Sentences with phrase «consequences of nuclear accidents»

Perhaps the consequences of nuclear accidents need to be faced in a way where improved engineering is the solution rather than mothballing.

because of my views on the potential consequences of nuclear accidents.

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A major spent fuel fire at a U.S. nuclear plant «could dwarf the horrific consequences of the Fukushima accident,» says Edwin Lyman, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., who was not on the panel.

While the probability of a nuclear power accident may be small, the human and environmental consequences of a radiation release can be catastrophic.

And just as the atomic bomb indiscriminately killed tens of thousands of civilians, this nuclear reactor accident, albeit on a smaller scale, will be responsible for indiscriminate suffering and lives cut short; the consequences are likely to play out over the next several decades due to radiation pollution and the resulting economic costs.»

Sure, there have not been huge numbers of accidents at nuclear power stations, but the consequences of such accidents are catastrophic and the true death toll will nOt be known for many years.

This ruling allows regulators to «avoid careful consideration of serious environmental and human health impacts associated with a plan to build new nuclear reactors at the Darlington site on Lake Ontario — including the consequences of a major nuclear accident — during the project's environmental assessment.»