These include the behaviour of the Italian government in the aftermath of Chernobyl, the basis of decision - making
in civil nuclear power in Switzerland and France, and the controversy over the supposed effects of radiation doses to fathers on their offspring at Sellafield (a large case control study, which has recently been published, contradicts the views in the book), and the Black enquiry into childhood leukaemias in the vicinity of the plant.
«We welcome the Weightman report as a thorough and comprehensive piece of work that, whilst not identifying particular reservations about the
UK civil nuclear power programme, does identify issues that should be included when considering future and existing nuclear plant — in particular the need to include proper consideration of events that could occur beyond the boundaries of individual plant — as was the case in Japan.
From GE's founding innovation, Thomas Edison's light bulb, to developing the
first civil nuclear power plant connected to a commercial power grid in 1957; everything that we have learned from 130 years of experience has helped GEH to create PRISM.
As Saudi Arabia begins a nuclear power program, the US is hastening to complete a «123 Agreement» that would allow the two countries to cooperate
on civil nuclear power.
Our national legacy to the world can be seen not just in language and culture, but through the steam engine, the jet engine, the railway and
civil nuclear power.
The fields used to illustrate the theme are those of health care and
civil nuclear power, the former to paint a general picture of the hierarchy of uncertainty, and the latter to show the full range of relationships between governments and their advisers in a series of specific examples.