Sentences with phrase «of nuclear risk»

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North Korea's Kim Jong Un has bought his way in to talks with China's President Xi Jinping, South Korea's President Moon Jae - in, and US President Donald Trump with a commitment to denuclearize his country — but doing so could open up the world to the tremendous risk of loose nukes and loose nuclear scientists.

«If nuclear received a fraction of those subsidies, there would be no risk of nuclear plants closing in California or anywhere else.»

The risk of the U.S. pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, resulting in sanctions on the producing nation, has already largely been priced in, underpinning the market, he said.

Kim Jong Un has told the US it's at risk of nuclear attack, so what changes now?

Impressive, but, over 35 years of the plant's operational life, the longer EDF is exposed to politicized nuclear policy, the more risk.

As Switzerland and Germany opt out of a nuclear future, however, doubling down an unpopular, highly politicized energy source looks increasingly expensive, as EDF must build ever - more political risk into the price tag.

The panels that advise the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on its Doomsday clock have pushed the measure of the risk of nuclear war to just two minutes before midnight.

Speaking on Sunday, Fihn said the risk of nuclear weapons being used was now greater than during the Cold War.

It's therefore logical to assume that for the sake of its own security, North Korea will not risk escalating beyond the point of sporadic missile and nuclear tests.

But the risk of an American attack, however difficult, had to have made them very nervous — even if they were going to go for broke in developing a nuclear capability.

Introducing nuclear weapons into this process forces a nation to move with caution because the risk of massive retaliation is great.

The reasons are ostensibly diplomatic, pointing to a thaw in relations between Kim Jong - un's regime and South Korea and the West, but some noted that Pyongyang might have also been worried that the mountain was at risk of collapsing, as it visibly shifted during the last nuclear test.

Asked whether Iran could use its existing agreements with Pyongyang to advance its own nuclear - weapons program, Pompeo called it «a real risk» and admitted that the CIA could miss such transfers of information.

He wouldn't address the question of whether there are military options available to the US that don't risk an escalation into nuclear war with North Korea.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The risk of an inadvertent nuclear war is rising because of the entanglement of non-nuclear weapons with nuclear weapons and their command - and - control capabilities.

The assessment of risk, and the subsequent concept of risk management, was born out of the nuclear power and space exploration industries.

Indices of geopolitical risk suggest that conventional and even nuclear war may not be far behind....

The Commissioner has criticized the government for, among other things, its management of the environmental risks associated with gas, oil and nuclear projects, as well as its greenhouse gas reduction practices.

«Financial markets have been rattled by the growing risk posed by potential radiation leaks at the stricken nuclear power plants in Japan,» said Lee Hardman, an analyst at The Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ.

A new report makes the damning claim that nuclear power plants around the world have an «element of denial» about the risks of cyberattacks and are...

Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, Pompeo also said a key risk of allowing North Korea to develop its nuclear and missile program was proliferation to other countries.

His comments came after Hawaii issued a false missile alert that provoked panic in the US state and highlighted the risk of an «accidental nuclear war» with North Korea, a point made in the Pope's «state of the world» speech.

I have read and signed, many years ago, a code of ethics as an employee of NBPower and I am sure that if I did blog of horrible wrong doing of my employer and my disabelief of NBPower's use of nuclear power I would be told to stop or risk my future employement.

Given that we are rich when the world is poor, that we cling to our nuclear arms as if world extermination were a noble risk, destroy ancient forests, gouge the landscape, pollute the soil, water and air, that we copulate and abort with unrestrained abandon — how then are we to interpret Jesus» words, «It is what comes out of a person that defiles,» so as to come up smelling like roses?

They, however, risked only embarrassment; in a time of potential exile in a nuclear age, we risk far more.

The «fact» of nuclear weapons has been superseded by a more compelling fact: that human beings have a right to live free of the risk of mutual nuclear annihilation.

If war in general is to be seen as sinful because it risks the triumph of chaos over shalom, then nuclear war must be the ultimate sin — representing the absolute triumph of chaos and the end of all possibility for wholeness and well - being.

Following the leak of HISG's actions in North Korea, it's very difficult to imagine North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un allowing other Western aid organizations in and running the risk of exposing his top - secret and globally condemned nuclear program to U.S. intelligence.

It may also help us to keep in view the risks of an unlimited nuclear arms race as compared with the risks involved in disarmament.

Plutonium technologies are judged a particularly unacceptable risk because of the extreme toxicity of plutonium, its capability for use in nuclear weapons, and the unusual safeguards necessary for its security and error - free use.

An atomic build - up can not be risked, because of the ease with which a nuclear war could be initiated by accident if not by design.

There are risks related to the proliferation of nuclear arms and conventional arms (eg biological and chemical warfare).

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.

Citing current tension from the North Korean administration, Reiss - Andersen added: «We live in a world where the risk of nuclear weapons being used is greater than it has been for a long time.»

He stressed the need for strengthened lines of communication between Moscow and Nato to avert the «real risk of an inadvertent nuclear exchange».

Nigel Farage suggested that the risk of migrant sex attacks on women would be the «nuclear bomb» of the EU referendum.

Based on America's reluctance to use nuclear weapons, and America's desire not to risk American cities, Kim may believe he can attack a neighbor, perhaps even with a nuclear weapon, without fear of a nuclear response from America so long as he maintains the ability to threaten America directly but doesn't actually attack America.

The reasons for the continuing support for nuclear energy by political parties of all colours is simple: our dependence on fossil fuels poses real risks to the country's energy security, the environment and energy prices.

One could also argue that the US would try to avoid using nuclear weapons against North Korea in the case of a retaliation attack in order to prevent larger tensions with Beijing and more risks to South Korea.

While I'm sure that the US are aware of the costs of preventing NK to build more nuclear weapons, they are probably also be aware of the risks of let NK continue developing their nuclear weapons.

According to the department's evaluation, one nuclear reactor has a relatively high risk of damage from an earthquake.

«This report shows the government's plans are stacked in favour of nuclear power over renewable energy and are so vague they risk locking the UK into a new generation of polluting fossil fuels,» senior economy campaigner Simon Bullock commented.

The SNP believes Scotland has enough sources of renewable energy to make new nuclear power stations unnecessary and argues that, in any case, they pose unacceptable risks to the environment.

AG Eric Schneiderman is pressuring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to consider seismic risk in relation to the relicensing of Indian Point, an argument the state has heretofore been unsuccessful in making while seeking to prevent the nuclear plant from getting permission to remain open for another 20Nuclear Regulatory Commission to consider seismic risk in relation to the relicensing of Indian Point, an argument the state has heretofore been unsuccessful in making while seeking to prevent the nuclear plant from getting permission to remain open for another 20nuclear plant from getting permission to remain open for another 20 years.

I brought up the MSNBC report that deemed one of the three reactors at the Hudson River nuclear power plant 24 miles from NYC (or 34 miles from Midtown, depending on how you're measuring), the most at risk in the nation of earthquake damage.

«The Indian Point nuclear power plant, which sits within two miles of two intersecting fault lines has the highest risk of an earthquake causing its reactors core damage in the United States,» Carlucci said in a statement.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has pledged to make Indian Point its first and top priority in its review of seismic risk at 27 nuclear plants throughout the country, according to Gov. AndrewNuclear Regulatory Commission has pledged to make Indian Point its first and top priority in its review of seismic risk at 27 nuclear plants throughout the country, according to Gov. Andrewnuclear plants throughout the country, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Israel viewed the risk of nuclear weapons as more dangerous than external disapproval.