Sentences with phrase «nuclear reactor accident»

A cross-sectional study was performed on the adverse effects of sleep time on the mental health of children after the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent nuclear reactor accident in March 2011.

And just as the atomic bomb indiscriminately killed tens of thousands of civilians, this nuclear reactor accident, albeit on a smaller scale, will be responsible for indiscriminate suffering and lives cut short; the consequences are likely to play out over the next several decades due to radiation pollution and the resulting economic costs.»

Though not all viewers appreciated the film's unwavering anti-nuclear sentiments, it proved to be chillingly prophetic; only a short time after its release the nearly catastrophic nuclear reactor accident at Three Mile Island occurred.

The hot spot is similar to levels found in some areas affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident in the former Soviet Union.

Based on the J - value, only ten to 20 per cent of the 335,000 people who moved away permanently after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident needed to leave their homes on grounds of radiological protection.

Using the theory of optimal control, mathematicians at the University of Manchester carried out a computer analysis of hundreds of possible large nuclear reactor accidents across the world.

Not exact matches

These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

But community groups are concerned about the potential for accidents, and environmentalists about the toll nuclear takes on water resources and the wildlife killed when reactors use river or lake water for cooling — particularly at Indian Point, less than 30 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River.

NRDC has long opposed relicensing its two reactors because of Indian Point's history of operational, safety and environmental problems, as well as the grave risk of a nuclear accident so close to the nation's largest city,» said Kit Kennedy, director of the energy and transportation program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

After the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island — a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania — stricter regulations driven by public fear prompted TVA to shut down its two nuclear reactors.

A Chernobyl can not happen here — a survey by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) established that our reactors are free of the design flaws that permitted Chernobyl to explode, and in the United States a typical reactor core is surrounded by multiple enclosures to block the escape of radioactive material even in the event of an accident.

The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.

China pauses its plans to build the most new nuclear reactors in the world in the wake of the accident at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan — but will not halt them

Despite the severity of the accident at the Fukushima I plant, nuclear reactor designers don't expect the same type of backlash against the nuclear industry as occurred a generation ago after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

This month, Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor was supposed to begin generating power, a tangible sign of the revival of the nuclear industry outside of Asia after nearly 30 years of no new construction because of accidents, cost - overruns and other issues.

The breakthrough could hold the key to cleaning radioactive waste in nuclear reactors and after nuclear accidents like the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

The accident could have blocked the flow of coolant gas and caused the fuel in one of the reactor's 6156 channels to melt and leak radioactivity, but it was 9 hours before Nuclear Electric decided to shut down the reactor.

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

They built a huge nuclear industry, producing both bombs and electricity with unsafe reactors and sent the waste to leaky dumps and accident - prone reprocessing plants.

Plans to build a new generation of nuclear reactors in Italy have run aground following the accident at the Fukushima plant in Japan last month.

This is recognised by the nuclear power industry and its regulators, whose aim is to make the risk of accidents as low, and thus the reactors as safe, as is reasonably achievable.

In response to the earthquake - triggered accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, India's prime minister has asked for a full safety audit of India's 20 operating nuclear reactors.

This raised the original rating from level 5 and puts the Fukushima Daiichi disaster technically in the same category as Chernobyl, although the quantity of discharged radioactive materials in Japan so far is about 10 percent of what was released by the Chernobyl reactor explosion, considered history's worst nuclear accident.

KIEV, Ukraine — In 1986 the worst nuclear accident in history took place when reactor No. 4 in the power plant at nearby Chernobyl exploded, spewing large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.

The U.S. Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), in a report last November, related desperate actions by TEPCO crews to contain the reactor accident in the critical first week of the crisis, as they tried to operate crucial valves and instruments with truck batteries; hauled massive emergency power cables over flooded passageways where manhole covers had been dislodged; and faced a series of hydrogen explosions and sudden spikes in radiation.

Of all the failures, human error among the 50 to 55 reactor operators who staff a nuclear power plant control room in shifts looms largest, particularly in the case of the most notorious nuclear accident in U.S. history: Three Mile Island (TMI).

Energy specialists at The Open University using Public Health England's software investigated the likely effects on the public of a severe accident on a fictional nuclear reactor located on England's South Downs.

Typically, pressurized water reactors» containment systems consist of a concrete dome reinforced with steel to prevent radioactive fumes from escaping during a nuclear accident.

And Western nuclear firms, despite their hunger for new markets, have shied away from upgrading the reactors, for fear of being held liable for any subsequent accidents.

«Dale Klein told me that those three nuclear applications will be approved,» she told the State of the Planet conference at Columbia University today, the 29th anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Island in Middletown, Pa. (Subsequently, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the then Ukrainian Soviet Republic melted down in April 1986 in what would become the worst nuclear power accident in history, spreading radiation as far away as North America and leading to the evacuation and resettlement of more than 336,000 people).

SMR - 160, a nuclear reactor, does not rely on any pumps or motors to remove heat from the nuclear fuel during any anticipated transients or postulated accidents.

The experiments have provided invaluable data that will be used to validate codes and nuclear data for advanced fuel cycles, as well as to derive reactor kinetics parameters for studies of transient / accident phenomena for these fuels.

Response: SMR - 160 is a small modular pressurized water nuclear reactor power plant that does not rely on any pumps or motors to remove heat from the nuclear fuel, for all normal and accident scenarios.

Response: The Fukushima accident happened when flooding of power plant safety systems caused by the tsunami prevented operation of pumps needed to cool the nuclear fuel within the reactor and the fuel storage pools, causing that irradiated fuel to overheat.

After his retirement from Tohoku University in 2012, he moved to Maui to complete a 60 cm telescope moving the project from Tohoku University's Iitate observatory, which has been contaminated with radiation by the accident of nuclear reactor in March 2011, to Haleakala summit.

Pierre Oneid, Holtec International's senior vice president and chief nuclear officer explains that small reactor designs will incorporate safety lessons learned from the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents.

It noted the high cost of upgrading the reactor to meet new safety standards introduced following the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Standard homeowner's policies in the United States don't cover radiation damage caused by an accident at a commercial nuclear reactor.

The ensuing accident at the Fukushima nuclear reactor was invisible but also deadly.

Similarly, the importance of the NDTT and accident sequences in which it might be important were recognized early on in the nuclear reactor era.

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.

After nearly 60 years of nuclear power, 15,000 reactor - years of operational experience and only one accident that caused fatalities, it is clearly demonstrated, by virtually all authoritative studies, that nuclear is about the safest way of generating electricity.

If plant cancellations were from the accidents, as is frequently claimed, then why did the backlash against nuclear not occur after the far more dangerous 1957 Windscale fire, which shot iodine - 131 across the English countryside, or after the 1966 Fermi - 1 sodium fast reactor fire?

Congress should establish financial incentives for power plant owners to purchase safer reactor designs and make safety upgrades by increasing the liability of the nuclear industry for a nuclear accident.

If we use full - cost pricing — requiring utilities to absorb the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, of decommissioning the plant when it is worn out, and of insuring the reactors against possible accidents and terrorist attacks — building nuclear plants in a competitive electricity market is clearly not economical.

Using a high pressure coolant in a nuclear reactor is not a good idea and lends itself to a number of accident scenarios.

In the event of a catastrophic accident, every nuclear utility would be required to contribute up to $ 95.8 million for each licensed reactor to a pool to help cover the accident's cost.

Serious nuclear - reactor accidents; 4.

In 1986, an unshielded reactor burned for over a week at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the world's worst - ever nuclear accident.