• Nuclear power is the second-largest source of low-carbon electricity today, with 452 operating reactors providing 2700 TWh of electricity in 2018, or 10% of global electricity supply. (torys.com)
  • Additionally, the governments of Ontario, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and Alberta have announced a strategic plan for the deployment of small modular reactors 6 . (torys.com)
  • The federal and provincial governments in Canada have also emphasized and have started to act on the strategic importance that SMRs might play in remote and more sparsely populated regions of the country to provide reliable and carbon-neutral baseload generation where gigawatt-scale conventional nuclear reactors are too large. (torys.com)
  • The Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK), together with the nuclear safety authorities of France and the Czech Republic (SÚJB and ASN), has assessed the safety solutions designed for small nuclear reactors (SMR). (sttinfo.fi)
  • The work carried out with the French and Czech authorities provided valuable information on the suitability of the current regulations and guidelines for assessing the safety of small nuclear reactors. (sttinfo.fi)
  • Finland's current rules have been drawn up mainly for large electricity-producing reactors, and for that reason some of the requirements are not applicable to smaller reactors. (sttinfo.fi)
  • There are now 104 nuclear power reactors in the United States that are safely producing 20 percent of the nation's electricity - notably, without producing any of the harmful greenhouse gases some believe to be a major factor in climate change. (typepad.com)
  • 21st Century Civilian Nuclear Power and the Role of Small Modular Reactors. (tufts.edu)
  • Nuclearelectrica has ongoing strategic investment projects worth an estimated 9 billion Euros, including: Refurbishment of Unit 1, Project of Units 3 and 4, development of small modular reactors in cooperation with NuScale, but also support projects for current operation, such as the Tritium Removal Facility. (thediplomat.ro)
  • The Indiana General Assembly has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would allow electric utilities to build small modular reactors, a move that could pave the way for commercial nuclear power in the state for the first time. (ibj.com)
  • Supporters of nuclear energy said the reactors would provide reliable power to replace traditional coal-fired units now being retired by utilities. (ibj.com)
  • Rep. Ed Soliday, Republican from Valparaiso, chair of the House Utilities Committee, said the reactors use the same kind of technology found on nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. (ibj.com)
  • He added that since no small modular reactors have yet been built, no one knows the true cost, or if the technology actually works. (ibj.com)
  • The small reactors are still in the design and testing phase, and only one company, Oregon-based NuScale Power, has received design approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (ibj.com)
  • The parent company of Duke Energy Indiana, the largest electric utility in the state, told Bloomberg News last week it is strongly considering investments in small modular reactors, possibly in 2030s. (ibj.com)
  • Through its NextGen initiative, Bruce Power is taking a targeted approach in assessing new nuclear opportunities including large-scale nuclear, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), advanced nuclear and micro-reactors, as well as complementary technologies to lead the industry to meeting or exceeding the expected 2050 generation gap and Net Zero targets. (brucepower.com)
  • All joined in enthusiastically in a lively discussion on the shape the nuclear generation sector may take in the coming decades, from large-capacity reactors to the role of smaller reactors such as SMRs and the need for energy security, with Licata drawing on his own experience and analysis of the effects of "superstorm Sandy", which left large areas of the eastern USA without power in October 2012. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • However, any nuclear family Agape needs to be seen as complementary to the wider communal life of the church, i.e. the congregation at large and the extended family. (thebillabong.info)
  • Nuclear should be seen as complementary to rather than in competition with renewables, the panellists felt. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • An anticodon is a trinucleotide sequence located at one end of a transfer RNA (tRNA) molecule, which is complementary to a corresponding codon in a messenger RNA (mRNA) sequence. (genome.gov)
  • Each time an amino acid is added to a growing polypeptide during protein synthesis, a tRNA anticodon pairs with its complementary codon on the mRNA molecule, ensuring that the appropriate amino acid is inserted into the polypeptide. (genome.gov)
  • In this paper we report the use of Sm autoantibodies to isolate a cDNA clone for the mRNA of one of these nuclear antigens. (elsevierpure.com)
  • This led to the identification of a cDNA clone, p281, containing sequences complementary to mRNA for an Sm autoantibody-reactive, 11,000 M(r) protein. (elsevierpure.com)
