Sentences with phrase «at nuclear plants»

We have likewise been storing spent nuclear fuel at our nuclear plant sites since the country began using nuclear energy.

The Site services group has carried out over 100 significant projects at nuclear plants around the world without a single lost time injury — a stunning record of safety!

Such are their problems that we now hear of scientists and technicians at nuclear plants going on strike because they have not received their wages.

A clear example is the allowed dose at a nuclear plant's fence, a regulation so stringent that it is far exceeded by eating a common and popular food, bananas.

One of those, a Nagasaki - based company called Yamato Engineering, sent 510 workers to lay pipe at the nuclear plant in violation of labor laws banning brokers.

Mattson said the added safety measures likely to result from a more demanding look at nuclear plant vulnerabilities should not impose unreasonable costs on most plants.

A NEW British study suggests the children of men exposed to radiation while working at nuclear plants are twice as likely to develop leukaemia.

[font = Century Gothic] «PU - 239» is the radioactive isotope of plutonium that Timofey (Paddy Considine) is trying to sell in the black market of Moscow, two days after being exposed to a lethal dose of radiation at the nuclear plant where he works and stole the plutonium.

His work as a maintenance contractor at nuclear plants during refueling outages mostly takes place in spring and fall, giving him summers and winters off.

In the meantime, highly radioactive waste is being stored on - site in spent fuel pools at each nuclear plant, with 1500 tons of waste are currently stored at Indian Point.

Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has described the struggle to avoid meltdown at the nuclear plant's six reactors as a «race against the clock».

New York state is renewing its call for tougher oversight of electrical transformers at the Indian Point Energy Center after the third failure in eight years of one of the power - transfer devices at the nuclear plant.

The crisis at the nuclear plant in Japan, due in part to exposed spent fuel, is forcing U.S. scientists and policymakers to look for safer courses of action

The 1989 disturbance, which was felt by power systems deep into the United States and damaged a transformer at a nuclear plant, is far from the maximum.

That means large quantities of nuclear waste will remain at nuclear plants for a long, long time — and three quarters of it is currently crammed in cooling pools rather than stored in dry casks, which are safer.»

Currently, used fuel is safely stored in pools of water or in dry casks at the nuclear plant site.

Given the stakes involved at nuclear plants, it's not enough for operators to «fix» equipment that fails, said Glenn Dentel, NRC branch chief for the three CENG plants.

Scientists comment on procedures put in place as a result of the Redfern Inquiry, which concluded that the removal of organs and tissues from workers at nuclear plants should not have happened.

Nuclear physicist Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) can not let the tragic events of 1999 go; a mysterious disaster at a nuclear plant where he worked in Japan caused the death of his wife and leveled an entire city.

Transformer failures happen all the time at nuclear plants.

An eye witness is testifying about an explosion at a nuclear plant.

Another seems right out of the movies: The computer program also secretly recorded what normal operations at the nuclear plant looked like, then played those readings back to plant operators, like a pre-recorded security tape in a bank heist, so that it would appear that everything was operating normally while the centrifuges were actually tearing themselves apart.

At its nuclear plants in France, EDF plans to install solar photovoltaics, make use of its own «smart plug» smart charging terminals, and deploy autonomous electric shuttle vehicles.

The safety of deep pools used to store used radioactive fuel at nuclear plants has been an issue since the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in March.

At nuclear plants, spent fuel is currently being transferred from pools to robust concrete casks, where it can be secured for about a century.