The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission limits the exposure of U.S. nuclear workers to no more than 5 rem per year.
The annual total radiation exposure for nuclear workers in Japan is 250 milliseiverts (raised from 100 ms just after the earthquake).
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With a limited number of trained nuclear workers, TEPCO, the owner of the plant, is rotating workers after far shorter periods.
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Ouchi and his colleagues had just set off the one thing that nuclear workers fear most - a spontaneous, uncontained nuclear chain reaction.
More likely it was frustrated nuclear contract workers finishing up the refueling outage.
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Russia and China have sent rescue workers and nuclear scientists to Japan to help with the clean up efforts.
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The TVA, meanwhile, had approached schools in its southeastern region and had explained that the nuclear sector would need qualified workers to replace those retiring and to occupy newly-created positions.
Workers at several Russian nuclear centres - some of them in closed military towns - went on strike on Monday demanding payment of huge wage backlogs by the federal authorities, Russian television reported.
However, research by Dr Louise Parker of the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, published last year, suggested that workers at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria had higher than average chances of fathering a stillborn child, or one born with defects.
The fear of lack of control and dreadful consequences overwhelm any sense of the abstract economic benefits of nuclear power, and images of workers in protection suits and news of elevated radiation levels in food and water further fuel antinuclear sentiment on a global scale.
The number of workers grappling with an increasingly likely nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan has been cut from 800 to 50.
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Plans to house up to 2, 000 construction workers for the building of a new nuclear power station on Anglesey will be presented to the island's council.
At about the same time, the nuclear industry started using force feedback devices to help workers manipulate hazardous, radioactive materials with slave arms through thick, leaded glass.
According to Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), workers at the Fukushima Daiichi (FDI) nuclear power plant have been evacuated.
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"In the long term future, I would encourage the development of some sort of institute of nuclear decommissioning using both Chapelcross and the skills of the workers there, " he said.
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These include building homes for construction workers who would be involved in building a new nuclear power station at Wylfa.
The air of secrecy is compounded when you try to approach workers involved in the nightmarish task of stabilising the nuclear plant.
Workers struggled to contain a burning reactor at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant as the site emitted small but worrying amounts of radiation.
The nuclear sector, generally, is moving now to educate the next generation of workers, which is everyone from the folks who monitor the control rooms to those who engineer the projects.
Workers at the firm that builds warheads for Trident, the UK's nuclear deterrent, have been urged to accept an improved pay offer.
Workers at the firm that builds warheads for Trident, the UK's nuclear deterrent, have voted in favour of accepting an improved pay offer.
Thirteen hundred workers buzz around the holes, preparing to fill them with a pair of nuclear reactors, the first ones planned in the U.S. since 1977.
From 30% to 50% of all night shift workers fall asleep at work every week, even in high-stakes operations like nuclear power plants.
The public's top foreign-policy goals (see chart) are preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, stopping the flow of illegal drugs into the country and protecting the jobs of American workers.
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