• The course is held at the Lakehouse of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Boeretang 201, BE-2400 Mol, Belgium. (sckcen.be)
  • We have extensive operations related to the international facilities for particle and nuclear physics. (lu.se)
  • Since Price-Anderson links all U.S. nuclear power reactors to take (limited) liability for an accident at any one site, the assumption is that the operation of each of these reactors contributes a comparable level of risk to the overall chances of an accident occurring. (nirs.org)
  • The key here is not only the higher concentration of plutonium-239 which is good for bombs, and never tested in reactors, but also the fact that many other ingredients were added to the plutonium to make warhead "pits" that were never intended to go inside a nuclear reactor. (nirs.org)
  • Duke is slated to begin use of weapons-grade plutonium MOX fuel in four nuclear reactors in the Carolinas under a contract with the US Department of Energy, part of a US?Russia agreement on surplus plutonium. (nirs.org)
  • A research team achieved a vital technological breakthrough for nuclear fusion reactors, enabling clean, limitless energy generation akin to stars. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Researchers at the University of Twente have developed a new superconducting cable system that is crucial to the success of nuclear fusion reactors. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The superconductivity research group of the University of Twente (UT) has made a technological breakthrough crucial to the success of nuclear fusion reactors, allowing for clean, inexhaustible energy generation based on the workings of the stars in our galaxy. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Cost-effective clean energy Project leader Arend Nijhuis: 'The worldwide development of nuclear fusion reactors is picking up steam, and this breakthrough leads to a new impulse. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that shook Japan early March 11 caused cooling system malfunctions at two nuclear reactors, one at the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi power plant near Tokyo and the Tohoku Electric Power Co. facility in Onagawa. (livescience.com)
  • 2018). Features of diagnostics of unsupposed thermal, vibroacoustic and neutron processes in the first contour of nuclear reactors. (edu.ua)
  • Inner nuclear membrane proteins interact with chromosomes in the nucleus and are important for chromosome activity. (nih.gov)
  • Lem2 and Man1 are conserved members of the LEM-domain nuclear membrane protein family. (nih.gov)
  • A combination of mutations in Lem2 and Bqt4, which encodes a nuclear membrane protein that anchors telomeres to the nuclear membrane, caused synthetic lethality. (nih.gov)
  • These genetic interactions imply that Lem2 cooperates with the nuclear membrane protein network to regulate genome stability. (nih.gov)
  • Cargo is recruited, enveloped at the inner nuclear membrane (INM), and delivered by membrane fusion at the outer nuclear membrane. (princeton.edu)
  • Their nuclei have a conspicuous nuclear membrane, very coarse chromatin, and large nucleoli. (aao.org)
  • They have the same color, an intact nuclear membrane, and are within the cytoplasm [14]. (bvsalud.org)
  • Vesicular nucleo-cytoplasmic transport is becoming recognized as a general cellular mechanism for translocation of large cargoes across the nuclear envelope. (princeton.edu)
  • ORF6 inhibits nuclear translocation of STAT1. (cdc.gov)
  • MOX-Mixed oxide (plutonium and uranium) fuel is known, by its limited use in Europe, to challenge nuclear reactor operation, and is therefore more costly to produce and use than uranium fuel. (nirs.org)
  • Nowhere in the world has weapons-grade plutonium been used to power a commercial reactor, let alone plutonium extracted from a nuclear warhead. (nirs.org)
  • Rafael Mariano Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said a Russian projectile had hit a structure at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southeast Ukraine that was not part of the reactor, injuring two people. (kpbs.org)
  • This makes for a remarkably strong magnetic field that controls the very hot, energy-generating plasma in the reactor core, laying the foundation for nuclear fusion. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The radiation level around a nuclear reactor at the Fukushima nuclear facility near Tokyo has risen to 1,000 times its normal level since this morning's earthquake blew out the plant's cooling system. (livescience.com)
  • Even if fuel rods melt and the pressure inside the reactor builds up, radiation would not leak as long as the reactor container functions well," Tomoko Murakami, leader of the nuclear energy group at Japan's Institute of Energy Economics, told Reuters. (livescience.com)
  • This paper considers the point defects that influence the operation of a wav nuclear power reactor with a uranium fuel medium. (edu.ua)
