Sentences with phrase «nuclear accident»

The shift will help the country meet its pledge to cut greenhouse emissions, reduce local air pollution, and cut the risk of nuclear accidents, she says.

Even the worst nuclear accidents result in far fewer deaths than the normal operation of fossil fuel power plants.

For me, it was learning more about nuclear accidents that finally convinced me nuclear was the best way to make electricity.

Indeed, the death toll from wind turbines in recent decades is huge when compared with nuclear accidents.

But it is in danger of becoming established as the prime policy choice after a big nuclear accident.

The results therefore say little about the health risks of any future nuclear accidents.

With nuclear power, it was more than just nuclear accidents that featured on the «risky» side of the equation.

That's because while air pollution kills seven million people per year, hardly anybody is harmed during even the worst nuclear accidents.

An excellent and entertaining journey through history of nuclear accidents, both civilian and military.

People claiming that it's not is just fear about nuclear accidents.......

Prices for the metal have been depressed in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, but the situation got so bad this year that Cameco, the world's largest publicly traded uranium miner, had to suspend production at multiple mines.

Bachev, Hrabrin (2014): Socio - economic and environmental impacts of Match 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan.

That changed on April 25, 1986, as he was touring the then - Soviet Union with 38 students — and the Chernobyl nuclear accident occurred.

Such was the outcome of the still worse nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986.

Graphene oxide can help absorb radioactive waste from nuclear accidents like the one at Fukushima disaster.

The $ 76 billion deal was unprecedented in scope and cost, and assigned all liability for nuclear accidents to South Africa.

The breakthrough could hold the key to cleaning radioactive waste in nuclear reactors and after nuclear accidents like the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

It will be exactly 30 years tomorrow since the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred on a three - mile (five kilometer) slip of land in the Susquehanna River in the shadow of Harrisburg, Pa..

A brand - new theory of the opening moments during the Chernobyl disaster, the most severe nuclear accident in history, based on additional analysis is presented for the first time in the journal Nuclear Technology, an official journal of the American Nuclear Society.

In Paris last week, France's trade minister, Dominique Strauss - Kahn, and the German environment minister, Klaus Topfer, said that the money was needed to reduce the risk of serious nuclear accidents.

I worked with robots that cleaned up the Three Mile Island nuclear accident [from 1984 to 1986].

Following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in March 2011, Germany decided to accelerate the phase - out of nuclear power by 2022 starting with the immediate closure of the eight oldest plants.

But it also leaves China a «hostage to fortune» through increasing nuclear accident risk.

Technology showed its dark side in March 1979 as the Three Mile Island power plant suffered a severe core meltdown, the nation's most serious commercial nuclear accident.

Several «black swans» are looming which could inflict a financial nuclear accident on the U.S. markets and financial system.

Three Mile Island, the highest - profile U.S. nuclear accident, was classified level 5 — an «accident with wider consequences».

These conclusions regarding the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986 could be less comforting than they sound: In fact, Japan dodged a bullet thanks to the weather.

«These unique data showing a wide range of animals thriving within miles of a major nuclear accident illustrate the resilience of wildlife populations when freed from the pressures of human habitation,» says Jim Beasley, a study co-author at the University of Georgia.

The Fukushima nuclear accident resulted in the largest ever accidental release of radioactivity to the oceans.

Nuclear power, even accounting for high - profile nuclear accidents, is statistically the safest way of generating electricity.

It received renewed attention due to the political impact of the Russia - Belarus energy dispute and the fukushima1 nuclear accidents.

As a result, the emergency at Fukushima Daiichi that began on March 11, 2011, is only the second nuclear accident to merit the most severe international crisis rating, joining the reactor that exploded at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear facility in Ukraine April 1986.

Survivors of nonlethal nuclear accidents can carry something else around: worry.

As a fellow, he helped the State Department and the Department of Energy utilize robotics to aid in the stabilization of Chernobyl, the 1986 Ukrainian nuclear accident site.

After the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, worry about the unfolding nuclear accident quickly commandeered international headlines.

The initial nuclear accident from the Fukushima reactors released several radioactive isotopes, such as iodine - 131, cesium - 134 and cesium - 137.

Following a massive underestimate straight after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the crisis, in April NISA said that between 370,000 and 630,000 terabecquerels were released between 11 and 15 March, putting the crisis at level 7, the most severe category on the international scale used to rate nuclear accidents.

Marine scientists have calculated that, based on all the radioactive particles released (or leaking) from Fukushima, a dose due to this most recent nuclear accident would add up to a total of roughly one microsievert (a unit of radiation exposure) of extra radiation — roughly one tenth the average daily dose most Americans experience, one fortieth the amount from a cross — North America flight and one one - hundredth the exposure from a dental x-ray.

When it gets hot enough, zircaloy reacts with steam to produce hydrogen, a hazard in any loss - of - coolant nuclear accident.

Of course, even in the worst case, the Fukushima nuclear crisis pales in comparison to the 7,000 dead and 10,000 missing as a result of the March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami — no one has yet died from the Japanese nuclear accident.

But the experience of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident shows that such baseline data are vital.

Our nuclear primer explains what that means and how the situation compares with past nuclear accidents

By TARA PATEL French nuclear engineers are planning to simulate nuclear accidents on a far greater scale than those that happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.