  • This cloned Sm antigen comigrated with the small nuclear RNA-associated protein known as 'E' and reacted with four out of four Sm autoantibodies that precipitate E protein from total mRNA translation products. (elsevierpure.com)
  • miRNAs control gene expression by binding to the complementary sites in the 3' untranslated regions (3' UTRs) of target mRNAs and triggering either translational inhibition or mRNA degradation by a molecular mechanism which is a subject of intense investigation [ 6 - 9 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Translation initiation in eukaryotes is an early step in protein synthesis, requiring multiple factors to recruit the ribosomal small subunit to the mRNA 5' untranslated region. (bvsalud.org)
  • These molecules form perfect hybrids with edited mRNA sequences and possess nucleotide sequences at their 5'-ends that are complementary to the sequences of the mRNA's immediately downstream of the pre-edited regions. (bvsalud.org)
  • It assesses whether SMRs are a game-changer for the industry towards nuclear resurgence by analyzing promising models and perceived benefits and costs of SMRs. (tufts.edu)
  • Based on extensive literature review, 22 expert interviews and economic modeling, the conclusion is that nuclear power as an energy source should be pursued as part of a larger energy portfolio with specific government intervention, while SMRs, although likely not game-changers per se, can play a complementary role in re-inventing the industry without significant support from policy-makers. (tufts.edu)
  • Our laboratory experiment is complementary to astrophysics experiments and especially very sensitive in the low axion mass range. (mpg.de)
  • Once we understand their structure, we used them to gain insights into how small molecules interact with them. (bnl.gov)
  • One such autoantibody system, known as Sm, reacts with antigens associated with small nuclear RNA molecules. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Using one of the molecules of RNA as a template, it synthesises a complementary molecule, but not of RNA but of DNA. (futurelearn.com)
  • At a certain time, due to little known circumstances, it uses the cell mechanisms to form molecules of complementary RNA that travel to the cytoplasm to be translated into the proteins of the envelope, the capsid, and the others that we have spoken about. (futurelearn.com)
  • NOESY, nuclear Overhauser fatty acid, only eight water molecules are effect spectroscopy. (lu.se)
  • In 2022, the Canadian Investment Bank (CIB) announced a commitment of $970 million towards Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) small modular reactor (SMR) at the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station 4 . (torys.com)
  • No Indiana utility has yet announced plans yet to build a small modular reactor. (ibj.com)
  • Our small modular reactor would use the same fuel as other PWRs in the country which will enable the UK to standardize fuel fabrication and other critical segments of the nuclear supply cycle. (holtecinternational.com)
  • No change in the expression of long non-coding RNAs was detected at any stage of the infection, but up to 43 small mitochondrial RNAs have their expression altered during the recovery from COVID-19. (frontiersin.org)
  • This result suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 infection somehow affected the metabolism of small mitochondrial RNAs specifically without altering the overall mitochondrial transcription. (frontiersin.org)
  • Despite these being only preliminary results on a small cohort, the analyses clearly showed that individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 retain an altered expression of these small RNAs. (frontiersin.org)
  • This persistent alteration in the expression of small mitochondrial RNAs might be involved in the long COVID syndrome and further studies are needed to confirm the possibility. (frontiersin.org)
  • The molecule of viral double-stranded DNA, which now is called a provirus, crosses the nuclear membrane, and is inserted within the DNA of a chromosome in a process called integration. (futurelearn.com)
  • Besides, we present new predictions for the nuclear suppression as a function of dilepton rapidity and invariant mass in the kinematic regions that can be probed by the RHIC collider as well as by the planned AFTER@LHC and LHCb fixed-target experiments. (lu.se)
  • It should also be noted that some legislative conditions on assistance -- for instance that Russia should end the sale of nuclear reactor technology to Iran -- would cut or terminate the aid program in any form. (preterhuman.net)
  • On March 9, 2022, the European Commission adopted a Complementary Delegated Act under the Taxonomy Regulation which provides that, under specific conditions which include a set of technical screening criteria, nuclear activities are included in the EU taxonomy 3 . (torys.com)
  • Nuclearelectrica hosted the working visit of the Romanian Government delegation to the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant, on February 14, 2022. (thediplomat.ro)
  • Revived interest in nuclear power in the 21st Century, as a clean air solution which contributes to world sustainable development, is encouraging the development of new materials and technologies. (typepad.com)
