The author of the piece, Dariusz Leszczynski, is a research professor at the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority in Finland.
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It also maintains development aid for the poorest nations of the world, Van Rompuy said, and will allow the EU to remain engaged with vital global issues such as climate change and nuclear safety.
The study, which was put together by Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, suggests that people who used cellphones longer than 10 years were 40 percent more likely to develop gliomas (a nervous system tumor) on the side of the head where the cellphone's radiation would enter the head.
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Russian nuclear disaster experts from Rosenergoatom and the Nuclear Safety Institute who gained their experience from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown in 1986 Ukraine will also be going to Japan, Ria Novosti reported.
It accused Tepco and regulators at the nuclear and industrial safety agency of failing to take adequate safety measures, despite evidence that the area was susceptible to powerful earthquakes and tsunamis.
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This agreement will encourage the development of nuclear expertise and professionals in Chile and advance bilateral cooperation on nuclear safety, security, and safeguards in line with the highest international standards.
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Several other nuclear power plants in the area have lost external power and are relying on backup generators, said a spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) at a press conference currently in progress.
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"It's a harsh environment for humans to work inside, " said Hidehiko Nishiyama of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (Nisa).
According to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), robots inside the buildings measured radiation levels reached 57 millisieverts per hour.
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Japan's government is consulting with experts from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the French nuclear fuel company Areva, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director-general of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and the agency's chief spokesman.
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In 2002, Tepco admitted to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency that it had falsified the results of safety tests on the containment vessel of the No. 1 reactor, which is now one of three reactors that workers are struggling to keep from overheating.
At the same time, Japan can and should continue to develop nuclear power technology and safety and actively export its technology to overseas markets.
And we're ready to work shoulder to shoulder on this particular issue of nuclear safety and in other -- all of the issues that we believe that will involve our part of the world.
Dr. Barker explained the assumptions behind the Clinton Administration's current Stockpile Stewardship Management Program (SSMP) and its adequacy as an alternative to nuclear testing in assuring the future safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
And we agreed to deepen our cooperation on nuclear safety, clean energy and cyber security to enhance our economic competitiveness.
Unfortunately, we have no scientifically rigorous and certain way of ensuring the safety and viability of nuclear weapons without at least realistic, low-yield underground explosive tests.
Eight samples had been analysed but nothing found, the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission said.
Long-time nuclear engineer and safety expert Joseph Somsel recently discussed the NRC guidelines.
The agency in question here, the NRC, as Chairman Jaczko said yesterday, focuses day to day, including prior to the events in Japan -- for days, weeks, months and years -- day to day on the safety and security of the nuclear facilities in the United States.
It has caused the Chinese to review plans for their building of 37 additional nuclear plants and caused the Germans to review the safety provisions of 7 nuclear facilities.
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Is anyone surprised that politics is confusing the technical and safety issues of nuclear power?
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China's National Nuclear Safety Administration and the country's major state-owned nuclear companies haven't replied to requests for comment.
"The NRC has repeatedly failed to enforce essential safety regulations, " wrote David Lochbaum, director of the group's Nuclear Safety Project and author of the study.
And still they allowed their enthusiasm for nuclear power to shelter weak regulation, safety systems that failed to work and a culpable ignorance of the tectonic risks the reactors faced, all the while blithely promulgating a myth of nuclear safety.
Nuclear testing must continue to be permitted to play its indispensable role in ensuring the credibility, effectiveness and safety of U.S. nuclear forces.
But I want to emphasize and stress that we have a very robust program where we look at the safety and the security of our nuclear facilities on a minute-by-minute basis.
They must walk the walk, by espousing policies and activities that assure the future of our nuclear arsenal and the infrastructure that makes possible its safety, reliability and effectiveness, and therefore its credibility.
As we work to reduce nuclear weaponry and to realize the vision of a world without nuclear weapons, we recognize the necessity to maintain the safety, security and reliability of our own weapons.
We didn't set out to examine the environmental and safety issues surrounding the nuclear store on this occasion.
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