Sentences with phrase «in nuclear events»

GAPDH participates in nuclear events including transcription, binding RNA, RNA transportation, DNA replication, DNA repair and apoptosis.

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They can do a lot of damage to the US, but there won't be any North Korea left in the event of a nuclear exchange.

Perry has repeatedly said that storing fuel on site makes coal and nuclear plants less prone to shutdowns than other power generators in the event of disasters and attacks.

Though these events are unlikely to trigger the last - ditch option of nuclear war, let alone a blast in your neighborhood, they are very concerning.

The Ventura County Health Care Agency has published several guides on what to do in the event of a nuclear bomb hitting the area.

The cap: For decades, Canada's Nuclear Liability Act provided that, in the event of a catastrophe at a nuclear facility, its operators faced a maximum liability of just $ 75 mNuclear Liability Act provided that, in the event of a catastrophe at a nuclear facility, its operators faced a maximum liability of just $ 75 mnuclear facility, its operators faced a maximum liability of just $ 75 million.

When it was a bunker, the complex could feed up to 3,000 people for 90 days in the event of a nuclear blast.

However, radioactive iodine represents a tiny percentage of the elements that the human body would be exposed to in the event of a nuclear disaster.

Instead, the US government says fallout is a greater concern in the event of a terrorist's nuclear detonation, which would be close to the ground.

Of an estimated 100 million television viewers — 10 times the number of people who tuned in for The Voice's season 1 finale — most stay up past the «main event» to watch former secretaries of the U.S. government debate nuclear policy with astronomer Carl Sagan.

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.

Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.

The report, «Socionomics in a Nutshell» (December 1999), demonstrated in brief that in the realm of economics, politics, demographics, war and even the threat of nuclear destruction, events are not causal to social mood and stock market trends.

They talked about everything from types of weapons to survival and combat tactics in the event of a nuclear apocalypse, inspired by recent news from North Korea.

I suspect that this wide attraction is partly the result of incessant repetition, and partly because events such as the doomsday nuclear policies of the United States and the Soviet Union and the dangerously deepening crisis in the Middle East lend apocalypticism a certain surface plausibility.

The whole faith of Israel and of the early church is tied up here in the confession of the transcendent character of such nuclear founding and instituting events.

Pessimism comes harder for us, but the Reagan arms buildup, events in Poland and Central America, and press attention to nuclear war have made the dangers more obvious.

Charles de Gaulle had a notice on his bedroom door that said: «Only wake the President in the event of nuclear war.»

Nuclear talks might become possible with North Korea in the event Kim Jung - un died or was somehow succeeded by a Gorbachev - like successor who wants to come in from the cold, as it were, and does not have the current family legacy to live up to.

In any event, for us nuclear wonks, timing is less important.

A speech drafted for the Queen in the event of war with the Soviet Union has been released to the public, revealing a remarkable insight into how the British state thought it could prevent panic in the event of nuclear conflict.

Corbyn's recent remarks, in which he undermined Labour policy by stating that he would never sanction a nuclear strike, and more recently when he changed his mind over the so - called «shoot - to - kill» policy in the event of a potential Paris - style attack in the UK, have deeply angered many members of the parliamentary group.

On Friday, Dec. 2 U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler introduced legislation to help prevent a meltdown at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant and further safeguard New Yorkers in the event of a catastrophe.

North Korea says it will hold a «ceremony» for the dismantling of its nuclear test site on May 23 - 25 in what would be a dramatic but symbolic event to set up leader Kim Jong Un's summit with President Donald Trump next month.

«Mr Speaker, the events in the Arab Spring and mounting concern over Iran's nuclear programme do not detract from the urgent need to make progress on the Middle East peace process.

Labour supports a renewal of Britain's nuclear capacity but is open to discussion on «military capability requirements and cost», suggesting there is room for discussion with Liberal Democrats in the event of another hung parliament.

