Search for: "NUCLEAR POWER PLANT"
Results 1641 - 1660
of 2,142
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
21 Mar 2011, 6:00 am
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was willing to tolerate significant safety problems at domestic nuclear power plants. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 5:39 am
Nikolaus von Bomhard, chief executive of Munich Re AG the world's largest reinsurer, views insurance protection against the risk of nuclear incidents as unaffordable for insurers and power plant operators, according to a recent interview he gave in the German national Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 2:59 am
Consumer concern about food contaminated by radiation from damaged nuclear power plants in Japan is unwarranted at this time. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 5:50 pm
Presumably also, substantial amounts will be spent on repairing the damaged nuclear plants. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 5:26 pm
9.0 is not the ceiling—the Indian Ocean earthquake was 9.1 on the Richter scale) would be very expensive—Japan has more than 50 nuclear power plants, all on its coasts. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 4:39 pm
After the crisis, we can also begin to assess the larger implications for existing U.S. plants and for plans to build new reactors. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 5:58 am
Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen: nuclear power is not safe. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 12:13 am
In East Asia, for example, both China and Mongolia have large areas of desert that would be suitable for concentrating solar-thermal power plants. [read post]
19 Mar 2011, 10:09 pm
This black swan arose out the demand for energy and the consequences of meeting that demand and there are bound to be more black swans resulting from it, but the problem of black swans, and risks more generally, was referenced in the panels on environmental risk management, climate adaptation, and the current crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan and implicated in the discussions of the use of coal and renewable energy. [read post]
19 Mar 2011, 12:50 pm
., led the U.S. list for near misses by nuclear power plants. [read post]
19 Mar 2011, 3:36 am
According to one report, the contamination on the spinach was found 65 miles away from the damaged nuclear power plant. [read post]
19 Mar 2011, 2:59 am
Update: Early on Saturday, Japan announced that radiation was detected in spinach and milk produced near the Fukushima nuclear plant. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 11:47 pm
Radiation was released from fuel rods of an experimental reactor when a problem with cooling arose more than five decades ago during testing of nuclear reactors and rocket engines. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 6:56 pm
" Afterthought: You hold together a nuclear power plant with glue? [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 3:42 pm
guardian.co.uk Datablog: "We have identified 33 serious incidents and accidents at nuclear power stations since the first recorded one in... [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 2:07 pm
Regulatory topics include the licensing standards for operators of the controls of nuclear power reactors, environmental requirements for nuclear power plants, regulatory structure for the licensing and approval processes of the agency, and the storage and disposal of nuclear materials and waste. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 1:28 pm
Unfortunately, there’s a man-made part of this that is taking all the focus – of course the nuclear power plant and what will be there. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 12:08 pm
There are reasons for a loss of confidence in the safety of nuclear power plants. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 11:58 am
Oil and gas pipelines Electric transmission lines, especially high voltage lines Coal transport and storage Environmental upgrades of virtually the entire system of coal fired power plants, together with constructing substantial new coal fired power plant capacity Modernizing the entire heavy industry sector: steel, cement and aluminum, in particular Expanding mineral mining, particularly coal Oil and gas field development in Inner… [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 11:26 am
According to the World Nuclear Association, Japan's nuclear power plants provide approximately 30% of consumed electricity in Japan. [read post]
