Sentences with phrase «own nuclear materials»

But the difference between highly - controlled nuclear materials and computer code, is that anyone — and any state — can develop it.

The Canada - India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement came into force in 2013, putting in place the necessary mechanisms for preventing the use of nuclear materials for non-peaceful purposes.

Author Paul Meyer argues that despite the challenge of a restrictive definition of nuclear security, Seoul has the opportunity to «brand» its own summit success by supporting practical results to secure vulnerable nuclear material and enlarging the summit scope to address threats to the nuclear order of greater saliency and priority than those associated with putative terrorists.

Gillibrand also asked for an extra $ 20 million in funding, which she thinks is necessary to improve detection of nuclear materials and prevent a dirty bomb from being detonated.

When this was written, India's first PNE was viewed by the international community as a lesson learned; it was clearly an example of sensitive technology and nuclear material for peaceful purposes being diverted towards military use.

With no agreement in place, Britain would also lose the ability to manage nuclear materials or aviation in the manner it does now, along with countless other legal and regulatory relationships which currently operate under the umbrella of EU membership.

So I want $ 20 million, particularly, to do the kind of detection work to make sure there is no nuclear materials among us.»

Moreover, in 2016, an ISIS - related group was discovered actively pursuing nuclear materials at a Belgian nuclear power plant.

They have not and will not, because almost all the leverage in the negotiations is theirs, and if we don't like what they offer, we face an immediate future over the cliff - edge without EU aviation, free trade or nuclear material.

(b) It is further in the national interest to ensure that the Nation's electricity is affordable, reliable, safe, secure, and clean, and that it can be produced from coal, natural gas, nuclear material, flowing water, and other domestic sources, including renewable sources.

The summit ended with a «13 point Seoul Communiqué» that eschewed legally binding agreements in preference to voluntarily pledges to bolster protection of loose nuclear materials.

Ironically enough, the issue of «nuclear security» should be viewed as a consequence of the failure of the existing nuclear regime, proven to be incapable of controlling either the illicit transfer of nuclear technology or preventing the military use of nuclear material intended for peaceful purposes.

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.

Pyongyang could still use a «dirty «nuclear bomb by installing raw nuclear material in short range missiles aimed at Seoul.

Nuclear materials in general are subject to other government regulations.

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.

If they don't secure or destroy the plants, North Korea can just make more nuclear material.

So we will want to remain a part of agencies like Euratom, regulating nuclear materials in energy and health sectors and programmes like Erasmus that give students opportunities to study across Europe, because they serve our interests.

Peace Bridge Authority General Manager Ron Rienas said he's unaware of shipments of high - level nuclear materials over the bridge linking Buffalo and Fort Erie.

The Division provides planning and technical support for the County's inactive hazardous waste sites and participates in a number of coalitions organized to address these sites including the Coalition Against Nuclear Materials in Tonawanda and the West Valley Citizen's Task Force.

Former New Jersey Sen. Robert Torricelli stated the New Jersey ports should not be used «as rest stops for nuclear material.»

According to a report published by U.S. Department of Defense in 2001, China had provided Pakistan with nuclear materials and has given critical technological assistance in the construction of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development facilities, in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China even then was a signatory.

The nuclear issue is important locally because of the West Valley Demonstration Project in Cattaraugus County, which left behind a vast amount of nuclear material.

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.»

Despite an admirable record and firm commitment to make safety a primary criterion in weapons design, production, handling, and deployment, and to ensure that nuclear material is protected against theft, there is growing apprehension about terrorists acquiring weapons or nuclear material.

The remaining 5 % of medical physicists work with nuclear materials that are frequently used in medicine, Physics Today states.

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.

Inspectors come with a range of expertise, from physics, engineering, and chemistry to computer science and even biology; samples from plants and animals often play a role in detecting unreported nuclear materials.

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.

This property could help scientists develop better methods for handling and purifying nuclear materials.

«It's a very important prerequisite for the control of nuclear materials,» says Brian Chow of the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, who has analysed ways of reducing the world's plutonium stockpile.

If the IAEA can not provide the leadership it is supposed to, then the governments of the rich nations must get together and help to make sure that the former Soviet Union's nuclear reac - tors can not leak nuclear materials abroad.

Western experts used to tell the public that terrorists would need 8 kilograms of nuclear material to make a bomb.

Not only can it detect hidden nuclear material, it can also take a rough image of it.

He notes that recent reports indicate several other countries — including Ghana, Belarus, and South Africa — also have nuclear material they shouldn't.

If the neutrons hit uranium or any other fissionable nuclear material, they will release gamma rays energetic enough to penetrate most types of shielding.

Small quantities of nuclear material are now turning up for sale in the West.

Security of nuclear materials worldwide «ranges from «better than probably necessary» to «absolutely appallingly bad,»» Bunn says.

A long - troubled technology initiative to prevent illicit nuclear materials from being smuggled into the United States appears to be in danger, if the Administration's 2010 budget is any indication.

A likely factor is the problem that DNDO has run into with its Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (ASP) program, which was started in 2004 to screen cargo at land and sea borders for signatures of nuclear material.

This breakdown of laminB1 and other nuclear material leads to a cellular state called senescence, or literally «getting old.»

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California began testing a device in May that can quickly detect concealed nuclear materials.

In the study published in Nature, autophagy is shown, for the first time, to digest nuclear material in mammalian cells.

Thus it remains intact, disarming concerns about long - term spent fuel storage or the theft of nuclear material during refueling or fuel reprocessing, the company said.

«Concealed nuclear materials could be detectable,» he said, «since dense materials like lead are used to shield the devices.»

«In order to spread nuclear technologies, you have to have the people who have the expertise in nuclear engineering, who know about nuclear materials and chain reactions and things like that — the same expertise for nuclear bombs.

x-rays and nuclear materials and chain reactions, OH MY!

Fallout is a mélange of the vaporized environment — soil and structures that were near the blast — laced with fission products (radioisotopes created when fissile materials like uranium or plutonium fission), activation products (radioisotopes formed when the blast radiation transmutes shielding and other bomb components), and residual nuclear material.

He tested various methods to quickly and precisely remove the nuclear materials from the egg cell and promote the fusion of the nucleus - donor cell and enucleated egg.