  • The Ewald sphere has a curvature ten times smaller than in the low energy case and allows whole regions to be mapped in a reciprocal lattice, similar to electron diffraction. (wikipedia.org)
  • Access to high-energy spectroscopic levels, both electronic and nuclear. (wikipedia.org)
  • In certain jurisdictions in Canada and across the globe, this is expected to increase as support for nuclear electricity generation grows and nuclear energy becomes more accepted as a green source of electricity, particularly in respect of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. (torys.com)
  • Emerging trends in Canada and the EU include the use of direct, state-backed financing for nuclear energy generation (as well as research into new technologies) and the promulgation of policies intended to support private sources of finance by including nuclear energy in sustainable finance taxonomies for financial or environmental instruments. (torys.com)
  • In effect, the EU Commission's decision to include nuclear energy in the taxonomy is an endorsement that nuclear energy cannot yet be replaced by technologically and economically feasible low-carbon alternatives and contributes to climate change mitigation (one of the objectives of the EU taxonomy), with the potential to play a significant role in the transition to a climate neutral economy. (torys.com)
  • The SFAC's report is set to be released in mid-2023 and, similar to the EU taxonomy, it is anticipated that the report will include support for the development and finance of nuclear energy to contribute to climate change mitigation. (torys.com)
  • This is consistent with the federal government's current support for nuclear energy as a vital component of the green economy. (torys.com)
  • The Ontario government has also considered the role nuclear energy will play in its clean energy credit (CEC) registry, a program which permits the sale of positive environmental attributes associated with clean energy generation projects through certain amendments to the Province's Electricity Act, 1998 . (torys.com)
  • Finland is currently in the process of renewing its nuclear energy legislation and the complementary regulations and guidelines issued by STUK. (sttinfo.fi)
  • For example, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has considered how assessments made by the nuclear safety authorities of different countries on the safety of nuclear power plants could be used in other countries' licencing processes. (sttinfo.fi)
  • Change is happening in the world of energy as well, specifically when it comes to nuclear energy. (typepad.com)
  • Against the backdrop of a larger discussion about how we will meet our future energy demand while keeping our environment clean, nuclear energy is experiencing a renaissance. (typepad.com)
  • Americans are beginning to shed the emotional debate about nuclear energy and are taking a practical look at why it is essential to meeting our future energy demand. (typepad.com)
  • The support for nuclear energy is diverse. (typepad.com)
  • Americans are beginning to recognize that nuclear energy caters to both our lifestyle and our greening mentality. (typepad.com)
  • More evidence that the nuclear energy renaissance is coming is indicated in this announcement. (typepad.com)
  • Abstract: Nuclear power provides benefits, such as reduced carbon emissions, low operating costs, baseload power, and energy independence. (tufts.edu)
  • Nuclear energy also is facing stiff headwinds elsewhere in the world. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Policy changes started diverging as Germany flexed her muscles, especially on energy choices, with the French touting their long expertise in nuclear power, while the German phobia of all things nuclear drove them to disastrous choices. (yahoo.com)
  • The purpose of the visit was to discuss about the role of nuclear energy in Romania's energy strategy and how the development of the Romanian nuclear program, through Nuclearelectrica's investment projects, will contribute to the energy security and the energy transition to a clean economy. (thediplomat.ro)
  • Given the taxonomy recently approved by the European Commission, which has accepted nuclear energy as a transition energy, the Government supports the operationalization of Units 3 and 4 and the refurbishment of Unit 1. (thediplomat.ro)
  • SNN's investment projects will contribute with clean energy, without CO2 emissions, to Romania's energy stability, to the local and national socio-economic development, to the development of the nuclear industry and to the training of a new generation of specialists. (thediplomat.ro)
  • Nuclearelectrica's investment projects contribute to both the energy security and the decarbonization process, being a clean source of energy, in accordance with the European Commission's measures related to "Fit for 55 "and the new Complementary Delegate Act which included nuclear energy in the EU Taxonomy on Sustainable Financing. (thediplomat.ro)
  • We think it would be quite complementary, not only to the skills that Duke has, but to our aspirations around climate," said Lynn Good, CEO of North Carolina-based Duke Energy Corp. (ibj.com)
