Sentences with phrase «into nuclear science»

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As long as nuclear technology remains important for keeping America in its current position of global leadership, the U.S. government will keep pumping research's life - blood (money) into nuclear - energy - related science.

Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N - Rays, and Isotopic Murder — A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science By James Mahaffey

The review of nuclear R&D was sparked by a November 2011 report from the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee into U.K. nuclear R&D capabilities.

We got into a series of science and technology conferences whereby we try to think out of the box, moving away from our everyday work on nuclear test monitoring to see what the outside scientific community could do with the technology that we use.

Using agreements like the Iran nuclear deal as a case study of science diplomacy provided participants like Quarrington with a glimpse into a field in which they may want to become more involved.

But at a workshop cosponsored by AAAS, experts said the crisis also was an inflection point, leading to agreements to limit nuclear testing and curb proliferation and driving a cohort of scientists and engineers into the fields of arms control and science diplomacy.

Using a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), a team from Oregon Health & Science University (O.H.S.U.) in Portland implanted the contents of individual skin cells from adult male rhesus macaques into each of 304 macaque egg cells stripped of their genetic material.

The new finding brings a measure of closure to a story that first rocked the science world in February 2004, when Hwang and colleagues at Seoul National University announced they had cloned a female donor's cell by transferring its nucleus into one of her egg cells stripped of its nucleus in a procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), and harvested embryonic stem cells from the resulting fusion.

For example, the treaty forbids igniting devices based on nuclear fission; Küntzel draws attention to how, just a few weeks after West Germany signed the treaty, a working paper published by the Science and Politics Foundation in Ebenhausen emphasised that research into detonating H - bombs with a laser beam was permitted by the treaty, and should be encouraged.

In May 2016 the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee conducted an inquiry into Science in emergencies: chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incidents.

The company's strategy is to expand the business into the life sciences arena, where nanotechnology and biotechnology intersect This involves the combination of core technologies in areas such as low temperature, high magnetic field and ultra-high vacuum environments; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; X-ray, electron, laser and optical based metrology; atomic force microscopy; optical imaging; advanced growth, deposition and etching.

Digital and technical skills cut across all workplaces and we need to help students understand that studying subjects like engineering, physics or computer science can be springboards into every industry and into well paid jobs — whether you are working in the city, in a nuclear power plant or for a broadcaster.

Kenneth Chang has written a piece in this week's Science Times exploring the Los Alamos National Laboratories concept for nuclear - powered fuel refineries that could turn atmospheric carbon dioxide and water into gasoline, jet fuel or methanol.

The influential paper, published in Science, divided the challenge of keeping emissions of greenhouse gases through mid-century at levels prevailing in the 2000s into seven «wedges» of carbon dioxide reductions — through switching to renewable and nuclear power, ramping up energy efficiency, ending deforestation and taking action in other areas.

As long as the focus is «public fear about residing near nuclear power plants» and doesn't venture into the impacts of climate science denial and it's excessive allaying of public fears about excessive fossil fuel burning — it won't address the single most significant political impediment to nuclear.

I suspect a more apt comparison of Climate is with the whole Population Bomb / Club of Rome / Nuclear Winter forays of science into politics that never achieved the political muscle of the climate change movement, though they had their time and power, but all suffered ill fates and deservedly so.

I will tell you about another scientist from an earlier time, Her name was Leona Woods Libby, she was the only woman that worked on the manhattan project, she was accomplished in developing the first nuclear reactor; after the war she went into the science of climate change based on natural cycles.

Speakers from the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee announced the results of their inquiry into whether the UK's research and development (R&D) capabilities are sufficient to meet our nuclear energy needs in the future — particularly, ensuring a safe and secure supply of nuclear energy up to 2050.

In one study, he and his colleagues packaged the basic science of climate change into fake newspaper articles bearing two very different headlines --» Scientific Panel Recommends Anti-Pollution Solution to Global Warming» and «Scientific Panel Recommends Nuclear Solution to Global Warming» — and then tested how citizens with different values responded.