Sentences with phrase «caused by nuclear power plants»

In 1995, he received the Goldman Environmental Prize for Asia as a result of his leadership in protecting the Korean people and their environment from the destruction caused by nuclear power plants.

Not exact matches

He developed practical models which will help to predict the consequences for nuclear power plants of fires caused by aircraft impacts.

A modern nuclear power plant, for example, must withstand fires caused by aircraft crashing into it.

A typhoon killed 17 people in Japan on Wednesday, most on an offshore island, but largely spared the capital and caused no new disaster as it brushed by the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power station, the plant's operator said.

Another was an 18 - meter - long delamination (fissure caused by layer separation), found at the Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant in Florida the same year.

Response: The Fukushima accident happened when flooding of power plant safety systems caused by the tsunami prevented operation of pumps needed to cool the nuclear fuel within the reactor and the fuel storage pools, causing that irradiated fuel to overheat.

Japanese players were urged to stay out of nuclear power plants and the Fukushima evacuation zones, while and several car crashes have reportedly been caused by distracted players.

This is the dilemma faced by tens of thousands of refugees in Japan who fled their homes when an earthquake and tsunami damaged Fukushima's nuclear power plant, causing three major meltdowns — the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.

While there is no immediate threat caused by retiring nuclear and coal - fired power plants, it's disingenuous to ignore the future threat.

Nuclear power has multiple subsidies in the form of: - direct payments for new nuclear plants of 2.3 cents per kWh generated for the first ten years (in the US), — this is US$ 2 billion for a 1000 MW plant after ten years operation, - complete indemnity under the Price - Anderson Act for harm caused by a radiation release (above a modest insured amount), - changes to safety regulations to allow continued operation, - new plant construction loan guarantees, - direct subsidies for existing plants to keep operating as a jobs - protection program, and Nuclear power has multiple subsidies in the form of: - direct payments for new nuclear plants of 2.3 cents per kWh generated for the first ten years (in the US), — this is US$ 2 billion for a 1000 MW plant after ten years operation, - complete indemnity under the Price - Anderson Act for harm caused by a radiation release (above a modest insured amount), - changes to safety regulations to allow continued operation, - new plant construction loan guarantees, - direct subsidies for existing plants to keep operating as a jobs - protection program, and nuclear plants of 2.3 cents per kWh generated for the first ten years (in the US), — this is US$ 2 billion for a 1000 MW plant after ten years operation, - complete indemnity under the Price - Anderson Act for harm caused by a radiation release (above a modest insured amount), - changes to safety regulations to allow continued operation, - new plant construction loan guarantees, - direct subsidies for existing plants to keep operating as a jobs - protection program, and others.

A report released this week by The Brattle Group says that if four nuclear power plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania are allowed to retire early it will cause «substantially higher emissions of CO2 and other pollutants» and that there will be «a significant increase in electricity prices» not only in the two states, but also -LSB-...]

I love the circular logic... CO2 causes the planet to warm causing sea level to rise and more storms on coasts... therefore do not build nuclear power plants... which would save the planet from the CO2 generated by non-nuclear power plants.