The first firings could occur in four to six years, he said, with an additional four years of work needed to assure high reliability.

But building power plants is the easier part of assuring reliability.

Even if the application is non-aerospace, one of these specifications may be worth adopting to assure process quality and reliability.

"Our primary concern is to assure that accountability and reliability are kept a priority," she said.

The article also described the lack of federal authority and mandatory standards to assure reliability of the power grid.

Engineers say this contributes to the projected cost reductions and will assure reliability.

Variability, uncertainty and tolerance have to be considered for design process of technical systems to assure the highly required quality and reliability.

The President turned aside the argument that small-scale testing was needed to assure weapons reliability.

The article suggests that the stockpile stewardship program is intended merely to assure the safety and reliability of existing devices.

They argue that higher-yield tests produce information that is needed to assure the safety and reliability of America's nuclear weapons.