Sentences with phrase «future nuclear accidents»

In the immediate aftermath of a future nuclear accident, robots, and their masters, will have to be far nimbler.

Not exact matches

But with about half of the world's nuclear power plants located on coastlines, such areas are potentially important contamination reservoirs and release sites to monitor after future accidents.

THE accident at the Fukushima power plant in Japan has led to much discussion about the future of nuclear power.

[iii] Although some countries like Germany are worried about nuclear safety because of the nuclear accident in Japan due to the tsunami, plant safety enhancements (e.g. passive cooling features that do not rely on generators to keep water flowing to reactor cores) make future accidents like Fukushima unlikely.

But even if you double the most ridiculous estimates from Chernobyl, or triple it to account for some future accident — even then, nuclear deaths still compare favourably with all forms of power, and continue to blow the coal and oil safety record out of the water.

«In the aftermath of the March 2011 accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the future contribution of nuclear power to the global energy supply has become somewhat uncertain.

Friends of the Earth Europe has expressed alarm that the Heads of State cast a role for nuclear power in Europe's energy future, without offering solutions to its unsolved problems: how to treat and store waste for thousands of years, the risk of serious accidents, the proliferation of nuclear weapon material and how to secure nuclear plants against terrorist attacks.