Sentences with phrase «life at the nuclear power plant»

«I drew this manga because I wanted people to see what day - to - day life at the nuclear power plant is like.

Pooches that live at the nuclear power plant mostly interact with the workers, who feed and care for them since they were puppies, but this can easily put the workers at risk of being contaminated.

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The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

«The energy payback time of a nuclear power plant is at present about 11 years compared with natural gas at half a year,» Storm van Leeuwen argues, when the full cost of decommissioning a nuclear power plant at the end of its useful life is included.

Since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the discharge of radioactive cesium, especially 137Cs (half - life: 30.17 years), into the environment has become a serious environmental problem.

On September 15, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission affirmed its expert opinion that spent nuclear fuel could be safely stored on nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.Nuclear Regulatory Commission affirmed its expert opinion that spent nuclear fuel could be safely stored on nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.nuclear fuel could be safely stored on nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.»

Fallout from an accident at a nuclear power plant could cause thyroid problems in people living nearby.

At Fukushima, the loss was greater, and Japan is having another of their discussions, which seems to be resolving in favor of keeping and restarting all of the nuclear power plants, especially as people are reminded of the value of electricity and the lives lost in handling fossil fuels.

The reasonableness and economics of power uprates and life extensions at current nuclear plants

EDF plans to extend the life of four nuclear power plants in the UK and said that it was close to announcing a decision on its investment in two new reactors at Hinkley Point.

All nuclear power plants (NPPs) include in the LCOE calculation the payments into a fund to be used to decommission the NPP at the end of its useful life; an NRC licensing requirement in the USA.