Sentences with phrase «nuclear materials»

The safe and secure transport of nuclear materials requires huge experience and modern insight into current operational standards.

But the difference between highly - controlled nuclear materials and computer code, is that anyone — and any state — can develop it.

If it involves nuclear material of any kind, it's probably going to be considered an act of war.

Those days are gone, but the missing nuclear materials haven't caused policy forms to be updated.

My administration is leading global discussions towards a new international framework in which all countries who are operating nuclear plants are making sure that they're not spreading dangerous nuclear materials and technology.

Then scientists discovered they could transfer nuclear material (the DNA contained in chromosomes) from cells of an embryo to an egg whose own nuclear core had been sucked out.

Not only can it detect hidden nuclear material, it can also take a rough image of it.

If it involves nuclear material of any kind, it's probably going to be considered an act of war.

Those days are gone, but the missing nuclear materials haven't caused policy forms to be updated.

He or she is using a Geiger counter to scan for nuclear material in a ship's cargo.

The highly dense shielding needed for nuclear materials causes small gravitational anomalies and tiny movements that might be detectable by a device based on the principle discovered here.

Meyer and Dares worked closely with Idaho National Laboratory (INL), who provided research support and technical guidance on working with nuclear materials.

Another $ 75 million will go towards building and equipping a plant to store plutonium and other nuclear materials from dismantled nuclear warheads.

Aug. 29, 2017 - Conducting an experiment that combines high explosives with plutonium — a special nuclear material used in nuclear weapons — is no trivial matter.

Advising owners, carriers, insurers and shippers on nuclear materials transport — global nuclear liability, contractual negotiations, safeguards and regulator liaison, including advice on contractual terms relating to international nuclear waste / fuel shipments globally.

Then on June 21, 2016, after technicians working in a glove box spilled about 7 tablespoons of a liquid containing plutonium, workers violated safety rules by sopping up the spill with organic cheesecloth and throwing it in waste bins with other nuclear materials, according to an internal Los Alamos report.

Program prepares individuals to apply scientific principles and technical skills in support of research scientists and operating engineers engaged in the running of nuclear reactors, and in nuclear materials processing and disposal.

A team led by Tom Scott, a reader in nuclear materials at the University of Bristol, has found a way to do just that.

NAC casks have been used at more than 60 nuclear facilities to package a broad array of nuclear materials including spent nuclear fuel and high - level wastes, and have logged more than six million cask miles traveling through more than 35 countries.

No - one who proposes this ever mentions how they plan to maintain flights from or to UK airports without an agreement on Open Skies, or transport nuclear materials without an agreement on Euratom, or get goods into and out of Britain without customs infrastructure in place on the Channel, or allow people to leave and enter the UK without an immigration system designed for them.

With respect to why it was shot down, it could very well be because there was nuclear material aboard, or that there was inforamtion or technology we didn't want to end up in foreign hands.

In accordance with the latest international regulations and supported by our large fleet of spent fuel transport casks, our proven team of cask operators and field engineers constantly provide full scope services to relocate and manage nuclear materials domestically and internationally.

Results of PPPL research have ranged from a portable nuclear materials detector for anti-terrorist use to universally employed computer codes for analyzing and predicting the outcome of fusion experiments.

Results of PPPL research have ranged from a portable nuclear materials detector for counterterrorism use, to universally employed computer codes for analyzing and predicting the outcome of fusion experiments.

Security of nuclear materials worldwide «ranges from «better than probably necessary» to «absolutely appallingly bad,»» Bunn says.

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California began testing a device in May that can quickly detect concealed nuclear materials.

Lab electrical engineer Rebecca Nikolic leads a team of LLNL engineers and scientists, including electrical engineer Adam Conway (left) and postdoc John Murphy, which is developing a hand - held thermal neutron detector that could be used to locate nuclear materials.

He has developed a process to detect weapons - grade nuclear material and chemical - warfare agents in shipping containers, a project that has interested the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Congress added a little more confusion in 2016 when a change was made so that special category federal employees (i.e., law enforcement officers, firefighters, Customs and Border Protection Officers, Air Traffic Controllers, Supreme Court and Capitol Police Officers, Nuclear Materials Couriers, and DSS Special Agents in the State Department) had a dividing line of 50, rather than 55 for penalty free withdrawals from their TSP accounts.

It is illegal to own nuclear materials (which are as a matter of law the property of the United States government) or non-prescribed controlled substances or certain disease causing pathogens or a merchant ship without a license.

Safeguarding and securing nuclear material is a worldwide concern.

He is a member of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management and a co-author of the book «Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster,» which was published in February by the New Press.

Canada's national nuclear laboratory invests in new focused ion beam capability, opening up commercial opportunities in nuclear material characterization.

Is there a need for a greenhouse gas effect when none of the Energy balances issued from 1824 to the present include the «heat of the earth itself» There is a layer of molten material below the surface of the earth (probable keep hot by nuclear materials reactions) that CAN ACCOUNT FOR MUCH OF THE EARTHS CONTINUING TEMPERATURE WHEN ADDED TO THE SOLAR ENERGY INPUT FROM THE SUN.

Author Paul Meyer argues that despite the challenge of a restrictive definition of nuclear security, Seoul has the opportunity to «brand» its own summit success by supporting practical results to secure vulnerable nuclear material and enlarging the summit scope to address threats to the nuclear order of greater saliency and priority than those associated with putative terrorists.

Moreover, in 2016, an ISIS - related group was discovered actively pursuing nuclear materials at a Belgian nuclear power plant.

The summit ended with a «13 point Seoul Communiqué» that eschewed legally binding agreements in preference to voluntarily pledges to bolster protection of loose nuclear materials.

The biggest problem is that Iran has previously insisted on refining nuclear material above 5 % at about 20 %, which is much closer to the nuclear weapons threshold, and consequently many observers believe that Iran is not building a power program, but a weapons program in spite of the fact that they are not yet making weapons.

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

Britain will also have to create an entirely new regulatory infrastructure from scratch to do all the things European regulators used to do, from safeguarding nuclear material, to testing drugs for the market, to certifying airline parts.

If they don't secure or destroy the plants, North Korea can just make more nuclear material.

So we will want to remain a part of agencies like Euratom, regulating nuclear materials in energy and health sectors and programmes like Erasmus that give students opportunities to study across Europe, because they serve our interests.

Peace Bridge Authority General Manager Ron Rienas said he's unaware of shipments of high - level nuclear materials over the bridge linking Buffalo and Fort Erie.

The Division provides planning and technical support for the County's inactive hazardous waste sites and participates in a number of coalitions organized to address these sites including the Coalition Against Nuclear Materials in Tonawanda and the West Valley Citizen's Task Force.

Russia is rebuilding its arsenal, and North Korea has enough nuclear material to produce a dozen nuclear weapons.

Observers see the move as a signal that the military government is trying to conform to global norms on the management of nuclear material as well as distance itself from a controversial figure regarded as the «father of the Islamic bomb.»

For example, many nations are developing nuclear power to help reduce carbon emissions, potentially raising the risk of proliferating nuclear materials.

Inspectors come with a range of expertise, from physics, engineering, and chemistry to computer science and even biology; samples from plants and animals often play a role in detecting unreported nuclear materials.