Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons production»

To detect very small quantities of mobile radioactive elements in the groundwater at former nuclear weapons production sites, researchers have developed a new type of sensor.

Yeah, particularly when you look at the DOE budget, and it looks so big — but the biggest part of that by far is dealing with the legacy of nuclear weapons production at various sites around the country.

But under the NNPA, U.S. action can be triggered only by concerns that U.S. - origin spent fuel may be used for nuclear weapons production, or may be vulnerable to theft or terrorism.

Nuclear weapons production in America had been ramped up to an industrial, assembly - line scale under the Eisenhower administration.

In another area, the proposed budget would provide almost $ 5.5 billion in new appropriations for DoE's environmental cleanup programs to address contamination from Cold War nuclear weapons production.

This includes $ 5.4 billion for Defense Environmental Cleanup, the same as fiscal year 2017, to safely clean sites contaminated by previous nuclear weapons production.

It isn't easy, but Rutgers researcher Ashutosh Goel has discovered ways to immobilize such waste — the offshoot of decades of nuclear weapons production — in glass and ceramics.

The plutonium produced in the blanket has a concentration of 98 % plutonium - 239, the most convenient plutonium isotope for nuclear weapons production.

I put Ron Paul to the side because, even if the Republicans do someday nominate a gold standard supporter who wants sharp defense cuts, but it won't be this year, won't be someone who thinks he wants to zero out nuclear weapons production, and military nuclear propulsion production, transportation, and testing, and it won't be a ex-publisher of racist newsletters who can't fully come clean.

The site is one of nine such mills in Colorado used during the heyday of nuclear weapons production.