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And then there are the attacks on journalists: The administration routinely goes directly to nuclear level in its responses, accusing the reporters who cover it of fabricating stories in pursuit of an anti-Cuomo agenda.

Not exact matches

Tensions have escalated since North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on September 3, but the rhetoric has reached a new level in recent days with leaders on both sides exchanging threats and insults.

Oil prices have leveled off in recent weeks, but with the negotiations over Iran's nuclear program bumping up against a deadline, that could change.

Finally, elevating the nuclear discussion to the prime ministerial level is a strong indication to government, scientific and corporate communities that a new era of collaboration and trust is in place.

Changes in the threat of nuclear destruction do not affect stock prices; the social mood as reflected by the stock market affects the level of the threat.

Lets see... what did that mean in Nazi Germany... What did it mean in Soviet Russia... What does it mean in working in the executive levels of an oil company... a tobacco company... a slaughterhouse... what does it mean in being captain of a nuclear attack sub with armed with live nuclear missles... what does that mean in managing an «Apple» store in China... what does it mean in congress... how about being a member of Assad's team?

Tests conducted on water being dumped into the Pacific Ocean near the Fukushima nuclear power plant have found levels of radioactivity millions of times more than is normal in water.

These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

The Lords debate on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came ahead of a UN high - level conference on nuclear disarmament, due to be held Nuclear Weapons came ahead of a UN high - level conference on nuclear disarmament, due to be held nuclear disarmament, due to be held in May.

By 2020, the country hopes to increase crude production to about six million barrels a day, an increase compared to levels produced before the sanctions imposed by the West in response to its nuclear programme.

Added to these over-arching responsibilities are individual powers to operate the Royal Prerogative (as the de facto chair of the Privy Council)- to declare war (including single - handedly authorising the launch of a nuclear strike), to sign international treaties and to represent the UK at the highest level in international and European negotiations.

The party's comments come in the wake of the decision to upgrade the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan to level seven - the same as the Chernobyl disaster.

1) Repeal the Triborough Amendment; 2) State pick - up of Medicaid costs from counties; 3) Roll - back of Medicaid entitlements / coverages to median national levels; 4) Major reform of SEQR process which blocks projects Upstate; 5) Repeal NY's participation in RGGI; 6) Cut 50 percent of staff at DOE, DOH, DEC in order to let the other half do their jobs, which means serving the people instead of feeding the bureaucratic monster; 7) Support expansion of nuclear plants at Oswego, construction of new plants elsewhere; 8) Tort reform to allow doctors to practice medicine, instead of fleeing NY; 9) Use the bully pulpit to support natural gas drilling and tell the envirowackos to grow up.

Officials said the decision to change the plant's nuclear safety level was due to cumulative radiation releases since the earthquake wreaked serious damage to the reactors, rather than a sudden deterioration in conditions.

The NRC is sending a radiation - protection specialist to New York this week to inspect the Indian Point nuclear power plant after state officials found evidence of a surge in radiation levels in groundwater there...» A little more info would be useful here.

On Sunday, the Lib Dem delegates flouted party history and voted in favour of building more nuclear power stations — energy secretary Ed Davey having told them this is vital to fight climate change — and also voted to support fracking, albeit with an amendment to ensure pollution levels were closely monitored and those local to fracking sites were properly consulted.

This is why the only nuclear attack I believe has any probability of materializing in current times is Israel's Samson Option, but some level of conventional war would have to happen prior to this.

«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.

In September, Schumer — perhaps weighed down by his agonizingly unspooled decision to oppose the pending treaty to restrict Iran's nuclear development — saw his favorability ratings slip to their lowest level in yearIn September, Schumer — perhaps weighed down by his agonizingly unspooled decision to oppose the pending treaty to restrict Iran's nuclear development — saw his favorability ratings slip to their lowest level in yearin years.

Additional testing has turned up higher levels of radioactive tritium in groundwater than what was reported last week at the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver proposed a bill that would ban companies and individuals that invest in Iran natural gas, oil or nuclear industries from doing business with all levels of government in New York.

The historically high water levels in Lake Ontario this year have threatened homeowners, municipalities and nuclear power plants - almost triggering emergency action at the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Facility in Oswego nuclear power plants - almost triggering emergency action at the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Facility in Oswego Nuclear Facility in Oswego County.

While the tritium levels weren't dangerous, its presence suggests that at least some groundwater in the wells postdates the 1950s nuclear testing.

Neither High Energy Physics nor Nuclear Physics were given much detail in the omnibus package, but both would be subject to general reductions below FY 2016 levels in multiple areas, as can be seen in the table linked above.