  • The nuclear industry has long touted its power as "clean energy," meaning it produces energy by splitting uranium atoms, but does not emit carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides, as traditional coal-fired power plants do. (ibj.com)
  • While not everyone in Germany supported the closures, many here - particularly supporters of the Greens (Die Grünen), one of the world's strongest and most powerful environmentally focused political parties - viewed the event as the happy culmination of a decades-long battle to rid the country of nuclear energy. (vox.com)
  • We are embarking on a new era of energy production," said Steffi Lemke , a Greens member and Germany's federal minister for the environment and nuclear safety, in a CNN interview following the plant closures. (vox.com)
  • Nuclear energy is a controversial topic in most places, but Germany is notable for its historic antipathy toward the technology. (vox.com)
  • In the United States, Gallop polls going back 20 years have found that Americans are generally split on the subject of nuclear energy, though support for nuclear has swelled in recent years. (vox.com)
  • Nuclear is actually one of the cleanest and safest energy sources," Kharecha says. (vox.com)
  • For countries that want to mitigate climate change and reduce air pollution , he says that nuclear energy should be embraced - at least until better options come along. (vox.com)
  • What's harder to square is that as Germany was finalizing its plans to shutter its remaining nuclear plants, it was also reactivating old coal-fired power facilities, mining more lignite (a.k.a. brown coal), and generally ramping up its use of fossil fuels to address energy shortages brought on by the conflict in Ukraine . (vox.com)
  • Why would a country that stands out for its environmentalist bona fides - where the reality of climate change and the push for renewable energy sources has been embraced by all major political parties - choose coal over nuclear in the midst of an energy crisis ? (vox.com)
  • A clearer understanding of Germany's energy choices may help other countries, including the US, better assess the risks and rewards of nuclear power. (vox.com)
  • Senior Vice President of International Projects responsible for Holtec Britain, Dr. Richard M. Springman considers the United Kingdom to be at an inflection point "as it navigates its transition to clean energy with nuclear energy serving as a critical component. (holtecinternational.com)
  • PARIS - A hugely ambitious project to replicate the energy of the sun is entering a critical phase, as scientists and technicians in southern France begin assembling giant parts of a nuclear fusion device, an international experiment aimed to develop the ultimate clean energy source. (design-engineering.com)
  • The Dominican Republic has eradicated a major agricultural pest, the Mediterranean fruit fly, by using a nuclear technique with the support of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). (iaea.org)
  • World electricity demand is likely to grow by over 80% by 2040, and nuclear energy capacity will need to double to help to meet it, according to figures from Exxon Mobil. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • It also takes into consideration the technology and policy issues underpinning the world's energy situation, Exxon Mobil technology advisor David Khemakhem explained to delegates at the World Nuclear Association's Annual Symposium. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • Exxon Mobil's figures spurred a lively and wide-ranging debate amongst Khemakhem's fellow speakers in a panel discussion on energy and nuclear power. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • Ron Cameron, head of nuclear development at the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), led a call for greater transparency over prices across the energy sector. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • Energy policy, climate change, and carbon trading expert Bryony Worthington, representing The Weinberg Foundation, urged the nuclear industry not to waste any energy "talking down" renewables, and pointed to the emergence of new third-party advocates opening up the nuclear debate to new audiences. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • You're going to talk with her today just to tease here about nuclear propulsion or other forms of nuclear energy and how handy those would be out there beyond Earth. (planetary.org)
  • The three neutrino detectors offer complementary designs to exploit the huge number of TeV energy neutrinos of all flavours that would be produced in such a forward-physics configuration. (cerncourier.com)
  • The large number of high-energy neutrino interactions that will be observed at the FPF allows detailed studies of deep inelastic scattering to constrain proton and nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs). (cerncourier.com)
  • It is therefore extremly difficult to identify energy transitions in 103Sn, since the cross section for produc- ing it is small. (lu.se)
  • Six energy transitions in 103Sn have been identified, which give us information about en- ergy, parity and angular momentum of the excited states. (lu.se)
  • As the NNSS already provided PINEX image processing support, the knowledge base was available to extend the efforts and explore how multiple nuclear diagnostics tied together in one consistent physics picture. (nnss.gov)
