Sentences with phrase «nuclear engineer based»

John Large, an independent nuclear engineer based in Britain, says the removal of oxygen might have been too slow or the solution of spent fuel might have been too concentrated, which would have generated ehough hydrogen to explode with any oxygen which was present.

John Large, an independent nuclear engineer based in London who has inspected many Soviet plants, including Tomsk, says the fuel will be flown by the Russian military to Chelyabinsk - 65, the site of a serious accident in 1957.

Not exact matches

Alexandr Nikitin, a Russian engineer, was charged in 1996 with high treason and divulging state secrets for co-authoring a report for the Norwegian - based Bellona Foundation that documented the environmental dangers posed by the abandoned nuclear submarines of the Russian Northern Fleet in the Kola Peninsula.

Patrick McDaniel, a nuclear engineer and space expert based at the University of New Mexico, agrees, saying engineers have the technological capacity to build a 10 - megawatt nuclear reactor for space that's «reasonably light,» though the will to do so may be lacking.

William Dunn, the Steven M. and Kay L. Theede chair in engineering and department head of mechanical and nuclear engineering, and his research team have created a template - based system that identifies explosives hidden underground or in car trunks.

«That earthquake becomes the design basis for engineering at that site,» says Scott Burnell, a spokesman for the AEC's successor, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

For the nuclear engineers here: Is any significant industrial interest in Rubbia's Accelerator Based Reactor?

Every utility engineer that I know that supports Renewables (under the right fit based on engineering economics) also supports the need to develop nuclear power.

Much of the renewable subsidy industry justified in the name of these flawed models causes net grid emissions of CO2 to be much worse for much longer than simply replacing coal with clean low carbon gas and long term inevitable base load zero carbon nuclear on the grid, unsubsidised — but that's only a generation engineering fact from the laws of physics.

This stabilization was due to: 1) Social effects of globalization that reduced reproductive rates below replacement levels, 2) Several genetic engineering disasters between 2020 and 2035 that killed tens of millions of people, 3) A nuclear exchange in the MidEast in 2021 that lead to a mini - «nuclear winter,» cutting average temperatures by five degrees for a year, and 4) A punitive tax on non-renewable carbon - based energy quadrupled costs and led to more efficient use of energy resources.

Positions may also be available in knowledge - based industries: the Sellafield Nuclear Power Plant in nearby Seascale runs graduate training schemes in various areas including design, plant engineering, manufacturing and IT support.