Sentences with phrase «nuclear plant workers»

In recognition of their leadership — a model of courage and tenacity for struggling nuclear plant workers and communities around the country — Environmental Progress will travel to Oswego to give the workers and their leaders the James Hansen Climate Courage Award.

The British government has apologized for 40 years of postmortem research done on nuclear plant workers — and other individuals — without proper consent.

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Besides scientists, he encountered looters and nuclear workers who still work at the plants, which are to be completely decommissioned by 2020.

As efforts continue at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant to fully fix the infrastructure damaged in the earthquake and tsunami, workers have discovered seawater with a high radioactivity.

«And keep it producing nuclear power for years and years to come,» Cuomo said outside the plant as workers cheered.

Cuomo has earmarked billions in state dollars to keep upstate nuclear plants open, saying workers needed the jobs while the state transitions to renewable fuels.

«And keep this plant operating, and keep it producing nuclear power,» Cuomo told a cheering crowd of workers on August 9th.

The decision also is partly about saving jobs, as Cuomo told power plant workers at the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego during a visit over the summer.

Workers from two struggling upstate nuclear power plants packed a state hearing on the future of nuclear power in New York yesterday, sporting t - shirts urging state officials to save their jobs.

Corbyn has reportedly told local members he will back plans to develop nuclear energy plants, and shadow business secretary Clive Lewis recently spoke out in support of the workers at Sellafield.

Other issues still on the table include: education spending, college affordability, raise the age, water infrastructure spending, workers comp reform and subsidies for three upstate nuclear plants.

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.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - Union leaders who represent FitzPatrick nuclear workers say it makes no sense for the state to allow the Oswego County plant to close, and they urge officials to find a way to keep it running.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - While 615 workers at the FitzPatrick nuclear plant wait for news about their future, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he hoped the plant would stay open but offered no reason to assume that it will.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - Entergy Corp. will decide soon whether to shut down its financially ailing FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County, which employs about 600 workers and is one of the county's biggest taxpayers.

Canale's Restaurant co-owner Nick Canale is celebrating the refueling of the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant, which brings in around 1,000 outside workers to the area who patronize businesses like his.

The operator of New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant and a local union have reached a contract agreement for security workers.

The parent company of New York's Indian Point nuclear plant and utility workers union have agreed on a four - year contract.

That's about one - third the maximum radiation dose allowed for a nuclear power plant worker in a given year.

It is only in the cafeteria of the former nuclear power plant, while we sit with the other workers eating their free lunch, that we look around, noticing faces that register, well, nothing.

The popular conception of nuclear power is straight out of The Simpsons: Springfield abounds with signs of radioactivity, from the strange glow surrounding Mr. Burn's nuclear power plant workers to Homer's low sperm count.

Human risks were framed, instead, in terms of workers in the disabled nuclear plant.

A top U.S. nuclear regulator has now given a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis, saying that radiation from uncovered spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns there

The ongoing leaks from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have raised concern that some workers and even the public could be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.

Two plant workers died within hours, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; 28 more died in the following months from radiation poisoning.

Until the Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently decided that space is not under its purview, astronauts were officially classified as radiological workers, a category that also includes employees of nuclear power plants.

The top U.S. nuclear regulator, Gregory Jaczko, gave a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis yesterday, saying that lethal radiation from uncovered spent fuel above one of the reactors could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns of damaged reactor cores at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The explosion immediately killed two workers, and 28 firemen and nuclear power plant staff died from acute radiation syndrome in the three months afterward.

The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will double the pay of contract workers as part of a revamp of operations at the station, after coming under criticism for its handling of clean - up efforts.

As night fell on Friday in Japan, workers and soldiers continued heroic efforts to douse the potential meltdown underway at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

And nuclear power plants have been operating in the U.S. for 50 years without exposing workers or residents in surrounding areas to excessive radiation.

One of those, a Nagasaki - based company called Yamato Engineering, sent 510 workers to lay pipe at the nuclear plant in violation of labor laws banning brokers.

Hayashi is one of an estimated 50,000 workers who have been hired so far to shut down the nuclear plant and decontaminate the towns and villages nearby.

The unprecedented Fukushima nuclear clean - up both inside and outside the plant faces a deepening shortage of workers.

In addition to the potential passenger dangers, he says that pilots could only fly a limited number of flights to prevent overexposure to nuclear radiation, noting that after a few flights, they would have been exposed to far more radiation than nuclear power plant workers.

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.

A worker, wearing protective suits and masks, takes notes in front of storage tanks for radioactive water at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami - crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan February 10, 2016.

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This is why when the Fukushima nuclear plant melted down, the Japanese government gave iodine supplements to aid workers and evacuees.

The collection includes a novella about two Russian writers during the liberalizing «60s and the title story, in which a nuclear power plant worker tries to sell plutonium on the black market.

I'm most looking forward to Ichi - F: A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, coming from Kodansha in March 2017.

Pooches that live at the nuclear power plant mostly interact with the workers, who feed and care for them since they were puppies, but this can easily put the workers at risk of being contaminated.

In the fall of 2007, workers at the Byron nuclear power plant in Illinois were using a wire brush to clean a badly corroded steel pipe — one in a series that circulate cooling water to essential emergency equipment — when something unexpected happened: the brush poked through.

Increasing nuclear power plant efficiency from 1980 to today came from two areas: first, improvements to how operators re-fuel reactors, and keep plants and their workers safe; second, increasing the heat and electrical generation of plants through «up - rates.»

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The head of the local union, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW Local 97) Ted Skerpon blasted Entergy, saying they were «using the FitzPatrick plant as a chip» to pressure Gov. Cuomo to stop trying to shut down Indian Point, a more profitable nuclear plant near to Manhattan.

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.

Workers are still struggling to control the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan.

Thanks to this effort, the U.S. today gets 20 % of its electricity from nuclear plants which employ 32,000 workers directly, and create an additional 200,000 jobs in the economy.