the nuclear non-proliferation treaty serves the purpose of spreading nuclear reactor technology without spreading nuclear weapons with limited success. In forty years, five countries have developed their own weapons with the help of reactor technology. The fact of the matter is that it ca...
Two: nuclear waste and pollution spent. 二:核废料与核污染。 Nuclear fuel is not only radioactive but also contains extremely poisonous chemical elements like plutonium. It loses its harmfulness only slowly over several tens of thousands of years and there is also a process called reprocessing whic...
Nuclear fusion holds the key to providing us with a huge virtually unlimited power supply. Yet it has the unfortunate association of “always being twenty to thirty years away”. Right from when it was first being explored in the 1950s to the present day. So where is it now? Why would ...
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For space science, like nuclear science and alltechnology, has no conscience of its own. 空间科学,正如核科学以及其他一切科技,本身并无道德可言。 Whether it will become a force for good or illdepends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position ofpreeminence can we help decide ...
As a result, nuclear power's reputation is among its biggest hurdles. In the public imagination, nuclear power presages disaster. But the numbers tell a different story. Estimates of deaths from nuclear incidents range from less than 10,000 to around 1 million. As you can infer, it's a ...
Nuclear satellites: why has the government downplayed their risks? Environment - Finn - 1984 () Citation Context ...he need for large solar sails. Decreasing the satellite cross-sectional area is paramount, making localization more difficult and lowering risks of hostile actions from anti-satellite...
agreed, even 82-year-old Hong In-su. A child during the Korean War in the 1950s, she said she was anti-nuclear weapons, before reluctantly concluding they were a necessary evil: "Other countries are developing theirs, so I don't see how we can go on without them. The world is ...
A Nuclear Iran: Promoting Stability or Courting Disaster? That's hardly proliferation; that is, indeed, glacial spread. If another country gets nuclear weapons, and if it does so for good reasons, then that isn't an object of great worry. Every once in a while, some prominent person .....
Well, I’m glad you’re laughing because, as we’ll be finding out in this programme, laughter is good for you! In fact, laughter is often called ‘the best medicine’. Neil And it seems that’s really true, medically spea...