Mr Huhne told the Commons energy and climate change select committee that a review would be conducted under the Department of Energy's
nuclear regulator Dr Mike Weightman, but stressed there were «obvious distinctions» between the UK and Japan.
If the UK leaves Europe's
nuclear regulator when it quits the EU, it risks disrupting nuclear fuel supplies and even cancer treatments, warns Alex Connor
A top U.S.
nuclear regulator has now given a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis, saying that radiation from uncovered spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns there
The team said that Japan must ensure that «regulatory independence and clarity of roles are preserved in all circumstances,» echoing criticism that close associations between Japan's
nuclear regulators and industry officials had undermined strong safety oversight.
«US
nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster: Nuclear spent fuel fire could force millions of people to relocate.»
The top U.S.
nuclear regulator, Gregory Jaczko, gave a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis yesterday, saying that lethal radiation from uncovered spent fuel above one of the reactors could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns of damaged reactor cores at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Nuclear regulators are already well aware of several safety issues, including flooding, loss of power, loss of communications, blockage of evacuation routes and equipment malfunction.
European
nuclear regulators could help us to make progress in this.
The US
nuclear regulator is satisfied that NuScale Power's small modular reactor (SMR) design can operate safely without the need for safety - related electrical systems.
The nuclear regulators won't do it, in any country.
Furthermore, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), Canada's independent
nuclear regulator, will not issue a licence unless it is satisfied that the entire project will be completed safely, without posing increased risks to the health, safety or security of Canadians or the environment.
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) president Atsuyuki Suzuki has resigned after the country's
nuclear regulator blocked the restart of the Monju prototype fast breeder reactor (FBR) due to inspection deficiencies.
BHB upregulates Nrf2 (
nuclear regulator factor 2), a huge anti-inflammatory phase 2 detox and anti-oxidant signaling hub.
However,
the nuclear regulator was never interested in the cost.
Our nuclear regulator ONR has just begun the Generic Design Assessment for the Chinese HPR1000 reactor: http://www.onr.org.uk/new-reactors/reports/gda-quarterly-report-nov16-jan17.pdf
It is the latest step in a sequence that began in December 2013, when the reactor was filled with its sodium coolant and received the necessary permits from Russian
nuclear regulator Rostechnadzor to begin the fuel loading and pre-startup tests.
And the fact that private companies should not be disposing of this kind of material without serious government regulations (Mother Jones reports that the licenses for WSC «don't need detailed approval from federal
nuclear regulators because the dump wouldn't handle the highest grades of radioactive waste») is only part of the issue.
Not exact matches
Federal
regulators on Monday rejected a rule proposed by Energy Secretary Rick Perry that would have subsidized coal and
nuclear power plants.
After a protracted battle with state
regulators over water discharge permits, the Oyster Creek
nuclear plant in New Jersey agreed to shut down a decade early rather than construct the cooling towers.
Battles between
nuclear operators and state regulators are common and typically last for years until a resolution is reached or a court decides the outcome, said David Repka, a former Nuclear Regulatory Commission at
nuclear operators and state
regulators are common and typically last for years until a resolution is reached or a court decides the outcome, said David Repka, a former
Nuclear Regulatory Commission at
Nuclear Regulatory Commission attorney.
Cuomo has been skeptical of
nuclear power elsewhere in the state, including the Entergy - owned Indian Point facility in Westchester County, which the governor has urged federal
regulators to deny a new license for the plant.
The deal, long in the making after Entergy signaled it would shutter the FitzPatrick plant in 2017, comes after state
regulators put the final approval on new subsidies for renewable fuels, including
nuclear power, potentially worth millions of dollars.
State
regulators on Monday once again defended a plan to bolster
nuclear power in New York, telling a panel of Assembly lawmakers a subsidy is needed to help shift the state to a low - carbon future.
The state has lost another round in its legal fight against the Indian Point
nuclear facility, with a federal
regulator rejecting its effort to force the plant to undergo leak rate tests more often.
Federal
regulators say the owner of the Indian Point
nuclear power plant in Westchester County failed to amend a reactor operator's license when the man developed sleep apnea.
New York utility
regulators have approved the sale of an upstate
nuclear power plant, part of the state's strategy of investing in
nuclear energy while weaning itself off of fossil fuels.
As the relicensing process for New York's Indian Point
nuclear power plant crawls forward, federal
regulators have issued decisions on contentions raised by the state and an environmental group.
