Sentences with phrase «nuclear accident risk»

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

Regarding the rational risk assessment — the nuclear accident risk is well established.

Not exact matches

An atomic build - up can not be risked, because of the ease with which a nuclear war could be initiated by accident if not by design.

NRDC has long opposed relicensing its two reactors because of Indian Point's history of operational, safety and environmental problems, as well as the grave risk of a nuclear accident so close to the nation's largest city,» said Kit Kennedy, director of the energy and transportation program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Public concerns about nuclear power have traditionally centered on two issues: the risk of widespread radioactive fallout from an accident and the hazards of nuclear waste.

Unlike with a nuclear accident, there is no risk of the surrounding environment being affected.

Philip Thomas, Professor of Risk Management in the Department of Civil Engineering, said: «The Office of Nuclear Regulation and other national bodies clearly have a problem with how they should assess the right level of expenditure to protect people from nuclear and other accNuclear Regulation and other national bodies clearly have a problem with how they should assess the right level of expenditure to protect people from nuclear and other accnuclear and other accidents.

This is recognised by the nuclear power industry and its regulators, whose aim is to make the risk of accidents as low, and thus the reactors as safe, as is reasonably achievable.

Nuclear accidents can release radioactive iodine into the environment, increasing the risk of thyroid cancer in exposed individuals, especially children [55,56].

Potassium iodide (KI) is an over-the-counter supplement that, when taken within hours after a nuclear accident (or attack on nuclear facilities) may help protect the thyroid from the risk of thyroid cancer.

And we can dramatically increase the risk of a more acute, devastating Fukishima - style accident by rapidly increasing our use of nuclear power.

Surely the theoretical risk of accidents (catastrophes if you like) associated with civil nuclear reactors are on an insignificant scale relative to the risks faced by humanity by running out of energy.

In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: «Evaluation of radiation doses and associated risk from the Fukushima nuclear accident to marine biota and human consumers of seafood.»

You have a greater risk of being seriously injured stepping in or out of the tub than you do from a nuclear accident.

The Act arises from a letter from a group of health physicists who pointed out that the limited understanding of low - dose health risks impairs the nation's decision - making capabilities, whether in responding to radiological events involving large populations such as the 2011 Fukushima accident or in areas such as the rapid increase in radiation - based medical procedures, the cleanup of radioactive contamination from legacy sites and the expansion of civilian nuclear energy.

Cohen acknowledges the risk of a nuclear accident, and the dangers of the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

One of the risks of nuclear power is a catastrophic accident like the one at Chernobyl in Russia.

Opponents have long maintained the health and environmental risks associated with uranium mining and nuclear waste alongside the threat of nuclear power plant accidents...

Yamamura, Eiji (2011): How does corruption influence perceptions of the risk of nuclear accidents?

The major accidents at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and Chernobyl in the then - Soviet Union show that human error is the biggest risk in the operation of nuclear plants.

Enforcing fire and earthquake regulations, addressing flood risks, and safer storage for nuclear waste are just a few of the ways we can help prevent nuclear accidents.

According to Evaluation of radiation doses and associated risk from the Fukushima nuclear accident to marine biota and human consumers of seafood in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,

Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change, produced by the non-profit Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), documents accident, proliferation and contamination threats associated with reviving the nuclear industry as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emiNuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change, produced by the non-profit Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), documents accident, proliferation and contamination threats associated with reviving the nuclear industry as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas eminuclear industry as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

After the Fukushima accident in Japan, Germany began mothballing its entire nuclear fleet, but some of its citizens fear they could still be at risk from nuclear accidents across the border with Belgium.

«Current legislation and practice in France does not require the owner or op - erators of nuclear power plants to cover the entire risk of severe accident, but limits their liability.

Friends of the Earth Europe has expressed alarm that the Heads of State cast a role for nuclear power in Europe's energy future, without offering solutions to its unsolved problems: how to treat and store waste for thousands of years, the risk of serious accidents, the proliferation of nuclear weapon material and how to secure nuclear plants against terrorist attacks.

Liability for damage to persons and property arising from potential nuclear accidents is sufficiently serious or incalculable that the risk is uninsurable in the standard insurance markets.

Such policies are «all - risk» policies, which cover everything except earthquakes, floods, war and nuclear accidents.