Sentences with phrase «nuclear explosion»

The designers want $ 900 million for a laser that will simulate nuclear explosions in the laboratory more accurately than ever before.

Moreover, we do have experience of nuclear explosions over water.

By measuring the relative abundance of various elements in debris left over from nuclear explosions, researchers say they can accurately estimate the amount of energy released during the initial blast.

The tool also is applicable to problems in geothermal energy, carbon sequestration, unconventional oil and gas reserves and nuclear explosion monitoring.

And I am sorely disappointed that you promoted, by even mentioning, the absurd idea that we deliberately use nuclear explosions to mitigate climate change.

Furthermore you'll find some fun stuff too in this game, such as the world's smallest nuclear explosions.

But few have publicized plans to deal with a real nuclear explosion.

If the insured person participated in any war, nuclear explosion etc no claim will be entertained.

In general, you're covered for most losses resulting from just about any peril — except nuclear explosion, war or intentional acts of destruction.

An upgrade to this power lets you cause a small nuclear explosion, which is the only way to take out flying targets with this power.

As a Livermore scientist in the 1960s, Wattenburg developed a means to monitor the size of underground nuclear explosions from afar.

«First nuclear explosion helps test theory of moon's formation.»

In 2009, 2013 and twice in 2016, the government set off more underground nuclear explosions at Punggye - ri.

We can not push asteroids away with nuclear explosions (26 September, p 30).

(This timescale is also in agreement with the rapid decline of the C14 spike due to atmospheric nuclear explosions in the fifties.)

Nuclear explosions produce radioactive substances that are rare in nature — like carbon - 14, a radioactive form of the carbon atom that forms the chemical basis of all life on earth.

An essential element of the CTBT is a monitoring system intended to support compliance and deter cheating by ensuring that cheaters are unmasked [see «Monitoring for Nuclear Explosions,» by Paul G. Richards and Won - Young Kim, on page 70].

«Rats survived nuclear explosions in the Pacific.

They include the production of toxic substances both from the normal operation of industry such as ionizing radiation and from disasters such as the Chernobyl nuclear explosion, and products of industry such as pesticides and chlorofluorocarbons.

Scientists have improved their ability to detect underground nuclear explosions set off by rogue nations, a development sure to be of interest as the Nuclear Security Summit kicks off its 2016 meeting in Washington D.C. today.

The purpose appears to be to assess the impact of high altitude nuclear explosions on radio transmission and radar operations because of the electro - magnetic pulse (EMP), and to increase understanding of the geomagnetic field and the behaviour of the charged particles in it.

However, we lost communication with the Mars colony after a massive nuclear explosion.

This rich account details everything from the project's first calculations run simulating nuclear explosions to its legendary parties that once drew poet Dylan Thomas.

North Korea may be planning one of the most powerful nuclear explosions in history, if the nation's foreign minister is to be believed.

The working group on the Anthropocene — part of the International Union of Geological Sciences — favours a date around 1950, because nuclear explosions and the start of modern consumerism really started to have long - term effects on the biosphere.

As ever, the presentations covered a wide range of topics from HIV in the dentist's surgery to the risks of accidental nuclear explosions.

His was the marquee name * among five authors of the December 23, 1983, Science paper, «Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions» and Sagan exposed millions of people to the threat in a Parade magazine special report and television appearances.

The Role of Atmospheric Nuclear Explosions on the Stagnation of Global Warming in the Mid 20th Century — Fujii (2011)

Half of my family has died from cancers that I believe were a result of radioactive fallout caused by aboveground nuclear explosions tested in the Nevada desert from 1945 to 1962....

Under a new agreement with MasterCard, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are trying to adapt computer algorithms that were developed to detect clandestine nuclear explosions to spot attempts at credit - card fraud, such as using someone else's credit card number without authorisation.

Infrasound signals can remain strong as they travel over large distances, making them useful for pinpointing the location and size of events such as nuclear explosions, meteorite strikes, volcanic eruptions and sometimes earthquake ruptures.

Nuclear explosions loft this material high into the atmosphere as dust -, salt -, and sand - size particles, and it can take up to 15 minutes to fall to the ground.

As the MOAB is a conventional weapon, it also doesn't generate the heat or lasting radiation that nuclear explosions do.

If the nation sets off an above - ground nuclear explosion — and the most powerful ever detonated in the Pacific — the Cold War's rich history of test blasts suggests what might happen.

In 2006, the country's first nuclear explosion measured less than one kiloton.

Lead author and retired nuclear physicist from the Swedish Defence Research Agency, Lars - Erik De Geer commented, «We believe that thermal neutron mediated nuclear explosions at the bottom of a number of fuel channels in the reactor caused a jet of debris to shoot upwards through the refuelling tubes.

These isotopes were the product of recent nuclear fission, suggesting they could be the result of a recent nuclear explosion.

They hypothesize that the first explosive event was a jet of debris ejected to very high altitudes by a series of nuclear explosions within the reactor.

AT 15 seconds to 5.30 am on 16 July 1945, the world's first nuclear explosion turned 4 hectares of sand into glass and signalled the start of the atomic age.

Researchers hoping to detect illness in babies, translate spoken words into text and even sniff out rogue nuclear explosions are proving that sophisticated computer systems can exhibit the nascent abilities which sparked interest in AI in the first place: the ability to reason like humans, even in a noisy and chaotic world.

The working group on the Anthropocene — part of the International Union of Geological Sciences — favours a date around 1950, when nuclear explosions and the start of modern consumerism started to have long - term effects on the biosphere.

At first, Wilson and colleagues were also surprised by the variety of proposed causes for these quakes, including nuclear explosions and the building of heavy skyscrapers.

Iran's nuclear ambitions deeply threaten the stability of the Middle East, but with the CTBT in force an Iranian nuclear explosion would risk even greater international condemnation than it does today.

From the fascinating (an intricately diagrammed explanation of nuclear fission) to the terrifying (an in - depth hypothetical example of what would happen if a 150 kiloton nuclear explosion occurred in New York City), the site covers all the bases.

The spaceships of Project Orion, designed in the late 1950s but never built, had in common their massive size (this one was more than 30 feet in diameter) and a propulsion system that relied on controlled nuclear explosions.

The collection includes an intelligence report from August 1964 predicting that the Chinese would not conduct their first nuclear explosion before the end of the year.

Technicians there gently separate their components — such as the detonators — at that site; they also send the pits — used in a primary nuclear explosion — to Los Alamos, and the highly - enriched uranium — used in a secondary explosion — to Oak Ridge, Tenn..