Sentences with phrase «workers at nuclear plants»

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Besides scientists, he encountered looters and nuclear workers who still work at the plants, which are to be completely decommissioned by 2020.

As efforts continue at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant to fully fix the infrastructure damaged in the earthquake and tsunami, workers have discovered seawater with a high radioactivity.

The decision also is partly about saving jobs, as Cuomo told power plant workers at the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego during a visit over the summer.

Corbyn has reportedly told local members he will back plans to develop nuclear energy plants, and shadow business secretary Clive Lewis recently spoke out in support of the workers at Sellafield.

Exelon has agreed to take over the FitzPatrick nuclear power plant from Entergy for at least another 12 years, «and keep it producing nuclear power for years and years to come,» Cuomo announced outside the Central New York facility as workers cheered.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - While 615 workers at the FitzPatrick nuclear plant wait for news about their future, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he hoped the plant would stay open but offered no reason to assume that it will.

A top U.S. nuclear regulator has now given a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis, saying that radiation from uncovered spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns there

The top U.S. nuclear regulator, Gregory Jaczko, gave a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis yesterday, saying that lethal radiation from uncovered spent fuel above one of the reactors could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns of damaged reactor cores at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will double the pay of contract workers as part of a revamp of operations at the station, after coming under criticism for its handling of clean - up efforts.

As night fell on Friday in Japan, workers and soldiers continued heroic efforts to douse the potential meltdown underway at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

One of those, a Nagasaki - based company called Yamato Engineering, sent 510 workers to lay pipe at the nuclear plant in violation of labor laws banning brokers.

The letter warned that the state may have difficulty disposing of the drilling waste, that thorough testing will be needed at water treatment plants, and that workers may need to be monitored for radiation as much as they might be at nuclear facilities.

A worker, wearing protective suits and masks, takes notes in front of storage tanks for radioactive water at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami - crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan February 10, 2016.

Pooches that live at the nuclear power plant mostly interact with the workers, who feed and care for them since they were puppies, but this can easily put the workers at risk of being contaminated.

In the fall of 2007, workers at the Byron nuclear power plant in Illinois were using a wire brush to clean a badly corroded steel pipe — one in a series that circulate cooling water to essential emergency equipment — when something unexpected happened: the brush poked through.

Workers are still struggling to control the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan.