Sentences with phrase «own nuclear safety»

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».

Our new relationship could also include specific areas of common interest such as nuclear safety, collaboration in the Arctic, and fostering technology and business tie - ups in promoting green growth (a Korean priority) and energy efficiency.

Mr. Mock started his career as an electrical engineer with Ontario Hydro, where he ultimately became responsible for nuclear safety and licensing at key nuclear generating stations.

«In France, the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety has found iodine - 131 in milk,» she said.

Officials said the decision to change the plant's nuclear safety level was due to cumulative radiation releases since the earthquake wreaked serious damage to the reactors, rather than a sudden deterioration in conditions.

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

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.

In the wake of the meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi, the IAEA urged a critical review of nuclear safety systems

The crisis at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has revealed gaps in U.S. nuclear safety procedures

Despite a tsunami - triggered calamity at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, water remains the key to nuclear safety.

The Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan has thrust the NRC's role as industry overseer squarely in the spotlight, but another critical player in U.S. nuclear safety is the NRC's Office of the Inspector General, an independent agency that serves as watchdog to the watchdog.

The meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant last spring cast the issue of nuclear safety in stark relief.

The crisis that unfolded at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after Japan's megaquake and tsunami is rewriting the nuclear safety guide.

«You always worry about what you haven't analysed,» says Chip Lagdon, chief of nuclear safety with the US Department of Energy.

Kate Sprake, a nuclear safety expert, said: «Offering this training to the nuclear industry is timely, given the forthcoming nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset.

Backup power was needed at Fukushima after the magnitude - 9.0 quake struck and the six power lines bringing in offsite electrical power to Fukushima Daiichi were severed, says Michael Weightman, Britain's chief nuclear installations inspector and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Nuclear Safety Group.

Three reactors have started back up under new standards issued by Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority, which was created in 2012 to regulate nuclear safety.

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.

BULGARIA's decision to restart its oldest nuclear reactor provoked alarm among Western nuclear safety officials last week, and triggered an international crisis.

The DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy develops, manufactures, tests and delivers radioisotope power systems for space exploration and national security missions and maintains responsibility for nuclear safety throughout all aspects of the missions.

The East - West nuclear relationship has become so convoluted that Russian officials have even accused Germany of entrapping plutonium dealers simply to discredit Russia and open markets for Germany's own nuclear safety and control systems.

The largest single assistance programme in nuclear safety, the Prime Minister said, is that of the European Union, through which much of Britain's contribution to the international effort is now directed.

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.

The IAEA, which could be trying to bring order to this confusion, has been equally compromised by the conflict between nuclear safety and business opportunities.

Yanko Yanev, chairman of Bulgaria's nuclear safety authority, says the European Union is taking too much upon itself.

The Defense Nuclear Safety Board, which advises the White House, has called these problems «a show - stopper.»

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.

While Japan has implemented new energy and environment polices after the March 11 disaster, many issues remain unsettled surrounding nuclear safety, renewable energy policy, and reactor decommissioning.

«We will use the models to predict how our nuclear safety components will perform in numerous postulated accident scenarios without actually conducting tests,» Sichler said.

The radioactive detritus at Fukushima is still throwing off roughly one million watts worth of heat, according to Fairewinds Energy, a nuclear safety advocacy group based in Burlington, Vt..

Some funding for such work is available from the European Commission's Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States (TACIS) fund, set up to provide aid for nuclear safety, distribution and public sector projects in the former Soviet Union.

«To secure nuclear safety is the lifeline in this industry,» CNNC's Hua said.

However, the TACIS budget for nuclear safety amounts only to 100 million Ecu, which means that the European Community countries would be footing most of the bill.

Meserve said he urged the panels to strengthen Japan's regulatory oversight of nuclear power, making nuclear safety the highest priority for plant operators, above cost and power production.

The authors assert, however, that such a release wouldn't entail «nuclear safety issues.»

The Kirkenes meeting has set up a nuclear safety working group.

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

· USNRC and the U.S. nuclear industry must continuously monitor and maintain a strong safety culture and should examine opportunities to increase the transparency of and communication about their efforts to assess and improve nuclear safety.

· USNRC should further incorporate modern risk concepts into its nuclear safety regulations using these strengthened capabilities.

From my discussions here, it's obvious they're interested in research in the whole nuclear safety area.

«We've been worried since 9/11 about how to protect against bad guys hijacking an aircraft and crashing it into a nuclear power plant upwind of a heavily populated area,» says David Lochbaum, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists's Nuclear Safety Project, a group that monitors the performance of nuclear plants and the NRC, which regulates them.

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.

Calculations by the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) in Cherbourg have calculated that, close to the Fukushima plant, there is a risk of harm to marine life, particularly to animals born in the spring.

And he emphasized the need to continue research into nuclear safety and the handling of waste.

Ted Jones of the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group in Washington, D.C., says the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is already deeply engrossed in international nuclear safety efforts.

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.

In recent decades, the U.S. share of the growing fuel market has declined from 30 % to just 10 %, he notes, so the United States no longer wields the power within international nuclear safety that it did when the NNPA was written.

How does a risk - based approach to nuclear safety work?

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

But as such, their data comes in a hodgepodge of units — see the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency for a good discussion of the difference between grays and sieverts.