The deal now needs to be approved by the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as well as by the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, which regulates global civilian nuclear trade.
IAEA, and then the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, into an internationally-approved agreement.
If the IAEA signs the agreement, the deal will go to the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, which regulates global civilian nuclear trade, for approval.
Bhutto said she tried to allay Washington's concern about what would happen to this nuclear-armed nation if Musharraf were forced out, saying she shared the Americans' misgivings and that a strategy for an orderly transition was a must.
Berkely said transporting the nuclear waste to Nevada will damage the environment and do little to remedy the nation's nuclear-waste disposal dilemma.
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Such a decision would be the first since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which has led to a nation-wide review of nuclear safety standards.
On nuclear power, Cheney also said he wants to give utilities incentives to build more nuclear plants, which would force the nation to deal with the problem of nuclear waste.
The total nuclear arsenal of every nation on Earth combined is probably somewhat less than 100, 000 megatons, so we come up a bit short.
On 8 April, 2010, President Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or "New START, " lowering the limit on deployed strategic nuclear weapons by either nation.
By contrast, Barack Obama has, to date, steadfastly refused to upgrade the nation's nuclear capabilities.
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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The United States benefitted both during World War II and during the cold war in being the nation to develop nuclear weapons first.
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During the Cold War, Hanford was a buzzing hive of activity, eventually becoming the main source of plutonium production for the nation's nuclear weapons program.
The international community is also expressing growing concern and is threatening sanctions against Iran, such as referring Iran's nuclear program to the United Nation's Security Council.
Meanwhile, the council is scheduled in July to decide whether the IAEA should close its investigation into Iraq's nuclear program and place the nation under long-term monitoring.
Analysts say much of Japan's trade deficit comes from increased importation and prices for natural gas and oil, which has increased in use since much of the nation's nuclear power supply has been taken offline.
Sagan would also like to make it harder for nations to opt out of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, as North Korea has done, such as automatically referring the issue to the UN Security Council and requiring the return of nuclear materials if a withdrawing nation got help from outside.
It is also tackling the problem of formulating an energy policy in a nation where anti-nuclear sentiment is running high.
U.S. regulators, safety advocates and the industry are now debating whether safety changes imposed after the disaster have made the nation's 65 nuclear plants safer.
All but five of the nation's 104 nuclear reactors were performing at acceptable safety levels at the end of 2012, Macfarlane said, citing a recent NRC report.
"It shows our youthful nation, " said nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili.
As both the only nation to have used nuclear weapons, and as a strong proponent of non-proliferation, the United States has long embodied a stark but inevitable contradiction.
Diskin's blunt commentary follows controversial remarks by Israel's top general, who said Iran is led by "very rational people" and doesn't appear poised to build a nuclear bomb that would threaten his nation.
Because earlier reactors were jerry-rigged and covered in retrofits, every one of the nation's 104 nuclear reactors is different, even ones sitting on the same sites built by the same company and owned by the same utility.
France and Sweden have decarbonized more than any other nation through public deployment of nuclear power and hydro.
But in 1963 the Limited Test Ban Treaty prohibited any nuclear explosion that sent radioactivity over a nation's borders.
She recommended that the nation begin relying less on nuclear power and more on renewable energy sources like solar power.
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In April, the House Energy Committee approved a resolution to put the nation's first permanent nuclear waste depository beneath Yucca Mountain.
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The people--the men and women of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the government employees, are head and shoulders the best in the nation at any kind of nuclear submarine repair, modernization, refueling.
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