Sentences with phrase «nuclear safety standards»

Not exact matches

These include eco-design and energy labelling standards, greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicles, the internal energy market, construction product standards, chemicals regulation and nuclear safety and safeguards.

The European Atomic Energy Community, or Euratom, was formed in 1957 to lower barriers, promote non-military nuclear research and technology, establish common safety standards, and...

Nuclear power plants must continuously improve their safety standards.

«Such countries must demonstrate their ability to uphold high international standards» on nuclear plant safety, security and non-proliferation, the letter signers say.

«Governments and regulators should exercise great care in permitting any extension of the operating life of the oldest nuclear power plants still in operation that were built to the easier safety standards,» the letter says.

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.

Following the accident at Chernobyl in April 1986, the European Community backed the idea of bringing Eastern Europe's nuclear power plants up to Western safety standards.

Importing nuclear - generated energy from «neighbors with lower safety standards than Germany» is not a viable option.

Overview of efforts in Congress to weaken health and safety standards for nuclear waste storage and disposal.

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.

Proponents of increasing nuclear power should be pushing the industry to meet higher safety and security standards, and for the NRC to require the plants to meet the regulations it is supposed to enforce.

Nuclear power should gradually be restored but only once the highest safety standards are met and public trust is regained.

Our recommendations include better enforcement of existing regulations, expedited transfer of nuclear waste into dry casks, strengthened reactor security requirements, and higher safety standards for new plants.

New fossil - fuelled and nuclear power plants already are more costly than older ones, mainly because they have to be compliant with higher environmental and safety standards.

The minute safety standards, nuclear fuel recycling, and radioactive waste considerations are added, it is not in any meaningful sense a free market.

However, nuclear does pose unique safety and proliferation concerns that must be addressed with strong and binding international standards and safeguards.

The biggest energy news to come out of Brussels this week was the post-Fukushima nuclear stress test report leaked to French and German media, which concludes that the EU's nuclear power plants need to be upgraded considerably to bring them up to the highest safety standards.

* Introducing multinational management of the non-military nuclear energy fuel cycle with strict standards for safety, security, and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, including stopping reprocessing for plutonium separation

Official investigations into the Fukushima nuclear disaster conclude that upholding international safety standards alone guarantees nuclear safety, But the plant manager's account of the catastrophe sheds new light on the story, writes Franck Guarnieri of MINES ParisTech university.

But the black summer of radioactive leaks and spills shed doubt on the nuclear industry's — and in particular Areva's — ability to uphold fundamental safety standards according to an article in the International Herald Tribune.»

More stringent safety standards and construction delays also added to costs, and enthusiasm for new nuclear waned.

Advising NEPIOs in many jurisdictions on establishing their domestic nuclear laws to the best international standards including their laws relating to security, safeguards, safety and nuclear liability.