Sentences with phrase «at nuclear facilities»

«In the summer of 2008, France experienced a cascade of accidents at its nuclear facilities.

The letter warned that the state may have difficulty disposing of the drilling waste, that thorough testing will be needed at water treatment plants, and that workers may need to be monitored for radiation as much as they might be at nuclear facilities.

Working at nuclear facilities comes with an additional round of training and certification.

Schneider confirmed that the incident had occurred and that it had issued a security alert to customers of the technology, which cyber experts said is widely used in the energy industry, including at nuclear facilities, and oil and gas plants.

The cap: For decades, Canada's Nuclear Liability Act provided that, in the event of a catastrophe at a nuclear facility, its operators faced a maximum liability of just $ 75 million.

New York will investigate the Indian Point Energy Center after Cuomo said he learned that «radioactive tritium - contaminated water» leaked into the groundwater at the nuclear facility in Westchester County.

For example, the mandate in Minnesota for 425 megawatts of wind power by 2003 was part of a settlement with Northern States Power (now Xcel Energy) to extend on - site storage of nuclear waste at its nuclear facility.

1) Question: I work at a nuclear facility for an Energy Department project and would like to «blow the whistle» on some unsafe practices.

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A relatively new member of the cluster, family - owned Carotek will be hosting an upcoming Carolinas» Nuclear Cluster meeting at its facility.

South Korea's intelligence service on Thursday warned that it saw «active movement» at North Korea's missile research facility and that the world should expect more nuclear and missile testing from Pyongyang, according to Yonhap News.

First authorized by President Bush and then re-authorized by President Obama, the top secret computer worm was designed by the US and Israel to infect an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz.

Contract workers at the U.S. Department of Energys Pantex facility gingerly remove the plutonium cores from retired nuclear warheads.

Why this matters: Code governing control systems at industrial sites has already been the target of attacks, and US officials recently warned Russian hackers are probing for security holes in software controlling critical infrastructure like nuclear facilities and dams.

Scientists planning NIF experiments may also wish to consider preparatory experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Jupiter Laser Facility and other laser facilities across the National Nuclear Security Administration complex.

Recent advances and results from the solid radiochemistry nuclear diagnostic at the National Ignition Facility

Specifically, the estimated levelized cost of energy for nuclear generation increased ~ 35 % versus prior estimates, reflecting increased capital costs at various nuclear facilities currently in development.

However, even they have their limits, and when they discovered that scientists at a top secret nuclear facility were using the supercomputers to mine...

And in 1982, when Inaba was working at the Hanford Nuclear Site, his father needed help building a cooling facility in a warehouse for some of the crops.

Recent revelations of 25 possible intrusions (based on fake IDs) at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India's premier nuclear facility in Mumbai, highlights this threat.

In May 2012, the MOD announced that it would continue to invest # 1bn a year over the next five years on facilities at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in order to sustain its commitment to the nuclear deterrent.

At least one of the state's six nuclear reactors may be shuttered, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo is aggressively targeting two more, both at the Indian Point facility in Westchester, for closurAt least one of the state's six nuclear reactors may be shuttered, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo is aggressively targeting two more, both at the Indian Point facility in Westchester, for closurat the Indian Point facility in Westchester, for closure.

Cuomo's fashion choice for disasters and emergencies has become a familiar sight for many New Yorkers, whether he's standing on New York City streets flooded after Hurricane Sandy, trudging along a snow - crippled Buffalo highway or issuing statements in front of a burning transformer at the Indian Point nuclear facility.

ALBANY — Saturday night's transformer fire at the Indian Point Energy Center has given Governor Andrew Cuomo his biggest opening yet to question the safety of the Westchester County nuclear facility, whose operation he has long opposed.

Indian Point, the Westchester County - based nuclear plant on the Hudson River, is running a series of 60 - second radio spots in the wake of the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami that again raised concerns over safety at the aging facility.

A Downing Street source said there was «no credible evidence» at the moment that terrorists would try to attack a civil nuclear facility, but stressed it was right to remain vigilant about safety at nuclear sites.

Also in the budget: $ 65 million over several years for three projects to expand research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, including one to help it land a lucrative federal nuclear physics facility.

