Sentences with phrase «producing nuclear weapons»

Among Goel's major funders is the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which oversees one of the world's largest nuclear cleanups following 45 years of producing nuclear weapons.

In terms of international affairs, Turner said Israel must continue to be an important ally of the United States, especially in a scenario where Iran is capable of producing nuclear weapons.

The only problem is, that they keep producing nuclear weapons.

The prime minister presented no information that Iran was currently producing nuclear weapons, or was otherwise in violation of the deal's restrictions on nuclear activities.

When a country does not have nuclear weapons but has a peaceful nuclear program that could be used to produce nuclear weapons, it is said to be in a state of «nuclear latency.»

North Korea has produced a nuclear weapon that can fit inside its missiles, according to NBC and The Washington Post.

They outlined almost 200 tasks required to produce a nuclear weapon.

The only other real option is that China steps forward and removes North Korea's ability to produce nuclear weapons.

Some, such as China, worry that Japan could use the material to quickly produce nuclear weapons.

For 25 years, my job has been to work with Sandia and Los Alamos to design and produce nuclear weapons.

Not exact matches

It produced six nuclear weapons.

Iran isn't believed to have produced any of the highly enriched uranium needed to produce even one nuclear weapon, let alone five.

In New York last month, Zarif said that if the U.S. withdraws, Tehran would seriously consider «resuming at much greater speed our nuclear activities,» though he stopped short of threatening to produce weapons.

So he is going to have to cut the Defense Department's operations even more than he suggested, or increase the Defense budget by around 10 billion dollars to accommodate the department's new responsibilities or hope that nuclear weapons and military nuclear reactors will produce and maintain themselves.

«The highly unpredictable and aggressive regime in North Korea recently conducted its third nuclear test and could already have enough fissile material to produce more than a dozen nuclear weapons,» he wrote in the Telegraph.

The other two - thirds of the firm are held by American defence firm Lockheed Martin and the British company Serco, meaning that the state no longer owns the programme which produces and maintains the country's nuclear weapons.

The Tehran Research Reactor is used mainly for producing medical radioisotopes, not weapons, but Iran's dogged effort to produce fuel for it sparked the latest international crisis over the nation's nuclear ambitions — and helped motivate the July 2015 nuclear deal to constrain them.

Coherent neutrino scattering detectors could lead to practical applications as well: Small - scale neutrino detectors could eventually detect neutrinos produced in nuclear reactors to monitor for attempts to develop nuclear weapons, for example.

The International Monitoring System (IMS), established by the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions pNuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions pnuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions pnuclear explosions produce.

But today the US is producing no new nuclear weapons, and Rocky Flats closed down in the early 1990s leaving behind an environmental legacy of contamination with plutonium and other toxic chemicals.

Cold War - era governments (including ours) backed uranium - based reactors because they produced plutonium — handy for making nuclear weapons.

But the AAAS panel found that substantial upgrades to the current infrastructure would be needed anyway to carry out the RRW program, including at least a doubling of the current assembling and disassembling work at the Pantex nuclear weapon assembly facility as well as a significant increase in the amount of plutonium pits produced at the TA - 55 facility.

«It's the SKUA9 design,» Goodwin says, one of a series of primaries created by Livermore during the nuclear testing program simply to test the viability of secondaries, and never produced as a weapon.

No one is too sure — the records are so poor at the Hanford nuclear site where, for four decades, the US produced plutonium for its nuclear weapons.

«Atomgrad», the once - secret city in the Urals which produced plutonium for the Soviet nuclear weapons programme, has become the first city in Russia to launch its own currency, the «augram».

The contaminated sites, on floodplains in the upper Colorado River basin, operated from the 1940s to the 1970s to produce «yellowcake,» a precursor of uranium fuel used in nuclear power plants and weapons.

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.»

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.

The immediate motivation for safe disposal is the radioactive waste stored currently at the Hanford Site, a facility in Washington State that produced plutonium for nuclear weapons during the Cold War.

Unlike deployed nuclear weapons, which unleash their explosive energy indiscriminately, future nuclear weapons may selectively produce certain types of energy and concentrate them on targets

When nations acquire nuclear weapons, they usually develop dedicated facilities to produce fissile materials rather than collecting nuclear materials from civilian power plants.

She also discusses how this research could be applied to technologies to identify materials being produced for nuclear weapons in order to help prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.

With the potential energy of 25 hundred trillion trillion nuclear weapons, they can outshine entire galaxies, producing some of the biggest explosions ever seen, and helping track distances across the cosmos.

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

Iran agreed to ship spent nuclear fuel out of the country and promised not to produce weapons - grade plutonium.

At Sandia National Laboratory, Myers works on the Z machine, the world's most powerful pulsed - power facility and x-ray generator, which produces high energy density plasmas that are used to study fusion and the physics of nuclear weapons.

The American Physical Society's Panel on Public Affairs has produced a number of excellent and more extensive reports about energy and nuclear weapons issues.

Small amounts of caesium - 134, caesium - 137, and iodine - 131 were released into the environment during nearly all nuclear weapon tests and some nuclear accidents, and are not otherwise produced in nature.

The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

(The monstrous Godzilla was produced by nuclear weapons testing; sci - fi speaks to its times.)

Visitors will be able to see photographs from Greenham Common, a peace camp established to protest nuclear weapons on British soil in the 1980s which saw women from Sheffield take part, and a Crookesmoor Against the Poll Tax banner, alongside song sheets, newsletters and badges produced in the city.

He has produced many studies and articles on nuclear fuel cycle related issues, including weapons production, testing, and nuclear waste, over the past twenty years.

Add to this the fact that an increase in nuclear reactors will lead to a depletion of uranium stocks within a century - unless you factor in «breeder reactors» that have so far been shunned as they can produce weapons - grade nuclear materials - and nuclear ambitions start to look decidedly shaky.

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Have you wondered why all regimes that want nuclear weapons construct dedicated facilities to produce the materials that are suitable for weapons?

This is how India produced its first nuclear weapon, in 1974.

Breeder reactors consume and produce vast amounts of plutonium, the essential ingredient in manufacturing a nuclear weapon.

DAVID NOONAN: These are breeder reactors; they produce plutonium and that maximises the risks of weapons and of nuclear proliferation.

Richland was founded on the heels of the Hanford Nuclear Project in the 1940s, and was the country's first large scale plutonium enrichment facility, producing the world's first atomic bomb and generating enough plutonium for over sixty - thousand weapons in the United States» nuclear aNuclear Project in the 1940s, and was the country's first large scale plutonium enrichment facility, producing the world's first atomic bomb and generating enough plutonium for over sixty - thousand weapons in the United States» nuclear anuclear arsenal.