Sentences with phrase «say nuclear experts»

Recent accidents and increasing political instability make Russia a dangerous destination for nuclear material, say nuclear experts, but the International Atomic Energy Agency says it had no alternative after Britain and France backed down from their initial offer to take it.

Of course it is, says nuclear expert James Acton — but the U.S. knew that.

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Kim also told Moon he would soon invite experts and journalists from the United States and South Korea when the country dismantles its Punggye - ri nuclear testing site, the Blue House said on Sunday.

SEOUL, April 29 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to invite experts and journalists from the United States and South Korea when the country closes its nuclear test site in May, Seoul officials said on Sunday, as U.S. North Korea's state media had said before the summit that Pyongyang would...

SEOUL, April 29 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to invite experts and journalists from the United States and South Korea when the country shuts its nuclear test site in May, Seoul officials said, as U.S. North Korea's state media had said before the summit that Pyongyang would immediately...

Schneider confirmed that the incident had occurred and that it had issued a security alert to customers of the technology, which cyber experts said is widely used in the energy industry, including at nuclear facilities, and oil and gas plants.

U.S. intelligence experts say Pyongyang believes it needs the nuclear weapons to ensure its survival and have been skeptical about diplomatic efforts, focusing on sanctions, to get Pyongyang to denuclearize.

The South's president, Moon Jae - in, expressed worry that North Korea's growing missile threat could force the United States to attack the North before it masters a nuclear - tipped long - range missile, something experts say may be imminent.

«Everything he said was already known to the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] and published,» Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear - policy expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, tweeted.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to shut down the country's nuclear test site in May and open the process to experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States, Seoul's presidential office said Sunday.

Kim also vowed during his meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae - in on Friday to shut down the North's nuclear test site in May and disclose the process to experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States, Seoul's presidential office said.

Some foreign policy experts have taken Kim's announcement last week that North Korea would no longer test nuclear weapons as a positive sign, but the leader also said his country didn't need to continue the testing because he already knows how effective the weapons he has are.

«The experts testified that New York has the resources to replace these nuclear plants; now the decision makers need the will to make it happen,» said Assemblymember James Brennan, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions.

He said: «As well as her own extensive and wide - ranging consultations with senior figures from the armed forces, the defence industry, the unions, academic experts and others, Emily is hosting a series of round table events for MPs to inform the defence review, focusing on issues such as intelligence, international relations, cyber-security, terrorism, and the role of special forces, as well as the future of the nuclear deterrent.

Patrick McDaniel, a nuclear engineer and space expert based at the University of New Mexico, agrees, saying engineers have the technological capacity to build a 10 - megawatt nuclear reactor for space that's «reasonably light,» though the will to do so may be lacking.

Kate Sprake, a nuclear safety expert, said: «Offering this training to the nuclear industry is timely, given the forthcoming nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset.

Heart disease and depression are likely to claim more lives than radiation after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident, experts say

«In reality, the nuclear renaissance was in a lot of trouble before March 2011,» says Ellen Vancko, an electric utility expert for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

«It helps that he's brilliant,» says Eric Rasmussen, a former Defense Department scientist and disaster expert collaborating with Stamets to decontaminate the zone around Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor with mushrooms.

«The WHO report shamelessly downplays the impact of early radioactive releases from the Fukushima disaster on people inside the 20 km evacuation zone who were not able to leave the area quickly,» says Rianne Teule, a nuclear expert at Greenpeace International.

«Setting [such radiation limits] for elementary schools is inexcusable,» Toshiso Kosako, a radiation health expert at the University of Tokyo, said on 30 April, when he resigned as an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the nuclear crisis.

That trial centers on a phone call Bertolaso made to a local official in setting up the commission's meeting, in which he said he was sending the experts to L'Aquila on a «media operation» to reassure the public and «shut up» a technician in the nearby Gran Sasso nuclear physics laboratory who had allegedly made a series of alarming predictions of imminent strong earthquakes.

