Example sentences of "[conj] nuclear " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sweden : ( where nuclear power provides 46 per cent of the electricity ) : parliament decides to begin phasing out nuclear power in 1995–6 ( but parliament 's restrictions on new hydro-electric power stations and the imposition of a ceiling on carbon dioxide emissions have led to a retreat from the goal of becoming , in 2010 , the first country to terminate nuclear power generation ) . |
| 2 | In contrast to all previous postwar elections , where nuclear issues , and a range of post-colonial questions from Suez and South Africa to the Falklands were raised to promote or attack party images , international issues appeared to play little or no role . |
| 3 | Similarly , we may argue that Campbell 's political strategy is founded in a view of the realities of international relations between states which does not , for example , reflect the fact that the usual benefits of legal process are not immediately obvious to individual states , particularly where nuclear weapons are concerned . |
| 4 | More than 930 local people in the Techa River area , where nuclear waste was dumped in the 1950s , are suffering from radiation sickness . |
| 5 | However , estimates of the space needed for a battery of windmills capable of producing the same amount of electricity as a normal power station , fossil fuel or nuclear , range from 100 to 200 square miles . |
| 6 | Which is rated as most dangerous , carbon dioxide or nuclear power ? |
| 7 | We must continue to make it clear to potential aggressors , however , that we should strike back with all the means that we judge appropriate , conventional or nuclear . |
| 8 | Confronted with evidence of damage , the CEGB tried to frighten industrialists with visions of enormously inflated electricity bills as a result of FGD , and to impose a ‘ Judgement of Solomon ’ on environmentalists which meant ‘ accept either acid rain or nuclear power ’ . |
| 9 | the radioactive , toxic , explosive or other hazardous properties of any explosive nuclear assembly or nuclear component thereof . |
| 10 | These included everything from wind turbines to exploiting the heat from rocks deep under the earth 's surface , The phrase ‘ renewable ’ referred to the fact that instead of having constantly to supply new fuel from the earth , as with coal or nuclear materials , the energy source , such as wind or water , is constantly renewed . |
| 11 | Every household policy contains a specific clause which excludes any liability for an event involving ‘ ionizing radiations or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or nuclear waste ’ . |
| 12 | Could it not be that during cleavage , when the egg divides up , each cell acquires special determinants , either cytoplasmic or nuclear , which would control the cell 's future development ? |
| 13 | It was originally thought that either coal or nuclear in combination , or coal alone , should be developed to meet 80% of total electricity production by the year 2000 , the remaining 20% being supplied by oil . |
| 14 | The problem here is that neither of Pakistan 's options — coal or nuclear — are particularly attractive . |
| 15 | A ‘ renewable energy source ’ is one which does not depend on finite reserves of either fossil or nuclear fuels . |
| 16 | Worldwide more than 2,000 MW of electricity is generated from geothermal source — the output of one large fossil-fuelled or nuclear power station . |
| 17 | Frequently too , people who live in a particular geographic location combine together to form a pressure group if their neighbourhood has been earmarked by government for the siting of , for example , a new motorway or nuclear power station or the dumping of nuclear waste which is considered to constitute a substantial threat to their safety and health . |
| 18 | The visitor from beyond the planets would obtain the impression that the Earth is a very peaceable place , when in fact three-quarters of all satellites launched have been controlled by military planners and virtually every country 's space programme was originated by the desire of war chiefs to develop rockets that would carry high explosives or nuclear bombs . |
| 19 | Those who are brave enough to hope for one of the few lectureships around tend to go for the astronomy or nuclear physics . |
| 20 | Thermal stations burning coal , oil or nuclear fuel work 24 hours a day and their output is less easy to adjust . |
| 21 | Surely the main short-term risk to any form of energy-producing installation ( conventional or nuclear ) is war ( conventional or nuclear ) ? |
| 22 | Surely the main short-term risk to any form of energy-producing installation ( conventional or nuclear ) is war ( conventional or nuclear ) ? |
| 23 | There have been other developments which point to an overlap between civil and military use or nuclear power . |
| 24 | The major innovations and discoveries of the 20th century such as transistors , penicillin or nuclear power could not have been predicted before their time nor do their stories have much in common except the the research which led to them could not have been directed towards their discovery . |
| 25 | But also not to stop worrying about acid rain or nuclear holocaust , just yet … |
| 26 | ‘ Suddenly everyone was getting on stage and doing a load of angry jokes about the Prime Minister or nuclear war and not just about how pretty table napkins were , ’ comments Merton . |
| 27 | If this heat excess was due to fusion , then there should also be some proof in the form of electromagnetic or nuclear radiation , such as the production of neutrons . |
| 28 | He did not go into further detail about the morality or legality of nuclear use or nuclear deterrence , partly no doubt because he favoured an effective world-wide prohibition on nuclear weapons production ( Spaight , 1947 , p. 218 ) and therefore hoped that such issues would not arise . |
| 29 | The media would still be able to cover current stories but within a longer-term , in-depth perspective so that Ethiopia or the Lebanon , Westland or nuclear disarmament do not simply occupy a few weeks ' worth of front page/main bulletin coverage per year . |
| 30 | No reductions or credit notes will be given under circumstances amounting to a ‘ force majeure ’ which means : war or threat of war , riot , civil strife , industrial dispute , terrorist activity , accident , natural or nuclear disaster , fire , airline failure , closure of airport or ports , and adverse weather conditions . |