Sentences with phrase «use nuclear explosions»

And I am sorely disappointed that you promoted, by even mentioning, the absurd idea that we deliberately use nuclear explosions to mitigate climate change.

It was always inconceivable that President Obama would consider using a nuclear explosion to cut the flow of oil from the unrelenting seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico — no matter how many other options faltered.

Re # 33 While using nuclear explosions to solve the problem of AGW is almost certainly less political acceptable than the alternative of building thousands of nuclear power stations, it could produce a solution that would be more effective if the situation becomes urgent.

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To put the size of history's largest nuclear blasts to scale, we have used Alex Wellerstein's Nukemap, a tool for visualizing the terrifying real - world impact of a nuclear explosion.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

We have grown used to the threats of nuclear war, the population explosion, and ecological catastrophe.

The explosions tore open reactor buildings, damaging the 12 - meter - deep pools where used nuclear fuel is kept cool, potentially setting off another meltdown in the fuel there as the surrounding water drained away or boiled off.

Livermore scientists will dismantle Nova — used primarily for experiments that probe the subtleties of nuclear weapons explosions — in May to make way for the 192 - beam National Ignition Facility.

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation, which watches out for nuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft expNuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation, which watches out for nuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft expnuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft explosion.

India received photomultiplier tubes and Israel took possession of «streak» cameras, high - speed cameras that nuclear weapons testers use to capture images of explosions.

The GRL paper notes other potential applications of using the dark fiber, including urban seismic hazard analysis, global seismic imaging, offshore submarine volcano detection, nuclear explosion monitoring, and microearthquake characterization.

Part of the rationale for building NIF was that weapons scientists could use it to validate simulations of nuclear explosions and so keep the country's nuclear stockpile safe and working properly.

And the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2006 suggested the practice of overcrowding pools for the storage of spent nuclear fuel rods — that has caused fires and explosions at Fukushima Daiichi, which stores far less used fuel than typical U.S. plants — could prove dangerous.

Under a new agreement with MasterCard, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are trying to adapt computer algorithms that were developed to detect clandestine nuclear explosions to spot attempts at credit - card fraud, such as using someone else's credit card number without authorisation.

«Subsequently, because of his conviction that if a nuclear chain reaction could be made to work it might be used as an instrument of war to set up violent explosions, Szilard separated that part of the application which related to the nuclear chain reaction and incorporated it in modified form into a later filed application, No. 19157, which he assigned to the British Admiralty in order to prevent its publication.

It's one thing to point to four successful instances in which nuclear explosions were used in the Soviet Union in decades past to seal gas wells after blowouts.