Sentences with phrase «on nuclear projects»

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

Nor is this a UK phenomenon: the Finnish reactor is running a year behind schedule and the World Bank will no longer lend on nuclear projects.

Corporate employees working on nuclear projects, then, should not concern themselves with the morality of their work.

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In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

CB&I received no upfront payment for the sale of the nuclear construction business, but stood to receive earnouts based on the progress of the completion of two U.S. projects by Stone & Webster: a nuclear power plant in Georgia for Southern Co and two reactors in South Carolina for SCANA Corp (scu).

May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

At the same time, subsidies and other support for renewable energy projects have boosted competition from wind and solar power and piled pressure on coal - fired and nuclear power plants.

Al Nowais worked on energy - related projects and programs, such as oil and gas initiatives, alternative sources of energy and most recently the UAE's nuclear program.

Within a few months it took a 30 % + plunge due to cost overruns on its new Nuclear Power Plant project and than abandonment due to the bankruptcy of Westinghouse.

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Eighteen top German physicists, including four Nobel prize winners, stated in 1957 that they would not work on projects having any connection with nuclear weapons.

In 2006, sixty - one years after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Robert Harney and his colleagues published «Anatomy of a Project to Produce a First Nuclear Weapon.»

The party notes that no British nuclear power project has been completed on time.

Theresa May puts the brakes on Hinkley Point nuclear power project amid security fears over China's involvement

With the party divided between social and economic liberals, debates on nuclear power, the economy, tuition fees, green policy and taxation are unlikely to yield unanimous responses, resulting in internal division which may hinder the party's ability to project a clear and consistent message in the run up to 2015.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined the project does not add significant safety risk, based on an NRC review and analysis submitted from Indian Point - owner Entergy Nuclear.

Famous for: Physicist and Nobel Prize laureate who worked on the Manhattan Project and other nuclear research.

Other goals include increased funding for nuclear weapons research; increased research on nanotechnology; space station, moon, and Mars projects at NASA; work on hydrogen fuels; and support for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project.

The experiment is still on track to begin hunting for the long sought Higgs boson next March, says LHC project leader Lyn Evans of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

During his final year, Bourtourault did a short research project on the detection of ozone, a second one on the storage of nuclear waste, and a 4 - month internship at the state - owned Aérospatiale company, where he worked on nonpolluting anticorrosion treatments.

Their participation in talks on nuclear disarmament and in the Apollo - Soyuz space exploration project helped to establish the détente between the two nations in the 1970s, Holt said.

But those two Texas reactors, as well as several other high - profile nuclear power projects, had been on the ropes long before Fukushima.

The situation is no better in Europe, according to Steven Thomas, a professor of energy studies at the University of Greenwich in London: Finland can not complete its new reactor; the U.K. has yet to get started on any projects; and a new nuclear reactor in France, after 18 months of construction, is 20 percent overbudget and requires complete subsidy by the French government.

Germany has also decided to give up nuclear power,» a Jiangmen resident said in a post on the Jiangmen government's page on the popular social networking site Weibo, under registered name of «YOoUuNnGg», in reaction to its decision to scrap the uranium processing project.

Before John Major's recent visit to Moscow I brought to his attention Debora MacKenzie's article on assistance for nuclear safety projects in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

But Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control in Washington DC, says confidence in export restrictions is misplaced.

«Almost immediately it occurred to many people around the world that this could be used to make power and that it could be used for nuclear explosives,» another immigrant who worked on the Manhattan Project, the German physicist Hans Bethe, told me during an interview in 1997.

Had the panel had time to do so, says MIT nuclear engineer Charles Forsberg, who served as executive director on the project, «I don't think it would have changed any of the major conclusions of our report.

The project was set up in February 2005 as way of searching for gravitational waves (also emitted by pulsars) in data collected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) detector instruments located in Livingston, La., and on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash..

When projects on the scale of a nuclear power station or THORP are concerned, or the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment, to give another example, it is not possible to model them fully in the laboratory using traditional trial - and - error methodology.

