Sentences with phrase «nuclear safety today»
Some of these issues will surely be explored at a Senate hearing on nuclear safety today.
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At the very least, it is an open question whether a nuclear freeze today would enhance the world's safety.
Meanwhile, according to today's Siena poll, Nearly three - quarters of voters say they are «concerned» about the safety of New York's nuclear power plants and a majority opposes building new nuclear power plants in the state.
The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.
The cutting - edge, 1,600 - megawatt nuclear power plant, Olkiluoto 3, which its French maker Areva boasted as the most advanced safety design of the time, is still under construction today.
In Switzerland, Federal Council member Doris Leuthard announced today (English version) that the ongoing process for finding a site for three new nuclear power plants was on hold pending new safety assessments.
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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The inherent safety is a big cost advantage because a lot of nuclear's costs today relate to the extra engineering required to meet safety regulations, note the report's authors who include Breakthrough's Michael Shellenberger, one of the environmental stars of the new pro-nuclear feature film Pandora's Promise.