Sentences with phrase «on nuclear materials»

Advising owners, carriers, insurers and shippers on nuclear materials transport — global nuclear liability, contractual negotiations, safeguards and regulator liaison, including advice on contractual terms relating to international nuclear waste / fuel shipments globally.

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.

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Because startup investors are ostensibly focused on technology companies, the fact that most professional venture capitalists have a background in engineering (electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering mostly, but there are some more niche areas like nuclear engineering represented here) or technical subjects (like information systems and materials science) is predictable.

Benjamin Netanyahu's stage performance about Iran seeking a nuclear weapon not only was based on old material, but evidence shows it was fabricated too, says Gareth Porter in this Consortium News exclusive report.

This paper is based in part on material from my book, Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age.

Nuclear war would not only result in hundreds of millions of casualties and in the material destruction of nations; it would also probably destroy the institutions of freedom and the moral, cultural and political conditions on which our values depend.

The first is that nuclear war would not only result in hundreds of millions of casualties and in the material destruction of nations; it would also probably destroy the institutions of freedom and the moral, cultural and political conditions on which our values depend.

An entire international body designed for restricting trade of nuclear materials was created in response to India's first test, and the US did impose sanctions on India for their tests in the 90's.

The biggest problem is that Iran has previously insisted on refining nuclear material above 5 % at about 20 %, which is much closer to the nuclear weapons threshold, and consequently many observers believe that Iran is not building a power program, but a weapons program in spite of the fact that they are not yet making weapons.

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;

Congressman Brian Higgins recently won unanimous support in Congress for a measure requiring the Department of Homeland Security to conduct a terrorism threat assessment on the transportation of chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological materials in the United States.

No - one who proposes this ever mentions how they plan to maintain flights from or to UK airports without an agreement on Open Skies, or transport nuclear materials without an agreement on Euratom, or get goods into and out of Britain without customs infrastructure in place on the Channel, or allow people to leave and enter the UK without an immigration system designed for them.

Also on the agenda at the summit will be protecting countries from cyber-attacks on their civil nuclear sites and preventing terrorists from obtaining the raw materials for a «dirty bomb».

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to overhaul its licensing protocol for obtaining radioactive materials, citing a recent report that a fictitious company got a license for enough material for a dirty bomb.

As the Green Party candidate, a party founded on environmental issues, Levy says he wants a ban on nuclear power plants in New York and also wants to see affordable housing and other buildings in New York made with eco-friendly and sustainable materials and practices.

Space in the new Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials Research — a # 235 million (US$ 338 million) publicly funded facility scheduled to open in 2019 that will be supported by six UK partner universities — is already dedicated to research on nuclear technologies.

And here at TRIUMF, I work on nuclear physics accelerators and the cyclotron, which is used for materials science and nuclear medicine.

But they give themselves away when material they feed on emits high - energy X-rays that NASA's NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) mission can detect.

Observers see the move as a signal that the military government is trying to conform to global norms on the management of nuclear material as well as distance itself from a controversial figure regarded as the «father of the Islamic bomb.»

«The explanation is, in brief, that in metals, irradiation produces on picosecond time scales a liquid - like zone, which during the cooling - down phase recombines much of the initially produced damage, leading to a factor of 1/3 reduction in damage,» says Professor Kai Nordlund who was in lead of the team on search for more accurate predictions of usability of materials in nuclear environments, that now present their results freshly in Nature Communications.

In the world of nuclear inspection, you never know who might be siphoning off nuclear material to build a bomb or sell on the black market, so it helps to suspect everyone and everything until proven otherwise.

Pervez Hoodbhoy, a Bulletin member and head of Quaid - i - Azam University's physics department in Pakistan, called for a moratorium on the development of materials that go into nuclear weapons and on testing nuclear weapons.

If enough material, mostly in the form of hydrogen gas, accumulates on the surface of the white dwarf, nuclear fusion reactions can occur and intensify, culminating into a cosmic - sized hydrogen bomb blast.

That's because different nuclear materials give off their own specific blend of gamma rays, X-rays and so on, and each type of radiation penetrates insulators with different strengths.

Reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi station runs on so - called mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, in which uranium is mixed with other fissile materials such as plutonium from spent reactor fuel or from decommissioned nuclear weapons.

Based on building materials used in the Arctic at the time, the authors speculate the site contains polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pollutants toxic to human health, along with an unknown volume of low - level radioactive coolant from the nuclear generator.

