Sentences with phrase «reactor accident»

The hot spot is similar to levels found in some areas affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident in the former Soviet Union.

A cross-sectional study was performed on the adverse effects of sleep time on the mental health of children after the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent nuclear reactor accident in March 2011.

Though not all viewers appreciated the film's unwavering anti-nuclear sentiments, it proved to be chillingly prophetic; only a short time after its release the nearly catastrophic nuclear reactor accident at Three Mile Island occurred.

And it doesn't provide as much of an extra layer of defense from reactor accidents as containments like TMI [do].

Our worst commercial reactor accident, at Three Mile Island 2, was said to be successfully contained despite a partial meltdown, according to the NRC's investigation.

These include the potential of catastrophic reactor accidents on the scale of Chernobyl, the difficulties of managing long - lived radioactive waste, and increased likelihood of nuclear weapons proliferation.

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

A severe reactor accident is unlikely in the U.S. and other countries with safer facilities.

The result is that Canadians — and the rest of the world — have been denied the chance to hear from some of the most authoritative scientific voices on important issues ranging from the Arctic ozone hole to radiation after the Fukushima Daiichi reactor accident in Japan, and even the effect of aquaculture on wild salmon.

Based on the J - value, only ten to 20 per cent of the 335,000 people who moved away permanently after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident needed to leave their homes on grounds of radiological protection.

Using the theory of optimal control, mathematicians at the University of Manchester carried out a computer analysis of hundreds of possible large nuclear reactor accidents across the world.

Lead cooled reactor accident risk limited to the loss of reactor itself without effecting enviroment.

Finally, the doses received from reactor accidents can fall into the range of occupational exposures, where excess cancers have been found with epidemiological data, when huge worker populations are merged, as I wrote in a previous message.

[The report considered what might happen during a serious nuclear reactor accident, the radiological consequences of these events, and the probability of these events taking place.]

«Reactor analysts like to categorize potential reactor accidents into groups,» said Bergeron, who did research on nuclear reactor accident simulation at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.

The U.S. Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), in a report last November, related desperate actions by TEPCO crews to contain the reactor accident in the critical first week of the crisis, as they tried to operate crucial valves and instruments with truck batteries; hauled massive emergency power cables over flooded passageways where manhole covers had been dislodged; and faced a series of hydrogen explosions and sudden spikes in radiation.

In the case of nuclear - reactor accidents, however, emergency planners must prepare for the worst without knowing whether the plans will be needed tomorrow, or ever.

Serious nuclear - reactor accidents; 4.

A reactor accident at Diablo Canyon would immediately put tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of people in Central California at risk from radiation exposure.