Sentences with phrase «nuclear plant safety»

This has applications for nuclear plant safety, as well as national security and nuclear nonproliferation monitoring.

The committee that wrote the report examined the causes of the Japan accident and identified findings and recommendations for improving nuclear plant safety and offsite emergency responses to nuclear plant accidents in the U.S.

Visibly angry, according to Indian press reports, Rao called instead for a review of nuclear plant safety, adding: «There should be reviews; only foolish people don't want reviews.

The government policy is also due, in part, to the emergence of new nuclear energy technologies that, if successfully developed and implemented, could increase nuclear plant safety while also reducing costs and the risk of nuclear proliferation.

«Such countries must demonstrate their ability to uphold high international standards» on nuclear plant safety, security and non-proliferation, the letter signers say.

Fukushima Daiichi was plunged into crisis because its design included a «single point of failure» — in this case, an inadequate sea wall that allowed the tsunami to knock out multiple critical systems (see «Fukushima's fate inspires nuclear safety rethink» and «Can diverse power backups boost nuclear plant safety?

The committee found that current approaches for regulating nuclear plant safety, which have been based traditionally on deterministic concepts such as the design - basis accident, are clearly inadequate for preventing core - melt accidents and mitigating their consequences.

For an understanding of how nuclear plant safety is assessed and will likely be evaluated moving forward, Scientific American spoke with Najmedin Meshkati, a professor of civil, environmental, industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering in Los Angeles.

Does the IAEA get involved with evaluating nuclear plant safety?

The 74 - page report assesses nuclear power's key problems and offers recommendations to strengthen nuclear plant safety, better protect facilities against sabotage and attack, ensure the safe disposal of nuclear waste, and minimize the risk that nuclear power will help more nations and terrorists acquire nuclear weapons.

All three fuel makers tout ATF's ability to improve nuclear plant safety and reliability as well as their fuel cycle cost benefits.