Sentences with phrase «with nuclear safety»

Kan spoke to reporters shortly before flying to the quake - ravaged region with nuclear safety authorities — including going over the Daiichi facility — according to Fujisaki.

The CNSC regulatory regime ensures that adequate measures are in place to protect the environment and human health, in accordance with the Nuclear Safety and Control Act and its regulations.

With nuclear safety in the spotlight since the 2011 reactor meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant - which in turn prompted Germany to call time on its entire nuclear fleet - operators can take no chances with their elderly plants, but the outages get longer and more difficult.

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I've used neuroscience to improve safety measures in transportation, even in nuclear plants, and helped banks train their staff to deal better with stress and improve decision - making processes while trading.

Mr. Mock started his career as an electrical engineer with Ontario Hydro, where he ultimately became responsible for nuclear safety and licensing at key nuclear generating stations.

Safe and reliable solutions for the waste and nuclear industry At Greif, we understand your packaging must protect product purity, comply with mandatory regulations, and most importantly, support safety.

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).

Safety at the soon - to - be shuttered Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County was the subject of a public conference call Thursday with officials from New York state and the Nuclear Regulatory Commnuclear power plant in Westchester County was the subject of a public conference call Thursday with officials from New York state and the Nuclear Regulatory CommNuclear Regulatory Commission.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a petition with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission urging it to take enforcement action against the plant for its failure to comply with fire safety regulations.

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.

She claimed nuclear energy would not be as cheap as supporters claimed, and cited safety issues, in a debate with environmentalist Mark Lynas after they watched his Daily Politics film at Hinkley Point

NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear explosive testing; works to reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

He favors nuclear power but insists that problems of waste disposal, nonproliferation, and plant safety must be dealt with first.

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.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

«You always worry about what you haven't analysed,» says Chip Lagdon, chief of nuclear safety with the US Department of Energy.

Competing with France, the U.S. and other nuclear nations, Russia offers buyers lower - cost reactor deals that tout safety features engineered with the Chernobyl disaster in mind

Small modular reactors may help with two of the biggest challenges facing the nuclear industry: the growing stores of waste from existing reactors and residue from the mass production of nuclear weapons as well as the overall safety of nuclear power.

Though the EU has conducted risk and safety tests on the bloc's nuclear plants, environmental campaigners say the tests failed to address risks associated with ageing technology, among other things.

Weightman recommended that the safety case for new nuclear plants should demonstrate the ability to deal with multiple serious events.

The report is neutral about nuclear power because of issues with nuclear waste, safety, proliferation and public image.

«Many of these significant events occurred because reactor owners, and often the NRC, tolerated known safety problems,» wrote David Lochbaum a nuclear engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists in a report examining the 2010 track record.

The third - generation reactors have safety features that should prevent a meltdown similar to Fukushima's but political controversy, along with the high price tag means that new nuclear complexes in the U.S. and Europe could be in the single digits instead of dozens originally planned less than a decade ago.

Human error It may not be problems with the nuclear reactors themselves, however, that pose the greatest safety concern.

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.

He thinks the negotiations over a new nuclear cooperation agreement with South Korea offers the United States the opportunity to engage with the Koreans on environmental safety issues.

In the UK and the US, public hostility, combined with a commercial reluctance to build nuclear plants without financial safety nets from governments, make any major nuclear revival unlikely.

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.

This assessment draws an echo from Michele Boyd, nuclear safety campaigner with Physicians for Social Responsibility in Washington, D.C. Boyd agrees with Squassoni that the United States will be on thin ice advising its nuclear fuel customers on safety abroad until it cleans up its own backyard.

The U.S. agreement with Korea that governs nuclear materials including spent fuel, for example, stipulates that the United States will «consult with the Government of the Republic of Korea in the matter of health and safety.»

Importing nuclear - generated energy from «neighbors with lower safety standards than Germany» is not a viable option.