New York officials have refused to make public the details of their agreement to pay a $ 35 million fee to the owner of an Oswego County
nuclear plant in the event state
regulators block the plant's sale.
Federal
regulators have approved plans for Vermont Yankee to shut down its 10 - mile emergency planning zone around the shuttered
nuclear reactor next year.
Federal
regulators will have to redo an analysis of the economic impacts of a potential severe accident at New York's Indian Point
nuclear power plant.
But New York
regulators stepped in to prevent its closure, passing a comprehensive clean energy plan that will the state's financially struggling
nuclear plants, including FitzPatrick, with subsidies that are scheduled to kick in tomorrow.
A commission set up by Japan's parliament last week blamed Tokyo Electric Power Co. and government
regulators for what it called the «manmade» disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant.
Most of the commonly occurring cancers, notably breast, prostate, and lung cancer, spread (metastasize) to bone; I was set to the task of studying the role of a transcription factor (gene - expression
regulator), NF B (
nuclear factor kappa B), in cancer metastasis.
The U.S. has reactors of the same designs that melted down at Fukushima Daiichi, but
regulators hope changes could prevent a repeat of Japan's
nuclear crisis
A group of
nuclear power experts and former
regulators from 11 nations, responding to Japan's
nuclear disaster, is calling for «stress tests» on the world's reactors to determine their ability to withstand extreme earthquakes, flooding or other natural disasters that strike singly or in combination.
«Governments and
regulators should exercise great care in permitting any extension of the operating life of the oldest
nuclear power plants still in operation that were built to the easier safety standards,» the letter says.
Regulators failed to collect air samples in the week following a radiation release at a New Mexico
nuclear waste dump because of a vacancy in the office responsible for monitoring the site
Applying the method to modern blasts could help
regulators identify
nuclear tests long after the fact and better enforce nonproliferation treaties, the researchers propose in a paper to appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of July 4.
By Barani Krishnan (Reuters)- A federal
nuclear inspector urged U.S.
regulators to shut down a California
nuclear power plant until tests showed its reactors could withstand shocks from nearby earthquake faults, according to the Associated Press and an environmental group.
The half - lives (the period in which radioactivity halves) of these atoms range up to tens of thousands of years, a feature that led U.S. government
regulators to require that the planned high - level
nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada isolate spent fuel for over 10,000 years.
A team of researchers led by Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) previously found that upon the onset of lactation after birth, milk lipids serve as a ligand to activate the
nuclear receptor peroxisome proliferator - activated receptor (PPAR) α, which is a key transcriptional
regulator of liver fat metabolism.
This is recognised by the
nuclear power industry and its
regulators, whose aim is to make the risk of accidents as low, and thus the reactors as safe, as is reasonably achievable.
Japan's
regulator, the
Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, lacks the required regulatory authority, he said.
As Japanese officials consider whether and when to reactivate most of the country's 54
nuclear plants, a year after the Fukushima reactor disaster, they continue to face challenges to public confidence in the
nuclear industry and its
regulator.
They also found that a protein called Seven in absentia 2 (Siah2) is a key
regulator of the turnover of a well - studied, clock
nuclear protein called RevErbα on a 24 - hour cycle.
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 ac
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 ac
nuclear plant systems, operating procedures, and operator training in response to the Fukushima Daiichi accident.
As the U.S.
nuclear industry and its regulator, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC), implement these actions, the report recommends particular attention to improving the availability, reliability, redundancy, and diversity of specific nuclear plant s
nuclear industry and its
regulator, the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC), implement these actions, the report recommends particular attention to improving the availability, reliability, redundancy, and diversity of specific nuclear plant s
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC), implement these actions, the report recommends particular attention to improving the availability, reliability, redundancy, and diversity of specific
nuclear plant s
nuclear plant systems:
A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academy of Sciences concludes that the overarching lesson learned from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear accident is that
nuclear plant licensees and their
regulators must actively seek out and act on new information about hazards with the potential to affect the safety of
nuclear plants.
Hindering that process were a lack of regulations as well as «a collusion between the government, the [
nuclear]
regulators and [plant operator] Tepco and the lack of governance by said parties ``, Kurokawa's panel said in an English - language summary.
The
regulators, sitting on one side of a long conference table, and the company officials, on the other side, share an overriding goal — maintaining safeguards that can prevent an incident or error from triggering a
nuclear reactor emergency that could jeopardize the industry's future.