Sentence examples for pit production from inspiring English sources

Members of Congress, the Defense Department and outside advisory groups for some time have urged resumption of pit production.

And as if enough damage had not been done, a new nuclear pit production facility is planned for Los Alamos, New Mexico, with the capability of producing up to 450 plutonium triggers per year.

"It adds potential for low-cost open pit production and further diversifies our uranium business geographically".

At the Savannah River Site, the future of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility is in jeopardy after a report last month by the National Nuclear Safety Administration recommended the facility be repurposed to produce plutonium pits while also maximizing pit production activities at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Correspondingly, a low degradation rate (meaning f ≈ 1) requires only a low pit production rate to sustain the steady-state.

However, since intracellular cholesterol levels do not rise significantly, there is no significant increase or reduction in pit production or rate of internalization of LDL particles.

"EPA and the state both agreed that the best path forward in advancing the understanding of groundwater issues in the Pavillion area included EPA's support for the state's additional investigation of pits, production wells and drinking water.

A recent study by the Bush administration urged construction of a pit-production plant, and some members of both the House and Senate have expressed concern that the lack of a such plant could jeopardize future readiness of the country's nuclear weapons stockpile.

Mr. Fox intends to pit government production against private companies, selling electricity at the lowest cost on an open market.

The open pit mine production scheduling problem (OPMPSP) consists of scheduling the extraction of a mineral deposit that is broken into a number of smaller segments, or blocks, such that the net present value (NPV) of the operation is maximised.

Copper deposits at Panguna were the basis for one of the world's largest open-pit mines; production began in 1972 and by the early 1980s accounted for more than half of Papua New Guinea's total export earnings.