Sentences with phrase «of nuclear accidents»

As to the effects of nuclear accidents in general, consider that Chernobyl was a «worse than worst case» accident, yet the Earth kept on ticking just fine: no temperature increase, no Arctic ice melt, no ocean acidification... Indeed, it seems that for most creatures life in the so - called «dead zone» is a distinct improvement on previous condidtions.

That has social and political attractions, as well as reducing carbon emissions and the threat of nuclear accidents.

Yamamura, Eiji (2011): How does corruption influence perceptions of the risk of nuclear accidents?

Perhaps the consequences of nuclear accidents need to be faced in a way where improved engineering is the solution rather than mothballing.

because of my views on the potential consequences of nuclear accidents.

-- Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima: An analysis of traditional and new media coverage of nuclear accidents and radiation.

An excellent and entertaining journey through history of nuclear accidents, both civilian and military.

Fuelled by fears of nuclear accidents following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, more than 1 million signatures were collected to register public objections to the construction.

Many Indian and foreign nuclear energy technology companies have not been willing to supply nuclear technology and services to India because laws in the country leave suppliers open to financial liability for damages to third parties in the case of a nuclear accident.

Indian laws leave suppliers open to financial liability for damages to third parties in the case of a nuclear accidentThird, many Canadian and other foreign companies have been unwilling to supply nuclear technology and services to India because Indian laws leave suppliers open to financial liability for damages to third parties in the case of a nuclear accident.

In the past 40 years destructive power and the chances of a nuclear accident or of uncontrolled escalation have increased immeasurably.

NRDC has long opposed relicensing its two reactors because of Indian Point's history of operational, safety and environmental problems, as well as the grave risk of a nuclear accident so close to the nation's largest city,» said Kit Kennedy, director of the energy and transportation program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The United States wants India to enact a legislative measure limiting the liability of foreign companies in the event of a nuclear accident.

However, federal law requires nuclear power companies to contribute to an insurance pool that will cover the costs of nuclear accident damage.

Cohen acknowledges the risk of a nuclear accident, and the dangers of the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Some residents did not realise they were being evacuated from their homes because of a nuclear accident and might not be able to return for a long time.

[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.

The Price - Anderson Act, which became law on September 2, 1957, was designed to ensure that adequate funds would be available to satisfy liability claims of members of the public for personal injury and property damage in the event of a nuclear accident involving a commercial nuclear power plant.

Which specifies that in the event of a nuclear accident the operators of said plant can be held liable up to 650 million dollars.

Given what we now know it's reasonable to plan on the basis that the chance of a nuclear accident of some sort leading to mass destruction is at least 1 % per year.

Not exact matches

She also toured Three Mile Island, walking viewers through how cheap natural gas is shutting that plant down when one of the worst nuclear accidents in history could not.

Chernobyl is still considered the worst nuclear accident in history — but it could have been much, much worse, if not for a so - called «suicide squad» of three brave volunteers.

But the central thesis of «The Bomb,» and one Schlosser made strongly in «Command and Control» (which also premiered at Tribeca as a documentary film adaptation), is that mortifying accidents have happened, and will happen again: People are human and nuclear weapons are machines.

Prices for the metal have been depressed in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, but the situation got so bad this year that Cameco, the world's largest publicly traded uranium miner, had to suspend production at multiple mines.

Alongside this belching motorcade of backroom dealing and cronyism rides the nuclear industry, which stands to benefit from the NOPR more or less by accident.

We just passed the one year anniversary of Japan's devastating earthquake, tsunami and resulting nuclear accident.

It is difficult to draw any conclusion other than that nuclear war, either by accident or because of uncontrollable escalation, is not likely to be prevented.

These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

An atomic build - up can not be risked, because of the ease with which a nuclear war could be initiated by accident if not by design.

«Such a possibility of a nuclear exchange with Russia, starting by accident, no matter how remote it might be at present, would have such a catastrophic result that we should be working hard now to ensure that it can never happen.

And yet the manager has seemingly remained unconvinced that the Frenchman should start ahead of a player composed almost entirely of elbows; a player who resembles the probable result of an unfortunate nuclear accident involving a donkey and the Jackson 5.

But community groups are concerned about the potential for accidents, and environmentalists about the toll nuclear takes on water resources and the wildlife killed when reactors use river or lake water for cooling — particularly at Indian Point, less than 30 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River.

«In summary, analysis of the Fukushima Dai - ichi accident reveals no fundamental safety weaknesses in the UK's nuclear industry.

It received renewed attention due to the political impact of the Russia - Belarus energy dispute and the fukushima1 nuclear accidents.

Federal regulators will have to redo an analysis of the economic impacts of a potential severe accident at New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office had raised the issue during the ongoing relicensing process and appealed the initial decision, saying there needed to be a new analysis of the impacts caused by potential severe accidents at the Buchanan nuclear facility and potential upgrades to protect the public against such accidents.

A three - man team from the University of Bristol have devised a semi-autonomous, drone to help monitor radiation levels after nuclear accidents.

2012: Kiyoshi Kurokawa — Dr. Kurokawa was recognized for his responsible leadership of an independent investigation into the events leading up to and following the 2011 nuclear Fukushima accident.

The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, like the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, is prompting countries around the world to reassess the safety of their plants and their nuclear aspirations.

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The safety of deep pools used to store used radioactive fuel at nuclear plants has been an issue since the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in March.

Nuclear disasters are also far more likely to make national or international media than the plethora of car accidents that take place every day, looming large in people's minds despite their relative rarity.

, a vocal opponent of nuclear power, saw Jaczko's statement as a welcome response to his concerns about the ability of the AP1000 to survive a major earthquake, hurricane or earthquake strike, and as evidence of NRC's closer scrutiny of safety issues following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.

But no new nuclear power plants have been built here in 30 years, partly because of the public's aversion to nuclear power after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

In late April 1986, Sladek was hobbling around her home with a broken leg, the result of a skiing accident, when she heard a news report about an explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.

After analyzing the data, researchers found radiocesium from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in the sediment samples along with a high fraction of clay material, which is characteristic of shelf and slope sediments suggesting a near shore source.

A Chernobyl can not happen here — a survey by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) established that our reactors are free of the design flaws that permitted Chernobyl to explode, and in the United States a typical reactor core is surrounded by multiple enclosures to block the escape of radioactive material even in the event of an accident.

In case of an accident, multiple systems would keep cooling water flowing to the core, and control rods would quickly drop, automatically shutting down the nuclear reactions.

Public concerns about nuclear power have traditionally centered on two issues: the risk of widespread radioactive fallout from an accident and the hazards of nuclear waste.

The U.S. nuclear industry can point to an enviable safety record — no member of the public has ever been injured by an accident at a plant.