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Times of India
May 19, 2013
They said some protesters would hold an overnight sit-in outside parliament. "The
Fukushima accident told us that a
nuclear power plant is very risky," Lee Chou-lan, spokesman for the
Taiwan Environmental Protection Union which organised the event, said.
Asahi Shimbun
May 19, 2013
Members of the group held a meeting a month before the Great East
Japan earthquake and
tsunami struck on March 11, 2011, triggering the accident at the
Fukushima No. 1
nuclear power plant in the prefecture. They discussed holding events, such as an ...
Hollywood Reporter
May 19, 2013
Set among the exploited blue-collar
workers at a
nuclear power plant in
France, the story certainly has an unusual setting, which Zlotowski depicts with an almost Loach-ian attention to unfussy, everyday detail.
Timesonline.com
May 19, 2013
"It's pretty obvious the accident (Thursday) exposed the weakness in the evacuation from a nuclear accident," said Epstein, founder of the TMI Alert watchdog group.
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
May 19, 2013
What we said then: In the wake of the nuclear accident in
Fukushima,
Japan, some members of the scientific community have joined nuclear watchdog groups in calling for a reduction in the amount of waste stored in pools.
State Journal
May 18, 2013
Monroe Evening News
May 18, 2013
Residents living near DTE
Energy's Fermi 2
nuclear power plant would leave the area faster after a serious plant accident than in prior years because roads are better and the population has shrunk, according to a new evacuation estimate. Better traffic ...
Asahi Shimbun
May 18, 2013
Overly optimistic assumptions about the safety of
nuclear power plants can result in huge damage if a disaster actually takes place.
Screen International
May 18, 2013
Grand Central casts the ever-watchable Tahar Rahim and a smouldering Lea Seydoux as two French
nuclear power station
workers who embark on a clandestine affair in a dangerous workplace where untrained workers desperate for a job are increasingly used ...
Laboratory Equipment
May 17, 2013
During March 2011, the second-largest nuclear emergency since
Chernobyl 1986 was caused by a magnitude nine
tsunami hitting the North-East coast of
Japan and severely damaging the
nuclear power plant of
Fukushima-Daiichi. The consequent nuclear ...
Asahi Shimbun
May 17, 2013
The panel is under the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, which was formed from a lesson of the March 2011 disaster at the
Fukushima No.
Wealth Daily
May 17, 2013
These
robots have been used for a variety of law enforcement missions and disaster response operations, including after 9/11 to search buildings and after the
Fukushima nuclear power plant accident to obtain radiation data and assist with clean-up ...
National Defense Magazine
May 17, 2013
There have been few new
nuclear power plant start-ups over the past few decades. That sometimes has more to do with the business side of the industry than fears of accidents, said Marc Chupka, principal at the
Energy consulting firm, The Brattle Group ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
May 17, 2013
Italy was a pioneer of civil
nuclear power and built several reactors which operated 1963-90. But following a referendum in November 1987, provoked by the
Chernobyl accident 18 months earlier, work on the nuclear program was largely stopped. In 1988 ...
WSAV-TV
May 16, 2013
They had cited concerns about the safety of nuclear
Energy in view of the 2011 disaster at
Japan's
Fukushima nuclear power plant. But the court said the
NRC had considered possible repercussions from an accident at Plant Vogtle. Jeannice Hall from ...
WSAV-TV
May 15, 2013
They had cited concerns about the safety of nuclear
Energy in view of the 2011 disaster at
Japan's
Fukushima nuclear power plant. But the court said the
NRC had considered possible repercussions from an accident at Plant Vogtle. Jeannice Hall from ...
Boston Business Journal (blog)
May 15, 2013
"These
robots have been used for a variety of law enforcement missions and disaster response operations, including after 9/11 to search buildings and after the
Fukushima nuclear power plant accident to obtain radiation data and assist with clean-up ...
Energy Tribune
May 15, 2013
China's interest in
South Africa's proposed new
nuclear power plant (NPP) programme was made manifest on Tuesday when three Chinese nuclear companies held a joint public briefing on their capabilities and technologies at the Energex
Africa 2013 ...
Taipei Times
May 15, 2013
"Accidents will happen, and its only a matter of the scale of the accident." "Neither is
nuclear power cheaper," and a small island like
Taiwan should not be spending billions of dollars to dispose of high-level
nuclear waste for decades to come, Shiu ...
Yahoo! News
May 15, 2013
... like today's pressurized-water reactors or use
ceramic control rods, which release
hydrogen when heated and lead to explosions during
nuclear power plant accidents, like the one at
Fukushima in 2011. In the event of an accident in one of Wilson's ...
Platts
May 15, 2013
The
French government is to invest Eur50 million ($64.9 million) in nuclear safety projects focusing on the impacts of
power plant accidents, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayraut said in a statement late Tuesday. The funds, which form part of a wide-ranging ...
Press TV
May 15, 2013
Although, according to the data of the non-profit World Nuclear Association only a very limited number of accidents occurred in over 14,500 cumulative reactor-years of commercial
nuclear power operation in 32 countries. The
three mile island,
Chernobyl ...
TechNewsDaily
May 15, 2013
Today's
nuclear power plants produce
steam for their turbines using pressurized-water reactors - or big pots of water under high pressure - which are heated up with help from
uranium dioxide fuel rods encased in
zirconium.
