• On 5 August the 750 kV electrical switchboard at the plant was shelled, causing three transformers to shutdown and one of the three operating reactors to be disconnected from the grid, and triggering its emergency protection system. (wikipedia.org)
  • In either case, commercial nuclear reactors are a fact of life in many parts of the developed world. (howstuffworks.com)
  • If you have read How Nuclear Reactors Work , you are familiar with the basic idea behind a nuclear power plant. (howstuffworks.com)
  • While a fire burned at a training building at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the reactors there were not damaged . (thebulletin.org)
  • Working overnight into Sunday, engineers have successfully restored power to cooling pumps in two reactors at the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the first genuinely hopeful sign in the week-long battle to prevent a full-scale meltdown at any of the six reactors at the site. (latimes.com)
  • It will certainly bring power to valves and controls in the reactor buildings, but most experts believe the cooling pumps in reactors No. 1, 2 and 3 were damaged, both by the hydrogen explosions that occurred in the first four days after the earthquake and by corrosion from the seawater and boron that have been pumped into the reactor. (latimes.com)
  • Experts do not believe the cooling pumps at reactors No. 4, 5 and 6 had been damaged, and the success in restoring power at No. 5 and 6 suggests that assessment was correct. (latimes.com)
  • The company aims to reboot reactors at the complex, which have been suspended following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and have been undergoing renovations to improve safety. (uchicago.edu)
  • With a planned power generation capacity of 2,400 megawatts (MW), which is expected to power 15 million households, the Rooppur nuclear plant will add Bangladesh to the list of more than 30 nations that have operating reactors. (eco-business.com)
  • Nuclear power plants can generate bountiful, carbon-free electricity, but their solid fuel is problematic, and aging reactors are being shut down. (businessinsider.com)
  • Nuclear reactors, on the other hand, fit the bill: They're dense, reliable, emit no carbon, and - contrary to bitter popular sentiment - are among the safest energy sources on earth. (businessinsider.com)
  • LYMAN: Well, there are more than sixty operating reactor sites, each of which has substantial quantities of nuclear waste, and there are a number of shut down reactors as well, which have legacy spent fuel as well. (loe.org)
  • We petition Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority to declare a moratorium on its review of electric utility applications to restart nuclear power reactors, and, give top priority to undertaking measures to address the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. (change.org)
  • Fission, while offering many benefits, also comes with some risks: There have been well-known cases of nuclear fission reactors melting down and spills contaminating large areas. (cbsnews.com)
  • The situation at the Japanese plant is constantly changing and involves several reactors in various states of disrepair. (motherjones.com)
  • To recap: The Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant has six nuclear reactors. (motherjones.com)
  • Nine units of nuclear power plants-all boiling water reactors-are in states of emergency. (org.in)
  • Tsunami waves five-metres high hit the power reactors at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu. (org.in)
  • Authorities in Ukraine said Friday that Russian forces shelled the Zaporizhzhia plant, hitting one of the six reactors and setting an administrative building on fire. (harvard.edu)
  • In the words of Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), "Ukraine's nuclear power plants are operating normally (but) there is nothing normal about the circumstances under which the professionals at Ukraine's four nuclear power plants are managing to keep the reactors that produce half of Ukraine's electricity working. (harvard.edu)
  • Nuclear reactors like the ones in Ukraine have thick concrete domes that can protect them from artillery fire, but other parts of the power plants pose additional risks. (harvard.edu)
  • That's because it revealed that a nuclear power plant in a developed country, using current technology, was unable to withstand a natural disaster, leading to partial leaks in four of its six reactors. (upenn.edu)
  • The Zaporizhzhia reactors aren't in crisis just yet. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • KOVYNYEV: Now the plant is shut down, so all six reactors are in this shutdown state. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • By July 2023, 410 nuclear reactors have been operating in 31 countries and 57 nuclear reactors are being built in 17 countries. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • Japan, which has recommissioned the 5 nuclear reactors as last year, continues to work to get other nuclear power plants to commissioned. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • In a statement Sunday, they said the two nuclear reactors in Taishan are both operational, adding that Unit 2 had recently completed an "overhaul" and "successfully connected to the grid on June 10, 2021. (cnn.com)