«The simulations give us a dazzling picture of the inner workings of a supernova, with a level of detail that we could never know otherwise,» says Daniel Kasen, an astrophysicist in Berkeley Lab's Nuclear Science Division, and a co-author on the paper.

Although students at this level learn the basics of techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopy in school, «they don't have the advantage of using instruments,» Hewson points out.

After the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, Germany adopted a policy of phasing out nuclear energy by 2022 and ensuring that 80 percent of the country's electricity supply comes from clean energy by 2050, or more than three times the level of 2010.

In 2006, 20 years after reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was encased in cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposeIn 2006, 20 years after reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was encased in cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposein cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposed.

People living around the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine have unusually high levels of physical abnormalities and birth defects.

The researchers expect that the new equations will be a basis for formulating more reliable and efficient predictions of the usable lifetime of materials in nuclear reactors and other environments with high levels of ionizing radiation.

Professor Liddle, Head of Inorganic Chemistry and Co-Director of the Centre for Radiochemistry Research at The University of Manchester, added: «We need to reduce the volume of nuclear waste in order to make it easier to handle and process it to remove benign elements or separate the high level from low level waste.»

Prior to the earthquake and tsunami, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency had modeled a 54 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2000 levels by 2050, and a 90 percent reduction by 2100, with nuclear energy accounting for upwards of 60 percent of the country's total energy mix.

The level of expertise needed to build a radio is just a little less than that required to build a nuclear weapon, they argued, so just as a civilization starts tuning up its transmitters, some internal spat causes it to go off the air in a storm of mushroom clouds.

Twenty - nine high - level U.S. scientists have commended President Obama and his team on the nuclear agreement negotiated with Iran, which will «advance the cause of peace and security in the Middle East,» according to their 8 August letter.

Elevated radiation levels have been detected at and around the stricken nuclear power station in Japan, but the Chernobyl accident remains far more catastrophic

Research coordinated by Osaka University has now shown that the nuclear protein complex cohesin must be expressed at sufficient levels in the early mouse brain to control gene regulation and allow development of healthy neuronal networks and behavioral characteristics.

This compares with EDF's average load factor for its French nuclear fleet of 73 percent in 2013, which is also down from its highest level of 77.6 percent in 2005, the company's 2013 results show.

Scientists are taking medical imaging research and drug discovery to a new level by developing a molecular imaging system that combines several advanced technologies for all - in - one imaging of both tissue models and live subjects, say presenters at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

The 310 - acre site already holds millions of gallons of high - level nuclear waste in tanks.

Already, radiation at undisclosed levels and in undisclosed forms has been detected on the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan, according to the U.S. Navy, an aircraft carrier that had been 100 miles northeast of the stricken nuclear power plant off the coast of Japan on March 14.

The half - lives (the period in which radioactivity halves) of these atoms range up to tens of thousands of years, a feature that led U.S. government regulators to require that the planned high - level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada isolate spent fuel for over 10,000 years.

As the universe expands, the average density of matter decreases; therefore, the density was much higher in the past, in particular exceeding nuclear levels within the first microsecond of the big bang.

Once isolated by the bacteria, the strontium could be sequestered in high - level nuclear waste repositories, while the rest of the waste could go to a less expensive lower - level repository, saving space and money.

Running a fusion reactor creates a small amount of short - lived radioactive waste that decays away in around a century; high - level waste from traditional nuclear reactors can stick around for thousands of years.

Philip Thomas, Professor of Risk Management in the Department of Civil Engineering, said: «The Office of Nuclear Regulation and other national bodies clearly have a problem with how they should assess the right level of expenditure to protect people from nuclear and other accNuclear Regulation and other national bodies clearly have a problem with how they should assess the right level of expenditure to protect people from nuclear and other accnuclear and other accidents.

In January, Lake Norman near Charlotte, N.C., dropped to 93.7 feet, less than a foot above the minimum allowed level for Duke Energy's McGuire Nuclear Station.

LONDON — One of the driest spring seasons on record in northern Europe has sucked soils dry and sharply reduced river levels to the point that governments are starting to fear crop losses and France, in particular, is bracing for blackouts as its river - cooled nuclear power plants may be forced to shut down.

Based on building materials used in the Arctic at the time, the authors speculate the site contains polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pollutants toxic to human health, along with an unknown volume of low - level radioactive coolant from the nuclear generator.

Japan's damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima has been emitting radioactive iodine and caesium at levels approaching those seen in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident in 1986.

This raised the original rating from level 5 and puts the Fukushima Daiichi disaster technically in the same category as Chernobyl, although the quantity of discharged radioactive materials in Japan so far is about 10 percent of what was released by the Chernobyl reactor explosion, considered history's worst nuclear accident.