Sentences with phrase «on nuclear safety»

Indeed a global agency that covers nuclear safety, based on the 72 - nation Convention on Nuclear Safety (which was set up after the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown), has decided to delay reporting on its assessment of the accident until August next year, saying that «the lessons - learned process can not be completed until sufficient additional information is known and fully analyzed.»

I know personally many of the leading Finnish specialists on nuclear safety.

Some of these issues will surely be explored at a Senate hearing on nuclear safety today.

On the other hand, it's going to really put more scrutiny on nuclear safety - related issues, which is not bad.

New research has shown that the benchmark used by the Office for Nuclear Regulation for judging how much should be spent on nuclear safety has no basis in evidence and places insufficient value on human life.

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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.

China's National Nuclear Safety Administration said data from radiation monitoring stations near the North Korean border showed no impact on «China's environment or populace».

The planning was set in motion by President Jimmy Carter's directive to Congress on February 12, 1980, wherein he said, «My paramount objective in managing nuclear wastes is to protect the health and safety of all Americans, both now and in the future.»

On April 26th, 2007, former Governor Eliot Spitzer asked the NRC to conduct an Independent Safety Assessment (ISA) at the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

On April 26th, 2007, former Governor Eliot Spitzer formally requested that the NRC conduct an Independent Safety Assessment (ISA) at the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky has scored a victory in his long - running battle against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, thanks to a federal appeals court that reversed a lower court ruling on the commission's responsibility to involve and notify the public before exempting the Hudson Valley nuclear power plant from health and safety requirNuclear Regulatory Commission and Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, thanks to a federal appeals court that reversed a lower court ruling on the commission's responsibility to involve and notify the public before exempting the Hudson Valley nuclear power plant from health and safety requirnuclear power plant from health and safety requirements.

Indian Point, the Westchester County - based nuclear plant on the Hudson River, is running a series of 60 - second radio spots in the wake of the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami that again raised concerns over safety at the aging facility.

Energy secretary Chris Huhne has asked chief nuclear inspector to report on Britain's nuclear safety by mid-May.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently held its annual meeting on the safety performance of New York's Indian Point nuclear powerNuclear Regulatory Commission recently held its annual meeting on the safety performance of New York's Indian Point nuclear powernuclear power plant.

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.

Tarrytown — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding evidentiary hearings on the safety of the Indian Point nuclear powerNuclear Regulatory Commission is holding evidentiary hearings on the safety of the Indian Point nuclear powernuclear power plant.

And in a chapter on the radioactive elements carried in nuclear fallout, there's Pig 311, a sow that survived a nuclear test blast only to be used as propaganda for the weapons» supposed safety.

On April 26, Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff did a safety «walkdown» of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in JapaOn April 26, Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff did a safety «walkdown» of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster inNuclear Regulatory Commission staff did a safety «walkdown» of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster innuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japaon southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster innuclear plant disaster in Japan.

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 team are holding a one - day workshop on 27 April for trainers and safety experts from the nuclear industry.

Any future discussion of nuclear power will have to take a hard look at regulation and safety, in particular the practice of storing spent nuclear fuel rods on - site

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

Mattson said the added safety measures likely to result from a more demanding look at nuclear plant vulnerabilities should not impose unreasonable costs on most plants.

(Reuters)- Managers mishandled a radiation leak at a New Mexico nuclear waste dump in which 21 workers were exposed to airborne radioactive particles due in part to substandard equipment and safety systems, a U.S. investigator said on Wednesday.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that a strong safety culture — something the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines as combining «the necessary full attention to safety matters» and the «personal dedication and accountability of all individuals engaged in any activity which has a bearing on safety» — plays a vital role in doing science safely.

With nuclear safety in the spotlight since the 2011 reactor meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant - which in turn prompted Germany to call time on its entire nuclear fleet - operators can take no chances with their elderly plants, but the outages get longer and more difficult.

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.

Before John Major's recent visit to Moscow I brought to his attention Debora MacKenzie's article on assistance for nuclear safety projects in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

A «Postscript» to the MIT report, added since last fall's preliminary report, says that the Fukushima event will probably make nuclear power more expensive and focus more attention on safety and spent fuel.

Iain Poplett, a research fellow at King's College London working on nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy, says he has missed out on jobs because employers used health and safety regulations as an excuse for not employing deaf people.

«It is difficult to see how any safety case presented from now on that relies in any way upon the UK VPF, whether on the roads, the railways or in the nuclear industry, such as the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C in Somerset, could stand up to test in court.

On 6 June, Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) raised its estimate of the radioactive material emitted.

Repeated safety lapses hobble Los Alamos National Laboratory's work on the cores of U.S. nuclear warheads

Just before Christmas, President Barack Obama celebrated a string of last - minute legislative accomplishments on tax cuts, gays in the military, the nuclear arms pact, the 9/11 responder bill, and food safety.

From a broader perspective, this failure means that the US will cede its leadership on nuclear matters to other nations, limiting its ability to exert influence in key areas such as safety and non-proliferation as well.»

The committee found that current approaches for regulating nuclear plant safety, which have been based traditionally on deterministic concepts such as the design - basis accident, are clearly inadequate for preventing core - melt accidents and mitigating their consequences.

Many of these studies were based on safety requirements in the US, where Iraq's director of nuclear safety was trained.

A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academy of Sciences concludes that the overarching lesson learned from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident is that nuclear plant licensees and their regulators must actively seek out and act on new information about hazards with the potential to affect the safety of nuclear plants.

Safety inspectors threatened to close down the oldest commercial nuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on wnuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on wNuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on working.

He thinks the negotiations over a new nuclear cooperation agreement with South Korea offers the United States the opportunity to engage with the Koreans on environmental safety issues.

Do you think that work on reactor safety will lead to more transparency in Chinese nuclear research?

At NRDC, Paine says that discussions he has initiated on broadening the NNPA and other international nuclear energy mechanisms to include safety and environmental concerns have met with fierce resistance from industry and foreign governments.

On nuclear power, Moniz expressed support for developing so - called «modular» reactors that might drive down costs and improve safety.

This assessment draws an echo from Michele Boyd, nuclear safety campaigner with Physicians for Social Responsibility in Washington, D.C. Boyd agrees with Squassoni that the United States will be on thin ice advising its nuclear fuel customers on safety abroad until it cleans up its own backyard.

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.

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.

Industry worries probe will go too far, and too fast The industry's Nuclear Energy Institute has already drawn a line opposing NRC orders on new safety requirements.

Much of nuclear's revival hinges on the ability of new reactors to outshine those of yore in terms of safety, economics, construction time and life span.

Yet it remains to be seen whether the AP1000 will herald nuclear's next generation, especially because the reactor is on its 18th design revision and a couple of key safety questions remain unresolved.

His work focuses on nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, nuclear safety, and nuclear security.