There are scores of nations that could develop a nuke if they wanted to.
So for a taste of the Jetsons life, grab a 1960s style frozen dinner and nuke it.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the company would go nuke free by 2022.
The company noted lower pricing in wind products hurt earnings. (Read Little Risk To GE From Japan Nuke Crisis).
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Russian president Dmitry Medvedev went into damage control mode on Wednesday for the nuke power industry in his country.
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Antinuke activists have lost a lot of their old fire and clout (see "The Silence of the Nuke Protesters, " Jan. 31).
Antinuke activists have lost a lot of their old fire and clout (see "The Silence of the Nuke Protesters, " Feb. 7).
For example, in the early 1990s, the U.S. was predicting that Tehran could wield a nuke by the turn of the millennium.
Crane, as we wrote in our magazine profile of his creative new-nuke plan, is more comfortable when someone else takes risk.
In May 2007, Toby King, a former Navy nuke technician and flight engineer, joined POWER Testing and Engineering Inc. as a field engineer.
Although the majority of the Japanese public opposes nuclear power, it is extremely difficult for the Economics Ministry to agree to the no-nuke pledge.
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So it is really confusing whether the no-nuke pledge will hold.
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The nuke has had its share of scary moments, including a cooling tower collapse, and, more recently, discoveries of leaks of the radioactive hydrogen isotope tritium.
McDonald's in the U.S. had stopped toasting buns in the early 1990s, opting to nuke them, but toasting was how they got their sweet, caramelized flavor.
Fourteen years of no-new-nuke-orders later, uranium mining's drop in popularity came with the post-Cold War decision to buy Soviet weapons and turn them into reactor-grade fuel.
The anti-nuke movement has gained far more traction in Europe.
"We used to have this consultant who would show up once a month and say, 'You have a potassium deficiency, ' and so we would nuke the vineyards, " he says.
The Obama Administration has proposed tripling loan guarantees for new nukes and new nuke loan money was almost able to sneak into an unrelated bill earlier this year.
Mitchell has stocks in four veteran nuke companies and one upstart, UEX, on his buy list, but steers clear of two fledgling issues and one former government entity, USEC (see table).
Sometimes the masses panic and nuke the bond prices.
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The national park has logged no nuke complaints.
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For example, even though a Nuke would cause ninety billion dollars in destruction the probability of this type of attack is so low that it creates a vector value below the benchmark needed to consider it a daily threat.
And with governments around the world halting or revising their nuclear energy programs, the uranium market appears against the ropes, taking a beating that many doubt it will be able to withstand. (Read Little Risk To GE From Japan Nuke Crisis).
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Neither the environmentalist, nor the anti-nuke understands this and as far as I can tell, they are both bent on destroying my life in a misguided effort to save the planet for its own sake and to perhaps save me from myself.
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As Southern was deciding to push ahead with plans to build its new nuke, Miller and Thomas Fanning, who will succeed David Ratcliffe as Southern's chief executive in December, visited retired Southern chiefs for advice on how to navigate erecting a new nuke.
We talked to the company a little bit about its coin-sized technological tour de force and we were shocked to learn that it doesn't instantly nuke your phone's battery -- the gentleman running demos said that he was getting about a days' worth between charges with occasional use.
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