Sentences with phrase «nuclear technology with»

The claim is that the only nuclear technology with a serious chance of substantially reducing CO2 emissions before 2030 is the Westinghouse AP - 1000.

I am gravely concerned that this disaster reveals the long - term practice of a hidden organizational culture related to the use of nuclear technology with a completely dysfunctional regulatory system.

the issue of our having shared nuclear technology with them is frightening.

Not exact matches

«But I believe nuclear power is a key technology with environmental considerations; there's no carbon dioxide emissions and [a nuclear reactor's plant] might last for 60 to 100 years.»

The Obama administration held firm with the Saudis because it's one thing to cap nuclear technology where it already exists, but it's longstanding U.S. policy not to spread the technology to new countries.

Moog's technology chief George Small said the aerospace industry, like other highly regulated sectors such as the medical and nuclear power industries, was expending considerable effort on tracking parts across the supply chain to keep up with quality and regulatory demands.

NEW YORK, April 30 - Oil prices rallied on Monday after Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran had lied about pursuing nuclear weapons after signing a 2015 deal with global powers, while global stock indexes dipped with the S&P 500 led down by losses in technology.

While there are well - regarded Indian companies in Canada and well - regarded Canadian companies in India along with some co-operation in the area of high technology — from nuclear energy to avionics to solar cells — these are still only the beginnings.

BEIJING (AP)-- On a seaside field south of Shanghai, workers are constructing a nuclear reactor that is the flagship for Beijing's ambition to compete with the United States, France and Russia as an exporter of atomic power technology.

Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

In recent years there has risen a new type of the same concern in that the advancement of human ability to control and manipulate the natural forces by means of science and technology has created life threatening situation in terms of the pollution, nuclear weapons, and intervention of the natural process with the unforseen consequences.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

Some futurists envision among alternative prospects a world devastated by thermo - nuclear war, a vastly overcrowded, hungry population existing in misery, and a human race scratching in the earth with crude instruments because the raw materials necessary for an industrial technology have been exhausted beyond replacement.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

Seaborg holds out the promise that technology, especially that associated with nuclear power, is our best resource.

Thirdly, the Christian nations, made economically strong by both their political imperialism and their advanced state of technology, have not only constructed the weapons for nuclear war but also been most to blame for the selfish exploitation of the non-renewable resources of the earth, for the accumulating mass pollution, for the gross interference with the delicate ecology of the planet.

But as we survey the world situation today, the general feeling is that along with many benefits, many of the promises of technology stand betrayed and there is evidence of a lot of technology having become instruments of exploitation of peoples, destruction of cultures and dehumanization of persons and pose threat of destruction not only to the whole humanity through nuclear war but also to the whole community of life on the earth through the destruction of its ecological basis.

As our knowledge of nuclear power, for example, increased and we built more and more nuclear power plants, we discovered how little we really knew about the new world of technology we ushered ourselves into, with risks previously unknown and unanticipated.

India should replace its dependence on Iranian oil through cooperation with America in nuclear - power production and cease its dependency on Russian airframe technology by buying advanced American military aircraft.

Pakistan shared nuclear secrets and missile technology with North Korea, Iran, and Syria.

All too often the green energy debate is framed as «nuclear v renewables», when nuclear works in collaboration with renewable technologies, not in competition.

But that will be achieved by a massive, multilateral effort to internationalise the ownership of nuclear technology and a dense regulatory framework for all global production of such technology, with deviations rigorously and universally enforced.

«There will be relatively high costs in developing this new nuclear facility but broadly comparable with other low carbon technologies such as offshore wind, and, potentially, carbon capture and storage applied to gas and coal fired power stations.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Europe's largest engineers» body, with 150,000 members in 127 countries around the world, has commented on Weightman nuclear report, published today.

India was the first non UNSC member to develop nuclear weapons, and proved you could do it with peaceful nuclear technology.