OpEdNews
May 14, 2013
However, according to the data of the non-profit World Nuclear Association, only a very limited number of accidents has occurred in over 14,500 cumulative reactor-years of commercial
nuclear power operation in 32 countries. The
three mile island ...
Asahi Shimbun
May 14, 2013
The Monju reactor started operation in 1994, but it has been out of service most of the time due to a series of problems, including a serious accident in 1995 in which a massive leak of liquid
sodium caused a fire. Still, the government continues to ...
Hindustan Times
May 14, 2013
"According to the atomic
Energy project norms, the 16-km radius from a
nuclear power plant is defined as evacuation zone or emergency planning zone.
Creamer Media's Engineering News
May 14, 2013
We have a very good industrial safety record. Our accident rate is very low. We think that nuclear safety is the lifeline of
nuclear power. We've come here [to Energex
Africa] and we wish to deliver clean
Energy and share our localisation experience ...
World Nuclear News
May 13, 2013
13 May 2013. EnBW Kernkraft (EnKK) has formally applied to the state of Baden-Wurttemberg for permission to decommission and demolish two nuclear units forced to close by German
politicians in response to the
Fukushima nuclear accident ...
Gizmodo Australia
May 13, 2013
Basically they put people in a somewhat oppressive light prison. Soooo, probably not relaxing. As part of the Geneva Mapping Festival, Nonotak Studio produced Isotopes v.2 as a
commentary on the
Fukushima nuclear accident and
nuclear power in general.
World Nuclear News
May 13, 2013
PennLive.com
May 13, 2013
I would note that
FEMA has primary oversight responsibility for
nuclear power plants' off-site emergency plans and evaluates them on an ongoing basis.
The Japan Times
May 13, 2013
The important lesson from the
Fukushima catastrophe is that
nuclear power generation is an extremely difficult
technology to manage and that accidents can result that cause irreparable damage to the environment and human life. The Fukushima fiasco ...
Secrecy News (blog)
May 13, 2013
Stronger regulation across the
nuclear power industry could have prevented many of the worst outcomes at
Fukushima Daiichi and will be needed to prevent future accidents. In a new FAS issue brief, Dr. Charles Ferguson and Mr. Mark Jansson review some ...
Gizmodo
May 13, 2013
As part of the Geneva Mapping Festival, Nonotak Studio produced Isotopes v.2 as a
commentary on the
Fukushima nuclear accident and
nuclear power in general. The goal is to create a scenario where viewers initially have a positive and calm reaction to ...
Infoshop News
May 13, 2013
Buffalo News
May 12, 2013
That's planted visions in the minds of Cleveland BioLabs executives and
investors of governments around the world stockpiling millions of doses apiece, just in case a terrorist attacks or a
nuclear power plant has an accident. Other, less advanced ...
PennLive.com
May 12, 2013
"It's pretty obvious the accident (Thursday) exposed the weakness in the evacuation from a nuclear accident," said Epstein, founder of the TMI Alert watchdog group. He views the incident as a "bookend" to the 2007 winter weather-related snarl that ...
Asahi Shimbun
May 12, 2013
Asahi Shimbun
May 12, 2013
The ruling party plans to include in its campaign the plank calling for resumption of nuclear reactor operations. In the wake of the 2011 accident at the
Fukushima No. 1
nuclear power plant, only two of
Japan's 50
nuclear reactors are currently in ...
Casper Star-Tribune Online
May 10, 2013
Even at the very serious
nuclear power plant accidents at Fukishima Daiichi in
Japan, no casualities occurred and no adverse health effects have been reported from radiation exposure.
MLive.com
May 10, 2013
COVERT TOWNSHIP, MI -- "Patch and restart" is not an effective solution to leaks at Palisades
nuclear power plant, said David Lochbaum, director of the nuclear safety project at the Union of Concerned
scientists.
Asbury Park Press
May 10, 2013
Neil Sheehan, spokesman for the federal
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said filtered vents are filtration systems for radioactive emissions that would result from a severe accident at a
nuclear power plant. "They would be used to help minimize the ...
The Japan Times
May 10, 2013
The Japanese are among the few on Earth who have experienced the dread of exposure to radiation whether it is from a nuclear weapon or from a
nuclear power plant accident. Many Japanese citizens will not accept the government's decision not to sign the ...
Link TV (blog)
May 8, 2013
World Nuclear News
May 8, 2013
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
May 8, 2013
Town of Carlton - The Kewaunee Power Station stopped generating power late Tuesday morning, becoming one of the first
nuclear power plants in the country to cease operating since the late 1990s. Dominion Resources Inc. had ... Increased regulations ...
Scientific American (blog)
May 8, 2013
However
nuclear power plants are very carefully built to prevent such releases. Nuclear
Energy has a very good safety record and hundreds of
nuclear power plants all over the world have operated for more than fifty years without any serious accidents.
Russia Beyond The Headlines
May 7, 2013
April 26, 2013, marked the 27th anniversary of the grievous accident at the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In the years since the ... But experience of past accidents - including
Fukushima - shows that this approach needs to be revised. Throughout ...
The Japan Times
May 7, 2013
ValueWalk
May 7, 2013
Critics argue that it is simply too dangerous with the possibility of minor accidents spinning out of control and developing into global catastrophes.
