Sentences with phrase «with nuclear accidents»

Indeed, the death toll from wind turbines in recent decades is huge when compared with nuclear accidents.

Unlike with a nuclear accident, there is no risk of the surrounding environment being affected.

Not exact matches

An atomic build - up can not be risked, because of the ease with which a nuclear war could be initiated by accident if not by design.

«Such a possibility of a nuclear exchange with Russia, starting by accident, no matter how remote it might be at present, would have such a catastrophic result that we should be working hard now to ensure that it can never happen.

The request comes as Japanese authorities increased the alert level at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis to level five, signifying an «accident with wider consequences».

That changed on April 25, 1986, as he was touring the then - Soviet Union with 38 students — and the Chernobyl nuclear accident occurred.

In late April 1986, Sladek was hobbling around her home with a broken leg, the result of a skiing accident, when she heard a news report about an explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.

After analyzing the data, researchers found radiocesium from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in the sediment samples along with a high fraction of clay material, which is characteristic of shelf and slope sediments suggesting a near shore source.

The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.

What is needed, Lyman says, is for nuclear energy firms to undertake a detailed threat analysis for each plant with «a set of severe accident scenarios» computer - simulated exhaustively for each.

Three Mile Island, the highest - profile U.S. nuclear accident, was classified level 5 — an «accident with wider consequences».

Japanese officials initially rated the incident a level 4, an «accident with local consequences,» on the seven - tier International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), but Princeton University physicist Frank von Hippel told The New York Times that the Fukushima Daiichi situation is «way past Three Mile Island already.»

They built a huge nuclear industry, producing both bombs and electricity with unsafe reactors and sent the waste to leaky dumps and accident - prone reprocessing plants.

But with about half of the world's nuclear power plants located on coastlines, such areas are potentially important contamination reservoirs and release sites to monitor after future accidents.

Philip Thomas, Professor of Risk Management in the Department of Civil Engineering, said: «The Office of Nuclear Regulation and other national bodies clearly have a problem with how they should assess the right level of expenditure to protect people from nuclear and other accNuclear Regulation and other national bodies clearly have a problem with how they should assess the right level of expenditure to protect people from nuclear and other accnuclear and other accidents.

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.

Our nuclear primer explains what that means and how the situation compares with past nuclear accidents

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.

The report recommends that the nuclear industry and organizations with emergency management responsibilities assess their preparedness for severe nuclear accidents associated with offsite regional - scale disasters.

Forster Rothbart hopes to help reveal with his photos the true value of home and to confront the ultimate question after a nuclear accident: Would you stay?

While many would blame nature for last year's Fukushima nuclear accident, a Japanese parliamentary committee report has concluded that culpability really lies with Homo sapiens.

Typically, pressurized water reactors» containment systems consist of a concrete dome reinforced with steel to prevent radioactive fumes from escaping during a nuclear accident.

But critics question the safety of nuclear power, citing such concerns as the potential for catastrophic meltdowns, their potential vulnerability to terrorists, the lack of workable evacuation plans in the event of accidents as well as the problem of dealing with radioactive waste.

After his retirement from Tohoku University in 2012, he moved to Maui to complete a 60 cm telescope moving the project from Tohoku University's Iitate observatory, which has been contaminated with radiation by the accident of nuclear reactor in March 2011, to Haleakala summit.

Though appearing to be an accident, Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman), a nuclear scientist associated with the White House Nuclear Smuggling Group, and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Devoe (George Clooney), a United States Army Special Forces intelligence officer, believe othnuclear scientist associated with the White House Nuclear Smuggling Group, and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Devoe (George Clooney), a United States Army Special Forces intelligence officer, believe othNuclear Smuggling Group, and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Devoe (George Clooney), a United States Army Special Forces intelligence officer, believe otherwise.

However, back in the 1960s said Bruce Banner turned into the Hulk after being bathed in gamma rays during an accident with nuclear bomb test.

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From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters.

Ortega Ayala will premiere his new videowork «The Zone», which deals with the 30 - kilometre radius uninhabited area in the Ukraine directly affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986.

I'd far rather live with the aftereffects of a «worse than worse case» nuclear accident like this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4923342.stm than what a few of those concentrating solar plants would do to the Mojave.

Surely the theoretical risk of accidents (catastrophes if you like) associated with civil nuclear reactors are on an insignificant scale relative to the risks faced by humanity by running out of energy.

General Electric called in reporters yesterday for a briefing on a nuclear plant it is trying to sell in partnership with Hitachi, a plant it said can be built faster than before, operated reliably and have a vanishingly small chance of an accident.

The Price - Anderson Act, first enacted by Congress in 1957, shelters U.S. utilities with nuclear power plants from the cost of such an accident.

And so it is with nuclear, which remains amongst the safest means of producing energy, according to the attempts to model the human of accidents.

Opponents have long maintained the health and environmental risks associated with uranium mining and nuclear waste alongside the threat of nuclear power plant accidents...

If accident tolerant fuels prove successful, the cost of operating nuclear plants could decline by as much as 30 percent, making nuclear energy instantly competitive even with rock - bottom natural gas prices.

What it shows is random fluctuations that don't correlate well with radiation exposures, on top of an overall downward trend in mortality after the nuclear accident.

Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change, produced by the non-profit Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), documents accident, proliferation and contamination threats associated with reviving the nuclear industry as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emiNuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change, produced by the non-profit Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), documents accident, proliferation and contamination threats associated with reviving the nuclear industry as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas eminuclear industry as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The outlier is nuclear energy, with just 0.048 deaths / GWey due to accidents — although it should be remembered that the hazards associated with nuclear energy are much greater in the event that something goes wrong, with «latent mortality» difficult to quantify.»

After the Fukushima accident in Japan, Germany began mothballing its entire nuclear fleet, but some of its citizens fear they could still be at risk from nuclear accidents across the border with Belgium.

Since the 2011 earthquake and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan has had to contend with various challenges in its energy sector: shutdown of all nuclear power plants has meant that Japan has faced increased fuel imports coupled with higher electricity prices.

It's hardly a perfect fuel, as accidents like Japan's Fukushima fallout have shown, but with safety precautions new nuclear plants can meaningfully offset dirtier types of energy, supporters say.

But even if you double the most ridiculous estimates from Chernobyl, or triple it to account for some future accident — even then, nuclear deaths still compare favourably with all forms of power, and continue to blow the coal and oil safety record out of the water.

You can't know that there's going to be a nuclear accident (or an HF release from a petroleum refinery, or an ash spill, or, to cover all the bases (with no intended implication of equivalence of probabilities and magnitudes!)

The anti-nuclear movement has been warning of the dangers of a devastating nuclear accident for years, but those efforts have always been met with dismissive assurances both by electric power companies and the government about the safety of the reactors.

«We feel we were betrayed [by the central government and TEPCO],» Sato said during an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun on Thursday, nearly a month after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and the outbreak of a series of accidents at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

It's a culture of opacity and (often) false assurance that everything is under control, accidents can easily be dealt with when they inevitably occur — not restricted to the Japanese nuclear industry but seemingly endemic to the fossil fuel industry more broadly.

With nuclear power, it was more than just nuclear accidents that featured on the «risky» side of the equation.

That was why they re-set the accident classification at level 7 on the UN's International Nuclear Events Scale - i.e. involving «major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended countermeasures».

I noted that a number of negatives were discussed with regard to nuclear power, including waste, hydrocarbon use in mining, accidents and the threat of terrorism.