Sentences with phrase «nuclear safety»

Political licence means stringent but transparent policies and technical frameworks that guarantee the whole sector operates with the utmost respect for nuclear safety.

On the other hand, it's going to really put more scrutiny on nuclear safety - related issues, which is not bad.

How does a risk - based approach to nuclear safety work?

And he emphasized the need to continue research into nuclear safety and the handling of waste.

From my discussions here, it's obvious they're interested in research in the whole nuclear safety area.

The meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant last spring cast the issue of nuclear safety in stark relief.

Terrestrial Energy has received the Trailblazer Special Achievement Award from the United States Nuclear Infrastructure Council (USNIC) in recognition of our completion of the Phase One Pre-Licensing Vendor Design Review with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in November 2017.

Last year, New York - headquartered Terrestrial Energy USA's parent, Canada's Terrestrial Energy Inc, announced its plans to engage with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in a pre-licensing design review, a first step towards an eventual licence application.

The European Commission is seeking indemnity agreements with Russia and Ukraine, which cover all contractors involved in nuclear safety projects under the Union's aid programme.

Before John Major's recent visit to Moscow I brought to his attention Debora MacKenzie's article on assistance for nuclear safety projects in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

As nuclear safety engineer Homer Simpson prayed one Thanksgiving: «And Lord, we are especially thankful for nuclear power, the cleanest, safest energy source there is.

Recommendation: To improve DOE's management and oversight of the WTP project, the Secretary of Energy should not resume construction on the WTP's pretreatment and high - level waste facilities until critical technologies are tested and verified as effective, the facilities» design has been completed to the level established by nuclear industry guidelines, and Bechtel's preliminary documented safety analyses complies with DOE nuclear safety regulations.

Kan spoke to reporters shortly before flying to the quake - ravaged region with nuclear safety authorities — including going over the Daiichi facility — according to Fujisaki.

In the wake of the meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi, the IAEA urged a critical review of nuclear safety systems

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.

These are good, common sense recommendations,» said Mattson, who helped convene a group of international nuclear safety experts who recommended stronger international reactor safeguards to the International Atomic Energy Agency following the Fukushima accident.

Veaujour says a joint study for the French nuclear safety agency IFPN, and Germany's GRS, also «broadly approved» EDF's plans for Mochovce last month.

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.

Using firsthand accounts, technical records, and media coverage, the book explores why Fukushima happened — and what it means for U.S. nuclear safety.

Backup power was needed at Fukushima after the magnitude - 9.0 quake struck and the six power lines bringing in offsite electrical power to Fukushima Daiichi were severed, says Michael Weightman, Britain's chief nuclear installations inspector and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Nuclear Safety Group.

[iii] Although some countries like Germany are worried about nuclear safety because of the nuclear accident in Japan due to the tsunami, plant safety enhancements (e.g. passive cooling features that do not rely on generators to keep water flowing to reactor cores) make future accidents like Fukushima unlikely.

China's National Nuclear Safety Administration said data from radiation monitoring stations near the North Korean border showed no impact on «China's environment or populace».

CGN said the Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company - a joint venture between CGN (70 %) and EDF (30 %) that owns the plant - was issued with the permit yesterday afternoon in Beijing by Liu Hua, vice minister of ecology and environmental affairs and director of the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA).

You can find comprehensive, up - to - date information on fire protection problems, flooding and earthquake risks, recent near - misses, and other nuclear safety issues affecting individual plants and reactors near your community — or view how these issues affect the nuclear fleet as a whole.

While we absorb background radiation every day, standing next to a newly removed reactor spent fuel rod for a few seconds will kill you, David Lochbaum, the Union of Concerned Scientists» (UCS) nuclear safety engineer, calculates.

Data from his experiments suggest the absence of background levels of radiation causes a stress response and inhibits microbial growth, challenging nuclear safety protocols that consider no radiation the only safe level of exposure.

Some of these issues will surely be explored at a Senate hearing on nuclear safety today.

«The weird thing about criticality safety is that it's not intuitive,» Don Nichols, a former chief for defense nuclear safety at the NNSA, said in an interview.

In May 2016, the French nuclear safety regulator said an ongoing quality audit at Areva's Le Creusot forge - which Areva bought in 2006 - had identified «irregularities» in paperwork on some 400 plant components produced there since 1965.

The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to relocate a state - of - the - art radiation monitoring laboratory from Las Vegas to Alabama, a move that has drawn protests from nuclear safety activists and officials from Nevada and California.

Many of the projects contracted by CNL require the supplier to be capable of demonstrating compliance to specific Nuclear Safety Related and or Quality Management System.

«While submissions came from a variety of organisations representing the feedback of a diverse group of interested parties, there were areas of general agreement, including the positive economic benefits to Canada, alignment with Canada's commitment to fight climate change, important applications for remote communities, and the potential to enhance nuclear safety through next - generation nuclear technology,» CNL said.

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.

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.

Meserve said he urged the panels to strengthen Japan's regulatory oversight of nuclear power, making nuclear safety the highest priority for plant operators, above cost and power production.

Abe reassured nervous residents that Japan's nuclear safety standards were the toughest in the world.

The crisis at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has revealed gaps in U.S. nuclear safety procedures

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?

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.

Jean Tandonnet, EDF Group's nuclear safety inspector, said in January that its French fleet last year had a series of «problematic unit outages», and scheduled outages were extended by an average of more than 26 days.

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

The DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy develops, manufactures, tests and delivers radioisotope power systems for space exploration and national security missions and maintains responsibility for nuclear safety throughout all aspects of the missions.

The East - West nuclear relationship has become so convoluted that Russian officials have even accused Germany of entrapping plutonium dealers simply to discredit Russia and open markets for Germany's own nuclear safety and control systems.

At a meeting in Sofia last week, officials from the French and German nuclear safety authorities made a last ditch effort to convince Bulgaria not to restart the pressurised water reactor, which is located at Kozloduy on the Danube (see Map).