By contrast, the Bush Administration has formulated a Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that envisions maintaining the effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear stockpile by retiring older weapons and modernization, restoring the critically important nuclear industrial base and introducing anti-missile and other defenses against nuclear attack.
Germany has recently announced that all of its nuclear power plants will be phased out by 2022, becoming the biggest industrial power to give up nuclear energy.
"It's a harsh environment for humans to work inside, " said Hidehiko Nishiyama of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (Nisa).
According to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), robots inside the buildings measured radiation levels reached 57 millisieverts per hour.
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The need to sustain such processes has led to major new construction projects at all of the industrial sites involved in nuclear weapons work.
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It accused Tepco and regulators at the nuclear and industrial safety agency of failing to take adequate safety measures, despite evidence that the area was susceptible to powerful earthquakes and tsunamis.
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Several other nuclear power plants in the area have lost external power and are relying on backup generators, said a spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) at a press conference currently in progress.
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Japan's government is consulting with experts from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the French nuclear fuel company Areva, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director-general of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and the agency's chief spokesman.
In 2002, Tepco admitted to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency that it had falsified the results of safety tests on the containment vessel of the No. 1 reactor, which is now one of three reactors that workers are struggling to keep from overheating.
Although it has appeared in India, Pakistan and Indonesia, Iran's industrial complexes - including its nuclear installations - are its main victims.
And then there are some really nasty forms of industrial waste, such as spent nuclear fuel, for which no universally accepted disposal methods have thus far been developed.
This prospect has been accelerated by the departure of large numbers of America's top nuclear scientists and engineers from the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons laboratories and industrial complex since 1992.
On the other hand, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's performance at the Natanz nuclear installation where he said, "With great pride, I announce as of today our dear country is among the countries of the world that produces nuclear fuel on an industrial scale, " indicated that he, for one, does not believe he has anything to worry about from America.
Even the pledge to drop all nuclear power one day has brought few signs of industrial alarm, and many sighs of relief from Germans, increasingly angst-ridden since the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
Safety would remain the company's number one priority at the nuclear reprocessing site during any industrial action, he added.
The stated rationale was to permit an orderly transition on the part of the nuclear arsenal and its supporting industrial establishment to a permanent no-testing environment.
We are also rapidly dismantling or otherwise allowing to atrophy the industrial infrastructure and skilled workforce that supports our nuclear deterrent.
For the U.S. deterrent to be credible, the Nation must retain an arsenal comprising modern, safe and reliable nuclear weapons, and the scientific and industrial base necessary to ensure the availability of such weapons over the long-term.
Industrial partners on the project include Sellafield, the National Nuclear Laboratory, BAE Systems and Network Rail.
Mr Jordan, who began his career as a nuclear engineer, had no intention of dismantling the industrial company when he first arrived.
That will give him some cover to announce the restarting of the Oi nuclear plant in Fukui prefecture, which powers the Kansai industrial region of which Osaka is the heart.
Barring forcible intervention of some kind, it's highly likely Iran will fire up this reactor in earnest later this year--and start cranking out, on an industrial scale, spent fuel that can be processed into plutonium for nuclear bombs.
In the late 1980s, the firm's main industrial businesses defence electronics, power generation, refrigerated transport, nuclear engineering and so on were technologically sound.
The Iranian regime is fixated on developing nuclear weapons and maintains a highly developed infrastructure of laboratories and industrial facilities to support this objective.
In an important analysis published recently by the Center for Security Policy, Vice Admiral Robert Monroe USN (Ret.), a former director of the Defense Nuclear Agency, argues persuasively that if we are to have any hope of preventing proliferation in the future, the United States must maintain a credible nuclear deterrent - and undertake the associated testing, developmental and industrial actions.
The worm, which was designed to hijack industrial control systems, is believed to have been created to disrupt Iran's nuclear programme.
Security Council, Iran will stop its voluntary measures, such as snap inspections, increased inspections of its nuclear sites, and also it will restart a uranium enrichment at a high industrial scale.
In 2007, Israeli jets bombed a Syrian industrial facility on the Euphrates River that U.S. intelligence officials subsequently described as a nascent nuclear reactor being built by North Koreans.
However Germany's nuclear industry has argued that an early shutdown would be hugely damaging to the country's industrial base.
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