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The RBMKs are earlier versions of the design that exploded at Chernobyl and even less safe, according to Morris Rosen, head of reactor safety at the Inter national Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.

Not exact matches

Fire protection piping at Indian Point's Unit 2 reactor broke and leaked and though it resulted in a loss of water pressure to the fire suppression system, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission determined it was of «very low safety significance,» according to the N.R.C. report.

In the wake of the Japan crisis and an MSNBC report that one of the Indian Point reactors is more at risk for earthquake damage than any other in the nation — a claim refuted by the NRC — Cuomo called for a full safety review of the plant.

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 fire was extinguished quickly and caused no safety problems at the reactor, but it spilled about 3,000 gallons of transformer fluid into the Hudson River.

The NRC staff will meet with the public to discuss the NRC's assessment of safety performance at Indian Point Units 2 and 3 reactors for 2015.

As ProPublica reported earlier, fire safety is a continuing concern at the country's 104 commercial reactors, as is the volume of spent fuel piling up at plants.

This structure, which rings the reactor itself at the bottom, has been known to be flawed for decades — as the NRC's Charles Casto, who flew to Japan to assist, outlined on March 16, discussing the NRC's safety guidelines for this type of reactor or NUREG.

But the reactors are designed to be integrated into manufacturing plants to improve their efficiency and safety, says Christian Hornung, a chemical engineer and 3D printing expert at CSIRO Manufacturing in Melbourne, Australia.

A few days after the nuclear crisis began to unfold at the Fukushima power station in Japan, Singh, who also serves as minister in charge for atomic energy, ordered a safety review of all 20 nuclear power plants and a half dozen research reactors owned and operated by the government.

The rest of this special News & Analysis section examines what we have learned about radiation risks from previous exposures (p. 1504), improvements in safety since the boiling water designs at Fukushima (p. 1506), what to do with the wrecked reactors (p. 1507), and damage to research facilities from the earthquake (p. 1509).

But such reactors still require the same electricity - generating, safety, and waste disposal systems as the hulking light - water reactors presently being built as well as identical rigorous licensing requirements, at least in the U.S. — and that may cost them.

This is one of many safety issues currently being investigated by his team at the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation in Bootle, as it considers licensing new, supposedly safer, reactor designs from companies like Japanese - owned Westinghouse Electric and French - owned Areva.

«It was nowhere near as complex of a release as Chernobyl, which was everything from the core of the reactor,» says Peter Caracappa, a radiation safety officer and clinical assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «This was a slow release,» he adds, and it was limited to a few radioactive materials, including iodine 131, which has a half - life of just eight days and therefore does not lead to long - term contamination.

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.

A Commission official says that in the light of Bulgaria's decision to restart the reactor, member countries have frozen a further 7 million Ecus set aside for safety at Kozloduy.

When I read about the new safety features in the proposed nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in the UK (19...

In response to the earthquake - triggered accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, India's prime minister has asked for a full safety audit of India's 20 operating nuclear reactors.

As of midday Thursday, the country's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spokesperson Yoshitaka Nagayama, noted that «because we have been unable to go to the scene, we can not confirm whether there is water left or not in the spent fuel pool at reactor No. 4,» The New York Times reported.

«By allowing this reactor to continue operating with equipment that can not perform its only safety function, the NRC is putting people living around Indian Point at elevated and undue risk,» Lochbaum writes.

Flaws in the boiling - water reactor safety system at Fukushima Daiichi (as well as Oyster Creek and Vermont Yankee) had been known since 1972.

The simplified AP1000 safety system is known as a «passive» design, in that if there were a failure similar to what happened at Fukushima, human intervention would not be required to shut down a reactor.

But the obvious implications from the Fukushima accident point to the need to raise the safety bar at U.S. reactors, they said.

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.

But neither the South Texas facility nor the applications for new reactors at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland and the Shearon Harris nuclear plant outside Raleigh, N.C., have completed the NRC's long design safety and feasibility evaluation, which could take years to complete.

Tim Murphy, head of environmental appraisal at the EBRD, says the reactors should be brought up to the safety standards that would be applied in the West «for the backfitting of existing facilities.»

The unit is expected to become the fifth Japanese reactor to resume operation under new safety standards introduced following the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The device will be used to calibrate safety detectors at nuclear reactors in the United Kingdom.

It noted the high cost of upgrading the reactor to meet new safety standards introduced following the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Secondly it will allow the government to order the shutdown of a reactor, temporarily at least, without any objective shortcomings at the level of the existing legal safety requirements, for purely political reasons.

Despite these issues, Orbach offered some technical solutions to improve safety at similar reactors in other parts of the world.

CCS has not yet been commercially deployed at any centralized power plant; the existing nuclear industry, based on reactor designs more than a half - century old and facing renewed public concerns of safety, is in a period of retrenchment, not expansion; and existing solar, wind, biomass, and energy storage systems are not yet mature enough to provide affordable baseload power at terawatt scale.