Sentences with phrase «locate nuclear materials»

Lab electrical engineer Rebecca Nikolic leads a team of LLNL engineers and scientists, including electrical engineer Adam Conway (left) and postdoc John Murphy, which is developing a hand - held thermal neutron detector that could be used to locate nuclear materials.

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'' [A] nuclear waste repository should not be built until it can be shown, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the facility can, in fact, do what its advocates claim - isolate radioactive materials from the biosphere for more than 10,000 years - and that construction of such a repository will be benign in its effects upon the people, the environment and the economy of the state or region within which it would be located.

Response: The nuclear material in an SMR - 160 plant (both the reactor vessel and the fuel pool) is located deep in the ground.

Mr. Sullivan's letter to Secretary Johnson describes how the new anchorages could provide targets for terror attacks — two are located within three miles of the Indian Point nuclear plant — and that increased traffic of barges filled with crude oil and other hazardous materials raises the potential for collisions and spills, «which in the tidal Hudson would be difficult, if not impossible, to clean up without incurring immediate and long - term damage to drinking water resources and prime wildlife habitat.»