  • During the Fukushima nuclear crisis, government officials and industry representatives said that the tsunami that struck the reactors was "beyond our imagination," thus excusing the failure to consider such a risk in the planning process. (berkeley.edu)
  • The NRA's approval in September of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Kyushu opens the way to restart two reactors at the station, possibly this year. (japantimes.co.jp)
  • They are the first of Japan's viable reactors to pass the new standards introduced since the Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011. (japantimes.co.jp)
  • The two disasters also caused three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to melt down, which released dangerous levels of radiation into surrounding areas and led to national power shortages. (aljazeera.com)
  • Currently, as reported by the Russian State Nuclear Inspection (Gosatomnadzor), the general spent fuel storage situation at Russian nuclear power plants (NPPs) is quite unfavourable: Most of the on site storage facilities are filled to capacity, because shipments of fuel from RBMK-1000 reactors have been halted, and shipments from VVER-1000 and BN-1000 reactors are delayed by default. (bellona.org)
  • The cooling water ponds for the four VVER-440 reactors at Kola power plant are filled to their capacity, containing some 2500 fuel asseblies. (bellona.org)
  • According to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy, nuclear energy provides about 20 percent of U.S. electricity through the operation of 104 nuclear reactors. (thecapitol.net)
  • All U.S. nuclear plants are currently light water reactors (LWRs), which are cooled by ordinary water. (thecapitol.net)
  • DOE's nuclear energy research and development program includes advanced reactors, fuel cycle technology and facilities, and infrastructure support. (thecapitol.net)
  • Nuclear energy issues facing Congress include federal incentives for new commercial reactors, radioactive waste management policy, research and development priorities, power plant safety and regulation, nuclear weapons proliferation, and security against terrorist attacks. (thecapitol.net)
  • Fires broke out at the Onagawa plant, and there were explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Engineers had run a power line to the Fukushima Daiichi plant, 150 miles north of Tokyo, from the country's electrical grid Friday night, but connecting it to the buildings at the facility has been a bigger problem than anticipated. (latimes.com)
  • We are citizens who want to stop releasing any more radioactively contaminated water into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident site. (change.org)
  • It has now been more than four years since the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident on March 11th 2011. (change.org)
  • The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi site continues with no end in sight. (change.org)
  • The Japanese government and Tepco must make all efforts to reduce the environmental threats from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. (change.org)
  • We petition the Japanese government to promptly disclose all information not just in Japanese but in multiple languages related to radioactive water contamination due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. (change.org)
  • By all accounts, the situation at Japan's troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant appears to be getting worse. (motherjones.com)
  • The world has been riveted by the nuclear crisis that Japan has been experiencing since last month's earthquake and the tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, leading to significant radioactive leaks. (upenn.edu)
  • Last month's earthquake and ensuing tsunami damaged Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, leading to significant radioactive leaks. (upenn.edu)
  • Until the accident at Fukushima Daiichi, Japan was an ideal example of an earthquake-prone country that could rely on its nuclear power plants for the secure generation of electricity, notes José Miguel Sánchez, professor at the Institute of Economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. (upenn.edu)
  • A potential disaster may exceed the scale of previous disasters at nuclear power plants. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nuclear safety expert Attila Aszódi said that an event similar in type and scale to the Chernobyl disaster is technically and physically not possible in the Zaporizhzhia plant, while calling for urgent steps to ensure the safety of the plant. (wikipedia.org)
  • Russian forces attacked Europe's largest nuclear power plant yesterday sparking worldwide concern about a nuclear disaster. (thebulletin.org)
  • Once news of the Russian attack broke, some officials in Ukraine speculated that a crisis bigger than the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster was brewing. (thebulletin.org)
  • The Fukushima disaster in Japan is grabbing headlines, but the United States has a nuclear problem on its hands as well. (loe.org)
  • Given the scale of the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant, it should instead prioritize all its efforts to reduce the risks to the environment and public health from the Fukushima plant. (change.org)
  • LONSDORF: Yeah, so a lot of people think of Chernobyl when they think of nuclear disaster, which is also in Ukraine. (kpbs.org)