Technological advances and science diplomacy will be crucial to a new generation of nuclear security, said experts gathered at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

But at a workshop cosponsored by AAAS, experts said the crisis also was an inflection point, leading to agreements to limit nuclear testing and curb proliferation and driving a cohort of scientists and engineers into the fields of arms control and science diplomacy.

«If the United States, the strongest nation in the world, concludes that it can not protect its vital interests without relying on new nuclear weapons for new military missions, it would be a clear signal to other nations that nuclear weapons are valuable, if not necessary, for their security purposes, too,» Sidney Drell, arms control expert and physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center said at the American Physical Society Conference in Denver this past March.

The restoration of nuclear power also won't solve Japan's long - standing transmission problems, which continue to hamstring the ability of power generators and utilities to move power from where it's produced to where it is most needed, experts say.

«Scientists were not interested in figuring out what kind of device had detonated, because they already knew that,» says analytical chemist Michael Kristo, a nuclear forensics expert at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

The most likely nuclear terrorism scenario, experts say, is a bomb set off on a city street.

Warnings that North Korea could detonate a nuclear bomb in orbit to knock out US electrical infrastructure are far - fetched, says arms expert Jeffrey Lewis

• While the text in our «Instant expert» pull - out guide to dark matter (5 February) said that the Z boson transmits the weak nuclear force, the caption on p iv said otherwise.

«We're talking about trillion - dollar consequences,» says panelist Frank von Hippel, a nuclear security expert at Princeton University.

The most logical solution, experts say, would be to send the 9700 kilograms of LEU to Russia for conversion into fuel rods for Iran's Russian - built Bushehr nuclear reactor, in operation since 2011.

But Neile Miller, who was then the acting head of the National Nuclear Security Administration in Washington, says those experts specifically told her that Los Alamos didn't have enough personnel who knew how to handle plutonium so it didn't accidentally go «critical» and start an uncontrolled chain reaction.

A recent innovation in breast cancer biomarkers seeks the HER3 receptor instead, which could mean more comprehensive breast cancer imaging and potential treatments, say experts presenting data during the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's 2014 Annual Meeting.

There are nuclear experts who say that the industry needs more standardisation rather than innovation, to bring costs down.

PRISM utilizes fourth generation nuclear power technology today, and this technology is what many experts are saying represents the future of nuclear energy going forward.

A decision by Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to shrink two Nevada national monuments could remove a significant hurdle to storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, experts say.

... John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: «Exxon, Chevron and the French nuclear operator EDF also contribute to the IPCC, so to paint this expert UN body as a wing of Greenpeace is preposterous.»

A decision by Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to shrink two Nevada national monuments could remove a significant hurdle to storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, experts say.

Ewen Hosie, «Nuclear power concerns: US expert says Aussies need to «get over it,»» Australian Mining, November 3, 2017

Some experts share the view of the Director General of the United Kingdom Security Service, who said in August 2003: «It will only be a matter of time before a crude version of a [chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear] attack is launched at a major Western city»...

«There are so many [problems] from which to choose,» Sharon Squassoni, a military strategy expert and member of the Bulletin's Science and Security Board, said with a little laugh that I'll hear in my head as the nuclear fallout fills my lungs.

Setting the scene for the latest JV agreement, an expert panel hosted by the China Nuclear Energy Association praised the AFCR's safety characteristics and said that it forms a synergy with China's existing PWRs and that it is positioned to «promote the development of closed fuel cycle technologies and industrial development» in China.

Michael A. Levi, a CFR expert on nuclear issues, says Iran's response to the Security Council's demand to halt its nuclear processing in return for concessions appears to be a compromise between hard...

China's pledge to get 20 per cent of its energy from renewables and nuclear by 2030 is also not that ambitious, experts say.

University of Adelaide climate change expert Professor Barry Brook said the report, given to the Department of Premier and Cabinet, made it clear nuclear power would be necessary because wind, solar and geothermal energy would not live up to expectations in future decades.

The result, these experts say, is tantamount to a nuclear weapons standoff: Companies with formidable patent portfolios can use them as cudgels against rivals, while those with fewer patents risk being eaten alive in court.