Sentences with phrase «on nuclear risk»
He spoke of the need for scientists and other experts on nuclear risks and realities to engage with the media and public in such instances to clarify what is, and is not, a worry.
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The risk of the U.S. pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, resulting in sanctions on the producing nation, has already largely been priced in, underpinning the market, he said.
The panels that advise the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on its Doomsday clock have pushed the measure of the risk of nuclear war to just two minutes before midnight.
Speaking on Sunday, Fihn said the risk of nuclear weapons being used was now greater than during the Cold War.
But the risk to people also largely depends on whether or not North Korea launches a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile or a shorter - range rocket, such as one launched from a submarine.
Nevertheless, the judgment is made that a coal - and nuclear - fission - based energy policy is centered on high - risk technologies.
Nigel Farage suggested that the risk of migrant sex attacks on women would be the «nuclear bomb» of the EU referendum.
Based on America's reluctance to use nuclear weapons, and America's desire not to risk American cities, Kim may believe he can attack a neighbor, perhaps even with a nuclear weapon, without fear of a nuclear response from America so long as he maintains the ability to threaten America directly but doesn't actually attack America.
The reasons for the continuing support for nuclear energy by political parties of all colours is simple: our dependence on fossil fuels poses real risks to the country's energy security, the environment and energy prices.
I brought up the MSNBC report that deemed one of the three reactors at the Hudson River nuclear power plant 24 miles from NYC (or 34 miles from Midtown, depending on how you're measuring), the most at risk in the nation of earthquake damage.
Blanch says using the Freedom of Information Laws, he obtained data from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the risk study they conducted, and what he saw concerns him.
«The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still relying on 40 - year - old data that suggests that the risk of seismic activity is somewhere between a 1.0 magnitude earthquake and a 3.0.»
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 2006, 20 years after reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was encased in cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposed.
Regarding why Japan is so reliant on nuclear power despite the tectonic risks is a matter of economics.
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.
Adding a price on carbon emissions at even a «modest» level of $ 25 per ton would make new nuclear energy competitive with coal and natural gas even if the risk premium remains, the MIT study concludes.
Eliminating this financial risk premium makes nuclear power levelized electricity cost competitive with that of coal, and it becomes lower than that of coal when a modest price on carbon dioxide emissions is imposed,» the report says.
Nuclear power's foes have also kept up an attack on the use of DOE loan guarantees for new reactors contending that the risks to taxpayers were too great unless the credit subsidy requirement was pushed far up.
Though the EU has conducted risk and safety tests on the bloc's nuclear plants, environmental campaigners say the tests failed to address risks associated with ageing technology, among other things.
The huge report from the US Committee on Nuclear Energy and Alternative Strategies, for instance, covered virtually every aspect of nuclear power costs, risks and policy implicNuclear Energy and Alternative Strategies, for instance, covered virtually every aspect of nuclear power costs, risks and policy implicnuclear power costs, risks and policy implications.
In a related editor's note, JAMA Internal Medicine Editor - in - Chief Rita F. Redberg, M.D., M.Sc., writes: «These findings suggest that the current practice of performing a stress test on low - risk patients in the ED is unnecessary and prolongs the length of stay in EDs as well as increases unnecessary medical imaging, with significant associated radiation risk for tests that include nuclear imaging.
The Albuquerque Journal reports on a press conference an hour ago in which authorities fighting the raging blaze downplayed the risk of the fire striking a huge cache of nuclear waste stored onsite.
Used in conjunction with mammography, imaging based on nuclear medicine is currently being used as a successful secondary screening alongside mammography to reduce the number of false positive results in women with dense breasts and at higher risk for developing breast cancer.
Oil leaked into the Hudson River on Sunday after a transformer fire and explosion a day earlier at the Indian Point nuclear plant north of New York City, putting the local environment at risk
In May, workers packed a drum of nuclear waste with too much plutonium, posing a criticality risk, and in the ensuing probe, it became clear that they were relying on inaccurate and confusing documentation.
On top of the risk of a deadly, engineered virus leaking into public spaces, there are also the environmental dangers of climate change, nuclear war, the potential of an enormous asteroid strike wiping us out, and the problem of humanity's overpopulation of the planet, just to name a few of the biggest challenges when it comes to remaining on EartOn top of the risk of a deadly, engineered virus leaking into public spaces, there are also the environmental dangers of climate change, nuclear war, the potential of an enormous asteroid strike wiping us out, and the problem of humanity's overpopulation of the planet, just to name a few of the biggest challenges when it comes to remaining on Earton Earth.
Interestingly, many of those on the side of nuclear DNA damage as being important in aging beyond cancer risk tend to pull senescent cells into the picture they paint.
A typical nuclear medicine procedure may impart a radiation dose to the patient comparable to about one to four years of natural background radiation depending on the type of study.1 As with X-rays, the value of diagnostic imaging is great and the risks are negligible compared to the health benefits of having the procedure.
