Sentences with phrase «nuclear submarines»

Obtained a Secret security clearance from the Department of Defense to perform nondestructive testing on nuclear submarines

It has some of the wealthiest communities in the nation, while others are quite the opposite; Hartford, for example is one of the 10 communities with the lowest per capita incomes in the U.S. Heavy industry is a key driver of the Connecticut economy, with production of transportation equipment, especially helicopters, aircraft parts, and nuclear submarines; heavy industrial machinery and electrical equipment; military weaponry; fabricated metal products; chemical and pharmaceutical products; and scientific instruments.

I didn't realise nuclear power in its entirety was banned from discussion but if you think about how nuclear submarines work, I'd say they've found a reasonably successful solution to living in an environment that one day may be where we end up.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that blue whales can dive deeper than nuclear submarines.

USS Skate heads north on another epic cruise into the strange underseas realm first opened up by our nuclear submarines.

No amount of nuclear submarines will be able to stop that,» warns Mr Rahman, who was also a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel peace prize in 2007 for its work on climate change.

And for years nuclear submarines (Russian, American and British) have been measuring ice thickness from the bottom, using their sonar.

Well, other than sailors on nuclear submarines, probably nobody, other than Professor Wadhams, who over the past 40 years, traversed Arctic ice, submarined beneath the frozen Arctic (numerous times), studies ice, dreams ice, researches ice, fondles ice, and writes about ice.

Northern Norway is the most densely populated area but Russia, which accounts for half of the Arctic coastline and has a fleet of nuclear submarines based at Murmansk, is the country keenest to extend its influence.

Western countries have paid millions to help Russia dismantle its aging fleet of nuclear submarines in the area and safely store the nuclear material aboard them, but Mr. Kalenchenko said far less attention had been paid to the environmental risks of expanding oil shipments in the same area, most in single - hull tankers.

What, all those nuclear submarines, and no data about the conditions?

Despite decades of cat - and - mouse sonar hunts by American and Soviet nuclear submarines, no one had mapped this vast chunk of rock until now, or run into it (as has happened elsewhere).

Lynas goes on, of course, to explain why he remains in support of harnessing nuclear energy, particularly through advanced reactor designs that don't come with the waste stream and complexity of the light - water reactor design that dominates the industry today — overgrown terrestrial versions of the power source in nuclear submarines.

I am a strong proponent of controlling pollution, not just CO2 (soot has done much to reduce the ice's albedo) and it is preposterous that China is being given such latitude as a «poor nation» when it's also building skyscrapers by the dozen, nuclear submarines and a space program while effectively employing its youth as feedstock for manufacturing goods subsidized by their government.

I spent 15 years as a Cold Warrior, slinking around in much greater comfort on US nuclear submarines and then another 15 training submariners, maintaining the ships and planning their operations.

Emilija Škarnulyte's immersive video installation depicts neutrino detectors and nuclear submarines from the perspective of an anthropologist from the distant future.

He left school at 15 and worked as a shipyard apprentice, building Trident nuclear submarines.

The big ones look like huge nuclear submarines.

They were, in fact, «soldier» dolphins, trained by the US Navy to follow a sonic recall device or «pinger», detect explosives, locate lost torpedoes, guard nuclear submarines and possibly even kill divers.

The quirky Malvern, U.K. - based outfit builds British man - of - wars compared to the advanced nuclear submarines on the road today, cobbling together wood - framed sports cars by hand the same way it has since the first four - wheeled Morgan hit the streets in 1936.

Bond tries to retrieve sunken launch codes for British nuclear submarines (always with the nukes), assisted by Carole Bouquet.

That amount increases slowly as spent fuel is discharged from nuclear submarines and stored at the Idaho lab.

Among them: warheads carried by America's nuclear submarines and land - based intercontinental ballistic missiles, plus an older type of warhead still stockpiled for use by strategic bombers.

