The inquiry notes that there were several futile efforts to set up a national registry in which U.K.
nuclear facility workers could volunteer for postmortem studies.
Not exact matches
Contract
workers at the U.S. Department of Energys Pantex
facility gingerly remove the plutonium cores from retired
nuclear warheads.
When the CEO of Entergy Corp. visited FitzPatrick
nuclear plant Friday to talk with 600 employees about closing the
facility, one of the
workers drew attention to the executive's hefty compensation while asking him to be fair to the rank - and - file.
Exelon has agreed to take over the FitzPatrick
nuclear power plant from Entergy for at least another 12 years, «and keep it producing
nuclear power for years and years to come,» Cuomo announced outside the Central New York
facility as
workers cheered.
But the contamination from the underground salt mine in the Chihuahuan Desert - where radioactive waste from U.S.
nuclear labs and weapons
facilities is deposited - was unlikely to have harmed the
workers» health, inspectors said.
The letter warned that the state may have difficulty disposing of the drilling waste, that thorough testing will be needed at water treatment plants, and that
workers may need to be monitored for radiation as much as they might be at
nuclear facilities.
African American communities, including
workers, are most likely to be exposed to the pollution from fossil fuel based energy production through coal plants, oil and gas refineries, as well as pollution from energy production through
nuclear facilities and waste incinerators.
They apply to
workers under federal jurisdiction such as those employed in banks, telecom or broadcast firms, postal services, airlines, surface transportation, airports and seaports, grain handling
facilities,
nuclear facilities and First Nations governments.
Nuclear power
facilities are complex, and
workers need to understand how the
facilities work in order to make adjustments and repairs to equipment and to maintain a safe working environment.