  • It wasn't a war zone, but it was in a major disaster zone after a massive tsunami hit it after an earthquake, and workers had a lot of trouble getting into the plant. (kpbs.org)
  • CHANG: Well, if a nuclear disaster does happen, can you just give us an idea of what the long-term consequences could be, given what we've seen in Fukushima? (kpbs.org)
  • As unfortunate as it was, the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster near Harrisburg, in early 1979, finally forced the media to start to inform the American public of the dangers of nuclear power. (projectcensored.org)
  • Since then, the world has been riveted by Japan's nuclear crisis, and the disaster has sparked a global debate about the security of nuclear installations, notes Alfonso Guijón, project director at POCH, a Chilean consultancy for engineering and environmental projects. (upenn.edu)
  • That's why Peru, which has a long history of earthquakes, hastened to announce as a result of the Japanese disaster that it would do without nuclear power plants when it develops its energy matrix. (upenn.edu)
  • I hope that, under the influence of slow but systematic changes, eventually Chernobyl will not only be known as the site of the largest nuclear disaster in the world. (diyphotography.net)
  • Since nuclear disasters can affect hundreds of thousands of people, a substantial number of people are at risk of physical and mental harm in each disaster. (bvsalud.org)
  • During the recovery period after a nuclear disaster, physicians might need to screen for psychological burdens and provide general physical and mental health care for many affected residents who might experience long-term displacement. (bvsalud.org)
  • To overcome difficulties of risk communication and provide decision aids to protect workers, vulnerable people, and residents after a nuclear disaster, physicians should receive training in nuclear disaster response. (bvsalud.org)
  • Crisis intervention programs for disaster victims in smaller communities. (cdc.gov)
  • What are the political effects of a nuclear disaster? (lu.se)
  • The Italian decision to abandon nuclear power is very similar to the one made by the German government after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. (lu.se)
  • Anthropogenic disaster at a nuclear power plant caused by organizational factors, design deficiencies, degradation of systems due to aging, loss of integrity of containment barriers, inadequate training of personnel, equipment failures, operational inexperience, inadequate formulation of procedures, waste management and external causes. (bvsalud.org)
  • But there are differences between the Zaporizhzhia plant and the Chernobyl plant. (thebulletin.org)
  • But another nuclear power expert, M.V. Ramana of the University of British Columbia, doesn't think that Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky was being overly alarmist when he speculated that an attack on Zaporizhzhia could have been worse than Chernobyl. (thebulletin.org)
  • At the time of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, the public generally viewed U.S. nuclear plants as safer than those in the Soviet Union. (pewresearch.org)
  • CHANG: And why do experts keep talking about Fukushima as a comparison to the Zaporizhzhia plant, as opposed to, say, like what happened at Chernobyl? (kpbs.org)
  • In April, we will be observing the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. (org.in)
  • Chernobyl swung the public and government opinion against nuclear power. (org.in)
  • Japan's nuclear crisis has definitely put the Chernobyl gear on this race. (org.in)
  • Ukraine has five nuclear power plants , including the decommissioned Chernobyl complex that was destroyed by an accident in 1986 and now occupied by the Russians early in the invasion. (harvard.edu)
  • On Wednesday, Ukrainian officials said the power had been disconnected at the Chernobyl site, but the IAEA said there was " no critical impact on safety . (harvard.edu)
  • Nuclear power plants continue to be established all over the world, despite a slowdown due to accidents Three Mile Island (TMI) in the US on 1979 and Chernobyl incident in Soviet Russia on 1986 (today in the Ukrainian borders). (enerji.gov.tr)
  • It's been nearly 10 years since I first visited the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (diyphotography.net)
  • All visitors to the Chernobyl power plant must pass through ABK-1, the administrative and social building which houses the offices of the management and key departments as well as an underground bunker with a crisis center. (diyphotography.net)
  • To measure pre-Chernobyl attitudes to nuclear power, I use municipality-level voting outcomes from the 1980 referendum on the future of nuclear power in Sweden. (lu.se)
  • First, the decline in support for nuclear power after Chernobyl was more pronounced in high-fallout areas, which is in line with the increase in MP support. (lu.se)
  • Kauffman, now a spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute , the policy arm of the country's nuclear industry, talks about why he stayed at the plant to help, how the accident changed America's nuclear industry, and how Japan's unfolding nuclear crisis compares. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Japan's nuclear crisis is definitely far more severe than Three Mile Island. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. has told dozens of its subcontractors that foreign workers coming under the recently adopted program, which is intended to address Japan's acute labor shortage, may engage in the work of decommissioning the plant. (uchicago.edu)