  • The formed individual point defects or such defect groups can produce a perturbing effect on the stability of the nuclear reactor operating mode and involve its transition to an unstable state. (edu.ua)
  • Explore the latest questions and answers in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, and find Nuclear Magnetic Resonance experts. (researchgate.net)
  • the correct determination of holes concentration is from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and angle-resolved photo emission spectroscopy (ARPES) experiments that multi-layered cuprate superconductors have non-uniform hole concentrations in each CuO2 plane. (researchgate.net)
  • In our case study, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) 2D diffusion maps have been used to confront some of the fluid interpretation challenges. (onepetro.org)
  • Pituitary tumorigenesis is driven by germline and somatic mutations as well as genetic and epigenetic mechanisms, interacting in complex ways still not entirely understood and influencing tumor formation, growth, and invasion. (medscape.com)
  • Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced osteoclast formation was performed using a mouse calvarial model. (e-jbm.org)
  • In BMM cultures, an ethanol extract of the root part of IKN suppressed RANKL-induced osteoclast formation and bone resorptive activity. (e-jbm.org)
  • In contrast, an ethanol extract of the aerial parts of IKN had a minor effect on RANKL-induced osteoclast formation. (e-jbm.org)
  • IKN administration decreased LPS-induced osteoclast formation in a calvarial osteolysis model in vivo . (e-jbm.org)
  • To understand the structural underpinning for this trafficking, we investigated nuclear egress of progeny herpesvirus capsids where capsid envelopment is mediated by two viral proteins, forming the nuclear egress complex (NEC). (princeton.edu)
  • Cells infected with human cytomegalovirus in the absence of UL97 kinase activity produce large nuclear aggregates that sequester considerable quantities of viral proteins. (elsevierpure.com)
  • PML bodies have been linked to the formation of nuclear aggresomes, and colocalization studies suggested that viral proteins were recruited to these structures and that UL97 kinase activity inhibited their formation. (elsevierpure.com)
  • What will Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to phase out nuclear power plants by 2022 mean for Germany's economic future? (capitalcorner.org)
  • In addition to regulating cytoskeletal dynamics in the cytoplasm, actin modulates nuclear gene expression. (jneurosci.org)
  • Thus, herein we provide first evidence that neuronal motility not only depends on cytoplasmic actin dynamics but also on the availability of actin to modulate nuclear functions such as gene transcription. (jneurosci.org)
  • There is a small nuclear warhead I believe is called the W-88, China has manufactured them for quite some time. (newsblaze.com)
  • This is an important study demonstrating distinct roles for the nuclear receptor genes COUP-TFI and COUP-TFII in hippocampal development. (elifesciences.org)
  • Osteoclasts were formed by culturing mouse bone marrow macrophage (BMM) cells with macrophage colony-stimulating factor and receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand (RANKL). (e-jbm.org)
  • 4 ] Macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) and receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) ligand (RANKL) are key factors in osteoclastic differentiation. (e-jbm.org)
  • We are part of several center formations and strategic research areas at Lund University: NanoLund, Merge and eSSENCE. (lu.se)
  • Further, SWCNT induced cytogenetic alterations seen as micronuclei formation and nuclear protrusions in vivo. (cdc.gov)
  • Besides the uncertainty facing JET and ITER, some reports suggest it could bring higher costs for regulating existing nuclear facilities and delay the building of new power stations while the UK makes new arrangements. (scientificamerican.com)
  • SINE compounds inhibit the nuclear export of over 220 cargoes, and this pleiotropic effect on multiple signaling pathways exerts apoptotic and anti-inflammatory effects, particularly in dampening NF-B transcriptional activity. (bmj.com)
  • Can nuclear fission or fusion occur together with bond formation in a reaction? (stackexchange.com)
  • begingroup$ The question is badly worded- there are three general categories of nuclear reactions- fusion, fission and decay/recombination. (stackexchange.com)
  • Those control rods block neutrons from entering the core and inducing the fission reactions that produce nuclear energy. (livescience.com)
  • Mechanistically, the root part of IKN suppressed RANKL-induced p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activation, effectively abrogating the induction of c-Fos and nuclear factor of activated T cells 1 (NFATc1) expression. (e-jbm.org)
