You write eloquently and with more nuance in your paper, The Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Nuclear Power.
The fuel arrived at a sensitive time, following the major nuclear accident at Tokaimura nuclear plant which killed one worker and exposed hundreds to radioactive fall-out.
In 1982, Sandia National Laboratories simulated the impacts of a catastrophic accident at nuclear power plants on the surrounding environment for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Plagued by scandals and investors' jitters, the Visaginas project is again moving ahead: since Japan's nuclear accident, firms wanting to build nuclear-power plants have become less choosy about the conditions.
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Even if the nuclear accident is brought under control swiftly, and the release of radiation turns out not to be large enough to damage public health, this accident will have a huge impact on the nuclear industry, both inside and outside Japan.
He said there had been on average one nuclear accident every 11 years and there were over 400 nuclear reactors worldwide.
Ironically, since Germany has shut down some of its older nuclear plants in response to the nuclear accident in Japan, they now have to import nuclear power from France and the Czech Republic.
The Japanese nuclear accident has come at a delicate time for the nuclear-power industry, growing globally, for the first time in decades as a new generation of "passive" designs is being embraced as offering more safety.
The nuclear accident has proven a very big deal for Japan and for nuclear power around the world.
"I just can't stand this mess, " he remarked early this year when the state-owned Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. failed to prevent a serious accident at a nuclear waste-processing plant near Tokyo.
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
Among others, a scenario based on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident will be submitted to them.
The resulting crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is the world's worst nuclear accident in a generation.
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Nuclear-energy negotiations were launched in 2010 but have been on hold since the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011.
No candidate has yet explained how to rebuild Tohoku, devastated by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident in March.
An exercise is taking place in Dorset to test the emergency response to an accident involving a nuclear submarine.
But no land was laid waste by any nuclear accident in this time.
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Japan's nuclear accident last week seems to be worse than expected, reported Kathryn Tolbert of the Washington Post.
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The nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, for example, elevated the importance of environmental risk factors in the markets.
Many politicians believe that TEPCO must be preserved so it can compensate the victims of the nuclear accident at Fukushima.
Members of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission were appointed to examine the handling of the crisis and make recommendations.
And in July 2009, whistle-blower site Wikileaks posted a note from an anonymous source describing a nuclear accident in Natanz.
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Aris Candris, chief executive of Westinghouse, said the nuclear accident in Japan added an element of uncertainty to the NRC's review.
The exclusion zone around Chernobyl, in 1986 the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, officially opened to tourists last year.
There were no injuries and little release of radiation from that incident, which remains the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history.
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Damage from the tsunami and nuclear accident prompted many to leave towns and villages for big cities, sapping energy out of communities.
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The aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, for example, might reasonably be expected to have revealed the effects of radiation on health.
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The cesium-137 found in milk in Vermont is the first cesium detected in milk since the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear accident occurred last month.
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The reasons for this oddity help explain why the nuclear accident, though caused by a tsunami, has been exacerbated by a string of public-policy failures.
Twenty years ago today, the world suffered its worst nuclear accident.
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