Sentences with phrase «accident at a nuclear power plant»

Fallout from an accident at a nuclear power plant could cause thyroid problems in people living nearby.

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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.

After the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island — a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania — stricter regulations driven by public fear prompted TVA to shut down its two nuclear reactors.

The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, like the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, is prompting countries around the world to reassess the safety of their plants and their nuclear aspirations.

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

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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.

The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.

Following the accident at Chernobyl in April 1986, the European Community backed the idea of bringing Eastern Europe's nuclear power plants up to Western safety standards.

KIEV, Ukraine — In 1986 the worst nuclear accident in history took place when reactor No. 4 in the power plant at nearby Chernobyl exploded, spewing large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.

Since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the discharge of radioactive cesium, especially 137Cs (half - life: 30.17 years), into the environment has become a serious environmental problem.

The world's top specialists are competing to design a robot that can carry out emergency - response duties in disaster situations that are often too dangerous for humans, such as last year's nuclear accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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

«Dale Klein told me that those three nuclear applications will be approved,» she told the State of the Planet conference at Columbia University today, the 29th anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Island in Middletown, Pa. (Subsequently, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the then Ukrainian Soviet Republic melted down in April 1986 in what would become the worst nuclear power accident in history, spreading radiation as far away as North America and leading to the evacuation and resettlement of more than 336,000 people).

One of the U.K.'s top nuclear officials said today that she was told the U.S. will okay plans to build the first nuclear power plants since the accident at Three Mile Island nearly three decades ago.

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It noted the high cost of upgrading the reactor to meet new safety standards introduced following the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

15 years after an accident at a Japanese nuclear power plant, Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston, Argo) goes back to investigate the cover up and discovers that a monster is waking there.

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As the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, Chernobyl drove the city of Pripyat, Ukraine (the U.S.S.R. at the time), into an overnight dystopian empire that's become a haunting landscape of ruins that time gnaws on.

While watching the events in Japan unfold, it is important to remember that although redundant safety measures have improved greatly at nuclear power plants since the Chernobyl accident in1986, the strength of a natural disaster can easily overcome such measures.

The coverage of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant is dominated by the discussion of «levels of radiation».

In 1986, an unshielded reactor burned for over a week at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the world's worst - ever nuclear accident.

Saturday, April 28, 2012, 3:00 pm, Hartland Public Library, Hartland Three Corners «Fukushima Daiichi — Truth And The Way Forward,» A Presentation by Arnie Gundersen Since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident last year, the nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen has provided some of the most accurate analyses of the unfolding situation at the power plant.

«We feel we were betrayed [by the central government and TEPCO],» Sato said during an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun on Thursday, nearly a month after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and the outbreak of a series of accidents at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

«In the aftermath of the March 2011 accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the future contribution of nuclear power to the global energy supply has become somewhat uncertain.