Sentences with phrase «nuclear reactor safety»

Provided direct supervision of workers conducting electrical safety work on systems that are pivotal in verifying the integrity of nuclear reactor safety.

Their primary interests, according to the Wikipedia entries, focused on «avoiding nuclear war, opposing the Strategic Defense Initiative, the B2 bomber, nuclear reactor safety and global warming.»

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It is commonly recognized that the radioactivity and extreme toxicity of nuclear reactor postfission effluent and spent fuel rods constitute a hazard to human health and safety.

Officials said the decision to change the plant's nuclear safety level was due to cumulative radiation releases since the earthquake wreaked serious damage to the reactors, rather than a sudden deterioration in conditions.

Fire protection piping at Indian Point's Unit 2 reactor broke and leaked and though it resulted in a loss of water pressure to the fire suppression system, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission determined it was of «very low safety significance,» according to the N.R.C. report.

The Indian Point 2 nuclear reactor will reopen late next month in time for the summer's peak energy season after a longer - than - expected shutdown because of deteriorating bolts critical to the plant's safety.

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.

From cradle to grave, nuclear reactors pollute the environment and threaten human health and safety.

Together, the new experimental and theoretical studies will give us a much better understanding of nuclear fission, which can help improve the performance and safety of nuclear reactors.

The group analysed publicly available reports from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in areas such as failures of safety systems, the percentage of time that a reactor is not generating, and workers» exposure to radiation.

Understanding the nature of radiation damage in materials is of paramount importance for controlling the safety of nuclear reactors, using ion implantation in semiconductor technology, and designing reliable devices in space.

Buoyed by an allocation of $ 1.25 billion in funding for reactor research from the 2005 Energy Policy Act, INL scientists are working to improve safety, boost efficiency, minimize waste, and decrease cost in a new generation of nuclear reactors.

On April 26, Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff did a safety «walkdown» of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster inNuclear Regulatory Commission staff did a safety «walkdown» of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster innuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster innuclear plant disaster in Japan.

A few days after the nuclear crisis began to unfold at the Fukushima power station in Japan, Singh, who also serves as minister in charge for atomic energy, ordered a safety review of all 20 nuclear power plants and a half dozen research reactors owned and operated by the government.

Competing with France, the U.S. and other nuclear nations, Russia offers buyers lower - cost reactor deals that tout safety features engineered with the Chernobyl disaster in mind

Small modular reactors may help with two of the biggest challenges facing the nuclear industry: the growing stores of waste from existing reactors and residue from the mass production of nuclear weapons as well as the overall safety of nuclear power.

«Our inspectors found all the reactors would be kept safe even in the event their regular safety systems were affected by these events, although a few plants have to do a better job maintaining the necessary resources and procedures,» said Eric Leeds, director of the NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

This is one of many safety issues currently being investigated by his team at the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation in Bootle, as it considers licensing new, supposedly safer, reactor designs from companies like Japanese - owned Westinghouse Electric and French - owned Areva.

«It was nowhere near as complex of a release as Chernobyl, which was everything from the core of the reactor,» says Peter Caracappa, a radiation safety officer and clinical assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «This was a slow release,» he adds, and it was limited to a few radioactive materials, including iodine 131, which has a half - life of just eight days and therefore does not lead to long - term contamination.

The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy this month won a legal contention from the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board against Southern Nuclear Operating's Vogtle reactor license application for Georgia.

Three reactors have started back up under new standards issued by Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority, which was created in 2012 to regulate nuclear Nuclear Regulation Authority, which was created in 2012 to regulate nuclear nuclear safety.

With nuclear safety in the spotlight since the 2011 reactor meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant - which in turn prompted Germany to call time on its entire nuclear fleet - operators can take no chances with their elderly plants, but the outages get longer and more difficult.

BULGARIA's decision to restart its oldest nuclear reactor provoked alarm among Western nuclear safety officials last week, and triggered an international crisis.

When I read about the new safety features in the proposed nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in the UK (19...

While Japan has implemented new energy and environment polices after the March 11 disaster, many issues remain unsettled surrounding nuclear safety, renewable energy policy, and reactor decommissioning.

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.