  • Tokyo actually wants to go one step further, ban all North Korean ships and aircraft carrying nuclear weaponry and ballistic missiles. (newsblaze.com)
  • Pyongyang is now threatening to retaliate by launching ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads. (newsblaze.com)
  • The report continues, "the unprecedented drills featured long-range rocket artillery, anti-ship ballistic missiles, stealth fire jets, an aircraft carrier group with a nuclear-powered submarine, as well as realistic tactics that simulated a real reunification by force operation, demonstrating and honing the PLA's capabilities to not only take over the island but also prevent any external interference, including from the U.S." end quote. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • A formation of Dongfeng-26 conventional and nuclear missiles marches in a military parade during the celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 1, 2019. (xinhuanet.com)
  • The integrated conventional and nuclear missiles are capable of precision strikes against different kinds of targets. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Three consensus RB binding motifs were identified in the UL97 kinase, and recombinant viruses were constructed in which each was mutated to assess a potential role in the phosphorylation of RB and the inhibition of nuclear aggresome formation. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Nuclear extracts and cytoplasmic protein from RA-FLS treated with cytokines were analyzed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Recently, the nuclear export protein exportin-1 (XPO1) has surfaced as an attractive target for the treatment of SLE. (bmj.com)
  • 4}_{2}He + ^{1}_{0}n + Energy}$$ Once formed, the $\ce{^5He}$ is consumed by a nuclear decay process - there's half of what we were looking for. (stackexchange.com)
  • A base level of heat from nuclear decay continues to flow off the rods, however, and that's the problem in the Fukushima and Onagawa plants. (livescience.com)
  • The recent experimental data on the α decay of the N = Z nuclei 104 Te and 108 Xe are shown to leave open the possibility of enhanced α-particle formation involving nucleon correlations beyond the standard treatment of like-nucleon pairing, which is the mechanism suggested as underlying. (lu.se)
  • But his deep impact on postwar international humanitarian aid, anti-nuclear advocacy, and Cold War diplomacy has been largely unexplored. (jhu.edu)
  • This biography of the vocal anti-communist and anti-nuclear activist's public life will interest readers across the ideological spectrum. (jhu.edu)
  • The nuclear industry remains of key strategic importance to the UK and our withdrawal from the Euratom Treaty in no way diminishes our nuclear ambitions", a spokesperson from the UK's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy says. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters on Friday that China will continue to follow developments at the Zaporizhzhia plant in the city of Enerhodar and "calls on all parties concerned to maintain calm and restraint, prevent further escalation of the situation and ensure the safety of the nuclear facilities concerned," according to The Associated Press. (kpbs.org)
  • And the issue of using low yield nuclear warheads in conventional military situations or in response to a cyber attack, first of all, I don't know how you would know where the cyber attack came from. (inter.group)
  • The peer review was meant to inform the French government if the Dossier 2005 Argile is (i) consistent with international practices and with other national disposal programmes, in particular the ones considering argillaceous formations, and (ii) whether the future research needs are consistent with the available knowledge basis and if priorities are well identified. (oecd-nea.org)
  • The Culham Centre's current director, Ian Chapman, has told Nature that - after meeting with government officials - he is sure that the UK has no intention of drawing back from nuclear research and development or civil nuclear programmes. (scientificamerican.com)
  • These results represent the first application of diffusion-based modeling to derive material transport, thermal environments, and oxidation-speciation in near-surface nuclear detonation environments. (osti.gov)
  • Centromeric heterochromatin formation was augmented upon transfer to the rich medium in wild-type cells. (nih.gov)
  • This augmentation of heterochromatin formation was impaired in lem2∆ cells. (nih.gov)
  • 7 - 9 ] Activation of these signaling pathways induces the expression of transcription factors such as c-Fos and nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFATc1), a master transcription factor for osteoclastogenesis. (e-jbm.org)
  • In some people, sensitization leads to chronic beryllium disease, which is a lung disease characterized by the formation of small masses of inflammatory cells (granulomas). (medlineplus.gov)