The United States has a two - man rule in place, and while only the president can order the release of nuclear weapons, the order must be confirmed by the Secretary of Defense (there is a hierarchy of succession in the event that the president is killed in an attack).

Dr Julian Lewis: What sort of signal does it send to Iran and other hostile would - be proliferators that our nuclear deterrent could be put at ransom in the event of another hung Parliament, as a result of our not having signed the key contracts and the hostility towards the replacement of Trident evinced by the Liberal Democrats?

New York officials have refused to make public the details of their agreement to pay a $ 35 million fee to the owner of an Oswego County nuclear plant in the event state regulators block the plant's sale.

It is said that in the event of a nuclear holocaust Jonathan Ashworth will still be working in the Labour leader's office.

«No matter what, this fund is to only be used in the event the plant is actually shut down, a process closely monitored by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission,» said spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

Science has created a map that provides a snapshot of the number of nuclear reactors in operation and under construction worldwide, locations of power plants in relation to seismic hazard zones, and reactions to events in Japan in some countries.

When nuclear tests were conducted by North Korea in 2016 and 2017, Zerbo oversaw a response that included providing data and analysis to CTBTO member states as the events unfolded.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009 Science historian Michael D. Gordin recounts the events leading up to August 29, 1949, when the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb in the deserts of Kazakhstan — a test explosion that brought the U.S. monopoly on nuclear weapons to a close.

Sudderth hopes VISA's ability to detect more events might eventually aid in gaining full ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty.

For example, nuclear properties played a vital role in the neutron - star merger event that was recently discovered by gravitational - wave and electromagnetic observatories around the world.

A Chernobyl can not happen here — a survey by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) established that our reactors are free of the design flaws that permitted Chernobyl to explode, and in the United States a typical reactor core is surrounded by multiple enclosures to block the escape of radioactive material even in the event of an accident.

In making their deliberations about how to update the clock's time, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists focused on the current state of nuclear arsenals around the globe, disastrous events such as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and biosecurity issues such as the creation of an airborne H5N1 flu strain.

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In theory, this means that there will always be enough generators, portable pumps, batteries, compressors and debris clearing equipment to «mitigate the effects of any extreme event», Stephen Kuczynski, CEO of Southern Nuclear, a nuclear power company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, told a meeting of the American Physical Society in Boston on 1 MarcIn theory, this means that there will always be enough generators, portable pumps, batteries, compressors and debris clearing equipment to «mitigate the effects of any extreme event», Stephen Kuczynski, CEO of Southern Nuclear, a nuclear power company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, told a meeting of the American Physical Society in Boston on 1Nuclear, a nuclear power company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, told a meeting of the American Physical Society in Boston on 1nuclear power company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, told a meeting of the American Physical Society in Boston on 1 Marcin Birmingham, Alabama, told a meeting of the American Physical Society in Boston on 1 Marcin Boston on 1 March.

«Our inspectors found all the reactors would be kept safe even in the event their regular safety systems were affected by these events, although a few plants have to do a better job maintaining the necessary resources and procedures,» said Eric Leeds, director of the NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

The shaking evoked memories of the events off the coast of Japan in 2011 that triggered meltdowns at a nuclear power plant that the country is still struggling with.

That was the message from James Steinberg, the United States's new deputy secretary of state, and Shyam Saran, the Indian Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Nuclear Issues and Climate Change, at an event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., today.

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The United States wants India to enact a legislative measure limiting the liability of foreign companies in the event of a nuclear accident.

Information is still coming in about the events unfolding in Japan, but the administration is committed to learning from Japan's experience as we work to continue to strengthen America's nuclear industry,» Chu said.

Finally, Bergeron summed up the events so far: «Based on what we understand, the reactor has been shut down, in the sense that all of the control rods have been inserted — which means there's no longer a nuclear reaction.

The nuclear decay also generates gamma radiation that produces unwanted events in the scintillator.

Scientists have used the NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), an orbiting X-ray telescope, to capture an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole.