Sentences with phrase «nuclear devices at»

Researchers had begun testing nuclear devices at the Nevada Test Site in 1951; this latest series of blasts was codenamed Operation Julin, and the final two tests of the series — dubbed Hunters Trophy and Divider — took place on 18 September and 23 September, respectively.

It is hypothesized that the detonation of a thermo - nuclear device at the Earth's center could re-start the core.

Not exact matches

«There is enormous pressure when a missile reenters the atmosphere... If (electrical) circuits break and a trigger device fails to detonate nuclear fuel, you can imagine that only some twisted metal will fall on Alaska or Hawaii, even if North Korea fires missiles at them,» said Kim Dong - yub, an analyst at Seoul's Institute for Far Eastern Studies.

Further, Russia designed its nuclear weapons arsenal as absolute doomsday devices that rain up to 10 high - yield nuclear warheads down on targets at Mach 23 in a salvo that the US can't possibly hope to intercept.

Thanks to the mechanical devices which we increasingly charge with the burden not only of production but also of calculation, the quantity of unused human energy is growing at a disturbing rate both within us and around us; and this phenomenon will reach its climax in the near future, when nuclear forces have been harnessed to useful work.

At the end of the Cold War the U.S. Fail Safe Commission recommended installing devices to prevent rogue commanders persuading their crews to launch unauthorised nuclear attacks.

«It was confirmed that the nuclear test that was carried out at a high level in a safe and perfect manner using a miniaturised and lighter nuclear device with greater explosive force than previously did not pose any negative impact on the surrounding ecological environment,» state - run KCNA news agency said.

They said they had achieved nuclear fusion at room temperature using a simple tabletop device, thus creating a revolutionary clean energy source they called «cold fusion.»

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California began testing a device in May that can quickly detect concealed nuclear materials.

In past negotiations aimed at reducing the arsenals of the world's nuclear superpowers, chiefly the U.S. and Russia, a major sticking point has been the verification process: How do you prove that real bombs and nuclear devices — not just replicas — have been destroyed, without revealing closely held secrets about the design of those weapons?

«Scientists were not interested in figuring out what kind of device had detonated, because they already knew that,» says analytical chemist Michael Kristo, a nuclear forensics expert at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

The arm will allow scientists studying neutrinos that originated at the beginning of the universe to load a tiny amount of nuclear material into the device while still maintaining a vacuum in the PTOLEMY laboratory.

The device will be used to calibrate safety detectors at nuclear reactors in the United Kingdom.

«Following the 1994 Shoemaker - Levy 9 comet impacts with Jupiter, Edward Teller proposed to a collective of U.S. and Russian ex-Cold War weapons designers in a 1995 planetary defense workshop meeting at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), that they collaborate to design a 1 gigaton nuclear explosive device, which would be equivalent to the kinetic energy of a 1 km diameter asteroid.

Why a homemade nuclear device has been made (with such a ridiculously easy trigger) is anybodies guess at this point, but we're sure it has something to do with a situation gone terribly wrong as the anti-heroes search for Peter Quill's true parents.

A recently released document shows a portable nuclear device is missing and everyone's pointing their fingers at Frank and Marvin.

And it should also come as surprise when the device eventually, and inevitably, becomes self aware and initiates a nuclear strike at the first attempt to disconnect it, triggering Judgement Day.

But you'll find no pansy conventional explosives here — it's a nuclear explosion, so it takes out not only you (the owner of the device), but at least the whole block as well.

It's generally agreed that most of our energy use in the future will center around electricity - whether for homes and businesses, portable devices or transportation - which is something that nuclear reactors are very good at producing.

Although the failure of a transformer at the 1,346 Mw Krümmel nuclear facility on July 4 did not endanger the public, revelations that Vattenfall, the Swedish utility, failed to install a monitoring device or promptly inform its regulator have caused alarm.

The differences in joint family and nuclear family setting is fast waning and the attention on the youth is minimized as the youth at home spends most of the time with electronic gadgets, communication devices and internet based social networking, while the elders at home are busy with television based entertainment media.