Sentences with phrase «nuclear facilities by»

The US Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established federal responsibility for all civil used nuclear fuel and obliged the government to begin removing used fuel from nuclear facilities by 1998 for disposal in a federal facility.
The US Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established federal responsibility for all civil used nuclear fuel and obliged the government to begin removing used fuel from nuclear facilities by 1998 for disposal in a federal facility.
Every review of Iran's nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency since Trump took office has shown that Iran is complying with the deal's terms.

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As much as Australia might benefit from a cut in official interest rates, it would definitely benefit from encouraging a new industry, such as the nuclear - fuel processing facility being championed by the South Australian government, and supported by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
A recent example of this is Operation Orchard, the Israeli attack on a suspected Syrian nuclear facility that was enabled by a concurrent cyberattack to shut down Syria's air defenses.
First authorized by President Bush and then re-authorized by President Obama, the top secret computer worm was designed by the US and Israel to infect an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz.
By one estimate, this amount would have been almost enough to both fund North Korea's uranium enrichment facilities, and to design, make and test its nuclear weapons,» the report said.
Iran built secret nuclear enrichment facilities in Natanz and Fordow that were outed to the world by Western intelligence agencies.
The facility is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and is a key element of NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Program to maintain the reliability and safety of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without full - scale tNuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and is a key element of NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Program to maintain the reliability and safety of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without full - scale tnuclear deterrent without full - scale testing.
Iran also could respond by ending or limiting the inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency of its nuclear facilities.
«Taiwan's President Tsai Ing - wen's has pledged to make Taiwan nuclear energy free by 2025, and the talks of battery facilities with Tesla would be a crucial step in his plans of utilizing more green energy.»
South Australian Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell injected $ 2.5 million in funds into the Beston dairy facilities on Wednesday and said he didn't think there would be any compromising of the state's «clean and green» premium food and wine image if it eventually pursued an underground nuclear waste facility in the desert lands in the north of the state, as recommended by a nuclear Royal Commission.
While it is up to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to determine whether plants are licensed to operate, the state licenses the facilities» use of river water for operations, and can theoretically put a halt to operations by withholding or limiting permission on the basis of concerns over water quality.
The proposal comes as nuclear facilities across the country feel the financial pressure of cheap natural gas produced by the fracking boom and after Entergy has already decided to close its Vermont Yankee facility for economic reasons.
The NY Post: «Any energy plan that clearly recognizes the role nuclear energy has in reducing dangerous emissions should be welcomed by all New Yorkers — and would be if it wasn't clear that the state is picking and choosing which nuclear - power facilities should stay open at the expense of taxpayers, especially those in New York City.»
Cuomo's nuclear gambit comes as he has tried, so far unsuccessfully, to convince Entergy Corp., owners of the money - losing James A. FitzPatrick nuclear plant near Oswego, to shutter the 40 - year - old facility by January.
According to a report published by U.S. Department of Defense in 2001, China had provided Pakistan with nuclear materials and has given critical technological assistance in the construction of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development facilities, in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China even then was a signuclear materials and has given critical technological assistance in the construction of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development facilities, in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China even then was a signuclear weapons development facilities, in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China even then was a sigNuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China even then was a signatory.
Those two plants could be the only nuclear facilities left upstate if the FitzPatrick plant in Oswego County, owned by Entergy, closes early next year as planned.
SCRIBA, N.Y. - Supporters of the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County are planning a rally Monday to show support for the facility, which is under review for possible closure by its owner, Entergy Corp..
Under the 2015 deal forged by a multinational coalition, Iran agreed to reduce nuclear facilities in exchange for unlocking frozen assets and sanctions relief.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office had raised the issue during the ongoing relicensing process and appealed the initial decision, saying there needed to be a new analysis of the impacts caused by potential severe accidents at the Buchanan nuclear facility and potential upgrades to protect the public against such accidents.
Space in the new Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials Research — a # 235 million (US$ 338 million) publicly funded facility scheduled to open in 2019 that will be supported by six UK partner universities — is already dedicated to research on nuclear technologies.
The workshop will focus on prevention and remediation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear disasters that could occur either through accidental (caused by, for example, facility problems, personnel issues, a natural disaster, or some combination of events) or intentional means...
Iran has acknowledged that personal computers belonging to employees at Bushehr were infected by the worm but has insisted that computers running the nuclear facility itself remained unharmed.
In the short term, the Federal government can encourage increased use of nuclear energy by streamlining the permitting process and by backing necessary financing to get new facilities online.