When nuclear medicine and molecular imaging procedures are performed correctly on appropriate patients, the benefits of the procedure very far outweigh the potential risks.
Potassium iodide (KI) is an over-the-counter supplement that, when taken within hours after a nuclear accident (or attack on nuclear facilities) may help protect the thyroid from the risk of thyroid cancer.
Dietary fibre modifications that are low in fat and glucose reduce the risk for AD by not only effecting cell membranes and nutrient sensing G coupled receptors but also by regulating number of nuclear receptors such as histone deacetylases (HDAC) and peroxisome proliferator activated receptors (PPAR) that control glucose, fatty acids and cholesterol and have significant effects on the brain cholesterol homeostasis and amyloidosis.
That means that coverage would apply regardless of the cause of direct physical loss, except for excluded causes such as a nuclear hazard — not a large risk on Amarillo, TX Renters Insurance.
«Should the nuclear agreement with Iran be jeopardized in any way and thus Iranian barrels be put at risk, the positive impact on oil prices could be significant,» writes Barasch in his note.
YoYo games proudly share the list of known games made in their engine, and those include Risk of Rain, Hotline Miami, Nuclear Throne, Hyper Light Drifter, Gunpoint, Hero Seige and Blackhole, and are available across multiple platforms on Steam and consoles.
At the end of the day, it depends of users» needs and the level of acceptable risk they are willing to take when building on the coast (e.g. building a nuclear power plant v. a community centre).
A review of European press coverage of Japan's crisis by the magazine summarizes a Czech piece describing Europe as «the world champion of hysteria around nuclear power» and criticizing leaders there for «surfing on a wave of emotions» disconnected from sober analysis of relative risks.
Which is a good job, given the shortage of high - grade uranium ore, the huge unmanageable risks associated with nuclear plants and nuclear proliferation, the large amounts of embedded carbon in uranium refining and processing (and other GHG emissions from the nuclear industry), and the insanity of developing a huge strategic fuel dependence on countries such as Russia.
This is an extraordinarily important failure of a nuclear plant and the inadequate design — which utterly discounted tsunami risks, for instance — raises big questions about how best to manage the world's aging fleet of older nuclear plants — including the one here on the Hudson River — going forward.
Surely the theoretical risk of accidents (catastrophes if you like) associated with civil nuclear reactors are on an insignificant scale relative to the risks faced by humanity by running out of energy.
Kennedy's most convincing points were on the economics of nuclear energy (an area the film avoids tackling), while Stone effectively challenged assertions about health risks.
Despite the public focus on radiation risks, cost has long been the main obstacle to a substantial expansion of nuclear power generation, and will be even more as a result of Japan's still - unfolding effort to secure the wave - ravaged Fukushima Daiichi complex.
Almost 20 years ago, Harold Lewis, a respected physicist who had advised the government and the Pentagon on matters ranging from nuclear winter to missile defense, included his assessment of climate change from the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases in a book on technological risk:
I first saw the phrase «dread to risk ratio» the other day in an essay on the nuclear calamity in Japan by Robert Socolow, a Princeton University physicist focused on energy and climate.
Jim Hansen's worries are all focused on [the greenhouse gas] CO2 so he's not directly addressing the risk question (for example, the reality that coal produces more radiation and deaths than nuclear, etc.).
Paul Fisher, a Dot Earth reader from New Jersey who recently expressed cogent concerns here about dealing with the risks in a complex engineered system — nuclear power plants — has offered similar observations about a complex biogeophysical system in a comment on my post on Arctic climate change, past and future.
One is Lochbaum crediting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and industry with at least a couple of proactive decisions — including the commission insisting on flood protections that had been fought by the owners of the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant north of Omaha, Neb. — and that proved critical in limiting risk from last year's Nuclear Regulatory Commission and industry with at least a couple of proactive decisions — including the commission insisting on flood protections that had been fought by the owners of the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant north of Omaha, Neb. — and that proved critical in limiting risk from last year's nuclear power plant north of Omaha, Neb. — and that proved critical in limiting risk from last year's floods.
Health Risk Assessment from the Nuclear Accident After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, Based on a Preliminary Dose Estimation (World Health Organization, 2013); http://go.nature.com/2ndqml3
Some degree of fear is rather normal given the way humans approach risk, particularly with something like the risks from radiation, and particularly given inherent trust that comes from for - profit overlay onto the «common good» and (IMO) laying that fear exclusively at the feet of environmentalists, or simply labeling it as irrational, is more a product of ideologically - driven identity - protective cognition and tribalism on the part of nuclear proponents than a useful ingredient for making progress on energy policy development.
This higher number is due to the fact that while EP and BNEF plants at - risk estimates are similar at 44 gigawatts and 40 gigawatts respectively, nuclear plants on each of our lists did not overlap perfectly, resulting in a longer list of plants at - risk.