  • Binucleated (BN) cells may indicate several kinds of degenerative nuclear changes [10]. (bvsalud.org)
  • The dependences of the point defects formation rate on the medium fissile temperature for several compositions of the uranium-thorium medium are obtained. (edu.ua)
  • 2015). Ultraslow wave nuclear burning of uranium-plutonium fissile medium on epithermal neutrons. (edu.ua)
  • We're talking about Russian president Vladimir Putin's recent speech where he announced upgrades to his country's nuclear arsenal, calling it a response to the US withdrawal from the ABM treaty in 2002, as well as the recent Nuclear Posture Review issued by President Trump. (inter.group)
  • Taxpayer exposure to nuclear liability under Price Anderson is significant, and shows $8 billion to be what it is: a small contribution. (nirs.org)
  • Beryllium exposure can occur in manufacturing plants and the nuclear and aerospace industries. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Realizing that the potential risks and damages from a nuclear power accident were beyond the ability of the private insurance industry to cover, Congress in 1957 created the Price-Anderson Act as an amendment to the Atomic Energy Act, to provide liability coverage. (nirs.org)
  • Amended several times, most recently in 1988, the statue covers both military contractors and civilian nuclear power and provides the basis for exclusionary clauses in other US property and liability policies, which preclude recovery for damages from nuclear releases, accidents, and nuclear war. (nirs.org)
  • The provisions that create liability coverage for nuclear power are interesting: essentially the industry is yoked at the neck-all will pay if any one has a major accident. (nirs.org)
  • In 2000, one utility, Duke Power crossed over a line that breaks these assumptions: the decision to use experimental fuel made from nuclear weapons derived plutonium, called MOX. (nirs.org)
  • See comparison of Exhibit 11 with Exhibit 16 below which shows how many more jobs and GDP will be lost if Germany phases out nuclear power by 2020. (capitalcorner.org)
  • If Germany phases out its nuclear power by 2020 and tries to reduce CO2 to zero by 2050 (their current emission reduction target), the ICCF analysis shows that there will be additional 130,000 jobs lost in 2020 and an additional 120,000 lost in 2025 compared to the case where nuclear power is retained as part of the generation fleet. (capitalcorner.org)
  • GDP will also decline by about 10 billion real euros more in 2020 and 2025 when nuclear power is phased out compared the case where it is retained. (capitalcorner.org)
  • Video footage showed a fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after it came under Russian shelling Thursday. (kpbs.org)
  • Ukrainian officials said on Friday that fire at the largest nuclear power plant in Europe has been extinguished, but that the facility is now under Russian control after fighting. (kpbs.org)
  • The battle is going on in the town of Enerhodar and on the road to the ZNPP [Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant] site," the regulator told the IAEA, adding that the situation was "critical. (kpbs.org)
  • The increased working life of the superconductors and the improved control of the plasma will soon make nuclear fusion energy more reliable: the magnet coils take up one third of the costs of a nuclear fusion power station. (scitechdaily.com)
  • So the new cables have considerably increased the chance that nuclear fusion energy stations will soon generate power in a reliable way. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Numerical modeling of point defect formation processes during the nuclear power plants operation. (edu.ua)
  • I couldn't think of any traditional bond formation reactions that would fall into this category. (stackexchange.com)
  • Thus ~ $8 billion is the maximum financial "contribution" that the commercial nuclear industry would make in the event of nuclear catastrophe. (nirs.org)
  • He said his organization has been in contact with Ukraine's nuclear regulator and managers at the plant after the strike. (kpbs.org)
  • Is it possible for a nuclear reaction to occur simultaneously with a chemical reaction involving bond formation? (stackexchange.com)
  • Tehran would love to see Washington caught up in another war and this one, in the Pacific theatre, would also involve Japan, which has been pressuring Tehran to solve its nuclear crisis peacefully. (newsblaze.com)
