Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons plant»

The Denver area is home to the former nuclear weapons plant Rocky Flats, the Denver Federal Center, the Denver Mint and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

In addition to extensive industrial offerings, the Mile High City is involved in government and military programs including the Renewable Energy Laboratory and former nuclear weapons plant at Rocky Flats.

And those with the means to «mine» it will go to great lengths to do so, as evidenced most recently by engineers at a nuclear weapons plant in Russ...

Deceived by the Justice Department's cover - up, relying on false assurances that Rocky Flats wasn't as contaminated as everyone had thought, public officials now plan to open the former nuclear weapons plant to recreation.

Not exact matches

Of the 31 countries that possess nuclear power plants, we have identified five where the acquisition of nuclear weapons would radically impact relations with their regional neighbors and global powers.

It ought to come as a surprise to no one, therefore, that from the time of the first splitting of the atom down through the destruction of Hiroshima and on to current controversies about nuclear weapons and power plants, Christian people have been involved individually and corporately at every level of the debate, not incidentally but specifically because of their Christian commitment.

By that time, nuclear power plants will be spread throughout the world, and it is predicted that more than 35 countries will possess nuclear weapons (as opposed to seven now).

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, where drums of radioactive refuse from nuclear weapons sites and laboratories are buried in salt caverns 2,100 feet (640 meters) underground, has...

Questions over safety, disposal of waste and the possibility that plants could make material suitable for weapons have slowed the spread of nuclear technology

But in the post-9 / 11 mind - set, nuclear plants loom as potential terrorist targets and as possible sources of raw material for nuclear weapons.

Part of the reason is obvious: It needs the expertise to improve and maintain the nation's nuclear weapons stockpiles, and it needs people to replace the first generation of nuclear plant operators and engineers, many of whom are now retiring.

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.

NIF has three purposes: To further our basic understanding of stars, to determine how the United States» aging nuclear weapons are holding up without engaging in underground testing, and to explore the enormous potential of nuclear fusion power plants.

Cesium - 137, on the other hand, is also present from nuclear weapons tests and discharge from nuclear power plants.

And even in the U.S., the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico currently stores waste from the production of nuclear weapons.

A SHORTAGE of tritium, a key ingredient of nuclear weapons, could spur the US administration to open more plants, despite President Barack Obama's declared goal of eliminating nukes.

In the same way, U.S. nuclear power plants have not eliminated the threat of nuclear weapons despite 20 years of megatons to megawatts.

In their analyses of the beaches, the scientists detected not only cesium - 137, which may have come from the Dai - ichi plant or from nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and1960s, but also cesium - 134, a radioactive form of cesium that can only come only from the 2011 Fukushima accident.

America's aid package, unveiled during the Vancouver summit between Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, commits the US to helping Russia improve the safety of its nuclear power plants, reduce air pollution and dismantle its stockpile of nuclear weapons.

The contaminated sites, on floodplains in the upper Colorado River basin, operated from the 1940s to the 1970s to produce «yellowcake,» a precursor of uranium fuel used in nuclear power plants and weapons.

The plant is supposed to convert plutonium from weapons into fuel for nuclear power plants, but the study triggered fears that DOE wanted to pull the plug on the project, whose cost has ballooned from $ 4.9 billion to $ 7.7 billion.

In fact, according to quantum mechanics, the energy contained in all the power plants and nuclear weapons in the world doesn't equal the theoretical energy contained in the empty spaces between these words.

When nations acquire nuclear weapons, they usually develop dedicated facilities to produce fissile materials rather than collecting nuclear materials from civilian power plants.

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

Even though federal laws limit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to be used only for defense transuranic (plutonium - contaminated) waste from nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed actions to expand WIPP to three additional missions in 2012 - 2013.

Stop the new plutonium bomb plant at Los Alamos and support nuclear weapons reduction treaties.

tryin'to remove more omega 6 from my sweet pots... peel»em deeply... cut»em thin... soak in distilled (thirsty... negatively charged water)... it bonds with inorganic positively charged minerals and almost all toxins are positively charged... fukushima daiichi fallout (plus the over 2000 nuclear weapons which have been tested and all the power plant leaks and meltdowns etc.)... anyway... i soak the super thin sweet potato pieces dump the hopefully filled up with toxins soak water... then boil my thin sweets in new distilled water... hope this is removing a bunch of the omega 6... not sure however... anyway... no regular potatoes for me... just sayin.

In this exciting action - adventure a crack team of military commandos infiltrate North Korea and then set about the dangerous task of trying to destroy a nuclear power plant to curtail the country's plans to build nuclear weapons.

The technology is also used in cardiac monitoring systems, nuclear power plants and weapons systems.

In other projects, he's conquered themes from nuclear testing to the extinction of plant species, and has traveled from the salt flats of Bolivia to a former Soviet nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan.

Like in Texas, or growing up near a nuclear power plant, or growing up near some weapons station.

It's extremely difficult and costly to make weapons grade material from the used fuel from modern civilian nuclear power plants.

There have been other, mostly classified, incidents wrt recovery of nuclear power plants and / or weapons.

The 74 - page report assesses nuclear power's key problems and offers recommendations to strengthen nuclear plant safety, better protect facilities against sabotage and attack, ensure the safe disposal of nuclear waste, and minimize the risk that nuclear power will help more nations and terrorists acquire nuclear weapons.

My point is that any country that wants nuclear weapons will not use civilian nuclear power plants, nor use the spent fuel from them.

It is almost impossible to make weapons material from the new nuclear power plants and it will be even more difficult in the future.

These plants can't melt down and the waste can't be used in nuclear weapons.

Our problems with nuclear power plants stems from an early design that used fuel that was friendly towards making weapons; lithium does not have that problem.

Friends of the Earth Europe has expressed alarm that the Heads of State cast a role for nuclear power in Europe's energy future, without offering solutions to its unsolved problems: how to treat and store waste for thousands of years, the risk of serious accidents, the proliferation of nuclear weapon material and how to secure nuclear plants against terrorist attacks.

Georgetown University Medical Center (Washington, DC) 05/2007 — 01/2010 Imaging Science and Information Systems Center — Insert Title • Train, supervise, and assure the work quality of a team of 3 - 6 regional analysts • Write analytical summaries of open source collections of biological threats and other national security threats • Develop and refine indication and warning methodologies and taxonomies for biological and radiological threats • Offer guidance and expertise on intelligence community interagency fusion cell for H1N1 «swine flu» • Assist in research and development work on plant health project • Conduct case studies on state and non-state actor biological weapons programs and orphan source radiological incidents • Participate in multi-agency tracking of nuclear proliferation activities in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East • Perform project lead duties, participate in the selection process of new employees, and assist with performance appraisals • Awarded the National Intelligence Medallion for organizational work on Project Argus