  • General outside view of the Isar 2 nuclear power plant during dusk on April 13, 2023, in Essenbach, Germany. (vox.com)
  • Ontario has a deeply decarbonized electricity grid, which is the envy of many jurisdictions around the world thanks to a clean baseload supply of nuclear and hydroelectricity. (brucepower.com)
  • Nuclear could play a vital role in providing affordable baseload power to support the intermittent nature of many renewables, in the absence of a truly effective and affordable means of storing electricity. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • Metabarcoding analysis was performed using a nuclear marker (small subunit 18S ribosomal RNA) and compared to a morphological analysis performed on the same sample-cores. (sorbonne-universite.fr)
  • This thesis first presents an analysis of large-scale nuclear power focusing on benefits and concerns, and then examines the new SMR trend. (tufts.edu)
  • PET and hyperpolarized MRS are best thought of as complementary rather than competing imaging modalities. (stanford.edu)
  • Older diagnostic modalities still play a complementary, but increasingly selective role. (medscape.com)
  • Modalities used to investigate the small bowel previously such as push, Sonde and intraoperative enteroscopy are now limited to increasingly selective situations. (medscape.com)
  • Interestingly, the FY17 NDAA requirement was actually fulfilled, at least from the DOT perspective, by a DHS report submitted to Congress in April 2018: the Report on Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Backup and Complementary Capabilities to the GPS National Defense Authorization Act Fiscal Year 2017 Report to Congressßß. (insidegnss.com)
  • ICBMs are an integral part of the triad, providing complementary capabilities to the sea-based and bomber legs that enhance our overall deterrence posture. (defensenews.com)
  • Throughout the Cold War and into the 21st century, military and political leaders have worked together to maintain a credible, safe and reliable nuclear deterrence capability. (defensenews.com)
  • This sample represents a range of nuclear tests spanning a few decades, each which provides different input to current weapons designers about performance related to the unique design of each experiment. (nnss.gov)
  • Compared to the large detectors installed in the LHC, BASE is a much smaller experiment. (mpg.de)
  • Neutron-like, but complementary studies combined with high precision spatial resolution. (wikipedia.org)
  • The impetus for nuclear power in China is increasingly due to air pollution from coal-fired plants. (world-nuclear.org)
  • While expression profiling studies of miRNAs are common place, little is known about the host gene and their resident miRNAs coordinated expression in PCa cells. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These technologies include nuclear power, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and renewables. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Nuclear power will play a critical role, both in providing a reliable supply of clean electricity to decarbonize other sectors of the economy, and in displacing emissions from carbon-emitting electricity sources. (brucepower.com)
  • Given the role nuclear power is already playing as a major source of low-carbon electricity generation and the potential for advanced nuclear technologies to expand this role in the future, the committee believes that serious consideration of improving the environment for nuclear innovation is warranted, and offers recommendations in this section as a means to that end. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Just as the nuclear navy's PWR expertise has played a vital role in the sustenance of the nuclear industry in America and France, so will it in Great Britain as well. (holtecinternational.com)
  • in Green Bonds, a global first for nuclear power and recognition of the critical role the technology plays in fighting climate change. (brucepower.com)
  • She joins the show to talk about the advantages of various types of nuclear propulsion, the engineering and policy challenges that face them, and the role of government versus the private sector in developing and deploying transformational technologies. (planetary.org)
  • Small kinetoplastid mitochondrial RNA that plays a major role in RNA EDITING. (bvsalud.org)
  • Can a country be a climate leader without nuclear power? (vox.com)
  • Anti-nuclear sentiment in Germany is widespread and longstanding, and it's highly correlated with concern for climate change ," says Pushker Kharecha, deputy director of the Climate Science, Awareness, and Solutions Program at Columbia University's Earth Institute. (vox.com)
  • No less a climate-change evangelist than Greta Thunberg has argued publicly that, for the planet's sake, Germany should prioritize the use of its existing nuclear facilities over burning coal. (vox.com)
  • Holtec Britain looks forward to putting up its SMR-160 reactor, in development since 2011, to the scrutiny of the UK regulator, Office Nuclear Regulation (ONR), with the expectation for speedy approval underpinned by its uniquely robust safety features. (holtecinternational.com)