The NY Post: «Any energy plan that clearly recognizes the role nuclear energy has in reducing dangerous emissions should be welcomed by all New Yorkers — and would be if it wasn't clear that the state is picking and choosing which nuclear - power facilities should stay open at the expense of taxpayers, especially those in New York City.»

A generating plant at the Indian Point nuclear facility in Westchester County shut down last night, prompting an immediate investigation.

Cuomo has said the nuclear power produced at those facilities is preferable to coal or natural gas as the state transitions to renewable energy.

A nuclear plant in Oswego County may close, General Electric is shuttering a capacitor plant in Fort Edward and Kraft - Heinz is eying cutbacks at its facilities.

«Indian Point has been something that's been difficult for the governor, but given where we are now, I would have to say I want to give him an even bigger thank you for looking at the bigger picture knowing that it's important to making sure we keep 615 jobs at that facility [FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant],» said state Sen. Patty Ritchie (R - Owegatchie).

Exelon has agreed to take over the FitzPatrick nuclear power plant from Entergy for at least another 12 years, «and keep it producing nuclear power for years and years to come,» Cuomo announced outside the Central New York facility as workers cheered.

Over the past several months there have been a series of serious incidents at the Indian Point Nuclear Facility, which my administration is investigating,» Governor Cuomo said.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday used another incident at the Indian Point nuclear facility to make the case that the facility should be closed.

New York has six nuclear reactors spread over four facilities, including two each at Indian Point in Westchester County and Nine Mile outside of Rochester.

ALBANY - The Cuomo administration's proposed state budget would earmark $ 65 million over several years for three projects to expand research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, including one to help it land a lucrative federal nuclear physics facility.

The historically high water levels in Lake Ontario this year have threatened homeowners, municipalities and nuclear power plants - almost triggering emergency action at the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Facility in Oswego nuclear power plants - almost triggering emergency action at the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Facility in Oswego Nuclear Facility in Oswego County.

Employees at the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant have taken the facility offline to begin the refueling process, a reality that seemed almost impossible one year ago.

A transformer exploded at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Facility in Westchester on Saturday.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office had raised the issue during the ongoing relicensing process and appealed the initial decision, saying there needed to be a new analysis of the impacts caused by potential severe accidents at the Buchanan nuclear facility and potential upgrades to protect the public against such accidents.

While he promised to pursue cleanups at nuclear waste sites, he declined to take a position on opening the planned nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

Iran has acknowledged that personal computers belonging to employees at Bushehr were infected by the worm but has insisted that computers running the nuclear facility itself remained unharmed.

«I think that this is primarily a way to bridge over the Ayatollah's requirement that no Iranian nuclear facility be shut down and the US requirement that enrichment of uranium stop there,» says Frank von Hippel, a nuclear - weapons and non-proliferation physicist at Princeton University in New Jersey.

Now NRG Energy, based in Princeton, New Jersey, is sticking its neck out with plans to build two new nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project facility near Bay City.

In tunnels deep inside a granite mountain at Daya Bay, a nuclear reactor facility some 55 kilometers from Hong Kong, sensitive detectors are hinting at the existence of a new form of neutrino, one of nature's most ghostly and abundant elementary particles.

The presence of the sterile neutrino has been hinted at by several experiments, including at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1990s and, more recently, at the Daya Bay nuclear reactor facility near Hong Kong.

Kharzeev had explored similar behavior of subatomic particles in the magnetic fields created in collisions at the Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, https://www.bnl.gov/rhic/), a DOE Office of Science User Facility where nuclear physicists explore the fundamental building blocks of matter.

The U.S. continues to observe a moratorium on nuclear testing, so scientists, particularly at government facilities such as LLNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), develop ways to detect these events without creating an explosion themselves.

Lake Barrett — director of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant during its decommissioning after a partial meltdown at the Middletown, Pa., facility in 1979 — says TEPCO will use robots to remotely dig out the melted fuel and store it in canisters on - site before shipping to its final disposal spot.

The former nuclear weapons facility at Savannah River, Ga. — also part of the Manhattan Project — has been successfully vitrifying weapons waste for years, but only one fuel separation process was used there.