Sentences with phrase «nuclear option if»

... Congress must immediately pass Border Legislation, use Nuclear Option if necessary, to stop the massive inflow of Drugs and People.
He does raise «tariffs or quantitative limitations» as a sort of nuclear option if all else fails to contain China.

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Trump on Tuesday hosted a discussion on options to respond to any North Korean aggression or if necessary to prevent Pyongyang from threatening the United States and its allies with nuclear weapons, the White House said in a statement.
It comes following calls by the president for Republican lawmakers to immediately pass a border bill, even if it means using the «nuclear option» to muscle it through.
The nuclear option — throwing your excess SCOBY in the trash — feels especially wrong if you're in the habit of calling it a «mother.»
I personally believe that it is very important that we do reach an agreement, as long as it is enforceable and it can be properly verify and as long that there still be an option to impose deterrents, sanction-wise or otherwise by military means, if Iran chooses to break the agreement and pursuit nuclear weaponization.
But two things - New Yorkers are better than that and can vote it down if it's terrible, and this nuclear option is better than nothing.
After his appearance in Syracuse earlier today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he's been working hard to reach an agreement with the Legislature, but intends to get the best budget «for the people» by using the nuclear extender option, if necessary, because «the buck stops on my desk.»
Yet Mrs May can not be sure what would happen if Ms Sturgeon reached for the nuclear option of an referendum demand.
Journalists don't know everything going on behind the scenes however, and the Cabinet's main strength is that each individual knows he can always launch the nuclear option on Brown if there's something he's dissatisfied with.
Having a stockpile of a wide variety of nuclear weapons gives a state a much wider range of option not only if but how they want to perform a nuclear strike.
Prof Chalmers suggests a «CASD - capable» submarine force which could credibly reconstitute the nuclear deterrent if needed, or a «dual - capable» submarine force which could be used either for conventional or deterrent purposes, as alternative options to be considered.
So, he also has his own nuclear option which is «if you don't want me, I can rig the election».
State Senator Martin Golden, a Brooklyn Republican and EITC supporter, warned in March that religious groups would use a «nuclear option» if the tax credit does not become law soon.
If letting things go is a struggle, the nuclear option — a pill to blot out the past — may soon offer respite, writes journalist Adam Piore in «Totaling Recall.»
The United States has many promising options for obtaining new supplies of electricity and changing its supply mix during the next two to three decades, especially if carbon capture and storage and evolutionary nuclear technologies can be deployed at required scales.
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I think when you read this, you'll see why I consider this the nuclear option: if you're successful, you're probably going to get some advice that hurts.
If you're looking for a date option that is completely unlike anything else, how about a trip to a secret nuclear bunker?
If they aren't buying my explanations about the different types of literacies, and are still hesitant about comics I go to the nuclear option.
Bombs provide a «nuclear option» if you find yourself in a situation you can't escape, but you only have three.
Regarding nuclear energy, if the future situation is as dire as described all round these days, how can * any * options be taken off the table?
Even a stop - gap of nuclear energy is an available option if needed.
If the United States starts weaning off of oil and coal and onto homegrown biofuels, renewables, nuclear and other options, how much land will be gobbled up by new forms of energy production?
If in the future carbon dioxide emissions carry a significant «price,» however, nuclear energy could be an important — indeed vital — option for generating electricity.
For example, simulations with GCAM can reach 4.5 Wm − 2 even if some technology options, such as CCS or nuclear power, are removed from consideration or even if not all countries enter into an emissions mitigation agreement at the same time (Clarke et al. 2009).
Yet, it seems, even a sympathetic inquiry finds nuclear power to be an option for the distant future, if that.
So the question for the remainder of the book: what (if any) of the nuclear or renewable options available can actually meet this enormous requirement, in a sustainable fashion and at a cost that won't cripple global growth?
«If this turns out to be of major concern, then fossil fuel combustion will be essentially unacceptable, an important justification for expanding the nuclear and solar energy options,» Dr. Cyril Comar, director of EPRI's environmental assessment department, told Congress in 1977.
If you want the most cost effective way of reducing them in the west, a 100 % nuclear powered society is way the best and cheapest option.
I'd also add that the nuclear option has to be included in low - carbon energy generation.Incidentally, James Hansen, reviled by many commentors on this blog, is saying exactly the same thing, if I understand him correctly.
Of course this argument goes far more for fossil fuels and if the choice were simply between continued use of fossil fuels or a wholesale switch to nuclear then I have absolutely no doubt that the latter would be the preferable option.
In that post you seem to lose track of the main point of the thread: if the goal is to rapidly replace fossil fuel use with CO2 - free generating technology that is known to work reliably at known costs, then a strong nuclear program is the best option.
International media coverage has typically assumed that Japan must expand its electricity generation from coal, oil, and natural gas if nuclear is no longer an option.
If you do that you fin d that nuclear is by far the least cost option.
Even if it is easier for the USA to reduce its CO2 emissions, because it is coming from a higher base, the USA is exploiting the only known non nuclear option that results in actual measurable reduction of CO2 emissions, ie., switching to fracked gas.
Tim Curtin: I also await more recruits from the AGW school to adoption of nuclear power in Australia (and resumptions in USA and UK); if CO2 is the villain, then only the nuclear option is meaningful.
I also await more recruits from the AGW school to adoption of nuclear power in Australia (and resumptions in USA and UK); if CO2 is the villain, then only the nuclear option is meaningful.
If we need to stop CO2 production then on the face of it nuclear is the cheapest alternative however there are many other options that are viable.
If sustainable were to include a suite of energy options such as nuclear and natural gas, then this justifies the phenomenal rating (Centurelli (2010)-RRB-.
In response to this forecast, Holdren and a group of colleagues from MIT asked the question, «If we are going to need nuclear power, what is the safest, most cost - effective way to retain the option to use this resource?»
However if you pitch it against renewables such as solar and wind it is not hard to see the nuclear option as being better value.
With respect to nuclear: If one decides to go for it I would prefer the Thorium option.
The capital cost for these options (to achieve the same emissions reductions) would be about: $ 100 billion for nuclear $ 160 billion for hydro $ 480 billion for wind (more than this if we add the cost of transmission) Using A$ from Table 5.2.2.
The developers think that if the state is to reduce emissions by 80 percent by 2050, which AB32 calls for, then it must have clean baseload power and nuclear reactors are the best option.
I'd prefer nuclear power to start replacing coal by 2013, but if I can't have that because not enough share my view, then let's have the next best suite of options.
The results should emerge soon, but in its evidence to the Select Committee, Scottish and Southern Electricity plc said that, while shale gas was a viable if relatively small option for the UK (compared to the US), «there is a concern that with limited capital for investment in the energy industry, significant development of policy incentives to encourage development of shale gas resources in the UK, alongside uncontrolled growth in gas - fired generation could decrease investor certainty on UK policy direction towards renewables, CCS and / or nuclear.
Geothermal Energy Association chief executive Susan Jeanes said the public should be aware that nuclear power was an option for future electricity if the development of geothermal continued to be disadvantaged in Federal Government development funding.
If, at the end of the day, government can not abide the constitutional invalidation of one of its laws, the nuclear option of the notwithstanding clause always exists.
If the judiciary had been prepared to take a more robust approach to ATE premiums, the current «nuclear option» of ending recoverability would probably not have arisen.
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