Sentences with phrase «nuclear states under»

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The delicate, potentially deadly dismantling of nuclear warheads at Pantex, while little noticed, has grown increasingly urgent to keep the United States from exceeding a limit of 1,550 warheads permitted under a 2010 treaty with Russia.

Under third - generation North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the reclusive state has conducted its most powerful nuclear test, launched its first - ever intercontinental ballistic missile and threatened to send missiles into the waters near Guam.

«I can not imagine a condition under which the United States can accept North Korea as a nuclear power,» Mattis told a news conference.

Trump's decision to impose duties on up to $ 60 billion worth of Chinese imports, for example, comes at a time when Washington needs Beijing's help to rein in a nuclear - armed Pyongyang, said Wendy Sherman, a former under secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. State Department who was the lead American negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreestate for political affairs at the U.S. State Department who was the lead American negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreeState Department who was the lead American negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreement.

Under third - generation North Korean leader Kim, the reclusive state has conducted its most powerful nuclear test, launched its first - ever intercontinental ballistic missile and threatened to send missiles into the waters near the U.S. territory of Guam.

China's nuclear industry might not thrive into mid-century unless the state continues to provide it incentives and benefits that are now coming under pressure from market forces and their advocates in Chinese government agencies.

The state - run nuclear power plant operator was preparing for further cyber-attacks after its data was leaked on a blog and to a Twitter account under the profile «president of anti-nuclear reactor group.»

ALBANY, N.Y. — The controversial Indian Point nuclear power plant would close by 2021 under a pending agreement between plant owner Entergy Corp. and the state of New York.

As the state shifts toward renewable energy, under a mandate to power half its electrical grid with solar and wind by 2030, nuclear also supplies about 60 percent of its carbon - free power.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

New York lawmakers say if the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant and its 615 jobs are to be saved, they just need to keep it open long enough to benefit from nuclear plant subsidies that are currently under consideration, but its owner Entergy has repeatedly said it is not interested in that state sNuclear Power Plant and its 615 jobs are to be saved, they just need to keep it open long enough to benefit from nuclear plant subsidies that are currently under consideration, but its owner Entergy has repeatedly said it is not interested in that state snuclear plant subsidies that are currently under consideration, but its owner Entergy has repeatedly said it is not interested in that state support.

During nearly two hours of testimony in Oswego City Hall Tuesday, community leaders and Nine Mile Point Nuclear Plant employees begged staff from New York's Public Service Commission to support the proposed «clean energy standard» under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal to generate half of the state's energy from renewable sources, like wind and solar, by 2030.

Under the guise of promoting renewable energy, Cuomo is attempting an end run around the legislature to impose a rate hike on state utility consumers in order to bail out four failing nuclear plants in the state, all of which are coincidently owned by the same corporation.

In New York state government, lawmakers return for the busiest month of the legislative session and a plan to shutter Indian Point nuclear plant goes under the microscope.

Investing in such research has diplomatic benefits by providing concrete evidence of Nuclear Weapon States taking seriously their obligations to pursue disarmament under the NPT.

The United States has decided not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear countries as long as they comply with their nonproliferation commitments under different international treaties.

Under the 1978 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act (NNPA), the United States has some control over the disposition of U.S. - made fuel after it is burned in reactors in foreign countries.

Ben received his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of California, Berkeley where he worked under Stephen R. Leone studying ultrafast electronic relaxation dynamics in atomic systems as well as competitive electronic - nuclear dynamics in superexcited states of small molecules using femtosecond soft X - ray / VUV light sources.

Under a landmark agreement between the United States and Russia, 500 metric tons of former Soviet nuclear weapons material was converted into fuel for America's civilian power reactors.

Under terms of the contract, as amended in 1996, United States Enrichment Corporation (i) purchased the enrichment portion of the blended - down material and sold it to its electric utility customers for use in fabricating fuel for their commercial nuclear power plants, and (ii) transferred to TENEX a quantity of natural uranium equal to the natural uranium component of the low enriched uranium.

March 13, 12:43 p.m. Relevant tweets appended A group of scientists and energy analysts has laid out a path under which New York State could, in theory, eliminate its use of fossil fuels and nuclear power — including for transportation — by 2050.

EPA's «Goal Computation Technical Support Document» (TSD) accompanying the Federal Register Notice allows generation from «under construction» and «at risk [of retirement]» nuclear plants to count against the affected generation (in the denominator, as indicated in the equation below) used to compute the emission rate goals for each state.24

While these sections are relatively clear in describing how generation from nuclear plants is accounted for in the emission rate goals, other parts of the EPA proposal suggest the possibility that «new» nuclear plants beyond those currently under construction may play a role in state compliance planning.

Riverkeeper retained Synapse to assess the potential impacts to energy reliability and electric power sector air emissions associated with the construction and operation of a closed - cycle cooling system as the «best technology available» (BTA) for the Indian Point nuclear power plant, in order to inform the analysis being conducted by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) under the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA).

On the charge of dormant Commerce Clause breach, the judges found the plaintiffs» argument failed to show how out - of - state nuclear plants were suffering from ZEC implementation and that coal and gas - fired generators» interests are not protected under the Clause as non-nuclear entities.

Although there is much talk of building new nuclear plants in the United States, there are none under construction.

In the proposed Clean Power Plan, savings from energy efficiency and at - risk and under construction nuclear generation are included in EPA's calculation of state rate and mass targets.

Meanwhile, major energy legislation on nuclear (ZECs) and New Jersey's renewable portfolio standard is under active discussion in the state.

Similarly, at - risk and under construction nuclear generation is no longer included in each state's target calculation.

The so - called «nuclear renaissance» in the United States has had another major setback, with another two nuclear reactors under construction in South Carolina abandoned after costs spiralled out of control, leaving consumers holding the bill for plants that will never be completed.

Jayantha Dhanapala, member of the BAS Board of Sponsors, former United Nations under - secretary - general for Disarmament Affairs and ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United States, adds, «Despite the promise of a new spirit of international cooperation, and reductions in tensions between the United States and Russia, the Science and Security Board believes that the path toward a world free of nuclear weapons is not at all clear, and leadership is failing.

While the agency counted in - construction nuclear plants toward states» baseline emission rates under the finalized plan, it stopped short of including existing nuclear generation to lower baseline emissions rates for each state.

The latter held that the liability of a contracting authority for the breach of EU public procurement rules under the remedies directive is assimilated to that of the State under the general EU law doctrine of State liability and thus requires a sufficiently serious breach (Nuclear Decommissioning Authority).

Some international agreements on responsibility for nuclear losses have been adopted, largely under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency [PDF], but the United States is not a signatory to those agreements.

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Under the proposed rule, EPA would require states to reduce CO2 emission through a variety of activities, including (1) Increasing the efficiency of existing power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power plants to natural gas plants; (3) increasing renewable energy sources, such as nuclear, wind or solar; and (4) reducing the demand for energy through enhanced energy efficiency.