Sentences with phrase «monitoring nuclear tests»

Seismometers were developed to record earthquakes, Wysession said, but then they turned out to be useful for monitoring nuclear tests, and now people are using them in all kinds of creative ways.

NORSAR, a Norway - based group that monitors nuclear tests, estimated an explosive yield of 120 kilotons, which means the power of 120,000 tons of TNT.

The US military have been at odds with the wind industry for years, as have defence forces elsewhere — wind turbines interfere with military radar, seismography (used to monitor nuclear testing) and pilots near wind turbines have recorded near misses on training runs.

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Scientists there conduct genetic screening, infectious disease monitoring and testing for nuclear, biological and chemical environmental contamination.

Seismic activity was detected by several monitoring agencies at 02:57 GMT at North Korea's nuclear test site, with the US Geological Survey recording a shallow earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9.

But Giacconi and his team at American Science and Engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, already had a contract with the Air Force to monitor atmospheric nuclear tests, and he knew the Air Force was hoping to get in on President Kennedy's lunar program.

The International Monitoring System (IMS), established by the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions pNuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions pnuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions pnuclear explosions produce.

Confidential data held by nuclear test ban organisation emerging as key to monitoring Fukushima radiation.

So the seismic waves racing outward behaved very much as they might at the North Korean nuclear test site, says William Walter, head of geophysical monitoring at Livermore.

Chemical explosion experiments to improve nuclear test monitoring.

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.

The organisation set up to verify the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty (CTBT) has a global network of air samplers that monitor and trace the origin of around a dozen radionuclides, the radioactive elements released by atomic bomb blasts — and nuclear accNuclear - Test - Ban Treaty (CTBT) has a global network of air samplers that monitor and trace the origin of around a dozen radionuclides, the radioactive elements released by atomic bomb blasts — and nuclear accnuclear accidents.

The CTBTO, a nuclear - test monitoring body based in Vienna, maintains a global network of seismic and radioisotope detectors, as well as other instruments.

Editor's Note: This story is a supplement to «Advances in Monitoring Nuclear Weapon Testing» from the March 2009 issue of Scientific American.

Initially, the monitoring system will be tested at two nuclear power plants in Ukraine and Belarus.

Critical to the success of the treaty is an ever - growing array of advanced monitoring stations and sensors — 337 facilities in 89 nations when complete — that provides nuclear test detection capabilities by reading even faint atmospheric, seismic, or acoustic signals.

A big reason for the surge in interest is the growing number of monitors capable of picking up reverberations from nuclear tests, a mandate of the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban nuclear tests, a mandate of the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Provision of seismic, infrasound, and radionuclide data would strengthen monitoring of future North Korean nuclear tests

The traditional stress test includes exercise along with an electrocardiogram monitor, echocardiography or nuclear image to ascertain heart function and blood flow.

The letter warned that the state may have difficulty disposing of the drilling waste, that thorough testing will be needed at water treatment plants, and that workers may need to be monitored for radiation as much as they might be at nuclear facilities.

The world is closer to nuclear annihilation than at any point since the first hydrogen bombs were tested in the early 1950s, says a group of scientists who monitor global tensions.

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Seismological Society of America (SSA) today announced a revision of their position statement, «The Capability to Monitor the Comprehensive Nuclear Test - Ban Treaty (CTBT) Should be Expanded, Completed, and Sustained.»

Nature of Gamma - ray Bursts Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) were discovered in 1967 by satellites designed to monitor compliance with the atmospheric nuclear test ban treaty.

Irradiation — medical x-rays, nuclear power plants, bomb testing, uranium mine tailings, cell phones and towers, computer monitors and televisions, microwave ovens, and power grid and radio and satellite transmissions.

Consortium run nuclear sites also oversee the production of plutonium pits, monitor the aging of nuclear weapons, manage the production of critical nuclear components like Tritium — which helps boost the yield in all nuclear weapons and initiate the fission stage in hydrogen bombs — and operate test reactors.