Sentences with phrase «maintain stockpiles»

Mostly for reliability reasons, plant operators maintain stockpiles within certain ranges (usually about 50 to 80 days) even though coal supply disruptions of that duration are relatively unlikely.

Cables suggest UK officials made a deal with America to allow the US to maintain stockpiles of cluster bombs on British soil.

Debt - ceiling battles have scuttled previous attempts to build and subsequently maintain this stockpile, so when the debt ceiling was suspended in early February, the Treasury ratcheted up issuance out of the gate as soon as they got the green light.

[8] In the Strategic Defence Review published in July 1998, the government stated that once the Vanguard submarines became fully operational (the fourth and final one, Vengeance, entered service on 27 November 1999), it would «maintain a stockpile of fewer than 200 operationally available warheads».

Despite the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 — and thus the end of the cold war policy of mutually assured destruction — the U.S. maintains a stockpile of roughly 10,000 nuclear weapons.

In a world that possess more than 10,000 nuclear weapons, the U.S. maintains a stockpile of more than 4,000 nuclear warheads.

There are no monthly fees or account minimums to create and maintain your stockpile account.

Are you going to be dependant on refrigeration to maintain your stockpile?

Merchandised new entries and maintained the stockpile aisles.

Not exact matches

Even more amusing was the realization that the Quebec maple syrup industry maintains a «global strategic reserve» in much the same way that countries keep mass stockpiles of oil or grain.

The facility is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and is a key element of NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Program to maintain the reliability and safety of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without full - scale testing.

George F. Kennan maintains that we are doing this stockpiling «helplessly, almost involuntarily... like people in a dream, like lemmings heading for the sea.»

Hercules, Caesar, Colleoni: there is symbolized brute strength, military power, political power, economic power, the power to enslave and destroy; the power of international arms sales, nuclear stockpiles, oil cartels and transnational corporations; the spiritual power of imposed belief and religious triumphalism demanding obedience and maintaining an uncertain peace by the balance of terror, whether by threats of hell or atomic apocalypse.

Originally, the main reason for the Soviet Union and the US to stockpile so many weapons was to maintain what was called «mutually assured destruction».

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.

Part of the reason is obvious: It needs the expertise to improve and maintain the nation's nuclear weapons stockpiles, and it needs people to replace the first generation of nuclear plant operators and engineers, many of whom are now retiring.

Omega's closure would have «irreversible and disastrous ramifications for maintaining the safety and reliability of our nuclear stockpile,» Richard Petrasso of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Plasma Science and Fusion Center in Cambridge wrote in one letter to Representative Joe Kennedy III (D — MA).

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.

For nearly 2 decades, NNSA has supported the construction and operation of NIF because ICF's miniature explosions can aid weapons scientists who are trying to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.

The new role is needed, Moses says, so that Atherton can coordinate with scientists in the three major user communities that NIF serves: nuclear weapons researchers involved in maintaining the U.S. stockpile, fusion energy researchers, and basic scientists working with materials and in other fields.

«We're worried about the long - term reliability of the stockpile, but to pay for [RRW] we are going to cut the very programs that maintain the reliability of the stockpiles.»

The platform airs complaints with how the Obama Administration has handled efforts to maintain the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons and its moves to cut spending on missile defense — and promises Republicans would do better.

In the course of changing the world to what we want it to be, «we have to maintain the [nuclear warhead] stockpile as safe and reliable.»

The AWE would then be charged with maintaining the current stockpile for as long as British politicians require.

Only with these new toys would the AWE scientists be able to continue to contribute to the long established information exchange between Britain and the US, feel competent in maintaining Britain's stockpile and feel able, should they be ever called on, to design a new warhead.

NNSA maintains 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.

As the principal associate director, Wisoff will continue to be responsible for ensuring the safe operation of NIF as a world - class user facility in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Stockpile Stewardship mission; partnering with Laboratory capabilities to establish leadership in Stockpile Stewardship science associated with inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics; overseeing the development of advanced laser systems, related optical and target systems, control systems and systems engineering capability for research, commercial and government agencies; and maintaining close partnerships with the Department of Energy / NNSA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Homeland Security, academia and private industry.

Coal - fueled power plants maintain an average coal stockpile on site that can last two months or longer.