And then there is the nuclear complex where warhead components are manufactured, refurbished and dismantled.
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Unfortunately, during the last decade, our nuclear complex and experts were neglected and underfunded.
The result was a nuclear complex workforce with the best possible training and skill set.
Some in my own party may have trouble reconciling investments in our nuclear complex with a commitment to arms reduction.
In 1986, the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear complex in the Ukraine exploded and caught fire, spreading a radioactive cloud across Europe in the world's worst nuclear disaster.
The past four years have witnessed the dramatic decline of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex and the uniquely skilled workforce that is responsible for maintaining our nuclear deterrent.
The U.S. continues to spend several billion dollars each year to maintain the nuclear weapon complex and the aging stockpile.
The whole nuclear energy complex is being clobbered on Monday, with many stocks experiencing losses in the upper teens, some even passing the 20% mark.
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Part of the problem, according to the IG, is that the facilities of the nuclear weapons complex have been aging and need increased spending for maintenance and replacement.
Dr James Mitchell, head of business development for Atlantis in London, said the project could lessen the blow from workforce reductions at the former Dounreay nuclear power complex.
As the world watches the disasters in Japan continue to unfold, there is much criticism of the performance of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, operator of the Fukushima nuclear power complex.
That safety, and indeed, the reliability and credibility of the nuclear deterrent will, accordingly, rely ever more critically on a dwindling number of highly skilled scientists, engineers and technicians in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.
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Ore from the mine is processed at Jaduguda into a substance called U308 - commonly known as yellow cake - and then sent to the Nuclear Fuel Complex in the southern city of Hyderabad, where uranium fuel rods are produced.
According to a Navy Environmental Impact Statement, the reactors will be put on barges, floated up the Columbia River to the site of the former Hanford nuclear production complex where they will be buried in a huge trench near reactors from smaller decommissioned naval warships.
Moreover, when stained and observed through a microscope, vaults cluster around, and sometimes on, the nuclear-pore complex.
Its coastline plays host to an international surfing competition and is the location of the Dounreay nuclear power research complex.
Measurements at another nuclear-power complex in the prefecture of Ibaraki, halfway between Fukushima and Tokyo, showed elevated radiation readings, officials said.
The second is that they are strong candidates to form things known as nuclear-pore-complex plugs.
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 nuclear side, the cost issues are complex partially because the timelines are so long.
So all the issues related to the implementation of the treaty and non-proliferation and the threat of nuclear terrorism should be analyzed by us in a complex way, an integrated way.
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This is particularly true among the small cadre of physicists who have actually had first-hand experience with the extremely esoteric business of designing, testing and maintaining the nuclear weapons in our stockpile today -- arguably, the most complex pieces of equipment ever produced by man.
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Mike Chinoy, a former CNN correspondent who has visited North Korea 15 times, said the current confusion about Pyongyang's capabilities recall a similar episode in 1998, when U.S. spy satellites discovered an underground complex at Kumchangri, not far from North Korea's main nuclear facility at Yongbyon.
The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi complex now threatens three of six reactors and four of seven pools in which nuclear waste is stored.
In Japan, where nuclear power provides 30% of the country's electricity, the debate may be more complex than outsiders imagine.
One of them, Rear Admiral Simon Lister, is in charge of this complex programme, and as he took me round the cramped corridors, past the nuclear reactor and down into the sweaty machine rooms, he acknowledged this was a prototype and there was always going to be some "teething" issues.
This is very complex and untested technology compared, say, to coal- and gas-fired or nuclear power plants.
Rather than installing automatic response systems, the plant would rely on employees to perform a series of complex manual actions, which the NRC has not authorized as a means of adequately protecting nuclear facilities in the event of a fire.
Safety at the Dounreay nuclear plant continues to improve, according to the bosses of the company leading the clean-up of the Caithness complex.
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