Sentences with phrase «involved at nuclear plants»

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In 1972, at age 15, he was involved in a community group that opposed a nuclear power plant proposed for two miles north of New York City (a proposal that the utility company quickly withdrew).

It ought to come as a surprise to no one, therefore, that from the time of the first splitting of the atom down through the destruction of Hiroshima and on to current controversies about nuclear weapons and power plants, Christian people have been involved individually and corporately at every level of the debate, not incidentally but specifically because of their Christian commitment.

Entergy had found degradation involving about 227 baffle bolts, which amounted to some 25 percent, the highest percentage ever found at a U.S. nuclear plant at that point.

A formal announcement Monday about an agreement to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County by 2021 came at different times from the different parties involved.

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.

Its job is to respond to problems at nuclear power plants and other incidents involving radioactivity.

U.K. plans for new nuclear plants all involve sitting them at existing nuclear facilities.

In addition to extensive industrial offerings, the Mile High City is involved in government and military programs including the Renewable Energy Laboratory and former nuclear weapons plant at Rocky Flats.