Sentences with phrase «nuclear safety review»

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.

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In a recent Compas Inc. poll, Canadian CEOs said the crisis in Japan is bad news for new nuclear energy installations in the short term, until safety reviews are completed, and ranked the statement a 5.6 on a 7 - point scale, where 1 means strongly disagree and 7 means strongly agree.

The Indian Point Nuclear power pant, owned and operated by Entergy, arecurrently under review by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel pending the renewal of its operating license for the next 20 years.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined the project does not add significant safety risk, based on an NRC review and analysis submitted from Indian Point - owner Entergy Nuclear.

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

Westinghouse said in a statement Friday that it was «confident in the AP1000 design and its passive safety features, as it is one of the most studied, reviewed and analyzed nuclear power plant designs in the history of the commercial nuclear power industry.»

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.

Older nuclear plants require a particularly critical review to determine what «backfit» additions of safety measures are required, they say.

But for 50 or so nations currently running or constructing nuke plants, the calamity was an incentive to take a moment to run some stress tests and review the safety manuals before reaffirming their support for nuclear power.

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

Visibly angry, according to Indian press reports, Rao called instead for a review of nuclear plant safety, adding: «There should be reviews; only foolish people don't want reviews.

P. Balaram, a molecular biophysicist and director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, and 60 others last week wrote an open letter to the public, stating: «We strongly believe that India must radically review its nuclear power policy for appropriateness, safety, costs, and public acceptance, and undertake an independent, transparent safety audit of all its nuclear facilities, which involves non-Department of Atomic Energy experts and civil society organisations.

Q: After the Japan incident, the Indian Prime Minister has ordered a safety review of nuclear facilities?

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.

Nuclear has the longest path, because it takes more time to obtain site and building permits and to clear safety reviews.

Licensing is always significant for new nuclear plants because safety is of the utmost importance, but review after review have concluded there are no fundamental impediments to PRISM licensing.

In a statement the NNSA said that, before the first loading of materials, it had conducted a five - year safety review of the Taishan nuclear power project and dispatched on - site supervisors for the entire construction process.

In its Report, «Pre-application Safety Evaluation: Report for the Power Reactor Innovative Small Module (PRISM) Liquid Metal Reactor,» the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) stated: «On the basis of the review performed, the staff, with the ACRS in agreement, concludes that no obvious impediments to licensing the PRISM design have been identified.»

The new Radiation Safety + Review and Essentials program provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of radiation safety for nuclear medicine technologists preparing to take the NMTCB's Radiation Safety Certification ExaminSafety + Review and Essentials program provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of radiation safety for nuclear medicine technologists preparing to take the NMTCB's Radiation Safety Certification Examinsafety for nuclear medicine technologists preparing to take the NMTCB's Radiation Safety Certification ExaminSafety Certification Examination.

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.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is currently involved in pre-licensing vendor design reviews - an optional service to assess of a nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 3Nuclear Safety Commission is currently involved in pre-licensing vendor design reviews - an optional service to assess of a nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 3nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 300 MWe.

SNMMI's new Radiation Safety + Review and Essentials program provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of radiation safety for nuclear medicine technologists preparing to take the NMTCB's Radiation Safety Certification ExaminSafety + Review and Essentials program provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of radiation safety for nuclear medicine technologists preparing to take the NMTCB's Radiation Safety Certification Examinsafety for nuclear medicine technologists preparing to take the NMTCB's Radiation Safety Certification ExaminSafety Certification Examination.

The two companies hope to advance an aSMR design for global power generation with initial deployment in Canada, including the pursuit of a preliminary regulatory review by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, based on earlier technology licensing success in the United States.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has completed the first phase of a vendor design review of Terrestrial Energy Inc's Integrated Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR).

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) is to conduct pre-licensing vendor design reviews (VDRs) of small modular reactor designs from NuScale Power and Westinghouse Electric Company.

So in light of what's happened in Japan, I've requested a comprehensive safety review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to make sure that all of our existing nuclear energy facilities arNuclear Regulatory Commission to make sure that all of our existing nuclear energy facilities arnuclear energy facilities are safe.

It recently cleared a big hurdle with the federal government, passing part of a safety review by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

In the 1970's -1980's, primarily due to burdensome safety reviews and what the authors term «over-regulation», nuclear power plants in the US came in with costs on the order of $ 4000 / kW or more.

Two days ago, Senate Democrats demanded a broad review of the safety of the country's nuclear plants, with nine Democrats even seeking to delay legislation to allow the construction of a new plant in Iowa.

After a few years under a more structured oversight system most of the scientists eventually recognized the science peer review process did not always provide the level of nuclear safety assurance that the Congress and public was demanding.

It might have been better to keep Germany's existing nuclear power plants operational and do a thorough safety review so that they can be used until a transition to renewables can be done directly (without having to build a large amount of new fossil fuel plants).

The most comprehensive peer - reviewed studies done by independent scientists evaluate air pollution, worker safety, and all of the other risks in energy production and find that nuclear is safer than coal, oil, natural gas, and even solar.20, 21