There is enough empirical research documenting the safety of nuclear power plants to fill several small libraries.
The meltdown of three reactors at a single generating station in Japan in March rekindled old concerns about the safety of nuclear power.
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Traditional blue-collar labor is often associated with rational control, along with modern high-reliability organizations, such as military, public safety, nuclear energy production, and oil platform operations.
But we are talking about a nuclear power company and the government has said it is taking part in the discussions because it has a responsibility for the safety of nuclear power.
David Lochbaum, the director of the Union of Concerned Scientists' Nuclear Safety Program, during a conference call Monday, questioned the safety of U.S. nuclear plants that rely on batteries to back up the power supplies for cooling systems.
That event propelled the movie into a box office hit, and the coincidence of a well-made fictional film with a real-life event with a very similar plot line led to a huge increase of public fears around the safety of nuclear power, and likely set the nuclear power industry back by decades.
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.
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.
The NRC launched a widespread review of U.S. nuclear safety after the meltdowns at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011 caused by that nation's devastating tsunami.
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.
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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For the best nuclear safety you need not just good planning and good engineering.
The government has sought a reckoning, by sacking officials in charge of nuclear safety.
Eight samples had been analysed but nothing found, the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission said.
Security chiefs will take questions from local people with nuclear safety in the global spotlight after the Japan earthquake.
In fact, the only choice left was to keep silent or to debate nuclear safety issues in a law court.
And we agreed to deepen our cooperation on nuclear safety, clean energy and cyber security to enhance our economic competitiveness.
The author of the piece, Dariusz Leszczynski, is a research professor at the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority in Finland.
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But the resulting buildup of salt inside has made it harder for coolant to circulate, U.S. nuclear safety officials advised in March.
Carl Rhode of Entergy, the plant's operator, told WGNO that the threat to the intake system is not a matter of nuclear safety.
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Though he praises the professionalism of the IAEA's world-wide efforts on nuclear safety, Mr. Heinonen is mystified by parts of its record on Iran.
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As with any other area, regulatory uncertainty is bad for the country and not having a strong scientifically functioning NRC is bad for nuclear safety.
Such a decision would be the first since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which has led to a nation-wide review of nuclear safety standards.
North Korea's Kim Jong Il is a dictator whose rule is threatened only externally (by the U.S.) and whose only safety lies in nuclear weapons.
On Monday Seoul announced that the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety had detected unusually high levels of xenon gas near the North Korea border on May 14.
Settling problems by dismissing the personnel who reports them is a violation of nuclear safety code 50 CQA of IAEA (International Agency for Atomic Energy) but who cares?
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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