111 Estimated number of nuclear weapon storage sites worldwide, according to the International Panel on Fissile Materials.

To kick things off, the government is spending # 15 million on a new National Nuclear Users» Facility where university and industry researchers can study materials crucial to power generation and reprocessing.

On 6 June, Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) raised its estimate of the radioactive material emitted.

Since then, most research has focused on using an ADS to transmute high - level nuclear waste into less harmful material.

As a white dwarf draws off hydrogen - rich material from a binary companion over millions of years, Gilfanov says, it experiences a steady process of nuclear fusion on its surface that gives off tremendous amounts of radiation.

The wavering fortunes of the nuclear industry have led to a dearth of research on new designs that take advantage of better materials and manufacturing techniques that could drive down costs.

Then on June 21, 2016, after technicians working in a glove box spilled about 7 tablespoons of a liquid containing plutonium, workers violated safety rules by sopping up the spill with organic cheesecloth and throwing it in waste bins with other nuclear materials, according to an internal Los Alamos report.

Of note, last year's Heritage Foundation budget — which has had a major influence on the Trump Administration's budget proposals — called for a significant rollback or elimination of programs in nuclear physics, advanced computing, chemistry, materials science, biological, and environmental research.

In a statement the NNSA said that, before the first loading of materials, it had conducted a five - year safety review of the Taishan nuclear power project and dispatched on - site supervisors for the entire construction process.

Results: In the quest for safe methods of storing nuclear waste, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Curtin University, Australia are investigating radiation effects on candidate materials for immobilizing plutonium and other actinides.

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems — Water Reactors, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Clark leads research efforts focused on the chemistry and chemical engineering of processing nuclear materials — including DOE's Energy Frontier Research Center on Interfacial Dynamics in Radioactive Environments and Materials materials — including DOE's Energy Frontier Research Center on Interfacial Dynamics in Radioactive Environments and Materials Materials (IDREAM).

The library focuses on materials in support of PPPL's research in the fields of plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion.

Today, IFE - Halden has a unique competence in instrumentation used for on - line monitoring of nuclear fuel and material behavior; specially customized instrumentation solutions; and a highly developed program on Generation IV instruments.

Brian Sales, distinguished research scientist and lead of the Correlated Electron Materials Group in the Materials Science and Technology Division, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «pioneering research for clean energy technologies, including thermoelectric and superconducting materials, and materials for nuclear waste storagMaterials Group in the Materials Science and Technology Division, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «pioneering research for clean energy technologies, including thermoelectric and superconducting materials, and materials for nuclear waste storagMaterials Science and Technology Division, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «pioneering research for clean energy technologies, including thermoelectric and superconducting materials, and materials for nuclear waste storagmaterials, and materials for nuclear waste storagmaterials for nuclear waste storage.»

He leads the Fuel Material and Chemistry Focus Area of the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub, as well as Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) projects on plasma surface interactions and fission gas behavior in nuclear fuel.

During the Clinton administration, Dr. Holdren served as a member of PCAST through both terms and in that capacity chaired studies requested by President Clinton on preventing theft of nuclear materials, disposition of surplus weapon plutonium, the prospects of fusion energy, U.S. energy R&D strategy, and international cooperation on energy - technology innovation.

Abstract: The edge - on starburst galaxy M82 exhibits complicated distributions of gaseous materials in its halo, which include ionized superwinds driven by nuclear starbursts, neutral materials entrained by the superwinds, and large - scale neutral streamers probably caused by a past tidal interaction with M81.

Soltis, Conroy, and Smith along with R. Lee Penn from the University of Minnesota organized a symposium on nanoparticle reactivity, which is vital for areas including nuclear materials processing.

At ORNL, Moyer developed new understanding of the interfacial aspects of solvent extraction in recovery of uranium and conducted groundbreaking work on principles of molecular recognition that can be applied to solving DOE's pressing challenges in nuclear waste cleanup, nuclear fuel recycle, and recovery of critical materials.

We recovered material from 42 herbarium accessions of sweet potato collected worldwide from the 17th century to the early 20th century and obtained data on chloroplast microsatellites for all of them and reliable data on nuclear microsatellites for 30 accessions.

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Her resume also lists her as the Founder and Director of the Nuclear Waste Documentary Project, a nonprofit scientific organization that produces educational materials on nuclear waste issues for public television, museums, and sNuclear Waste Documentary Project, a nonprofit scientific organization that produces educational materials on nuclear waste issues for public television, museums, and snuclear waste issues for public television, museums, and schools.