  • Current clinical scanners have a spatial resolution of about 5 mm and small animal systems achieve a 1-2 mm spatial resolution. (stanford.edu)
  • Smaller lesions are difficult to demonstrate, requiring more sophisticated imaging and meticulous technique. (medscape.com)
  • Although missed lesions from oesophagogastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy occur frequently, evaluation of OGIB usually focuses on visualisation of the small bowel. (medscape.com)
  • Scattering angles are small and diffraction directed forward allows for simple detector setups. (wikipedia.org)
  • Negligible polarization effects due to relative small scattering angles. (wikipedia.org)
  • The team used chromatography, mechanistic modeling, confocal microscopy and small-angle neutron scattering. (udel.edu)
  • One of the objectives of this work is to streamline the licencing of new nuclear power plant types. (sttinfo.fi)
  • The House voted 70-22 on Tuesday to pass the bill that would permit utilities to build small, prefabricated plants that are a fraction of the size of a traditional nuclear power plant. (ibj.com)
  • The state has never built a nuclear power plant, and its only attempt at constructing one, the Marble Hill Nuclear Power Station, went wildly over budget in the 1980s. (ibj.com)
  • Four of these have smaller pathfinder detectors, FASER( ν ), SND@LHC and milliQan that are already operating during LHC Run 3. (cerncourier.com)
  • In this region, very sensitive superconducting resonant detectors can pick up the tiny electrical currents generated by single antiprotons as they move around the trap. (mpg.de)
  • This makes the BASE detectors extremely sensitive to any small electrical fields. (mpg.de)
  • This project is an undertaking to unite nuclear diagnostic data from a large sampling of events. (nnss.gov)
  • We collected nuclear diagnostic data from 23 legacy (pre-1992) tests for inclusion in this analysis. (nnss.gov)
  • Radiological and nuclear medicine investigations, such as CT enterography and CT enteroclysis, are alternative diagnostic tools when CE or DBE are contraindicated. (medscape.com)
  • In the United States today, nuclear power provides about 20 percent of total electricity and accounts for almost two-thirds of the nation's low-carbon electricity generation, despite recent increases in the deployment of solar and wind power. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Exxon's figures suggest that world nuclear capacity could be set to double to help meet that demand, as the cheapest form of low-CO2 electricity generation: other options such as onshore wind and solar photovoltaics have significant knock-on grid costs, Khemakhem remarked. (world-nuclear-news.org)
  • The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) today announced the public release of a joint INL/Nuclear Power Industry Strategic Plan for Light Water Reactor (LWR) Research and Development. (typepad.com)
  • The SMR is a new class of nuclear reactor which aims to leverage modular construction techniques and technologies which can be deployed at scale for low cost and with efficient construction, especially when fleetwide construction and deployment is contemplated. (torys.com)
  • France, a nuclear power and a member of the UN's Security Council , has a strong army and navy capable of worldwide deployment, and, until recently, had the corresponding will to act. (yahoo.com)
  • At the end of 2019 fossil fuelled capacity (mostly coal) reached 1191 GWe, hydro capacity was 356 GWe, nuclear capacity was 49 GWe, wind capacity 210 GWe and solar PV 205 GWe. (world-nuclear.org)
  • In addition to the shadowing effect, we studied a complementary effect of initial state interactions (ISI) that causes an additional suppression at large values of the Feynman variable. (lu.se)
  • EdF is planning to build nuclear power plants based on this reactor type in France and submitted for evaluation the documentation it has prepared for the pre-licencing process in France. (sttinfo.fi)
  • However, nuclear plants use large amounts of water for steam production and for cooling. (ibj.com)
  • FREIBURG, Germany - Earlier this spring, the German government closed down the country's three remaining nuclear power plants - the last vestiges of what was once a large domestic fleet. (vox.com)
  • Functioning tumors usually are small at presentation, and localizing these tumors can be challenging to the radiologist. (medscape.com)
  • In the cancer stem cell model of tumors, there is a small subset of cancer cells, the cancer stem cells, which constitute a reservoir of self-sustaining cells with the exclusive ability to self-renew and maintain the tumor. (aacrjournals.org)
  • Combined with complementary data from the Gaia space astrometry satellite, the researchers also found the brown dwarf has a mass of about 46 Jupiters. (keckobservatory.org)
  • The mass is of uniform echogenicity with a vague small central hypoechoic area suggestive of tumor necrosis. (medscape.com)
  • Unenhanced CT shows a high-density midline tumor in the posterior fossa with a small amount of surrounding vasogenic edema exerting mass effect on the fourth ventricle, with a moderate degree of hydrocephalus. (medscape.com)
