Sentences with phrase «meltdown at the nuclear plant»

Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has described the struggle to avoid meltdown at the nuclear plant's six reactors as a «race against the clock».

Not exact matches

TOKYO (AP)-- About 1,400 people filed a joint lawsuit Thursday against three companies that manufactured reactors at Japan's Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear plant, saying they should be financially liable for damage caused by their 2011 meltdowns.

On Friday, Dec. 2 U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler introduced legislation to help prevent a meltdown at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant and further safeguard New Yorkers in the event of a catastrophe.

It is now clear that at least one reactor at Fukushima experienced a full core meltdown, so what does that mean for similar nuclear power plants in the U.S.?

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.

The meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant last spring cast the issue of nuclear safety in stark relief.

A top U.S. nuclear regulator has now given a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis, saying that radiation from uncovered spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns there

It also triggered the meltdowns at Fukushima and the evacuation of 150,000 people from within 20 kilometers of the nuclear plant as well as from areas beyond that were hard hit by fallout.

The March 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant caused extensive human suffering — evacuations, emotional trauma and premature deaths, disrupted jobs and schooling.

Japan still struggles with the effects of a powerful earthquake, devastating tsunami and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

With nuclear safety in the spotlight since the 2011 reactor meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant - which in turn prompted Germany to call time on its entire nuclear fleet - operators can take no chances with their elderly plants, but the outages get longer and more difficult.

Some 16 months after meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operations to remove the nuclear fuel rods from the site have finally begun

The multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011 caused a humanitarian disaster: Upwards of 100,000 people had to be evacuated from within a 20 - kilometer ring around the site.

The shaking evoked memories of the events off the coast of Japan in 2011 that triggered meltdowns at a nuclear power plant that the country is still struggling with.

That helps explain why such a large earthquake was unexpected in the region, resulting in catastrophic consequences that included more than 24,000 people dead or missing and fuel meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the coast.

Lake Barrett — director of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant during its decommissioning after a partial meltdown at the Middletown, Pa., facility in 1979 — says TEPCO will use robots to remotely dig out the melted fuel and store it in canisters on - site before shipping to its final disposal spot.

Seven years after one of the largest earthquakes on record unleashed a massive tsunami and triggered a meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, officials say they are at last getting a handle on the mammoth task of cleaning the site before it is ultimately dismantled.

The top U.S. nuclear regulator, Gregory Jaczko, gave a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis yesterday, saying that lethal radiation from uncovered spent fuel above one of the reactors could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns of damaged reactor cores at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

After reading the differing views on nuclear power across the globe (25 June, p 12), I was saddened to see decisions in Germany, Italy and Switzerland to stop pursuing nuclear energy, obviously as a backlash following the dangerous meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Diane DiEuliis and Shin Chang - Hoon AAAS / Carla Schaffer Imagine a malware program like the 2010 Stuxnet worm creating a nuclear meltdown at a power plant.

CATASTROPHIC meltdowns of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had less to do with the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March last year, and more to do with the plant owners» and government's failure to anticipate and prepare for emergencies on such an epic scale.

As night fell on Friday in Japan, workers and soldiers continued heroic efforts to douse the potential meltdown underway at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Imagine a malware program like the 2010 Stuxnet worm creating a nuclear meltdown at a power plant.

Radiation levels at Fukushima Dai - ichi Nuclear Plant have reached the highest since the 2011 meltdown.

Jack Lemmon plays a shift supervisor at a nuclear power plant who narrowly averts a core meltdown while being surreptitiously filmed by Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas» visiting TV news crew.

Human Mask was partially shot on a drone camera in Fukushima in 2011 after the earthquake - triggered tsunami had caused the meltdown of three nuclear plant reactors, the evacuation of 300,000 people from the area and at least 1,600 deaths; the sense of desolation is palpable.

Systems are designed to have a probability of less than one in ten thousand for a core meltdown in any given year; but that could mean one every 5 years if nuclear supplied 2 TW of power, or one per year at the 10 TW or higher level (with roughly 10,000 nuclear plants worldwide).

After the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami led to nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and a release of radioactive material, all Japanese nuclear plants were closed out of safety concerns.

«Japan is to resume the use of nuclear power for the first time since last year's triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi power plant after the government on Saturday approved the restart of two idled reactors»

The earthquake also lead to a meltdown at Fukushima nuclear power plant, which has become the most severe nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

Before the 2011 accident, in which a tidal wave caused three of the six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to go into meltdown, Japan only got 62 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels.

Since then, risk assessment has been used to estimate the probability of a catastrophic meltdown at a nuclear power plant, or the probability of a population of grizzly bears becoming locally extinct because too many roads were cut into their forest home, or the probability of children having their IQ lowered by exposure to toxic lead and PCBs in the soil near schools built on a toxic waste dump.

That was the case of the robots built to clean up the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered the restart of two idle nuclear reactors Saturday amid widespread public opposition, more than a year after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai - ichi Power Plant, and halted all 50 reactors in Japan...