In prospecting the role of nuclear energy in a future society, this article attempts to foresee the changes of the socio-economic environment including social attitudes, the economy and the environment, and to analyze their interactions with the exploitation of nuclear energy itself.
Gravimeter, also called gravity meter, sensitive device for measuring variations in the Earth's gravitational field, useful in prospecting for oil and minerals.
Connor openly supported his troops in prospecting for minerals and sought to "solve the Mormon problem" by initiating a miners' rush to Utah.
The grounding of the Kulluk was only the latest in an extensive series of Shell missteps that environmentalists say highlight the dangers inherent in prospecting for oil in the unpredictable and severe Arctic environment.
It was, as a former SAS officer lately engaged in prospecting for gold and copper in Afghanistan pointed out, a "pretty good place to be, for networking, for meeting up with people, looking at possible contracts coming up".
When government scientists collected twenty-two samples from across the United States, however, they found gold concentrations well below one part per million, and concluded, "Equisetum would not be useful in prospecting for gold".
