Sentences with phrase «for nuclear accidents»

P.S. Walter Pearce, civil liability for nuclear accidents is agreed by international treaty.

The $ 76 billion deal was unprecedented in scope and cost, and assigned all liability for nuclear accidents to South Africa.

Since the death toll for all nuclear accidents is still low, the heavy regulation needs to be there to prevent the loss of capital, as well as clean up costs.

Congress should establish financial incentives for power plant owners to purchase safer reactor designs and make safety upgrades by increasing the liability of the nuclear industry for a nuclear accident.

Over the years, the «limit of liability» for a nuclear accident has increased the insurance pool to more than $ 12 billion.

Not exact matches

Chernobyl is still considered the worst nuclear accident in history — but it could have been much, much worse, if not for a so - called «suicide squad» of three brave volunteers.

Many Indian and foreign nuclear energy technology companies have not been willing to supply nuclear technology and services to India because laws in the country leave suppliers open to financial liability for damages to third parties in the case of a nuclear accident.

Indian laws leave suppliers open to financial liability for damages to third parties in the case of a nuclear accidentThird, many Canadian and other foreign companies have been unwilling to supply nuclear technology and services to India because Indian laws leave suppliers open to financial liability for damages to third parties in the case of a nuclear accident.

Prices for the metal have been depressed in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, but the situation got so bad this year that Cameco, the world's largest publicly traded uranium miner, had to suspend production at multiple mines.

These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

But community groups are concerned about the potential for accidents, and environmentalists about the toll nuclear takes on water resources and the wildlife killed when reactors use river or lake water for cooling — particularly at Indian Point, less than 30 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office today is celebrating a key decision from the federal government that would require the Indian Point nuclear facility to submit an action and environmental cleanup plan for accidents before being re-licensed.

2012: Kiyoshi Kurokawa — Dr. Kurokawa was recognized for his responsible leadership of an independent investigation into the events leading up to and following the 2011 nuclear Fukushima accident.

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The recent accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant reinforces the need for renewed thinking about nuclear - waste storage and disposal.

But nuclear accidents aren't bad for all species.

What is needed, Lyman says, is for nuclear energy firms to undertake a detailed threat analysis for each plant with «a set of severe accident scenarios» computer - simulated exhaustively for each.

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

In response to the earthquake - triggered accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, India's prime minister has asked for a full safety audit of India's 20 operating nuclear reactors.

But, as the State Council decree and accident in Japan show, safety remains the key concern for nuclear power.

The staff at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, spent the past year repairing the damage, inspecting tens of thousands of connections, and bolting down the magnets in case of another accident.

The world's top specialists are competing to design a robot that can carry out emergency - response duties in disaster situations that are often too dangerous for humans, such as last year's nuclear accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

Monitoring equipment for airborne radionuclides put in place since the Chernobyl accident in 1986 now makes it «less likely» that accidental nuclear releases can be kept secret by the countries involved, says de Geer, although «we can not guarantee that we can detect everything».

Recent accidents and increasing political instability make Russia a dangerous destination for nuclear material, say nuclear experts, but the International Atomic Energy Agency says it had no alternative after Britain and France backed down from their initial offer to take it.

The committee found that current approaches for regulating nuclear plant safety, which have been based traditionally on deterministic concepts such as the design - basis accident, are clearly inadequate for preventing core - melt accidents and mitigating their consequences.

The committee that wrote the report examined the causes of the Japan accident and identified findings and recommendations for improving nuclear plant safety and offsite emergency responses to nuclear plant accidents in the U.S.

The report recommends that the nuclear industry and organizations with emergency management responsibilities assess their preparedness for severe nuclear accidents associated with offsite regional - scale disasters.

A succession of mishaps and a scandal over an attempt to cover up an accident have kept the facility shut down for all but a few months since it first achieved criticality, or a sustained nuclear reaction, in 1994.

It is seriously vulnerable there, as the Fukushima accident demonstrated, and so the academy panel recommends that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and nuclear plant operators beef up systems for monitoring the pools and topping up water levels in case a facility is dNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and nuclear plant operators beef up systems for monitoring the pools and topping up water levels in case a facility is dnuclear plant operators beef up systems for monitoring the pools and topping up water levels in case a facility is damaged.

Mindful that drinking contaminated milk led to most of the cancers that resulted from the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, the Japanese government also launched a massive effort to check foods for contamination and ban any items exceeding set limits.

Another institute that should get a lot of credit for improving our nuclear program since the Three - Mile Island accident is the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations nuclear program since the Three - Mile Island accident is the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations Nuclear Power Operations (INPO).

While many would blame nature for last year's Fukushima nuclear accident, a Japanese parliamentary committee report has concluded that culpability really lies with Homo sapiens.

After 900 hours of hearings and 1100 interviews over a six - month period, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission — chaired by Kiyoshi Kurokawa, an academic fellow at Tokyo's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies — said that the accident was «a profoundly man - made disaster that could and should have been foreseen and prevented».

And Western nuclear firms, despite their hunger for new markets, have shied away from upgrading the reactors, for fear of being held liable for any subsequent accidents.

A similar chemical reaction stemming from the sloppy disposal of Los Alamos» nuclear waste in 2014 provoked the shutdown of a deep - underground storage site in New Mexico for more than two years, a DOE accident investigation concluded.

Slovakia is expected to sign the Vienna Convention, which absolves builders of nuclear plants from liability for accidents.

But critics question the safety of nuclear power, citing such concerns as the potential for catastrophic meltdowns, their potential vulnerability to terrorists, the lack of workable evacuation plans in the event of accidents as well as the problem of dealing with radioactive waste.

Closer to home, more durable materials can be developed for use in nuclear power facilities which could remain intact longer in the event of an accident, and simply require less replacement over time.

One accident, one rupture, one attack would have devastating effects on the lives of people today and for generations to follow, as one look at a victim of the Chernobyl nuclear accident would confirm.

... Madam President, I believe a transportation plan for nuclear waste shipments should have a «zero accident» goal, but as yet the DOE doesn't even have a plan.

The experiments have provided invaluable data that will be used to validate codes and nuclear data for advanced fuel cycles, as well as to derive reactor kinetics parameters for studies of transient / accident phenomena for these fuels.

Response: SMR - 160 is a small modular pressurized water nuclear reactor power plant that does not rely on any pumps or motors to remove heat from the nuclear fuel, for all normal and accident scenarios.

It provides stable long - term nuclear core cooling and plant recovery under all design basis accident conditions and also provides severe accident mitigation for low probability beyond design basis accidents.

For example, a year after the Fukushima nuclear accident, contamination was found in the waters off California, and this included contaminated kelp.

The Three Mile Island accident occurred on March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI - 2) in Dauphin County Stoogemojis From BareTree Media, Inc. — STOOGEMOJIS is the official emoji - sticker app for The Three Stooges.

Discovered, however, by the big and homely Bergens — think a race of Miss Piggys after a nuclear accident — they soon become «happy meals» for the sullen creatures.

«Nobody knows the likelihood of a serious nuclear accident,» said James MacKenzie, a physicist who is a senior staff scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists, a scientific public - interest organization.

As long as nuclear engineering can strive for new innovations and learn from its history of accidents and mistakes, the benefits that nuclear power can yield for our economy, society, and yes, environment, will come.

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The devastating disaster of the March 11, 2011 tsunami and the nuclear accident afterwards were both a shock and inspiration for Japanese Neo-Pop artist Mr.. In response, he composed a massive installation made of hundreds of everyday objects from Japanese life.