Titan will be primarily used for materials research, nuclear energy research, and studies of ways to make combustion engines more efficient.
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But according to follow-up studies reported by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the resulting average dose of radiation that about 2 million people in the TMI area received amounted to 1 millirem, six times less than exposure to a single standard chest x-ray.
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"The application of such studies to anything other than a nuclear explosive is unclear to the agency, " the report says.
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The first studies, conducted principally by the nuclear industry and its proponents in both countries, improbably suggested that alternative fuels would be too costly.
Xia Liping from Shanghai Institute for International Studies says Kim may be using the nuclear test for domestic political consideration.
The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies has analyzed recent commercial satellite imagery of the Nyongbyon nuclear facility, where the reactor was shut down in 2007 under the terms of a disarmament agreement.
Last Wednesday's county council decision saw the authority's cabinet vote against progressing to the next stage of a process that would have seen studies take place in search of a suitable location for an underground nuclear dump.
But as a dossier of evidence on nuclear black markets published this week by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies points out, Mr Khan's business model wasn't unique.
Yet the Holdren-Beddington article is based on data and studies from the Congressional EMP Commission--that warns about both natural and nuclear EMP threats.
In a careful study, Anthony Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, no friend of Israel, argued that even in the doubtful assumption that such a nuclear exchange could be contained within the region, the resulting horrors would include the deaths of tens of millions and the obliteration of whole societies.
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Plenty of studies show we can run the economy on clean energy and shut down our coal, oil, nuclear and gas plants in the lifetime of the existing stock.
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