Sentences with phrase «about nuclear accidents»

When asked if he worried about nuclear accidents he replied, «No, I really didn't care because there are too many people anyway.»

People claiming that it's not is just fear about nuclear accidents.......

For me, it was learning more about nuclear accidents that finally convinced me nuclear was the best way to make electricity.

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But community groups are concerned about the potential for accidents, and environmentalists about the toll nuclear takes on water resources and the wildlife killed when reactors use river or lake water for cooling — particularly at Indian Point, less than 30 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River.

The recent accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant reinforces the need for renewed thinking about nuclear - waste storage and disposal.

, a vocal opponent of nuclear power, saw Jaczko's statement as a welcome response to his concerns about the ability of the AP1000 to survive a major earthquake, hurricane or earthquake strike, and as evidence of NRC's closer scrutiny of safety issues following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.

In late April 1986, Sladek was hobbling around her home with a broken leg, the result of a skiing accident, when she heard a news report about an explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.

Public concerns about nuclear power have traditionally centered on two issues: the risk of widespread radioactive fallout from an accident and the hazards of nuclear waste.

In late 2016 the government estimated total costs from the nuclear accident at about 22 trillion yen, or about US$ 188 billion — approximately twice as high as its previous estimate.

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

But with about half of the world's nuclear power plants located on coastlines, such areas are potentially important contamination reservoirs and release sites to monitor after future accidents.

This raised the original rating from level 5 and puts the Fukushima Daiichi disaster technically in the same category as Chernobyl, although the quantity of discharged radioactive materials in Japan so far is about 10 percent of what was released by the Chernobyl reactor explosion, considered history's worst nuclear accident.

One reason is that the accident and its chaotic aftermath broke public trust in official reassurances about anything nuclear.

THE accident at the Fukushima power plant in Japan has led to much discussion about the future of nuclear power.

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.

Thus, WIPP's mission has been to demonstrate whether the federal government and its contractors, at the cost of unknown billions of dollars can: (1) safely operate WIPP to meet the «start clean, stay clean» standard; (2) safely transport plutonium - contaminated waste through more than 20 states without serious accidents or release of radioactive or hazardous contaminants; (3) meet commitments to clean up transuranic waste at about 20 DOE nuclear weapons sites; and (4) safely close, decontaminate, and decommission the WIPP site, beginning in 2030 or sooner.

He has no compunction about embarrassing poor nuclear physicist Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman), the acting head of the White House Nuclear Smuggling Group, when she conducts an ill - informed briefing on a nuclear explosion and train accident somewhere in the Urals of nuclear physicist Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman), the acting head of the White House Nuclear Smuggling Group, when she conducts an ill - informed briefing on a nuclear explosion and train accident somewhere in the Urals of Nuclear Smuggling Group, when she conducts an ill - informed briefing on a nuclear explosion and train accident somewhere in the Urals of nuclear explosion and train accident somewhere in the Urals of Russia.

Director Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser will be in attendance at the screening of this new documentary film based on Schlosser's book of the same name, about the 1980 accident in an Arkansas missile silo that nearly caused a nuclear catastrophe.

Visitors will find Historical and Scientific Overviews of the Atomic Age as well as references dealing with thousands of topics about nuclear issues, such as Arms Control, the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, Nuclear Accidents, Terrorism, Lasers, Nuclear Waste, and mannuclear issues, such as Arms Control, the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, Nuclear Accidents, Terrorism, Lasers, Nuclear Waste, and manNuclear Accidents, Terrorism, Lasers, Nuclear Waste, and manNuclear Waste, and many more.

After nearly 60 years of nuclear power, 15,000 reactor - years of operational experience and only one accident that caused fatalities, it is clearly demonstrated, by virtually all authoritative studies, that nuclear is about the safest way of generating electricity.

Surely, if we are to be actively concerned about the impacts of nuclear power, or even nuclear accidents, then shouldn't we be going through the roof about the impacts of fossil fuel burning?

The country has also faced a series of rolling electricity load - shedding incidents and there is greater caution about the use of nuclear power owing to the Fukushima accident in Japan, spurring interest in both large - scale fuel cell applications and residential fuel cell micro-CHP.

[iii] Although some countries like Germany are worried about nuclear safety because of the nuclear accident in Japan due to the tsunami, plant safety enhancements (e.g. passive cooling features that do not rely on generators to keep water flowing to reactor cores) make future accidents like Fukushima unlikely.

The anti-nuclear movement has been warning of the dangers of a devastating nuclear accident for years, but those efforts have always been met with dismissive assurances both by electric power companies and the government about the safety of the reactors.

«Even if nuclear reactors weren't top terrorist targets,» asks one, «even if radioactive waste didn't remain deadly for ten thousand years, even if you wouldn't mind radioactive waste passing through your town - how would you feel about exposing your family to a potential radiation accident?»

[2] A recent Eurobarometer poll also confirms that almost 90 % of the EU population is concerned about climate change; 82 % are well aware that the way their country consumes and produces energy has a negative impact on the climate and 61 % think that the share of nuclear energy should be decreased due to concerns such as nuclear waste and the danger of accidents.