Now, Nuclear Electric is considering extending these facilities, to allow fuel to be left for up to 40 years, or constructing a dry store similar to one planned by Scottish Nuclear, where the fuel could stay for up to 100 years.
Stone highlighted the planned construction, beginning in 2018, of the Iranian Light Source Facility (ILSF), which would be the country's first synchrotron and its «biggest basic science project ever,» as «a testament to the country's determination to do science in spite of turmoil, political interference, and the viselike grip of economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies to block Iran's suspected effort to develop nuclear weapons.
The presence of the sterile neutrino has been hinted at by several experiments, including at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1990s and, more recently, at the Daya Bay nuclear reactor facility near Hong Kong.
One was a team at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia led by nuclear physicist Ken Hicks of Ohio University.
In 2008 the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission found fake and possibly faulty valves, pipes and electrical breakers — those not actually verified to stand up to the rigors posed by an operating reactor — at two nuclear facilities in tNuclear Regulatory Commission found fake and possibly faulty valves, pipes and electrical breakers — those not actually verified to stand up to the rigors posed by an operating reactor — at two nuclear facilities in tnuclear facilities in the U.S.
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.
The M.I.T. report predicts that even if the world's fleet of more than 400 nuclear power plants grew to be 4,000 such plants that then operated for a century, the cost of the electricity from those facilities would rise by a mere 1 percent as a result of the increased demand for uranium.
We placed a lot of the nuclear elements in storage within the Pantex facility [the Texas plant operated by B&W Pantex, the company that helps manage the United States» nuclear stockpile], and we took the explosives to Los Alamos National Laboratory for evaluation.
If the facility passes a final inspection by Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority, J - PARC could resume normal operations by the end of next month.
Achieving that longer lead time requires blocking Iran's four routes to nuclear weapons: through its Natanz and Fordow uranium enrichment facilities, where thousands of centrifuges separate uranium isotopes; through plutonium production at the Arak heavy water reactor, which Iran says is needed to produce medical radioisotopes; and by way of a covert path involving undisclosed facilities.
Nuclear physicists create the fireballs by colliding ordinary nuclei — made of protons and neutrons — in an «atom smasher» called the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
It connects more than 2,500 researchers around the world with the data generated by millions of particle collisions taking place each second at Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, a DOE Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research), and the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.
Long - term safety goals for next - generation nuclear facilities were formulated during the past year by international and domestic experts at the request of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Our success in these areas is complemented by our substantial investment in cutting - edge facilities for nuclear magnetic resonance, protein crystallization, X-ray crystallography, transgenics, histochemistry, electron microscopy, confocal microscopy, and fluorescence activated cell sorting.
Recommendation: To improve DOE's management and oversight of the WTP project, the Secretary of Energy should not resume construction on the WTP's pretreatment and high - level waste facilities until critical technologies are tested and verified as effective, the facilities» design has been completed to the level established by nuclear industry guidelines, and Bechtel's preliminary documented safety analyses complies with DOE nuclear safety regulations.
The little - known hiatus has forced the directors of the three principal U.S. weapons laboratories to rely on other types of reliability tests, mostly conducted at other U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, when they promised in annual reports to the President and the Congress that the country's warheads will still explode in the manner intended by their designers.
«Through the enrichment of the curriculum of schools, the employment of students through co-op programs and summer jobs, by enabling post-doctoral research, or by providing access to our unique facilities and expertise in events such as the «ZED - 2 School,» CNL is helping to inspire young researchers and develop young professionals interested in a career in nuclear technology.»
The school will be structured around lectures delivered by members of CNL's research team and external experts in the mornings, followed by demonstrations and practical sessions in the afternoons during which students will spend time at the Zero Energy Deuterium (ZED - 2) reactor, as well as several other nuclear facilities located on the campus.
Those limits were in keeping with the 1979 law (Public Law 96 - 164, Section 213) that authorized WIPP «a research and development facility to demonstrate the safe disposal of radioactive wastes from the defense activities and programs of the United States exempted from regulation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission» (NRC).
The private facility would be licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), but unlike Yucca Mountain or WIPP, would not be owned or operated by DOE.
Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. is seeking to complete such a reprocessing facility in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, by March 2016.
Sandia National Laboratories A series of research facilities run by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.
At the end of Ground Zeroes an underground nuclear testing facility, abandoned by South Africa in 1977 is mentioned, likely the new location of Mother Base (Outer Heaven).
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In order to use radioactive iodine, the facility has been specially licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
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