Sentences with phrase «nuclear option which»

So, he also has his own nuclear option which is «if you don't want me, I can rig the election».

Whether or not one would resort to the nuclear option which my honourable friend suggests I think is a matter for the FA - but one we will need to discuss with them.»

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The intended payload for North Korea's ICBM program is a nuclear warhead (although chemical weapons like VX nerve agent, which the nation allegedly possesses and has used, are another option).

Various media said Trump was considering detonating the trade equivalent of a nuclear option — an executive order to withdraw from the trade agreement, which would instill fear in members of Congress, industry and Canadian and Mexican trade negotiators.

The nuclear option exists in the Senate, which allows the majority leader to effectively alter the rules with a majority vote even though the rules state a three fifths vote is required.

The government majority in Parliament shied away from breaking the filibuster by applying the «nuclear option» permitted by law, which also would have been unprecedented.

And there has been a significant change in recent years that limits even the Legislature's capability of delay — Paterson's «nuclear option,» in which unpalatable policy proposals are placed into extender bills, forcing the Legislature to choose between accepting the governor's ideas and shutting down the government.

A Moreland panel would be the nuclear option with the Legislature, which would likely close ranks once under a true siege from Cuomo.

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.

Along the way, Senate tradition took a major hit as all 52 Republicans voted to invoke the so - called nuclear option, which makes it easier for Supreme Court nominees to be confirmed.

Closing the older nuclear plants is not an option for many EU countries, which are facing an energy capacity crunch as other types of plant are being closed or mothballed because they can't cover their operating costs, or to meet stricter environmental regulation.

Option one was rejected by JET's ruling council, which is made up of representatives of the nuclear research organisations that pay part of JET's budget.

In particular, he's focused on the option of «last resort,» which may, in extreme circumstances, be our first and only resort: using nuclear blasts in outer space to push a menacing asteroid out of harm's way and onto a benign trajectory.

After spending about 10 years gathering meteorite samples, in 2000 Remo finally gained access to the perfect device for exploring the nuclear option: Sandia National Laboratories» Z machine, which happens to be the world's most powerful nuclear blast simulator, apart from nuclear weapons themselves.

The contract - which includes a one - year base period and four one - year option periods - provides continuing technical assistance and research support to NRC activities related to storage, transportation, possible reprocessing and ultimate geological disposal of used nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive wastes.

Clinton shows no awareness of how huge a task she's glibly suggesting, nor does she suggest that there are other options that should be considered long before this nuclear option, which should be at the bottom of the list.

The biggest drawback we've found to their Nuclear Option is that it requires manually re-marking all the italics, which can be numerous and really time - consuming to find and restore.

Titan kit options include Nuclear Ejection which sends a blast wave when you eject and Survivor which give you more time to escape when your titan has been destroyed.

nuclear plants, both of which require large sources of water, energy consumption must surely become a new performance metric in assessing viable future energy options.

«This is not at all hard to do,» Granger told the audience, declaring that «a single large nation» — especially a nuclear power, which might act with relative impunity — could easily exercise the option.

But there are three other major energy options that need to be considered to help fill this need for non-fossil energy by 2050, one or all of which may end up being more cost effective and thus less harmful to global economic growth: nuclear fission (chapter 7), fusion (chapter 8), and solar power collected in space rather than on Earth's surface (chapter 9).

And even the countries which are investing in nuclear power (China, India, South Korea) promote also renewable energy options.

While nuclear energy is regarded as the lesser of the two evils when compared at an emission level to the burning of fossil - fuels, it may trump on the containment of the heat process, which burns in a contained nuclear reactor through an in - ward heat - chemical reaction called fission, but nuclear energy production is a chain from uranium mining to the toxic waste disposal and therefore as an entire process is an equally high risk environmental option.

Not it is your argument that PV will make electricity generation less secure because a purported low LCOE will make it uneconomic to run reliable baseload plant of which the only realistic options are coal and nuclear.

While the need for nuclear power is absolutely critical in meeting our base load requirements (and reducing CO2 emissions, and reducing fuel risk by having a diversified generation portfolio of power plants)-- peaking load and generation options to meet this load (which solar currently fits into) is important also.

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.

* distance in time from Hiroshima, the Cold War, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and the protest movement of the 70's (in the main) * aging population, meaning many younger respondents don't have personal experience of this negative history * immigration (in Australia particularly), from countries with nuclear power already, or which didn't have strong antinuclear movements * willingness to reconsider the option, based on both climate change, and the increasingly visible decline of fossil fuels * smarter, better educated population

The barista claims he pursued this nuclear option only after a number of complaints from customers and after trying to confirm that he had the «power as a Starbucks employee to pull the plug,» including «asking supervisors, calling managers, and even looking through the employee handbook (which not only said nothing about this act being against policy but actually explained how to do it) before cutting the public Wi - Fi.»

Of course, in light of the current composition of the U.S. Senate and the current President, and the precedent that the «nuclear option» can abolish the filibuster for some kinds of judicial appointments (a parliamentary ruling which is almost surely not justiciable due to express language vesting procedural questions in the U.S. Senate in the Senate and not the courts in the U.S. Constitution), this question is unlikely to present itself any time soon.