Sentences with phrase «for nuclear safety»

* Used Solidworks and Inventor to design sheet metal electronic enclosures for nuclear safety systems and other applications.

For nuclear safety and the security of itself and the region at large, Japan should respond to the concerns of the international community in a responsible manner and take concrete measures to address its problematic surplus of nuclear materials.

Chalk River, ON, March 29, 2018 — Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada's premier nuclear science and technology organization, announced today that the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), Canada's federal body responsible for nuclear safety, has approved CNL's application to renew the operating licence for its Chalk River Laboratories nuclear campus.

SRIC, CARD, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, and the WIPP Committee have hosted presentation sessions, and will do others in the future, for the public to discuss these issues.

One of the main tasks of CAMP is to be a partner for the Ministry of Health (medical physicists in the Czech Republic are recognized as healthcare professionals) and for the State Office for Nuclear Safety.

Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS) 107 Cienega Santa Fe, NM 87501 [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] www.nuclearactive.org

On July 17, New Mexico Attorney General Udall, SRIC, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, and Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping file suits to strike down the EPA certification.

However, the TACIS budget for nuclear safety amounts only to 100 million Ecu, which means that the European Community countries would be footing most of the bill.

Some funding for such work is available from the European Commission's Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States (TACIS) fund, set up to provide aid for nuclear safety, distribution and public sector projects in the former Soviet Union.

Before John Major's recent visit to Moscow I brought to his attention Debora MacKenzie's article on assistance for nuclear safety projects in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

The DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy develops, manufactures, tests and delivers radioisotope power systems for space exploration and national security missions and maintains responsibility for nuclear safety throughout all aspects of the missions.

Mr. Mock started his career as an electrical engineer with Ontario Hydro, where he ultimately became responsible for nuclear safety and licensing at key nuclear generating stations.

Not exact matches

In a recent Compas Inc. poll, Canadian CEOs said the crisis in Japan is bad news for new nuclear energy installations in the short term, until safety reviews are completed, and ranked the statement a 5.6 on a 7 - point scale, where 1 means strongly disagree and 7 means strongly agree.

Recent developments in IFE safety and tritium research and considerations for future nuclear fusion facilities

Safe and reliable solutions for the waste and nuclear industry At Greif, we understand your packaging must protect product purity, comply with mandatory regulations, and most importantly, support safety.

In Nevada, however, there is bipartisan opposition to the Yucca project, and the state's congressional delegation prepared a series of amendments meant to ensure that the House would consider key safety provisions for the project, which is located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and adjacent to the land where the government tested nuclear weapons.

«In France, the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety has found iodine - 131 in milk,» she said.

Cuomo as well as environmentalists and nearby residents have said for years they want to close the nuclear plant, which is less than 40 miles from New York City, for safety reasons.

I'm also 100 % for riding the butts of the power companies that own the nukes — if they don't follow the safety rules / laws relating to nuclear power plants.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a petition with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission urging it to take enforcement action against the plant for its failure to comply with fire safety regulations.

The Indian Point 2 nuclear reactor will reopen late next month in time for the summer's peak energy season after a longer - than - expected shutdown because of deteriorating bolts critical to the plant's safety.

«It is important that we have the full facts at our disposal... Safety is and will continue to be the number one priority for existing nuclear sites and for any new power stations.»

These include eco-design and energy labelling standards, greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicles, the internal energy market, construction product standards, chemicals regulation and nuclear safety and safeguards.

The Indian Point Nuclear power pant, owned and operated by Entergy, arecurrently under review by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel pending the renewal of its operating license for the next 20 years.

He was the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Finance in the administration of Mayor Giuliani from 1994 to 1996 and served as the Chairman of the New York Power Authority from 1979 to 1985, where he enhanced the safety and economics of two nuclear power plants then owned and operated by the Authority.

