Sentences with phrase «nuclear materials from»

When nations acquire nuclear weapons, they usually develop dedicated facilities to produce fissile materials rather than collecting nuclear materials from civilian power plants.

He tested various methods to quickly and precisely remove the nuclear materials from the egg cell and promote the fusion of the nucleus - donor cell and enucleated egg.

A long - troubled technology initiative to prevent illicit nuclear materials from being smuggled into the United States appears to be in danger, if the Administration's 2010 budget is any indication.

In subsequent experiments, Hwang's team claimed to have overcome this concern by taking nuclear material from one volunteer and placing it in the egg of another, thus creating an embryonic clone matched to the nuclear donor.

Not exact matches

A dirty bomb, or a bomb that propels radioactive materials in the air with help from a conventional explosive charge, requires radioactive material that can only be obtained via license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

And the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had evidence that Iran had been researching how to convert the fissile material from these enrichment facilities into a nuclear bomb.

Investors felt the biggest shock waves when Japan's prime minister announced that radioactive material had leaked from the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima province and that more leaks were possible.

This paper is based in part on material from my book, Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age.

Gillibrand also asked for an extra $ 20 million in funding, which she thinks is necessary to improve detection of nuclear materials and prevent a dirty bomb from being detonated.

(b) It is further in the national interest to ensure that the Nation's electricity is affordable, reliable, safe, secure, and clean, and that it can be produced from coal, natural gas, nuclear material, flowing water, and other domestic sources, including renewable sources.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

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.

Also on the agenda at the summit will be protecting countries from cyber-attacks on their civil nuclear sites and preventing terrorists from obtaining the raw materials for a «dirty bomb».

This is what guarantees protection from nuclear fissile material at our ports.

These results show that understanding how the nanostructures are formed could lead to the ability to design materials with properties ranging from high surface area to high strength for batteries, nuclear reactors, and other energy applications.

Due to the limited number of specimens and difficulties in obtaining endogenous DNA from such old material, the number of Neandertals for which nuclear genomes have been sequenced is still limited.

Uranium and other radioactive materials, such as caesium and technetium, have been found in tiny particles released from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors.

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.»

After analyzing the data, researchers found radiocesium from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in the sediment samples along with a high fraction of clay material, which is characteristic of shelf and slope sediments suggesting a near shore source.

The method, called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), replaces the DNA in an egg cell's nucleus with the genetic material from the nucleus of a skin cell, then tricks the egg cell to start dividing as if it had been fertilized with sperm.

Six years after the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan, radioactive material is leaching into the Pacific Ocean from an unexpected place.

Thus, nuclear fuels production, structural materials, separation techniques and waste management, all may benefit from an excellent knowledge in the nano - nuclear technology.

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.

«It was nowhere near as complex of a release as Chernobyl, which was everything from the core of the reactor,» says Peter Caracappa, a radiation safety officer and clinical assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «This was a slow release,» he adds, and it was limited to a few radioactive materials, including iodine 131, which has a half - life of just eight days and therefore does not lead to long - term contamination.

Reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi station runs on so - called mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, in which uranium is mixed with other fissile materials such as plutonium from spent reactor fuel or from decommissioned nuclear weapons.

«New - generation material removes iodine from water: Advancement could dramatically improve nuclear cleanup.»

Hwang claimed to have perfected somatic cell nuclear transplant, a procedure in which genetic material is removed from a donated egg and replaced with DNA from the patient to create cloned cells that could regenerate diseased tissues or organs.

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

Aside from battery studies, the researchers say that NDP also holds promise for examining certain materials for solar cells and catalysts, including materials that are used to treat nuclear waste.

The prevailing winds are indeed heading east over the Pacific from Japan, but the vast majority of radioactive material will rain down into the ocean within a few hundred kilometers of the nuclear plant.

The modern challenge of nuclear waste storage and disposal has researchers at Washington State University looking back at ancient materials from around the world.

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.

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.

Scientists have found a previously unsuspected place where radioactive material from the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear power plant disaster has accumulated — in sands and brackish groundwater beneath beaches up to 60 miles away.

In 2010, the Obama administration abandoned a 2 - decade effort to bury much of the high level waste — spent fuel rods from commercial reactors and radioactive material from nuclear bomb manufacturing — inside Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert (although Congress has ordered parts of that process to keep moving).

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

The knowledge gained from such research could inform the design, selection, and improvement of adsorbent materials and membranes for capturing gases such as radioactive krypton and xenon generated by nuclear power plants.

To simulate a nuclear «kick» in the lab, Remo and his longtime collaborator, Sandia physicist Michael Furnish, mounted small, disk - shaped samples of meteoritic material about 10 centimeters from the Z machine's X-ray source.

With her up - to - date equipment, Baker is usually able to isolate nuclear DNA, the genetic material inherited from both mother and father and unique to each individual.

Using a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), a team from Oregon Health & Science University (O.H.S.U.) in Portland implanted the contents of individual skin cells from adult male rhesus macaques into each of 304 macaque egg cells stripped of their genetic material.

Recent accidents and increasing political instability make Russia a dangerous destination for nuclear material, say nuclear experts, but the International Atomic Energy Agency says it had no alternative after Britain and France backed down from their initial offer to take it.

And human error led the operators of Vermont Yankee to misplace segments from two spent fuel rods, a chronic problem with nuclear material.

But ANP engineers and management were mired in debate over reactor technologies, how best to transfer nuclear power to a conventional engine, and the best material to shield the crew from radiation.

The most important step was separating the fissionable material from the conventional high explosives that trigger the nuclear reaction.

As a white dwarf draws off hydrogen - rich material from a binary companion over millions of years, Gilfanov says, it experiences a steady process of nuclear fusion on its surface that gives off tremendous amounts of radiation.

And it is a quirky material, this particular study of it taking Robert Charity and Lee Sobotka — research professor in chemistry and professor in both chemistry and physics in Arts & Sciences — from Duke's Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory to the Department of Energy's Los Alamos (N.M.) National Laboratory.

COULD the mysterious bursts of gamma rays that come from all parts of the sky be caused by distant collisions between balls of nuclear material measuring just 10 kilometres across?

Ensuring Nonproliferation A critical aspect of new nuclear energy systems is ensuring that they do not allow weapons - usable materials to be diverted from the reprocessing cycle.

Such boreholes could not house most of the country's waste, like fuel rods from nuclear power plants, but could have potential for smaller, long - lived radioactive materials.