Sentences with phrase «nuclear accident site»

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.

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Engineers are planning to entomb the site of the worst nuclear accident in history, using robotics to dismantle the ruins and permanently seal the wreckage

But with about half of the world's nuclear power plants located on coastlines, such areas are potentially important contamination reservoirs and release sites to monitor after future accidents.

John Large, an independent nuclear engineer based in London who has inspected many Soviet plants, including Tomsk, says the fuel will be flown by the Russian military to Chelyabinsk - 65, the site of a serious accident in 1957.

A similar chemical reaction stemming from the sloppy disposal of Los Alamos» nuclear waste in 2014 provoked the shutdown of a deep - underground storage site in New Mexico for more than two years, a DOE accident investigation concluded.

Thus, WIPP's mission has been to demonstrate whether the federal government and its contractors, at the cost of unknown billions of dollars can: (1) safely operate WIPP to meet the «start clean, stay clean» standard; (2) safely transport plutonium - contaminated waste through more than 20 states without serious accidents or release of radioactive or hazardous contaminants; (3) meet commitments to clean up transuranic waste at about 20 DOE nuclear weapons sites; and (4) safely close, decontaminate, and decommission the WIPP site, beginning in 2030 or sooner.

Maria Gillardin hosts reports from nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen from Fukushima Japan, site of world's worst nuclear accident.

A view of the Three Mile Island power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history.

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.

Maria Gillardin hosts reports from nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen from Fukushima Japan, site of world's worst nuclear accident.

Three Mile Island - 20 Years Later Three Mile Island was the site of America's worst commercial nuclear accident.

This ruling allows regulators to «avoid careful consideration of serious environmental and human health impacts associated with a plan to build new nuclear reactors at the Darlington site on Lake Ontario — including the consequences of a major nuclear accident — during the project's environmental assessment.»