Sentences with phrase «nuclear regulation»

The equipment was subsequently retrieved and replaced but the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) did not permit the reactor to restart.

New research has shown that the benchmark used by the Office for Nuclear Regulation for judging how much should be spent on nuclear safety has no basis in evidence and places insufficient value on human life.

Philip Thomas, Professor of Risk Management in the Department of Civil Engineering, said: «The Office of Nuclear Regulation and other national bodies clearly have a problem with how they should assess the right level of expenditure to protect people from nuclear and other accidents.

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.

Expertise ranges from nuclear regulation to advertising standards control.

Later, it became clear that our entire nuclear regulation system, under Euratom, had been put in jeopardy due to this commitment.

Nuclear regulation across the continent is a patchwork of legal frameworks that have led to over-customization of plants and safety related equipment.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation told the same committee it could take up to six years just to approve the design of the reactors.

A ground - breaking programme created by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in 2007 and sponsored by Sellafield Ltd, Rolls - Royce, Jacobs, International Nuclear Services and the Office for Nuclear Regulation amongst others, designed to develop graduates with an awareness of the technical, political and commercial challenges facing the industry.

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority initially labelled the incident a level 1 event (known as an «anomaly») on the International Nuclear Event Scale, but yesterday upgraded it to level 3 («serious incident»), citing the large amount of contaminated water leaked and the fact that a safety buffer was not available for the water tank in question.

The research review led by Professor Philip Thomas from the University of Bristol and Dr Ian Waddington and published in the journal Nuclear Future, examined the evidence for the «value of a prevented fatality» (VPF) currently used as a safety guideline by the Office of Nuclear Regulation, the Health and Safety Executive and numerous Government departments.

The state safety watchdog, the Office for Nuclear Regulation, told Climate News Network that keeping them open is fine by them.

These go from full free trade deals with countries like Canada, to smaller trade agreements, to treaties guaranteeing regulatory cooperation on things like aviation and nuclear regulation.

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

«Nuclear Regulation: Safety is valued too low, research review shows.»

This prompted Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority to upgrade the situation from 1 to 3 — a «serious incident» on the 8 - point International Nuclear Event Scale.

If the facility passes a final inspection by Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority, J - PARC could resume normal operations by the end of next month.

Right now Tepco may be leaving it all up to the subcontractors,» said the head of Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority, Shunichi Tanaka in response to the recent accidents.

The final green light must come from the Nuclear Regulation Authority, which will inspect the facility next month.

Safety Regulation Violations Continue to OccurThe regular meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on October 11, 2017 indicated multiple safety code violations by Japan Nuclear Fuel, Limited (JNFL), operator of the Rokkasho Reprocessing...

The reactor was due to end its 40 - year operating period in September 2017 and could have applied to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) to extend its licence for a further 20 years.

Application for approval of the planned schedule for the decommissioning of Monju has been submitted to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA).

Regulatory capture can be countered only by vigorous public scrutiny and Congressional oversight, but in the 32 years since Three Mile Island, interest in nuclear regulation has declined precipitously.

Leveraging our substantial expertise in the nuclear sector, we advise clients on their supervision (pursuant to international treaties) by governments, and the inter-relation between public law and nuclear regulation.

nucleargraduates is a ground - breaking graduate programme created by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and sponsored by organisations across the nuclear industry including Rolls - Royce, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and Sellafield Ltd amongst others.

In the role, I've had discussions with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, the Office for Nuclear Regulation and Environment Agency as well as internal regulators.