Sentences with phrase «special nuclear material»

42 USC 2061 says that the Atomic Energy Commission shall be the exclusive owner of all production facilities for special nuclear material (with certain exceptions), which effectively forbids any other person to own such a facility.

The most recent Sierra Nevada experiment did not include special nuclear material, but it did provide physics data relevant to advancing stockpile safety.

Aug. 29, 2017 - Conducting an experiment that combines high explosives with plutonium — a special nuclear material used in nuclear weapons — is no trivial matter.

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Nuclear medicine — a vital component of the rapidly emerging field of molecular imaging — is a medical specialty that uses small amounts of radioactive materials bound to special compounds (radiopharmaceuticals) in combination with imaging instrumentation that examine molecular processes in the body to detect and evaluate disease, such as brain disorders, heart disease and cancer.

Congress added a little more confusion in 2016 when a change was made so that special category federal employees (i.e., law enforcement officers, firefighters, Customs and Border Protection Officers, Air Traffic Controllers, Supreme Court and Capitol Police Officers, Nuclear Materials Couriers, and DSS Special Agents in the State Department) had a dividing line of 50, rather than 55 for penalty free withdrawals from their TSP acspecial category federal employees (i.e., law enforcement officers, firefighters, Customs and Border Protection Officers, Air Traffic Controllers, Supreme Court and Capitol Police Officers, Nuclear Materials Couriers, and DSS Special Agents in the State Department) had a dividing line of 50, rather than 55 for penalty free withdrawals from their TSP acSpecial Agents in the State Department) had a dividing line of 50, rather than 55 for penalty free withdrawals from their TSP accounts.