Even though the company experienced several low-level nuclear accidents in recent years TEPCO has never appointed a board-level committee to oversee enterprise risk management, and because of the limited presence of independent directors on its board, suffered from a lack of alternate perspectives in its board room.
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Iran denies it is trying to build a nuclear weapon and has taken steps in recent months to reduce its stores of high-level nuclear material.
Nevada's Yucca Mountain is the "furthest along and most advanced" high-level nuclear waste repository, Cheney said.
And he's also pointed out that the problem of the country's high level nuclear waste hasn't gone away.
In the early 1960s, U.S. nuclear strategists realized that a national strategy entirely reliant upon the threat of massive nuclear retaliation was not credible, that most challenges would not rise to the level of justifying nuclear response and that the Soviets would seek to take advantage of that fact.
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They have also suspended refuelling at their Calder Hall plant in Cumbria, which uses the same refuelling system as Chapelcross, while moving to reassure the public that the incident was a "low level" nuclear incident.
The shooting spree that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded and six others dead accounted for 57% of headlines from Jan. 10-16, and the earthquake and tsunami that caused a rupture in a Japanese nuclear plant matched that level from March 14-20.
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Paradoxically, if nuclear warfare represented the highest level of warfare, there developed at the lowest level covert operations.
Moreover, he predicts that "the UK government's strong commitment to nuclear power and to energy security means the 'strike price' will be set at a fair level to secure investment in the nuclear industry".
The accord will limit the two countries to between 1, 700 and 2, 000 deployed strategic nuclear warheads, down from a level of about 6, 000 each, within 10 years.
The threat of massive retaliation in the nuclear context only deterred all-out nuclear war, but not the many other conflicts that plagued the latter half of the 20th Century that did not rise to the level of provoking a nuclear response.
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And there is still no common appreciation of the level of threat posed by nuclear terrorism, our correspondent says.
The Sellafield plant is the UK's largest and most hazardous nuclear site, storing enough high and intermediate level radioactive waste to fill 27 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Previously, the commission held that the amount of radiation released from FDI warranted only a level 5 designation on the International Nuclear Event Scale (which runs from 1 to 7).
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By far, the most popular map in the original COD: Black Ops was Nuketown, a very, very small multiplayer level that took place in a nuclear test city from that era.
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What if we could build a nuclear reactor that offered no possibility of a meltdown, generated its power inexpensively, created no weapons-grade by-products, and burnt up existing high-level waste as well as old nuclear weapon stockpiles?
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Xenon-133 is a radioactive noble gas produced during nuclear fission that poses no concern at the detected level.
Fifty years ago, in the midst of the Cold War, the U.S. government dispatched a high-level emissary to ease tensions during a nuclear crisis: a jazz trumpeter known to most of the world as Dizzy.
The number of visitors to Japan fell 28% to 6.21 million last year, the lowest level since 2003, due to the nuclear accident and the sharp increase in the value of the yen against the U.S. dollar and other currencies, making Japan an increasingly expensive place to travel.
In two months it had reached almost 33 millisieverts, or a third the level normally permissible for those working on a nuclear accident in a year.
Sellafield nuclear firm has pleaded guilty to sending bags of low-level radioactive waste to a landfill site.
In one of the examples cited in the report, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has twice raised the acceptable level of radiation damage reactor vessels can sustain, after several plants violated or came close to violating the original standard.
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Last month the UK Government asked British Nuclear Fuels to impose a nine-month ban on emissions of low level Technetium from Sellafield.
The parties have agreed to hold a technical-level meeting in Istanbul on July 3, where experts in nuclear technology will hash out details, she said.
Critics of the nuclear power industry say the plant is unsafe to operate at any power level and should be shut down permanently and dismantled.
According to a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Kodak's uranium was highly enriched -- to a level approaching 93.4%.
At the Tokai nuclear power plant, some 100 kilometers south of the Fukushima plant, a high level of radiation was observed.
The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan said that on Monday morning, a radiation level of 3, 130 microsieverts per hour was recorded at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, about six times the legal limit.
But Mr Lee said it would be "difficult to persuade the North regime to give up the nuclear path", and that North Korea's reference to a "high-level" test could indicate it planned to detonate more than one device.
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In October an accord was struck on nuclear power, and eight parties accepted a constitutional reform to transfer more powers from federal to regional level.
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