  • How Bad Could Japan's Nuclear Crisis Get? (motherjones.com)
  • This is the message from Japan's nuclear crisis: There is nothing unexpected in a nuclear power system. (org.in)
  • The ripples of Japan's tsunami-triggered nuclear crisis are being felt in India. (org.in)
  • If backup diesel generators fail or run out of fuel, the resulting meltdown could rival what happened at Japan's Fukushima plant in 2011 . (harvard.edu)
  • There's a number of ways this can go very bad," Allison Macfarlane, a former chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said. (thebulletin.org)
  • The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Greg Jaczko, says it could be "possibly weeks" before it is totally under control. (motherjones.com)
  • The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reported that the condition lasted until about 6:30 p.m., when the salt service water system was again declared operable. (powermag.com)
  • The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is currently in the process of reviewing this guidance for formal approval. (iaea.org)
  • Medical staff check radiation levels on residents 40 miles from the damaged Fukushima power plant. (motherjones.com)
  • Unfortunately it comes at a time when the resources of the international community are already stretched thin by refugee crises in the Middle East and Africa. (undispatch.com)
  • There are several other refugee crises in the world, many of which are larger than Ukraine. (undispatch.com)
  • Some see nuclear power as an important green technology that emits no carbon dioxide while producing huge amounts of reliable electricity. (howstuffworks.com)
  • These plants are large and generally able to produce something on the order of a gigawatt of electricity at full power. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Plants have diesel generators to provide backup electricity, if necessary. (thebulletin.org)
  • A strike that knocks out offsite electricity to the plant and backup generators could cause a major problem leading to radiation releases, experts say. (thebulletin.org)
  • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia fired almost a dozen Shahed drones against Ukrainian targets and falling debris from an intercepted drone damaged power lines near a nuclear plant in the country's west, knocking out electricity to hundreds of people, officials said Wednesday. (wkbn.com)
  • Ukraine's Ministry of Energy Infrastructure said falling drone wreckage in Khmelnytskyi broke windows in the administrative building and the laboratory of the local nuclear plant and knocked out electricity to more than 1,800 customers. (wkbn.com)
  • This provides in particular that, to save gas and fill the reservoirs, electricity production from gas-fired power stations (15% of the electricity mix) will be reduced, the lack being replaced by… more intensive use of coal-fired power stations. (envira2019.cz)
  • Our infrastructure around the plant-the roads, electricity-had not been damaged, we had truckloads of supplies coming in. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Global disruption to gas supplies has led to electricity outages in Bangladesh this year, while progress on the Rooppur nuclear power plant has been plagued by construction delays. (eco-business.com)
  • Last year the power ministry announced an ambitious goal to source 40 per cent of the nation's electricity from renewables - including solar, wind and hydro - by 2041. (eco-business.com)
  • Bangladesh hopes that this nuclear power plant will help solve its chronic electricity shortage problem. (lbcgroup.tv)
  • It is that electricity to the plant is cut and the pumps can no longer circulate water to cool the nuclear fuel rods. (harvard.edu)
  • Nowadays, nuclear power plants have become an electricity source preferred by countries due to their unique characteristics. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • Nuclear power plants produces continuously electricity generation without being affected by climate conditions. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • In order to continuously generate a stable supply of low carbon electricity, nuclear power plant SSC must be regularly monitored, replaced and have their quality verified, both at the manufacturing site and at the plant. (iaea.org)
  • By 1975, in the midst of the oil crisis, nuclear power was supplying 9 percent of total electricity generation. (thecapitol.net)
  • Nuclear fuel, which in modern commercial nuclear power plants comes in the form of enriched uranium, naturally produces heat as uranium atoms split (see the Nuclear Fission section of How Nuclear Bombs Work for details). (howstuffworks.com)
  • In order for the output of a nuclear power plant to be adjustable, the uranium fuel is formed into pellets approximately the size of a Tootsie Roll. (howstuffworks.com)
  • The seawater that authorities are pumping into the plant is laced with boron, which serves to absorb neutrons released during the fissioning, or splitting, of uranium atoms, and thus serves to tamp down chain reactions and reduce heat production. (latimes.com)