Of that, $ 130 million is intended to offset the cost of decommissioning ballistic missiles, nuclear submarines and bombers.

July The second expedition to map these nuclear submarines launches.

1985 Researchers commissioned jointly by the U.S. Navy and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution set out to find and map two sunken nuclear submarines lost in the same area.

Alexandr Nikitin, a Russian engineer, was charged in 1996 with high treason and divulging state secrets for co-authoring a report for the Norwegian - based Bellona Foundation that documented the environmental dangers posed by the abandoned nuclear submarines of the Russian Northern Fleet in the Kola Peninsula.

The First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond said nuclear submarines would be «safely removed» from Faslane Naval Base if Scotland votes for independence in 2014.

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond says nuclear submarines would be from Faslane Naval Base as safely as possible.

It is not only critics on the left who have expressed concern about the excessive and spiralling cost of the Trident nuclear submarines programme.

In an exclusive article for PoliticsHome, the Labour peer said the Shadow Defence Secretary «belittles our party» by claiming that underwater drones could make the UK's nuclear submarines obsolete.

On Wednesday, a Labour aide said the party no longer had a policy in favour of renewing Trident nuclear submarines because it is under review.

Corbyn's most likely move is to replace Hilary Benn, the shadow foreign secretary, who opposed him over the Syria vote, and Maria Eagle, the shadow defence secretary, who takes a different position from him on replacing the Trident nuclear submarines.

The move aside from defence comes after his plan to announce support for Trident nuclear submarines was axed just before he went on stage during a conference speech.

Shadow Defence Secretary Clive Lewis was left fuming after his plan to announce support for Trident nuclear submarines was axed

The change comes after Lewis was left fuming last week when his plan to announce support for Trident nuclear submarines was axed just before he went on stage.

A report for the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) warns of a «stark» gap now exists between the reduced threat of a nuclear attack and the deterrent patrols operated by Britain's nuclear submarines.

The Ministry of Defence could scale back Britain's fleet of Trident nuclear submarines as it seeks to make savings after what will be «the absolute mother of horrors of a spending review», Defence Secretary Liam Fox has said.

Starting in the 1970s, it also relied on nuclear submarines to increase survivability.

A few months ago defence secretary Phillip Hammond announced # 350 million funding for a new generation of nuclear submarines — a move which already seemed to rule out disarmament or even a change of course from a sea - based deterrent.

Dave Prentis will speak at Unison's political conference in Manchester where he is expected to reject the government's nuclear submarines as «criminal waste».

Mr Corbyn, a lifelong unilateralist, wants to overturn Labour's support for the renewal of Britain's Trident nuclear submarines.

A decision not to skimp on the reactors which will power Britain's nuclear submarines could spark coalition tensions later this week.

Although Dan Jarvis seems to be gathering donors and thinkers around him for the future... Although Peter Hyman, Joe Haines and Peter Kellner are recommending active resistance in the latest edition of the New Statesman... and although there are signs that the two biggest stars of the Twitterleft — Owen Jones and Mehdi Hasan — are becoming frustrated at Team Corbyn's competence... the chances are that May's tests of public opinion won't be catastrophic for the man who wants nuclear submarines without nuclear warheads.

The UK could be forced to build larger nuclear submarines than planned, pushing the Trident bill up further.

Britain's successor nuclear submarines will only have eight missiles onboard, but last week the Ministry of Defence announced that it is to build submarines which have the capacity for 12 tubes.

The US» Ohio - class submarine fleet entered service a few years before Britain's current Trident submarines - but they have a 40 - year lifetime, compared to the 30 - year lifetime of Britain's nuclear submarines.

But the appeal for Paul is real, and much of it has to do with our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (and North Korea, let alone with bases in Germany, Japan and globally underwater with nuclear submarines).

The Soviets have recently put more nuclear submarines on our doorstep in response to our installing the Pershing II in Western Europe.

Russian nuclear submarines are sitting somewhere out there beyond the horizon.