuclear energy or geoengineering as solutions.

If these projects are cancelled, nuclear capacity will decline by at least 7,274 MW (7.2 percent) from 2017, accounting for roughly 57,000 TMWh / year of generation.

In addition, the ISO - NE has projected there will be blackouts if coal - fired and nuclear power plants are forced to close.

If they'd done their job we'd not have hundreds of thousands of bird - killing wind turbines, we'd have nuclear power and hydroelectricity projects instead.

Even if all reactors scheduled to come online by 2015 make it, the projected closing of 93 nuclear reactors by then will drop nuclear power generation roughly 10 percent below the current level.

if delays and uncertainty continue with the company's proposed nuclear project (recently a Florida regulator indicated that the project has been set back to a 2027 opening),

If CCS is proposed in populated areas, one can expect there to be widespread public resistance to CCS projects in the same way that there are objections today to fracking and nuclear waste disposal.

If you check out the webcams at the European Organization for Nuclear Research's CMS project, you may just observe something rather unexpected.