For an understanding of how nuclear plant safety is assessed and will likely be evaluated moving forward, Scientific American spoke with Najmedin Meshkati, a professor of civil, environmental, industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering in Los Angeles.

Does the IAEA get involved with evaluating nuclear plant safety?

The U.S. introduced this approach with the WASH - 1400, or the «Reactor Safety Study,» report produced in 1975 for the Nuclear Regulatory Committee under the leadership of Norm Rasmussen, an M.I.T. professor at the time.

Those groups have been hoping that the U.K. government will soon give its approval for clinical trials of strategy, but there have been some questions of safety and ethics since the approach arguably could create a child with three genetic parents — the donor egg is stripped of its own nuclear DNA but retains its mitochondria, which have DNA themselves.

«They say Japan's government is in Kasumigaseki [the part of Tokyo synonymous with government buildings], but it's not — it's in denial,» says Geller, who last year published a book questioning Japan's «safety myth» surrounding nuclear power.

The NNSA, in its annual evaluation of Los Alamos» overall performance for fiscal year 2014, judged the criticality safety program to be «below expectations» with deficiencies «similar to issues identified in past» evaluations; it particularly faulted the labels the lab had placed on nuclear materials and the guides the lab had prepared for workers performing plutonium handling chores.

Then on June 21, 2016, after technicians working in a glove box spilled about 7 tablespoons of a liquid containing plutonium, workers violated safety rules by sopping up the spill with organic cheesecloth and throwing it in waste bins with other nuclear materials, according to an internal Los Alamos report.

In May 2014, Peter Winokur, who at the time chaired the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, weighed in with a separate, written warning to the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Recommendation: To improve DOE's management and oversight of the WTP project, the Secretary of Energy should not resume construction on the WTP's pretreatment and high - level waste facilities until critical technologies are tested and verified as effective, the facilities» design has been completed to the level established by nuclear industry guidelines, and Bechtel's preliminary documented safety analyses complies with DOE nuclear safety regulations.

But critics question the safety of nuclear power, citing such concerns as the potential for catastrophic meltdowns, their potential vulnerability to terrorists, the lack of workable evacuation plans in the event of accidents as well as the problem of dealing with radioactive waste.

Citizens» Nuclear Information Center * is deeply concerned about the grave risks involved with the restart of the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR).1 Safety, economic and nuclear proliferation issues are being ignored for purely bureaucratic rNuclear Information Center * is deeply concerned about the grave risks involved with the restart of the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR).1 Safety, economic and nuclear proliferation issues are being ignored for purely bureaucratic rnuclear proliferation issues are being ignored for purely bureaucratic reasons.

Our casks and canisters are designed, built and licensed with abundant thermal, structural, radiological and nuclear safety margins that, combined with their configurations make them economically and expeditiously adaptable to federal needs.

In its Report, «Pre-application Safety Evaluation: Report for the Power Reactor Innovative Small Module (PRISM) Liquid Metal Reactor,» the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) stated: «On the basis of the review performed, the staff, with the ACRS in agreement, concludes that no obvious impediments to licensing the PRISM design have been identified.»

A Phase 1/2 Open - label Study of the Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of the Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) Compound KPT - 8602 in Patients with Relapsed / Refractory Cancer Indications

The website contains over 230 procedure, exam and disease descriptions covering diagnostic and interventional radiology, nuclear medicine, radiation therapy and radiation safety and is updated frequently with new information.

NNSA maintains the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear explosive testing; works to reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

With our submission of the Near Surface Disposal Facility's Environmental Impact Statement, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission will be accepting comments from the public and Indigenous groups for the next 60 days.

With RCI's vast knowledge of I&C systems for nuclear power plants, they also provide expertise in the areas of neutron monitoring, in - core instrumentation, and process sensors for monitoring the safety critical aspects of the NuScale Power Module (NPM).

NuScale Power has created a new kind of nuclear power plant - a smaller, scalable pressurized water reactor with passive safety features, allowing shutdown and self - cooling, with no operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external water.