The ruling by the commission that oversees the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reversed the Atomic Licensing Safety Board's approval of a prior analysis used in Westchester - based Indian Point's 2007 application for relicensing.

«Also, manipulation of the embryo at that very sensitive time could cause more problems for the nuclear genome, which is why safety data is critical.»

These kinds of estimates are of great importance for safety assessments for structures and buildings that need to hold up well for a very long time, or for structures where severe weather could pose a security risk, such as drilling platforms or nuclear power plants.

And in a chapter on the radioactive elements carried in nuclear fallout, there's Pig 311, a sow that survived a nuclear test blast only to be used as propaganda for the weapons» supposed safety.

Questions over safety, disposal of waste and the possibility that plants could make material suitable for weapons have slowed the spread of nuclear technology

Understanding the nature of radiation damage in materials is of paramount importance for controlling the safety of nuclear reactors, using ion implantation in semiconductor technology, and designing reliable devices in space.

Buoyed by an allocation of $ 1.25 billion in funding for reactor research from the 2005 Energy Policy Act, INL scientists are working to improve safety, boost efficiency, minimize waste, and decrease cost in a new generation of nuclear reactors.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

The team are holding a one - day workshop on 27 April for trainers and safety experts from the nuclear industry.

A few days after the nuclear crisis began to unfold at the Fukushima power station in Japan, Singh, who also serves as minister in charge for atomic energy, ordered a safety review of all 20 nuclear power plants and a half dozen research reactors owned and operated by the government.

But for 50 or so nations currently running or constructing nuke plants, the calamity was an incentive to take a moment to run some stress tests and review the safety manuals before reaffirming their support for nuclear power.

This is one of many safety issues currently being investigated by his team at the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation in Bootle, as it considers licensing new, supposedly safer, reactor designs from companies like Japanese - owned Westinghouse Electric and French - owned Areva.

The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy this month won a legal contention from the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board against Southern Nuclear Operating's Vogtle reactor license application for Georgia.

The East - West nuclear relationship has become so convoluted that Russian officials have even accused Germany of entrapping plutonium dealers simply to discredit Russia and open markets for Germany's own nuclear safety and control systems.

Omega's closure would have «irreversible and disastrous ramifications for maintaining the safety and reliability of our nuclear stockpile,» Richard Petrasso of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Plasma Science and Fusion Center in Cambridge wrote in one letter to Representative Joe Kennedy III (D — MA).

In terms of safety, we are still using 1960s technologies for our nuclear plants.

This has applications for nuclear plant safety, as well as national security and nuclear nonproliferation monitoring.

The other machines were mothballed or cannibalized for parts, according to The Asia - Pacific Journal: Japan Focus; misplaced faith in the safety of nuclear plants and lack of long - term funding scuppered the program.

Although regulations for the design of new nuclear power plants include safety features intended to avoid disasters, nuclear power will always be vulnerable to those highly unlikely occurrences that have big repercussions.

Iain Poplett, a research fellow at King's College London working on nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy, says he has missed out on jobs because employers used health and safety regulations as an excuse for not employing deaf people.

Later Thursday, a spokesman for Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Yoshitaka Nagayama, said, «Because we have been unable to go the scene, we can not confirm whether there is water left or not in the spent fuel pool at Reactor No. 4.»

«We would like to set up these barriers as soon as possible, but it could take several days to complete the work,» Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, told Kyodo News.

New research has shown that the benchmark used by the Office for Nuclear Regulation for judging how much should be spent on nuclear safety has no basis in evidence and places insufficient value on humaNuclear Regulation for judging how much should be spent on nuclear safety has no basis in evidence and places insufficient value on humanuclear safety has no basis in evidence and places insufficient value on human life.

Visibly angry, according to Indian press reports, Rao called instead for a review of nuclear plant safety, adding: «There should be reviews; only foolish people don't want reviews.

Weightman recommended that the safety case for new nuclear plants should demonstrate the ability to deal with multiple serious events.