Sentences with phrase «nuclear science»

For example, in the field of nuclear science, a particle is considered to be any atomic object whose weight is greater or equal to the weight of an electron.

It was thought nuclear science raised such important security issues that it needed a separate organisation, where staff could be carefully vetted for «loyalty».

This book sheds light on the more obscure but equally fascinating world of German research into nuclear science.

But where climate denial is career suicide for any working journalist, nuclear science denial is a way to get ahead.

This joint biography examines two important female scientists who have been largely overlooked by history, highlighting their accomplishments and contributions to the advancement of nuclear science.

It would seem to be a lousy time to embark on a career in nuclear science and engineering.

The other two ones that I'll mention is the one with ANSTO [Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation], the nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights, where we sent six female students for the last two years out to ANSTO to actually do a work experience program out there, where they actually work in areas that even the teachers can't get to.

«It is possible that this was the result of star so massive and hot that it generated antimatter in its core,» said Daniel Kasen, a scientist in the Berkeley Lab Nuclear Science Division and associate professor in the Physics and Astronomy departments at UC Berkeley who participated in the study.

At the end of the 10 - year period, it recommends that the United States be ready to build a new reactor: the Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF).

In a 2015 report of the U.S. Nuclear Science Advisory Committee to the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, a U.S. - led ton - scale experiment to detect neutrinoless double - beta decay was deemed a top priority of the nuclear physics community.

He also noted that nationals of no other country except Iran are comprehensively banned from studying nuclear sciences in the United States.

Chalk River, ON, April 20, 2018 — Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada's premier nuclear science and technology organization, is pleased to announce that it will host the ninth ZED - 2 Reactor Safety & Instrumentation School at the Chalk River Laboratories from May 14 - 18, 2018.

If you are unsure of how nuclear science made its way to North Korea, the former Soviet Union helped North Korea develop a nuclear power program.

«Nuclear is the major base load — producing energy source that could reduce greenhouse - gas emissions,» says Kathryn McCarthy, INL's deputy director for nuclear science and technology.

While at the conference Kessel gave a plenary talk about the Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF), a proposed next step in the U.S. fusion program.

In a 2015 report of the U.S. Nuclear Science Advisory Committee to the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, a U.S. - led ton - scale experiment to detect neutrinoless double - beta decay was deemed a top priority for the nuclear physics community.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

Today, CNL continues its commitment to ensure that Canadians and the world receive energy, health, and environmental benefits from nuclear science and technology with confidence that nuclear safety and security are assured.

The research is driven by several mission goals of Los Alamos's Nuclear and Particle Futures research pillar in basic and applied nuclear science.

Why is the government trying to rejuvenate nuclear science?

Characters major and minor in the story of nuclear science come alive in Mahaffey's lively, accessible retelling of some of the field's more obscure (and sometimes ignominious) moments.

Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N - Rays, and Isotopic Murder — A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science By James Mahaffey

And Schacht may well have a good case for his scheme to combine nuclear science and technology with CSIRO.

In the future, the report envisions an extensive nuclear fusion research program centered around a national US fusion nuclear science facility, but this would require increased funding.

He has had technical papers on mine waste management including uranium production sites, accepted for publication in Germany, Canada and the USA as well as by the European Union Nuclear Science and Technology Directorate.

Augusta University was well represented at two separate events during Nuclear Science Week.

National nuclear science and technology organisation CNL last year set a goal of siting a new SMR on its Chalk River site by 2026.

It's just one of the specialized facilities that will be used as part of the WSU - PNNL Nuclear Science & Technology Institute.

The Canadian nuclear science and technology organisation earlier this year released a long - term strategy including the goal of siting a new SMR on its Chalk River site by 2026.

Motivated by the particular relevance and importance of social - scientific approaches to various crucial aspects of nuclear technology, special emphasis was placed on integrating nuclear science and engineering with social science.

That exhibit included Grand Toby Head with Copper Eye, 2010 and also several pieces that addressed nuclear science and industry.

An appreciation and sharing of Thomas F. Darden's speech on low energy nuclear reaction at The 19th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, Padua, Italy, April 13, 2015 LEARN MORE

The city's largest employer, who essentially defines both its economy and living environment, is the University of California, Berkeley followed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a federal nuclear sciences research center.

«The simulations give us a dazzling picture of the inner workings of a supernova, with a level of detail that we could never know otherwise,» says Daniel Kasen, an astrophysicist in Berkeley Lab's Nuclear Science Division, and a co-author on the paper.

In 2017, CNL released its Long - Term Strategy, an ambitious 10 - year plan that will position the organization as a global leader in nuclear science and technology.

Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are raising objections to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plan to lift a 1983 ban on Libyan nationals receiving pilot training or studying nuclear science in the United States.

Chalk River, ON, March 29, 2018 — Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada's premier nuclear science and technology organization, announced today that the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), Canada's federal body responsible for nuclear safety, has approved CNL's application to renew the operating licence for its Chalk River Laboratories nuclear campus.

The issue of how nuclear science is handled in Australia is important.

Thaler's co-authors are Andrew Larkoski of Reed College, Simone Marzani of the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Aashish Tripathee and Wei Xue of MIT's Center for Theoretical Physics and Laboratory for Nuclear Science.

It's about priorities — and it helps to remind yourself of your priorities every day, says Jacquelyn Yanch, professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT and a mother of three.

The experimental test of this «sign change» is one of the open questions in hadronic physics and was recently noted as a priority by the nation's Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC).

Between 1994 and 2003, Dr Garnett served as the Executive Director of the Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation and as an Australian representative to the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency.

Established by Congress in 2000, NNSA is a semi-autonomous agency within the U.S. Department of Energy responsible for enhancing national security through the military application of nuclear science.

Most of the policies contributing to nuclear science's apparent new vigor were made before September 11.

In the 20 years since one - hit wonder Timbuk 3 made nuclear science the pop cliché for career promise, the nuclear power industry has fallen on hard times.

Pauline Treble, a researcher at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation and the University of New South Wales, Sydney, first got interested in Yonderup Cave as an archive of past climate.