Sentences with phrase «nuclear radiation]»

Federal regulators on Monday rejected a rule proposed by Energy Secretary Rick Perry that would have subsidized coal and nuclear power plants.

Signs on building throughout New York City are all that's left of a widespread government effort to shelter millions of people from the fallout of a nuclear attack.

North Korea is testing what could become an actual nuclear bomb.

However, barring a nuclear war or a rogue state conducting more dangerous above - ground tests, this method has a limited lifespan.

Nuclear explosions produce radioactive substances that are rare in nature — like carbon - 14, a radioactive form of the carbon atom that forms the chemical basis of all life on earth.

Nuclear weapons have been used exactly twice in combat — both times by the US, and both times dropped by a propeller aircraft over largely unprotected Japanese airspace at the close of World War II.

The Russian veto was a defeat for the United States, which has been lobbying for months for Iran to be held accountable at the United Nations, while at the same time threatening to quit a 2015 deal among world powers to curb Iran's nuclear program if «disastrous flaws» are not fixed.

Printouts of plans for such a nuclear torpedo had been spotted in state TV footage of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and military chiefs in November 2015.

«It is unclear whether any new information regarding Iran's nuclear activities was revealed or any new argument for scrapping the nuclear deal,» said Hasnain Malik, global head of equity research at Exotix Capital.

Every person alive on the 71st anniversary of those attacks holds in their flesh radioactive remnants of the nuclear era — a period centered in the early decades of Cold War when nuclear nations conducted atmospheric tests of ever - larger bombs.

Impressive, but, over 35 years of the plant's operational life, the longer EDF is exposed to politicized nuclear policy, the more risk.

Jeffrey Lewis, a leading academic on nuclear matters, quickly gave the Status - 6 a catchier name: «Putin's doomsday machine.»

«The United States, though inherently hostile to North Korea, will get to know once our talk begins that I am not the kind of person who will use nuclear weapons against the South or the United States across the Pacific,» Moon's press secretary Yoon Young - chan quoted Kim as saying.

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated that it wants to resolve «the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula through political means.»

During the 2015 negotiations, Iran was suspected of lying about the military dimensions of its now - shelved nuclear program from 2003.

Finally, the DF - 41 carries up to 12 large nuclear Multiple, Independently targeted Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) warheads, increasing its effectiveness against multiple large, hardened targets and decreasing the ability to intercept it after re-entry into the atmosphere during its terminal attack phase.

But the hundreds — if not thousands of signs — that remain attest to a time when nuclear war threatened to break out at any moment.

Hemp has been used to detoxify the soil around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

He previously told Business Insider that the idea was «deeply, deeply, deeply immoral» and that the US never considers weapons like this for its nuclear arsenal.

It is a possible fuel for nuclear fusion that could solve energy demand on Earth for 10,000 years, at least.

Just last week, it ignored international sanctions when it launched a rocket, part of the country's long - term nuclear strategy and ever - present policy of maintaining a strong military.

As cheap natural gas squeezes the margins of nuclear generators, there's only one company currently building reactors in the country — Southern Co., at its Vogtle plant in Georgia.

The nuclear - powered spacecraft has orbited Saturn for 13 years, and sent back hundreds of thousands of images.

Among the moon's vast riches: gold, cobalt, iron, palladium, platinum, tungsten and helium - 3, a gas that can be used in future fusion reactors to provide nuclear power without radioactive waste.

The Bellefonte plant came with two partially built nuclear reactors, one that's about 55 percent complete and another about 35 percent finished.

Similar to the nuclear fusion process that powers our sun.

More recently scientists have been making some progress on a variation of this technology called low - energy nuclear reaction.

You could fritter it away - or go nuclear on your business strategy.

Neytanyahu delivered a visual - heavy presentation Monday that claimed to prove Tehran secretly pursued developing nuclear weapons, in a bid to undermine support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the 2015 agreement signed with six major world powers to curb its nuclear program in exchange for economic sanctions relief.

«Russia is developing and deploying new nuclear warheads and launchers,» the leaked review says, adding that these systems include «a new intercontinental, nuclear - armed, undersea autonomous torpedo.»

(New throughout, updates prices, market activity and comments) NEW YORK, April 30 (Reuters)- Oil prices rose on Monday, bouncing off early losses as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had proof that «Iran lied» about its nuclear weapons capability, and that he was sure U.S. President Donald Trump would do «the right thing» in reviewing the country's nuclear deal with western powers.

His top near - term goal is persuading the White House not to scuttle the Iran nuclear deal next month.

Outside of Harvey, Mnuchin told Wallace he was drafting a sanctions package regarding North Korea amid news that the country had detonated a hydrogen bomb as part of its sixth nuclear test.

During Russian President Vladimir Putin's address to the Federal Assembly on March 1, he described a plethora of nuclear weapons he said Russia was developing.

Exelon (exc), the nation's largest nuclear power generator, was up 1.1 % at $ 38.60.

And they would also like Donald Trump to take a very tough position on the Iran Nuclear Deal.

Toward the end of Obama's term, it became clear why he had shied away from striking Assad: He was focused on the Iran nuclear deal.

Works with the Department of State and Treasury, along with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the CDC.

In the pages of the scientific journal Physics in Canada in 2010, Eric Vogt, director emeritus of the TRIUMF nuclear accelerator at the University of British Columbia, described General Fusion as «unproven science masquerading as achievable technology.»

Maria Korsnick, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute said the trade group was disappointed in the agency's order and warned that upholding the status quo would lead to the retirements of more reactors in the U.S. «Once closed,» she said, «these facilities are shuttered forever.»

Crude was supported by worries that U.S. President Donald Trump may pull out of the Iran nuclear deal.

Expect the US to push for sanctions, diplomatic talks, investments in missile defenses — the types of measures taken against other nuclear powers — but don't expect a nuclear exchange.

He appealed to the U.S. to rejoin the Paris climate accord and create a «low - carbon economy» because «there is no Planet B.» He said remaining with America's allies in the Iran nuclear deal, at least until some replacement is negotiated, is the best path for fighting terrorism, preserving peace and avoiding nuclear proliferation.

More - advanced ICBMs can carry and target even more nuclear warheads.

The data give a range of deaths for each type of power, but the ranking consistently places hydroelectric power as more deadly than nuclear energy and natural gas:

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday he told Kim during their secret meeting at the beginning of April that North Korea would have to agree to take «irreversible» steps toward shutting its nuclear weapons program in any deal with the United States.

Meanwhile, hanging out in the living room of your one - story, wood - frame house will only cut down the radiation by half, which — if you are next to a nuclear explosion — will not do much to help you.

(Russia and Pakistan are working on similar so - called «tactical» nuclear weapons.)

With more than a decade of experience, Akiko has covered some of the biggest stories across Asia and the U.S. Prior to joining CNBC, Akiko was a Tokyo - based correspondent for ABC News, where she led network coverage of the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan.

Russia violated weapons treaties to upgrade its nuclear arsenal.