Sentences with phrase «on nuclear»

Hitachi and GE have worked together on nuclear projects for over 50 years and put in place formal alliance arrangements in 2007.

New Insight on Nuclear Organization of DNA and its Impact on Cancer Mutations MyCentralJersey.com — October 9, 2017

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In May 2012 GEH announced a memorandum of understanding with The University of Manchester, a world leading research institution on nuclear energy, which will provide GEH with expert technical knowledge and input to the potential deployment of PRISM in the UK.

Since joining the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2002, he has focused on promoting and conducting dialog between Chinese and American experts on nuclear arms control and space security.

In the 484th Brookhaven Lecture, Thomas Graham explains the events that led to policy decisions on nuclear weapons in the mid-20th century.

Debora MacKenzie's articles on nuclear problems in Russia (This Week, 17 April) illustrate the importance of setting quantities of radioactivity in perspective.

Then it insisted on changing all references to environmentally sound technology to «safe and sound» technology, which was widely taken as an attack on nuclear power.

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.

If they closed, that huge decommissioning liability would have to be shown on the nuclear generator's balance sheet — figures that would soon overtake the net worth of the company, thus making it technically bankrupt.

She said the United States has good rhetoric on nuclear nonproliferation, but at the same time is in the midst of a $ 335 billion overhaul of its nuclear program.

The NNSA, in its annual evaluation of Los Alamos» overall performance for fiscal year 2014, judged the criticality safety program to be «below expectations» with deficiencies «similar to issues identified in past» evaluations; it particularly faulted the labels the lab had placed on nuclear materials and the guides the lab had prepared for workers performing plutonium handling chores.

This study shows that the effect of mitochondrial dysfunction on nuclear DNA methylation is mediated by changes in methionine and polyamine metabolism.

Joint projects with Russian nuclear scientists began to ebb soon after President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, and reached a nadir last October when Russia suspended an agreement with the United States on nuclear R&D cooperation and terminated another on retooling Russian research reactors to no longer run on weapons - grade uranium fuel.

... on nuclear weapons today: They are terrible, by far the most serious threat to our existence.

Its author, Matthias Küntzel — a former adviser on nuclear proliferation to Germany's Green Party — alleges that West Germany's governments did everything in their power to subvert the treaty negotiations and hence maximise Germany's nuclear options.

The attack on the nuclear facility took place about a month after North Korea attacked Sony Pictures with wiper malware that zapped over 4,000 of the company's desktop computers and servers.

For example, the treaty forbids igniting devices based on nuclear fission; Küntzel draws attention to how, just a few weeks after West Germany signed the treaty, a working paper published by the Science and Politics Foundation in Ebenhausen emphasised that research into detonating H - bombs with a laser beam was permitted by the treaty, and should be encouraged.

One major shortcoming of the book is its failure to address fully the implications of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the reunification of Germany on the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

For several years now the weapons labs in the US have been preparing for a ban on nuclear testing.

On the other hand, it's going to really put more scrutiny on nuclear safety - related issues, which is not bad.

The new technique would also be more widely applicable than traditional chemical - based methods since it would depend less on the nuclear waste's chemical composition.

His work focuses on nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, nuclear safety, and nuclear security.

His work focuses on nuclear energy, nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear security, and nuclear arms control.

Biello: So the knock on nuclear has always been Rickover's comment that best reactors are always paper reactors, and we might update that to say like even better reactors are the computer reactors and then everything changes when you get them in actual working experience.

Because of the US's moratorium on nuclear testing and because Britain carries out its nuclear tests in Nevada, the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Aldermaston has been prevented from carrying out any tests since 1991.

You quote physicist Thomas Klinger saying that lack of progress on nuclear fusion for power generation is simply down to a lack of funding (13 May, p 38).

A complete ban on nuclear testing is a major part of the US policy to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

The extent of U.S. control depends on «consent rights» agreements which are included in bilateral agreements on nuclear trade between the United States and other nations.

On nuclear power, Moniz expressed support for developing so - called «modular» reactors that might drive down costs and improve safety.

Spending on nuclear - related research will drop 9.8 %, to $ 2.3 billion.

While tapping the brakes on nuclear power research, the ruling Democratic Party has proposed $ 918 million in new programs to accelerate efforts on renewable and alternative energy schemes.

Orr's job, which Moniz created last year as part of a reorganization of DOE's top leadership, involves overseeing all of DOE's science research programs, including 10 national laboratories that do not work on nuclear weapons.

A number of politicians have called for Japan to phase out nuclear power, though the government's official policy of increasing reliance on nuclear power has not changed.

The country doubled down on its nuclear bet after the oil crisis in 1973, convinced of the acute need for energy security built on a domestic source.

After the address, Leshner and Schenkel signed a three - year agreement under which AAAS and the JRC will pursue cooperative efforts on a range of initiatives, with an initial focus on nuclear security issues.

At least one major sticking point between the parties — differing positions on nuclear energy — disappeared as Merkel's CDU decided to support Germany's phaseout of nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster.

In a separate paper, submitted to Physical Review D, a group of researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., Harvard University and New York University (N.Y.U.) also posits a new dark force, this one with a much smaller range, acting only on nuclear scales.

As President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear industry.

According to David Albright, an independent researcher on nuclear proliferation, the Iraqis sometimes tried to use exotic, difficult approaches to solve relatively simple problems.

On September 15, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission affirmed its expert opinion that spent nuclear fuel could be safely stored on nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.»

At AAAS, he has organized workshops, presentations, and symposia on nuclear energy and disarmament issues and has mentored interns on these issues.

Jones noted that the nuclear power plant disaster in Japan last year had made some countries backpedal on their nuclear power plans, while others were pushing ahead.

Used in conjunction with mammography, imaging based on nuclear medicine is currently being used as a successful secondary screening alongside mammography to reduce the number of false positive results in women with dense breasts and at higher risk for developing breast cancer.

The data shows that modern Egyptians share approximately 8 % more ancestry on the nuclear level with Sub-Saharan African populations than with ancient Egyptians.

From a broader perspective, this failure means that the US will cede its leadership on nuclear matters to other nations, limiting its ability to exert influence in key areas such as safety and non-proliferation as well.»

«Is it not extraordinary and unacceptable,» he went on to add, «that the honourable gentleman should have made that announcement before the conclusion of the 1994 review on nuclear policy, which the government commissioned from the industry?»

The British government has apologized for 40 years of postmortem research done on nuclear plant workers — and other individuals — without proper consent.

Researchers from NIST and three other institutions developed the new chip, which might be used to reduce the size and cost of some instruments that, like MRI, rely on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).

This problem continues to grow because there remains no place for used nuclear fuel rod storage other than such pools or massive dry casks — both located on nuclear facility grounds.