Signatories with nuclear weapons are explicitly prohibited from transferring any nuclear - weapons - related technology to any other state, «directly or indirectly».

The University of Manchester, in collaboration with other universities, industrial partners, and various other agencies, sponsors training centers where students can earn doctoral degrees in areas that target such skill deficits as next - generation nuclear technologies or materials for demanding environments.

With new, eco-friendly technologies waiting to replace old - school nuclear or fossil - fuel turbines like this one, the energy industry is going to drastically change... eventually.

Japan's nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing reactor fuel, authors of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on the nuclear fuel cycle said yesterday.

HEU is affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and is the main base for talents cultivation in the fields of ship industry, ocean equipment and exploration, and nuclear application and scientific research.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

«This signifies the first commercial steps to end India's nuclear isolation and to emerge as a responsible nuclear state with advanced nuclear technology,» says computer scientist Prithviraj Chavan, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office.

From the rotation and the nuclear motion in molecules captured in the last decades with femtosecond technology, we are now able for the first time to track in real time the response of electrons bound in atoms,» Dr. Goulielmakis pointed out.

With what EPRI calls a «full» portfolio of technology options, including new nuclear, expanded wind power and carbon capture, the price of electricity in current dollars would climb by 80 percent in 2050.

Though the EU has conducted risk and safety tests on the bloc's nuclear plants, environmental campaigners say the tests failed to address risks associated with ageing technology, among other things.

Sophisticated technologies that can be used in civilian life and for making nuclear weapons present governments with a dilemma: how do they help manufacturers to keep their export sales high while ensuring that they do not supply would - be nuclear powers?

Business studies have indicated that this technology could be economically competitive with existing nuclear power technologies.

States that desired the benefits of nuclear power technology could sign the treaty and promise not to acquire nuclear weapons, whereupon the weapons - holding nations agreed to assist the others with peaceful applications.

Joy renewed his call, stated earlier this year in a Wired magazine article, for checks on unhindered development and dispersion of potentially harmful technology: «Just as with nuclear weapons, we wouldnt want everyone to have a nuclear weapon in their garage when they have a bad day.»

While the industry was in deep freeze, they were pressing ahead with one of the most promising emerging technologies in energy: micro-size nuclear reactors, fully functional power plants a good deal closer to the size of the test reactor I'm standing near.

To build the accelerator, the government said that it will provide $ 250 million with additional funding from Italy's Institute of Technology and National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), which is coordinating the project.

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

Arjun Makhijani, who heads the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, a think tank that advocates against nuclear power, sees disseminating the technology as incompatible with controlling it.

Investigative journalist William Langewiesche tracks the proliferation of nuclear weapons, focusing his story on Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan, who stole plans and equipment from the West and peddled the technology to countries hostile to Western interests: «That same afternoon a small group of Pakistanis associated with the weapons program, including, of course, A. Q. Khan, gathered in a concrete bunker in Chagai, facing the chosen mountain seven miles away.

We got into a series of science and technology conferences whereby we try to think out of the box, moving away from our everyday work on nuclear test monitoring to see what the outside scientific community could do with the technology that we use.

With the governments of major economies like China, Russia and Japan putting support and cash into nuclear technologies, the power plants are here to stay, he believes.

Unfortunately, nature is not always willing to easily part with its secrets, forcing scientists to rely on sophisticated imaging technology — nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy or mass spectrometry, for example — to decipher the molecular formula of newly discovered organic compounds so they can be replicated in the lab.

The Science Minister Chris Schacht already has CSIRO and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) up in arms over proposals to carve off three divisions of CSIRO to form a new marine institute and to merge ANSTO with CSIRO.

Nuclear is one of the technologies available today — and with room for significant improvement and innovation.

All commonly used medical radioisotopes can be produced without using nuclear reactors or enriching uranium, or can be replaced with other isotopes that can be produced without a fission reaction, or by alternative technologies.