Sentences with phrase «of nuclear weapons production»

This is a hangover of nuclear weapons production.

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

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In fact, according to a statement read on August 9, 2005, at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, he issued a fatwa declaring that «the production, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran shall never acquire these weapons.»

At its 1983 Vancouver Assembly the World Council of Churches adopted a report that announces: We believe that the time has come when the churches must unequivocally declare that the production and deployment as well as the use of nuclear weapons are a crime against humanity and that such activities must be condemned on ethical and theological grounds.»

While defense contractors say that there is no moral or religious dilemma for their employees, church leaders say that there is a problem, but one that can be solved by refusing to participate in the development or production of nuclear weapons and technology.

I do not think that a person can have a role in the wartime firing of a nuclear device, or even in the development or production of a destabilizing weapon, as an agonized participant.

We believe that the time has come when the churches must unequivocally declare that the production and deployment as well as the use of nuclear weapons are a crime against humanity and that such activities must be condemned on ethical and theological grounds.

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.

Billions upon billions of public dollars have gone into the production of nuclear weapons.

U.S. agents had intercepted a German ship named the BBC China carrying parts for a Libyan nuclear - weapons - production program, and Libya, in subsequently renouncing its nuclear ambitions, had named Pakistan, and particularly the Khan Research Laboratories, as the supplier of what was to be a complete store - bought nuclear - weapons program.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

The federal agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile is expected this week to release a report on the best site option for the United States as it looks to ramp up production of the plutonium cores that trigger nuclear warheads.

The department has also recently awarded him $ 10 million as part of its Energy Research Center program so he can investigate new technologies to recycle nuclear waste and cleanup Cold War - era weapon production sites.

Small modular reactors may help with two of the biggest challenges facing the nuclear industry: the growing stores of waste from existing reactors and residue from the mass production of nuclear weapons as well as the overall safety of nuclear power.

Fast reactors can thus minimize the risk that spent fuel from energy production would be used for weapons production, while providing a unique ability to squeeze the maximum energy out of nuclear fuel.

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

• NUCLEAR WEAPONS Since February 2010, Iran has enriched uranium to 20 percent and has recently tripled production rates; uranium enrichment at 90 percent would provide the core material of four nuclearNUCLEAR WEAPONS Since February 2010, Iran has enriched uranium to 20 percent and has recently tripled production rates; uranium enrichment at 90 percent would provide the core material of four nuclearnuclear bombs.

Achieving that longer lead time requires blocking Iran's four routes to nuclear weapons: through its Natanz and Fordow uranium enrichment facilities, where thousands of centrifuges separate uranium isotopes; through plutonium production at the Arak heavy water reactor, which Iran says is needed to produce medical radioisotopes; and by way of a covert path involving undisclosed facilities.

American researchers have shown that prospective magnetic fusion power systems would pose a much lower risk of being used for the production of weapon — usable materials than nuclear fission reactors and their associated fuel cycle.

Shuttering a key part of PF - 4 abruptly halted two types of sensitive work done nowhere else in the United States, for roughly the next four years: The invasive sampling and analysis of selected aging nuclear weapons cores to ensure that intact models could all still function as intended; and the production of new cores that could be fit into more modern nuclear weapons or replace those pulled apart in testing.

In an April report on costs associated with the NNSA's ongoing nuclear weapon modernization campaign, the GAO disclosed the existence of an internal NNSA report forecasting that PF - 4 will be unable to meet a congressional demand for production of 30 new pits per year by 2026, as part of a 30 - year, $ 1 trillion nuclear weapons update.

But Richard Garwin, a retired IBM physicist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who has long been a technical adviser on nuclear weapons and stockpile surveillance to the Defense Department and the NNSA, said the government had not been transparent enough about the long lapse in testing and production.

Commercial nuclear fuel cycles are generally the most costly and difficult route for production of weapons - grade materials.

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

The program ensures effective citizen involvement in decisions about the future of the nuclear weapons complex relative to stopping approval of new production facilities and promoting disarmament and safer waste management and disposal at Department of Energy (DOE) sites.

This radioactive metal is sometimes used in the production of nuclear weapons as a substitute for depleted Uranium.

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.

Due to its properties, it is extensively used in nuclear power reactors and in the production of nuclear weapons.

This would help nations track and restrict the production of fissile materials that can be used in nuclear weapons.

Consortium run nuclear sites also oversee the production of plutonium pits, monitor the aging of nuclear weapons, manage the production of critical nuclear components like Tritium — which helps boost the yield in all nuclear weapons and initiate the fission stage in hydrogen bombs — and operate test reactors.

• Bonds issued to finance nuclear power, activities related to the mining of coal or uranium, or the production of weapons, tobacco, alcohol or gambling.

In a paper published online this week by the journal Quaternary International, 26 members of the working group point roughly to 1950 as the starting point, indicated by a variety of markers, including the global spread of carbon isotopes from nuclear weapon detonations starting in 1945 and the mass production and disposal of plastics.

On the recommendation of the ethics council, the Fund has disinvested from companies involved in the production of antipersonnel landmines, cluster munitions, and nuclear weapons.

You also agree that you will not use said software for any purposes where prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture, or production of nuclear, missile, chemical, or biological weapons.