Previously, the commission held that the amount of radiation released from FDI warranted only a level 5 designation on the International Nuclear Event Scale (which runs from 1 to 7).
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For a country as small as Israel, even a small-scale nuclear attack could be an existential threat.
Mr Gagarinski, asked what the Kurchatov will be doing 20 years from now, foresees research into large-scale nuclear power.
Large sun-grazing comets could bring on the sort of global electronics meltdown usually associated with electromagnetic pulse weapons or a full-scale nuclear exchange.
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U.S. military analysts figured out during the early days of the Cold War that no effective defense against a large-scale nuclear attack was likely to be feasible.
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Thermoelectric coupling uses heat from the decay of a radioactive fuel (as opposed to the full-scale nuclear fission which powers a reactor on Earth) as its energy source.
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What will be the final shape of Iran's nuclear programme and the scale of sanctions if it halts some of its most sensitive nuclear work?
In an interview with the Financial Times of London, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator said yesterday that if that happens, Iran will resume full scale production of nuclear fuel.
Although Obama received enthusiastic applause from his audience in Prague when he announced his intention to destroy the US's nuclear arsenal, drastically scale back its missile defense programs and forge a new alliance with Russia, his words were anything but music to the ears of the leaders of former Soviet satellites threatened by Russia.
Clinton will probably press the Indians to scale down their nuclear ambitions and to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (even though the U.S. hasn't).
Countries with nuclear power typically build large-scale reactors 15 to 20 km away from heavily populated residential areas.
In a study completed late last year, Oak Ridge officials determined that the U.S. is at least 20 years away from large-scale reprocessing of used nuclear fuel, if it decides to pursue such technologies.
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The latter are reminiscent in scale to the putative nuclear-fusion reactors, said to mimic processes in stars, e.g. the sun, of which a working model is not expected for at least another 60 years.
Many renewables, like wind and solar power, are expensive, intermittent, and difficult to scale for example, while nuclear power is extremely capital intensive and faces substantial local opposition.
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Insisting on having more than one supplier is probably a good idea, although there are strong arguments that economies of scale are vital to making nuclear energy affordable.
Both nuclear-power generation and nuclear-fuel production enjoy economies of scale.
The scale of the damage to the nuclear facility (four reactors were damaged at FDI).
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Both countries have nuclear weapons and have fought three full-scale wars.
From the Bush White House, they're talking about large-scale technology: oil and gas, nuclear power plants and clean coal research, which will cost billions of dollars and will take years.
Park's policy calls for strong defense but also for efforts to build trust through aid shipments, reconciliation talks and the resumption of some large-scale economic initiatives as progress occurs on the nuclear issue.
Like Lee, Park is a member of South Korea's main conservative party, but she has promised to find a middle ground by re-engaging Pyongyang through aid shipments, reconciliation talks and the resumption of some large-scale economic initiatives as progress occurs on the nuclear issue.
Lastly, when costing nuclear power, it is essential to remember the scope, scale and subtlety of the subsidies it has received.
He said the next stage was to confirm its exact identity using mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance analyses to produce it chemically on a larger scale.
But while it wants control over large scale energy projects, it is not seeking powers in regard to nuclear energy.
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.
While conspiracy theorists may want to believe that Big Oil, Big Coal and Big Nuclear are stifling the growth of renewables, the simple truth is that coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear can satisfy the Four Imperatives: power density, energy density, cost and scale.
Kerry clarified a statement he made Saturday in Beijing, when he told reporters the U.S. could scale back its missile-defense posture in the region if North Korea goes nuclear-free.
Part of the rationale for big government-sponsored rebates on what is an otherwise uneconomic source of power is the strategic benefit of distributing small-scale power generation across the landscape rather than focusing it in a hulking coal or nuclear plant.
Tanaka suggested that for starters the world needs each year to build 90 utility-scale concentrated solar plants, 17, 000 windmills, two Three Gorges Dams, and 18 nuclear plants.
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