  • It is vital the nation maintain its nuclear force posture, which has acted as a stabilizing element of global security for decades. (defensenews.com)
  • Modernizing the triad is no small undertaking, and our current modernization efforts are the result of decades of careful planning and bipartisan support. (defensenews.com)
  • In spite of its advantages, however, nuclear power faces formidable obstacles that are limiting its use in the United States. (nationalacademies.org)
  • it is also inherently a more environmentally friendly technology because only a small portion of the plant is contaminated requiring disposal of radiological matter at the time of the plant's decommissioning. (holtecinternational.com)
  • China's policy is to 'go global' with exporting nuclear technology including heavy components in the supply chain. (world-nuclear.org)
  • He's definitely a heavy hitter in the brave new world of integrating homeopathic quackery with real medicine, having chaired the World Health Organisation's working group on homeopathy and served as a member of WHO's Expert Advisory Panel on Traditional and Complementary Medicine. (scienceblogs.com)
  • He also serves as Clinical Lead for the UK's National Library for Health's online Complementary and Alternative Medicine Specialist Library, the NHS's official knowledge website for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Library and Information Service. (scienceblogs.com)
  • 19 Jan. Nicholas Burns's retirement as US undersecretary for political affairs Friday, Jan. 18, and his replacement by US ambassador to Moscow William Burns, take the Bush administration's strategy on Iran's nuclear activities a stage closer to Moscow's line of soft diplomacy. (debka.com)
  • Yet this is not the way the country has gone, and there has been relatively little public protest or political handwringing over the increased use of coal-generated power to address its deficits. (vox.com)
  • At the heart of each detector is a small, approximately 4cm diameter, donut-shaped coil, which looks similar to the inductors you might find in many ordinary electronics. (mpg.de)
  • A smaller proportion of ALS patients under age 65 were ascertained than those 65 or older, and ascertainment was also lower for nonwhite than white patients. (cdc.gov)
  • It's not all that odd that environmentally conscious Germans would support finishing off the country's long-dying nuclear sector. (vox.com)
  • China's nuclear generation was 18% higher than in 2018 (295 TWh). (world-nuclear.org)
  • Nuclear generation was 295 TWh gross, just over 4% of the total (IEA figures). (world-nuclear.org)
  • Legacy nuclear data is used to validate current weapon design codes. (nnss.gov)
  • Optimization and machine learning schemes will be investigated with this small data set. (nnss.gov)
  • This project has already compiled a wealth of nuclear data into a single analysis. (nnss.gov)
  • The meeting participants were charged with evaluating data suggesting that cancers develop from a small subset of cells with self-renewal properties analogous to organ stem cells. (aacrjournals.org)
  • And, despite the president's efforts, recent Gallup data suggest this is still the case: Less than half of Democrats back nuclear, compared to 62 percent of Republicans. (vox.com)
  • Numerical results for the nuclear modification factor accounting for the ISI effect and the finite lc are compared to the data available from the fixed-target FNAL measurements and a good agreement has been found. (lu.se)
  • The results from morphological and molecular inventories differed but were complementary. (sorbonne-universite.fr)
  • In light of existing evidence that the mammalian Sm antigen E is a weaker autoantigen than other small nuclear RNA-associated proteins, these results suggest a possible correlation between a protein's capacity to serve as an autoantigen during breakdown of the host's immunological tolerance and its extent of evolutionary conservation, whereas the inverse relationship applies to conventional immunity. (elsevierpure.com)
  • The theoretical nuclear shell model is in good agreement with experimental results from nuclei with filled or almost filled shells and by studying nuclei close to 100Sn, it is possible to deduce inter- esting properties necessary for the nuclear shell model. (lu.se)
  • The Mediterranean fruit fly is one of the most damaging agricultural pests in the world," said IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of Nuclear Sciences and Applications Aldo Malavasi, attending the ceremony in Santo Domingo. (iaea.org)
  • And to benefit to a complementary Content using terminology with urban artifacts. (lighthousemedia.com)
  • Rising costs and public concerns over nuclear safety have led some nations to scale back their nuclear growth plans, while others have retreated from nuclear power entirely. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The biological properties and clinical potential of stem cells elicit that are generated must not be unduly sensitive to small fluctu- continued scientific, commercial, and public interest. (lu.se)
  • Scientists have long sought to mimic the process of nuclear fusion that occurs inside the sun, arguing that it could provide an almost limitless source of cheap, safe and clean electricity. (design-engineering.com)