Sentence examples for nuclear weapons plants from inspiring English sources

Environmentalists are suing the department over its plan to leave some nuclear waste in steel tanks buried under a few feet of dirt at nuclear weapons plants.

Critics contend that under the proposal government standards at more than two-dozen Energy Department nuclear weapons plants and research laboratories could become unenforceable.

There is a precedent for this: the government established a fund to help workers at nuclear weapons plants move to new jobs as the cold war ended.

It would cap a struggle of more than 20 years to designate a site to store thousands of tons of high-level radioactive waste from commercial reactors and nuclear weapons plants.

A15 Nuclear Plant Protection A high-ranking Energy Department official complained in a letter that the White House has not asked Congress for the money the department needs to harden nuclear weapons plants against terrorist attack.

The new finding -- that the exposure led to higher-than-normal rates of a wide range of cancers among workers at 14 nuclear weapons plants -- raises the prospect of compensation to them.

She grew up in a small town near Rocky Flats, Colorado, where a secret nuclear weapons plant built over 70,000 plutonium "triggers" for nuclear bombs.

McDermott International Inc. said its BWX Technologies Inc. subsidiary, a manager of nuclear sites, and a partner, won a $2.5 billion contract to run the Energy Department's nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Just a year ago, North Korea blew up the cooling tower at its main nuclear weapons plant after agreeing to give up its weapons program.

WASHINGTON — Anything that hops, burrows, buzzes, crawls or grazes near a nuclear weapons plant may be capable of setting off a Geiger counter.

TOKYO — International television crews were invited to reclusive North Korea on Friday to witness the destruction of the cooling tower at the country's main nuclear weapons plant.