Sentences with phrase «nuclear dirty bombs»

The FBI and Darwyn move to intercept the cell's plans to detonate a pair of nuclear dirty bombs in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, but their victory is overshadowed by a pair of tragedies for Darwyn.

Not exact matches

A dirty bomb, or a bomb that propels radioactive materials in the air with help from a conventional explosive charge, requires radioactive material that can only be obtained via license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

Gillibrand also asked for an extra $ 20 million in funding, which she thinks is necessary to improve detection of nuclear materials and prevent a dirty bomb from being detonated.

For decades, a «dirty bomb in a suitcase» has been a looming fear of intelligence communities, and is one of the big reasons for nuclear containment and nonproliferation.

Pyongyang could still use a «dirty «nuclear bomb by installing raw nuclear material in short range missiles aimed at Seoul.

Also on the agenda at the summit will be protecting countries from cyber-attacks on their civil nuclear sites and preventing terrorists from obtaining the raw materials for a «dirty bomb».

The former prime minister, who has welcomed Parliament's decision to back intervention, said Isis terrorists would use any weapons, including nuclear or dirty bombs, to cause the «maximum amount of destruction».

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to overhaul its licensing protocol for obtaining radioactive materials, citing a recent report that a fictitious company got a license for enough material for a dirty bomb.

It's the Institute for Disaster Mental Health's 10th annual conference, and this year's topic is «Radiological Readiness: Preparing for Dirty Bombs, Nuclear Disasters, and Other Radiation Emergencies.»

From hacking infrastructure to a detonating a nuclear «dirty bomb,» what are the most likely next terrorist attacks?

Authorities could use this technique to retrace where a dirty bomb was stored before detonation to figure out who built it, says Eric Lukosi, a nuclear engineer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville who was not involved in the work.

The impact of a dirty bomb would be far less than that of a true nuclear device, and the radiation would probably not harm many people.

A much better way to prevent a nuclear or dirty - bomb terrorist attack is to keep radioactive ingredients from getting inside the nation's borders in the first place, and here physics is on our side.

«The radioactivity released by dirty bombs is not life threatening,» says Angelo Acquista, former medical director of the Office of Emergency Management in New York City and author of The Survival Guide: What to Do in a Biological, Chemical, or Nuclear Emergency.

Doctor Atomic, a new opera about to open at the Met, brings nuclear proliferation, «rogue states» and the terrorists» dream of a dirty bomb back to the first «ground zero»

One possible solution to quickly measure a population's exposure to radiation in the event of a nuclear disaster or some other large - scale leak of radioactive material — such as a so - called «dirty bomb» attack — would be to scan the body in places where that material is most readily absorbed.

Lochbaum worries that terrorists could hijack and use jets as nuclear missiles or take them apart for materials to build their own so - called dirty bombs.

The physicists who invented the nuclear bomb worked out of Los Alamos in New Mexico, but the people who did the dirty work of making the bombs were in Hanford, Washington.

Other details gleamed from the teaser trailer show modern day London after what looks like a nuclear attack (man London can't catch a break first ZombiU now this) as well as learning that Dirty Bomb will be using the Unreal Engine.

What happened in the fifties and sixties is that instead of pursuing a cheap safe nuclear option we chose to pursue dirty inefficient light water reactors because the uranium fuel cycle produces bomb grade materials

PS If NK wanted to screw things up they could much more easily do so with dirty nuclear bombs, but even then the impact would be limited and the result suicidal.

If 1 million of them were into planting dirty nuclear bombs in sports stadiums and railroad tunnels, it might be interesting.

Dirty bombs make big messes, and may require massive relocations, as at Chernobyl, but they pale by comparison to the primary threat that Allison has written about in Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe — the possibility that terrorists might get hold of and detonate a nuclear bomb in a majoNuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe — the possibility that terrorists might get hold of and detonate a nuclear bomb in a majonuclear bomb in a major city.

An act of terrorism at a nuclear power plant would be analogous to a big dirty bomb, says Allison.