As of midday Thursday, the country's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spokesperson Yoshitaka Nagayama, noted that «because we have been unable to go to the scene, we can not confirm whether there is water left or not in the spent fuel pool at reactor No. 4,» The New York Times reported.

But the furor that began last year over leakage of radioactive tritium from underground pipes into the groundwater around the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vernon, Vt., illustrated how concerns about reactor safety could suddenly swamp relicensing plans.

«Many of these significant events occurred because reactor owners, and often the NRC, tolerated known safety problems,» wrote David Lochbaum a nuclear engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists in a report examining the 2010 track record.

The third - generation reactors have safety features that should prevent a meltdown similar to Fukushima's but political controversy, along with the high price tag means that new nuclear complexes in the U.S. and Europe could be in the single digits instead of dozens originally planned less than a decade ago.

One of the country's oldest Magnox nuclear reactors was given safety clearance to continue operating this week.

Human error It may not be problems with the nuclear reactors themselves, however, that pose the greatest safety concern.

Safety inspectors threatened to close down the oldest commercial nuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on wnuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on wNuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on working.

TOKYO — Japan is preparing for the possibility of a summer without nuclear power as utilities and safety experts squabble over the safety of the country's remaining reactors.

Over the past week, countries around the world have announced plans to check the safety of operating reactors and rethink nuclear power policies.

Do you think that work on reactor safety will lead to more transparency in Chinese nuclear research?

On nuclear power, Moniz expressed support for developing so - called «modular» reactors that might drive down costs and improve safety.

That analysis was carried out for two reactors at a plant in Ohi on the Japan Sea coast and submitted for review to Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), which concluded they had passed.

Task force member Gary Holahan, deputy director of NRC's Office of New Reactors, said yesterday that the group concluded that action was needed to remedy the kinds of inconsistent performance by nuclear plant operators where safety measures covering extreme hazards were covered by voluntary guidelines.

The United Kingdom, which last year promised to make it easier for nuclear reactors to be built but also said that it wouldn't provide any money for their construction, today announced a new nuclear safety review in light of the events in Japan.

Much of nuclear's revival hinges on the ability of new reactors to outshine those of yore in terms of safety, economics, construction time and life span.

Yet it remains to be seen whether the AP1000 will herald nuclear's next generation, especially because the reactor is on its 18th design revision and a couple of key safety questions remain unresolved.

But neither the South Texas facility nor the applications for new reactors at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland and the Shearon Harris nuclear plant outside Raleigh, N.C., have completed the NRC's long design safety and feasibility evaluation, which could take years to complete.

: A plan to upgrade two nuclear reactors in Solvakia may force Western governments to stop dithering over nuclear safety in Eastern Europe.

A possible strategy for freeing nuclear power from its current impasse would be built around a new generation of lower - power, centrally fabricated nuclear reactors designed for inherent safety

In addition we have provided training on a broad range of topics including introduction to nuclear fission, types of reactors, radiation protection, safeguards, regulations and nuclear safety culture.

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories is a leader in sciences that are foundational to reactor safety — including the ability to predict the lifetimes of critical components used in nuclear power stations around the world, especially those in CANDU reNuclear Laboratories is a leader in sciences that are foundational to reactor safety — including the ability to predict the lifetimes of critical components used in nuclear power stations around the world, especially those in CANDU renuclear power stations around the world, especially those in CANDU reactors.

The NRC has amended FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC)'s operating licence for Perry to include revisions to the safety limit minimum critical power ratio - a measure of heat limits within the reactor core - enabling the unit to use Global Nuclear Fuel's GNF2 fuel design.

The ZED - 2 Reactor Safety & Instrumentation School will introduce Canada's next - generation of nuclear engineers and scientists to the facilities, techniques, and current areas of research in experimental reactor physics, reactor safety, and nuclear instrumentSafety & Instrumentation School will introduce Canada's next - generation of nuclear engineers and scientists to the facilities, techniques, and current areas of research in experimental reactor physics, reactor safety, and nuclear instrumentsafety, and nuclear instrumentation.

Fast reactors are a class of advanced nuclear reactors that have some key advantages over traditional reactors in safety, sustainability, and waste.