Sentences with phrase «international nuclear safety»

In recent decades, the U.S. share of the growing fuel market has declined from 30 % to just 10 %, he notes, so the United States no longer wields the power within international nuclear safety that it did when the NNPA was written.

Ted Jones of the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group in Washington, D.C., says the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is already deeply engrossed in international nuclear safety efforts.

Backup power was needed at Fukushima after the magnitude - 9.0 quake struck and the six power lines bringing in offsite electrical power to Fukushima Daiichi were severed, says Michael Weightman, Britain's chief nuclear installations inspector and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Nuclear Safety Group.

Not exact matches

As the name suggests, the focus of the 2012 summit was «nuclear security», a term not to be confused with nuclear plant safety or nuclear safeguard rules set by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Successive waves of migrants have reached Europe's shores; terrorist groups are rampant in the Middle East, menacing personal safety and regional stability; North Korea, despite warnings and sanctions from the international community, obstinately continues to develop its nuclear programme; and climate change also warrants international collective action.

While news of a potential nuclear deal with North Korea and the ending of the deeply flawed nuclear deal with Iran dominate the headlines, an even greater danger to international safety remains inadequately discussed.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is working to increase the amount of nuclear power in India's grid, but a nuclear power project with the U.S. was scrapped because of safety fears, the International Business Times reported.

«Such countries must demonstrate their ability to uphold high international standards» on nuclear plant safety, security and non-proliferation, the letter signers say.

BULGARIA's decision to restart its oldest nuclear reactor provoked alarm among Western nuclear safety officials last week, and triggered an international crisis.

The largest single assistance programme in nuclear safety, the Prime Minister said, is that of the European Union, through which much of Britain's contribution to the international effort is now directed.

At NRDC, Paine says that discussions he has initiated on broadening the NNPA and other international nuclear energy mechanisms to include safety and environmental concerns have met with fierce resistance from industry and foreign governments.

Meanwhile, an international committee set up by the Russian Academy of Sciences's Nuclear Safety Institute (IBRAE) in Moscow that met on 31 January is divided over the origins of the pollution.

Long - term safety goals for next - generation nuclear facilities were formulated during the past year by international and domestic experts at the request of the U.S. Department of Energy.

At the same time, OSU was gaining international recognition for its work in the development of passive safety systems that use natural circulation to provide cooling for nuclear plants.

This advanced nuclear power plant has major appeal in domestic and international markets, offering a right - sized, cost - effective solution for carbon - free energy, and ensuring attainable power options to existing and emerging global economies demanding increased certainty of public safety, environmental protection and security from intrusion and proliferation of nuclear materials.

The «Integral and Separate Effects Test Program for the Investigation and Validation of Passive Safety System Performance of SMRs» project would yield a uniquely configurable set of testing platforms to demonstrate passive safety system performance, accelerate the SMR - 160 and other small modular reactor designs to market, and help license these designs with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and international regulSafety System Performance of SMRs» project would yield a uniquely configurable set of testing platforms to demonstrate passive safety system performance, accelerate the SMR - 160 and other small modular reactor designs to market, and help license these designs with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and international regulsafety system performance, accelerate the SMR - 160 and other small modular reactor designs to market, and help license these designs with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and international regulators.

For nuclear safety and the security of itself and the region at large, Japan should respond to the concerns of the international community in a responsible manner and take concrete measures to address its problematic surplus of nuclear materials.

He was a Science Fellow at the StanfordCenter for International Security and Arms Control, where he studied nuclear weapons safety issues.

Pierre Oneid, Holtec International's senior vice president and chief nuclear officer explains that small reactor designs will incorporate safety lessons learned from the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents.

Delivering a lecture on «Challenges of promoting a green economy» at the International Centre of Goa, Dona Paula, on Tuesday, Kakodkar said that the only other energy form that compares favourably with nuclear energy in the safety aspect is solar energy.

The Grenadian - German Programme «Integrated Climate Change Adaptation Strategies» (ICCAS) introduced the toolkit to 49 primary schools in the small island state and is part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).

Socio (s): REDD - PAC, Fauna and Flora International, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Conservation International, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety

Socio (s): FAO, UNDP, UNREDD, WB, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Government of the United Republic of Tanzania Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Forestry and Beekeeping Division, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, Humane Society International, Life Web: Partnerships for Financing Protected Areas

However, nuclear does pose unique safety and proliferation concerns that must be addressed with strong and binding international standards and safeguards.

This course was made possible by the generous funding of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) through its International Climate Initiative (IKI).

Partenaire (s): German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany, Center for Clean Air Policy, International Council on Clean Transportation, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport

Socio (s): German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany, Center for Clean Air Policy, International Council on Clean Transportation, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport

Official investigations into the Fukushima nuclear disaster conclude that upholding international safety standards alone guarantees nuclear safety, But the plant manager's account of the catastrophe sheds new light on the story, writes Franck Guarnieri of MINES ParisTech university.

But the black summer of radioactive leaks and spills shed doubt on the nuclear industry's — and in particular Areva's — ability to uphold fundamental safety standards according to an article in the International Herald Tribune.»

Advising NEPIOs in many jurisdictions on establishing their domestic nuclear laws to the best international standards including their laws relating to security, safeguards, safety and nuclear liability.

Obtained ODOT Level 2 Asphalt Technician Certification, Completed CPN International manufactures training course on Radiation Safety and Use of Nuclear Gauges, with training per 49 CFR 172.