Sentences with phrase «safety of nuclear power»

In designing the NuScale Power ModuleTM and power plant, NuScale has achieved a paradigm shift in the level of safety of a nuclear power plant facility.

The overall objective of the research was to produce a comprehensive study about the frequency, intensity, spatial and temporal variation and the impacts of the extreme weather and sea level events that are relevant from the point of safety of nuclear power plants, as well as clarify the influence of climate change on these.

The primary objective of the research is to support the overall safety of nuclear power plants by enhancing scientific understanding of the environmental conditions of the plant's location and predicting how they can change.

An approach to providing such an independent assessment was proposed half a century ago by Arthur Kantrowitz when experts were disagreeing publicly over the potential safety of nuclear power — «Proposal for an Institution for Scientific Judgment», Science, 156 (1967) 763 - 4.

Small modular reactors may help with two of the biggest challenges facing the nuclear industry: the growing stores of waste from existing reactors and residue from the mass production of nuclear weapons as well as the overall safety of nuclear power.

America's aid package, unveiled during the Vancouver summit between Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, commits the US to helping Russia improve the safety of its nuclear power plants, reduce air pollution and dismantle its stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Ultimately, the safety of a nuclear power plant depends on the operation of its various safety systems, from cooling water to the control rods that modify or halt the nuclear reaction.

Neither of these problems affected the safety of the nuclear power plant, according to Williams, noting that the towers are primarily used to cool the water before it is put back in the Connecticut River so that it does not scald too many fish.

In the meantime, public confidence in the safety of nuclear power has been largely restored since the Chernobyl accident in 1986, according to recent polls.

NuScale has achieved a breakthrough in the safety of a nuclear power plant, using simple passive systems to provide stable long - term, nuclear core cooling under all conditions, including severe accidents.

Ultimately, the safety of a nuclear power plants rests on the ability to sustain a robust safety culture among the plant work force.

And fascinatingly, in Kahan's study liberals did not act like smart idiots when the question posed was about the safety of nuclear power.

But Obama's announcement set up a clash with environmentalists who remain worried about the safety of nuclear power and waste disposal.

Residents said they had often been assured of the safety of nuclear power, and thought that an accident could never occur.