Pending the review, there should be a moratorium on all further nuclear activity, and revocation of recent clearances for nuclear projects.»

The failure of Congress to reach agreement on climate and energy legislation has left the future of U.S. new nuclear projects up in the air, focusing more attention on the possibility and the challenges of further extending the life expectancy of the current nuclear fleet, industry officials say.

A few years ago, DARPA, which prides itself on promoting far - out projects, proposed spending $ 30 million on a «hafnium bomb,» a type of nuclear weapon intended to release energy from atomic nuclei without either fission or fusion, using an approach similar to how energy is extracted from electrons in a laser.

«This is the first formal confirmation at that high level that those countries entered mainstream strategic nuclear war planning,» says Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at FAS, which obtained the excerpt from a 2002 U.S. Strategic Command (U.S. STARTCOM) briefing on the new war plan to take effect inuclear war planning,» says Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at FAS, which obtained the excerpt from a 2002 U.S. Strategic Command (U.S. STARTCOM) briefing on the new war plan to take effect iNuclear Information Project at FAS, which obtained the excerpt from a 2002 U.S. Strategic Command (U.S. STARTCOM) briefing on the new war plan to take effect in 2003.

Ironically, this year's winners of the Einstein Peace Prize are both physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project to build a nuclear bomb in the Second World War.

The spaceships of Project Orion, designed in the late 1950s but never built, had in common their massive size (this one was more than 30 feet in diameter) and a propulsion system that relied on controlled nuclear explosions.

In Alfred Hitchcock's 1966 thriller Torn Curtain, Paul Newman plays physicist Michael Armstrong, who is working on Gamma 5, an antimissile project that «will produce a defensive weapon that will make all nuclear weapons obsolete and abolish the terror of anuclear war.»

A common complaint: the project's dependence on a sprawling and little scrutinized network of subcontractors - many of them inexperienced with nuclear work and some of them, police say, have ties to organized crime.

The plant is supposed to convert plutonium from weapons into fuel for nuclear power plants, but the study triggered fears that DOE wanted to pull the plug on the project, whose cost has ballooned from $ 4.9 billion to $ 7.7 billion.

Republicans who have been critical of DOE and of Obama appointees to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) are likely to press both agencies on exactly how the Yucca Mountain project was terminated.

The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump site in Nevada gets a $ 120 million reboot on licensing for the project in the White House's 2018 budget blueprint for the U.S. Department of Energy.

The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code - named «Little Boy» detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code - named «Fat Man» on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan.

Townes says he and Jaenisch initially collaborated on a project that used nuclear transfer to make corrected stem cells, a process called therapeutic cloning.

Their enthusiasm stems from an inescapable truth: now the old enemy in the shape of the Soviet Union has collapsed, nuclear weapons designers and those employed on projects for the Strategic Defense Initiative are facing redundancy unless they can find a new adversary on which to focus.

As the international ITER project to develop an experimental nuclear fusion reactor eats into research budgets around the world, an advisory panel to the US Department of Energy recommends mothballing at least one of three major experiments and focusing on research necessary to bring ITER online.

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.

We present the first results of project SUNBIRD (Supernovae UNmasked By InfraRed Detection), where we aim to uncover CCSNe that otherwise would remain hidden in the complex nuclear regions of LIRGs, and in this way improve the constraints on the fraction that is missed by optical seeing - limited surveys.

Recommendation: To improve DOE's management and oversight of the WTP project, the Secretary of Energy should not resume construction on the WTP's pretreatment and high - level waste facilities until critical technologies are tested and verified as effective, the facilities» design has been completed to the level established by nuclear industry guidelines, and Bechtel's preliminary documented safety analyses complies with DOE nuclear safety regulations.

The key challenge on this project was to ensure that the technical solutions were appropriate for a nuclear decommissioning project with complex radioactive waste streams, but where the aim has been to keep the design simple.

She collaborates on research projects where nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers provide insight into the questions posed by the research.