  • According to Merriam-Webster, the term dates back to 1947 and is therefore relatively new, although nuclear family structures themselves are not. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Generally, the trend to shift from extended to nuclear family structures has been supported by increasing mobility and modernization. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The term nuclear family refers to the family group consisting of parents and children, as opposed to the extended family which includes all those with kinship ties. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The term nuclear family was developed in the western world to distinguish the family group consisting of parents and their children, from what is known as an extended family . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The Nuclear Beauty Parlor is a group of women artists active in protest and performance art, primarily during the nuclear freeze movement from 1983 to 1986 in San Francisco. (wikipedia.org)
  • [6] [7] The group staged numerous performances to attract media attention for the cause of nuclear disarmament. (wikipedia.org)
  • On May 24, 1983, ten women formed an affinity group to prepare for the mass arrests planned for the International Day of Nuclear Disarmament protest of June 20, 1983. (wikipedia.org)
  • Between January and April, 1984, the group solidified its identity as a performance art group with the goal of gaining media attention for the nuclear freeze movement. (wikipedia.org)
  • The UK's plan to leave Euratom has thrown into doubt the future of the Joint European Torus (JET), a nuclear-fusion facility in Culham, UK. (scientificamerican.com)
  • It could also curtail operations at the Joint European Torus (JET), a nuclear-fusion facility based in Culham, UK. (scientificamerican.com)
  • It is simply bonkers to leave Euratom,' says Steven Cowley, a nuclear fusion researcher who until last year was director of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, which hosts JET. (scientificamerican.com)
  • However, China and South Korea have also initiated their own national large-scale nuclear fusion projects, in which the UT technology can be incorporated. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Aerodynamically-shaped glassy fallout is formed when vapor phase constituents from the nuclear device are incorporated into molten carriers (i.e. fallout precursor materials derived from soil or other near-field environmental debris). (osti.gov)
  • In their second Tax Day performance at Rincon Annex Post Office on April 15, 1985, The Nuclear Beauty Parlor dressed as couture nuclear weapons with price tags, and interacted with last-minute taxpayers, resulting in local TV and press coverage. (wikipedia.org)
  • So, it's kind of a crazy, thoughtless and dangerous kind of statement to be making that you're going to use nuclear weapons or any kind of military force in response to a cyber attack. (inter.group)
  • As the final step of the nuclear facility life, decommissioning differs quite significantly from the operational period of life. (sckcen.be)
  • Technicians at the plant are preparing to release steam that has been vaporized by heat from the nuclear core in order to lower the pressure around the core and prevent a meltdown. (livescience.com)
  • There's no indication that this means we're stopping our nuclear program, far from it,' says Chapman, who is also chief executive of the UK Atomic Energy Agency. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Scientists are shocked and angry at the UK government's sudden confirmation on January 26 that it wants to pull out of the European Union's nuclear agency Euratom, as part of its arrangements for Brexit. (scientificamerican.com)
  • In a rare publicly stated expression of unease about the war in Ukraine, China said it is "seriously concerned about the safety and security" of nuclear facilities in Ukraine following the attack. (kpbs.org)
  • Our employees are still inside, ensuring the stable operation of nuclear facilities. (kpbs.org)
  • Il existe un large consensus au sein des milieux scientifiques et techniques sur le fait que l'évacuation des déchets radioactifs de haute activité et à vie longue dans des formations géologiques profondes consitute un moyen approprié et sûr d'isoler ces déchets de la biosphère pendant de très longues échelles de temps. (oecd-nea.org)
  • [1] Their name is synonymous with a music project they originated, the 45-RPM 7-inch single, The Nuclear Beauty Parlor . (wikipedia.org)
  • This course frames within the European ELINDER project (European Learning Initiatives for Nuclear decommissioning and Environmental Remediation). (sckcen.be)
  • Studies have been carried out on the effect on the characteristics of the nuclear burnup wave in a medium with neutron multiplication for 2D geometry. (edu.ua)
  • It will instantly drop control rods into the [nuclear] core," Professor Tim Albram, a nuclear fuel engineer at the University of Manchester in the U.K., explained to the press. (livescience.com)
  • When the rods drop into the core, the heat put out by the nuclear fuel rods they surround plummets instantly, reducing the core's temperature to less than 5 percent of normal in a matter of seconds. (livescience.com)