Graphene oxide can help absorb radioactive waste from
nuclear accidents like the one at Fukushima disaster.
The breakthrough could hold the key to cleaning radioactive waste in nuclear reactors and after
nuclear accidents like the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
I'd far rather live with the aftereffects of a «worse than worse case»
nuclear accident like this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4923342.stm than what a few of those concentrating solar plants would do to the Mojave.
Not exact matches
After the Three Mile Island
nuclear accident in the United States, messages were continually available on computer bulletin boards
like «emergency hotline,» «emergency planner information,» and «operations and maintenance information,» and many others.
The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant,
like the
accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, is prompting countries around the world to reassess the safety of their plants and their
nuclear aspirations.
In this way, diseases such as MERS are more
like nuclear disasters than car
accidents.
New virtual reality training could help prevent
accidents in «safety - critical» industries
like the NHS, aviation, the military and
nuclear power.
Accidents at
nuclear powder plants —
like the one in Fukushima — might have you avoiding seafood from the West coast.
That the world needs to realise that there is now already proven safe
nuclear technology that precludes anything
like a Fukushima or Chernobyl
accident.
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.
One of the risks of
nuclear power is a catastrophic
accident like the one at Chernobyl in Russia.
But in order to play this role, they need to be catastrophic,
like the
accidents in Chernobyl in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011 that led governments to suspend and even abolish their
nuclear energy programs.
[iii] Although some countries
like Germany are worried about
nuclear safety because of the
nuclear accident in Japan due to the tsunami, plant safety enhancements (e.g. passive cooling features that do not rely on generators to keep water flowing to reactor cores) make future
accidents like Fukushima unlikely.
For
nuclear energy to remain viable
accidents like Tshernobyl and Fukushima must be prevented very effectively.
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.
by way of example, The Argumentative Indian blog asks: Who would be liable for a Japan -
like nuclear accident in India?