Sentences with phrase «how nuclear plant safety»
For an understanding of how nuclear plant safety is assessed and will likely be evaluated moving forward, Scientific American spoke with Najmedin Meshkati, a professor of civil, environmental, industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering in Los Angeles.
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«We've been worried since 9/11 about how to protect against bad guys hijacking an aircraft and crashing it into a nuclear power plant upwind of a heavily populated area,» says David Lochbaum, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists's Nuclear Safety Project, a group that monitors the performance of nuclear plants and the NRC, which regulatenuclear power plant upwind of a heavily populated area,» says David Lochbaum, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists's Nuclear Safety Project, a group that monitors the performance of nuclear plants and the NRC, which regulateNuclear Safety Project, a group that monitors the performance of nuclear plants and the NRC, which regulatenuclear plants and the NRC, which regulates them.
How is a U.S. nuclear plant's safety evaluated?
Read «Nuclear Agency Is Criticized as Too Close to Its Industry,» by Tom Zeller, Jr., to see how routine approval of safety exemptions sought by the owners of aging plants has led to significant problems.
The primary objective of the research is to support the overall safety of nuclear power plants by enhancing scientific understanding of the environmental conditions of the plant's location and predicting how they can change.
I am likely in support of fourth gen nuclear considering the safety factors, the 90 percent reduced waste with a vastly reduced 1/2 life, etc, but I do not get how coal in modern plants is so harmful?