Sentences with phrase «nuclear accident shows»

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

Not exact matches

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.

But, as the State Council decree and accident in Japan show, safety remains the key concern for nuclear power.

«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.

During a drill simulating a criticality accident on June, 15, 2016, some alarms at PF - 4 didn't work, and workers showed «inattentiveness» to a colleague who pretended to be wounded, according to a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board summary of the exercise; as a result, they were judged to have failed portions of the test.

New investigations showed higher levels of radiation off Fukushima after the 2011 nuclear accident in Japan.

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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.

What it shows is random fluctuations that don't correlate well with radiation exposures, on top of an overall downward trend in mortality after the nuclear accident.

It's hardly a perfect fuel, as accidents like Japan's Fukushima fallout have shown, but with safety precautions new nuclear plants can meaningfully offset dirtier types of energy, supporters say.