Back in the 1960s and 70s, getting rural Japanese communities to accept nuclear power plants was hard.
It is hard to imagine any nuclear power plant owner allowing the same misuse to occur again.
As such, it has fought hard not just for nuclear loan guarantees but also for tougher clean air standards that give it a leg up over those utilities that rely on coal.
This project, a collaboration between America, Russia, Japan and Europe, is intended to create sustained nuclear fusion by squeezing gases so hard that their atomic nuclei fuse together and give off more energy than was needed to squeeze them.
This is why no serious study of cancer rates in relation to proximity to power plants has ever shown any correlation ( Jason Harris, Idaho State University), as hard as many anti-nuclear activists have tried.
He has become a hawk on offshore oil drilling and would push hard for the building of new nuclear power plants.
It is hard to say what sort of nuclear future would be more stable and peaceful until you get a lot closer to zero.
When excitement was hard to come by aboard a nuclear submarine in the early stretches of "Crimson Tide, " he turned a fat fire on a stove in the sub's galley into something just short of a nuclear explosion.
"Contrary to those who believe Sarko was the George Bush of France ('dragging' Obama into Libya, taking a hard line on Iran's nuclear program), and have hopes that the long-time head of the French Socialist Party will take a severe turn to the left, Hollande is likely to disappoint, " they said.
Wall Street, health insurance and drug companies, fossil fuel and nuclear power companies, and defense corporations have been hard at work defeating common-sense reforms that would make them more accountable.
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The number of states with nuclear weapons seems likely to rise, though it is hard to say how far.
Those on Mr Bush's worry-list have nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, or are trying hard to get them, despite treaty promises not to.
But ultimately, if in fact Iran does not seek nuclear weapons, then it shouldn't be that hard for us to have a series of negotiations in which the international community feels that confidence, and in which Iran then is able to enjoy a whole host of economic and political benefits and gain much greater legitimacy in all of its other endeavors.
In his responses, Hagel adopted a hard line on Iran and its possible pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
While it is hard to imagine that civilization will forgo the benefits of expanding nuclear energy, the question of when this may happen is a political decision facing every nation.
In fact, with the sharp decline in Russian hard currency earnings, the role of arms, space and nuclear exports has undoubtedly increased in importance as has access to various forms of Western financing.
Taken together, these instruments have come to be called "soft power" (as opposed to the traditional kind of "hard power" represented by armies, navies, air forces and nuclear weapons).
It is hard to conclude anything except that the Obama administration is resigned to Iran possessing nuclear weapons.
U.S. authorities have taken a hard line on transactions with Iran amid growing concerns about that nation's nuclear program.
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Iran's economy has been hit hard by U.S. and European oil and financial sanctions over its nuclear activities, while another round of sanctions targeted the crude sales that make up about half of Tehran's revenue.
But the hard truth is that they are still unable to rapidly replace both fossil fuels and nuclear power.
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The indications are that he will be pressing hard for Israel to at least begin talking seriously about a Middle East free of nuclear weapons.
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It is hard to think of a messier and more wasteful way of shifting from fossil and nuclear fuel to renewable energy than the one Germany has blundered into.
George Perkovich, a nuclear proliferation specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says the Bush administration took a hard look at its options on Iran and realized they were very limited.
The cold hard facts are that the Middle East will be a very different place if Iran becomes a nuclear power.
But the first country to send a missile, even a non-nuclear one, could trigger a tit-for-tat set of reprisals that both sides could find hard to stop.
The Scandinavian country, which was hard hit by oil price rises in the 1970s, now gets the majority of its electricity from nuclear and hydroelectric power.
He has also taken a hard line towards Iran, repeatedly warning of the danger to the international community of allowing it to develop nuclear weapons.
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