Sentences with phrase «u.s. nuclear plant operators»

Already by the early 1970s, U.S. nuclear plant operators were seeking to standardize nuclear plant design to reduce the time and cost of licensing and construction.

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But there has already been a core damage event in the U.S. nuclear industry — TMI Unit 2 — «so we've already blown the goal,» says Rick DeVercelly, a former operator at the Vermont Yankee and James A. Fitzpatrick (near Oswego, N.Y.) nuclear plants, and now a trainer at the NRC.

Nuclear plant operators and regulators in the U.S. and other countries are taking useful actions to upgrade nuclear plant systems, operating procedures, and operator training in response to the Fukushima Daiichi acNuclear plant operators and regulators in the U.S. and other countries are taking useful actions to upgrade nuclear plant systems, operating procedures, and operator training in response to the Fukushima Daiichi acnuclear plant systems, operating procedures, and operator training in response to the Fukushima Daiichi accident.

Of all the failures, human error among the 50 to 55 reactor operators who staff a nuclear power plant control room in shifts looms largest, particularly in the case of the most notorious nuclear accident in U.S. history: Three Mile Island (TMI).

It is seriously vulnerable there, as the Fukushima accident demonstrated, and so the academy panel recommends that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and nuclear plant operators beef up systems for monitoring the pools and topping up water levels in case a facility is dNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and nuclear plant operators beef up systems for monitoring the pools and topping up water levels in case a facility is dnuclear plant operators beef up systems for monitoring the pools and topping up water levels in case a facility is damaged.