  • Bangladesh officially received its first shipment of Russian uranium on Thursday to supply its nuclear power plant, which was built with funding from Moscow to strengthen the country's energy network. (lbcgroup.tv)
  • It means the plant is without any power to supply the enormous amount of water needed to cool the reactor core carrying uranium so that it does not melt. (org.in)
  • Nuclear energy is an energy which occurs by splitting (fission) big atoms (Uranium, plutonium) or by merging (fussion) small atoms (like hydrogen). (enerji.gov.tr)
  • The discovery of Uranium in 1879 and the disintegration of atomic under controls in 1934 has been the bases of the foundation of today's nuclear technology. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • Uranium which is nuclear fuel raw material, has spread to different geographies in the world. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • Of these, only Uranium-235 can maintain a chain reaction in a nuclear reactor. (bellona.org)
  • The nuclear reactor installations in Eastern Europe and former USSR operate on fuel produced from ceramic dioxide of uranium. (bellona.org)
  • Uranium pellets are encapsulated into fuel pins, which are collected in fuel assemblies, which are used in the reactor core of a nuclear power plant for 3-5 years. (bellona.org)
  • In the end (after three years' use), 100 kg of spent nuclear fuel from a VVER-1000 reactor will contain 740 g of long-lived plutonium isotopes (emitting alfa radiation), and some 4 kg of other long-lived trans-uranium radio nucleides. (bellona.org)
  • It is the first time a military conflict has occurred amid the facilities of a large, established nuclear power" program. (wikipedia.org)
  • Projects for nuclear power plants will be implemented faster amid the energy crisis in the country, according to the British newspaper Telegraph. (bitcoinminershashrate.com)
  • Not surprisingly, public support for the increased use of nuclear power has declined amid the ongoing nuclear emergency in Japan. (pewresearch.org)
  • There has long been a wide gender gap in views of increased use of nuclear power and these differences persist amid the crisis in Japan. (pewresearch.org)
  • Since the summer, Bangladesh has grappled with power cuts amid spiking fuel prices around the world - and nuclear energy is seen by some experts as a potential way out. (eco-business.com)
  • Berlin's decision to get rid of the plants has come under question amid energy security concerns. (newstarget.com)
  • Congress designated Yucca Mountain, NV as the nation's sole candidate site for a permanent high-level nuclear waste repository in 1987 amid much controversy. (thecapitol.net)
  • The plant has been occupied by Russian forces since 3 March 2022. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 3 August 2022, Rafael Grossi, head of the IAEA, expressed grave concerns about the physical integrity of the plant, whether all necessary repairs and maintenance were being done, and the security of nuclear material. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, Germany's Social Democrat government, under Merkel's predecessor Gerhard Schröder, announced that the country would quit nuclear power by 2022. (newstarget.com)
  • Russia attacks Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant March 3, 2022. (harvard.edu)
  • The world's biggest nuclear power station stands directly above an active earthquake faultline, which provoked an atomic spill this week, seismologists revealed yesterday. (sott.net)
  • Humanity may face an energy crisis as the world's population rapidly grows. (businessinsider.com)
  • During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has become the center of an ongoing nuclear safety crisis, described by Ukraine as an act of nuclear terrorism by Russia. (wikipedia.org)
  • A damaged administrative building of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine, in a handout picture released on Friday. (thebulletin.org)
  • An attack on the nuclear material at a power plant could release cancer causing radioactivity at least within Ukraine, experts said Friday. (thebulletin.org)
  • Macfarlane is also concerned about the overall effect the war in Ukraine on the people that work at the country's nuclear plants. (thebulletin.org)
  • Russian drone debris downed power lines near a Ukraine nuclear plant. (wkbn.com)
  • Bangladesh's power generation capacity currently exceeds demand - but the fuel needed to run existing plants partly relies on imports, including a quarter of natural gas used, with prices rocketing this year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (eco-business.com)
  • Nuclear dropped to below 10 per cent of global power generation in 2021, although the recent energy crisis driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine has seen some reawakening of interest . (eco-business.com)
  • Ukraine-Russia war - live: 'Nuclear crisis' warning over Putin-controlled power plant on the. (yahoo.com)
  • A delegation of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency is on its way to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine today. (kpbs.org)
  • She's a senior researcher in the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. (kpbs.org)
  • Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted an unprecedented barrage of sanctions against Moscow from some partner nations, for example, and in response, Moscow has restricted its natural gas supplies to Europe, exacerbating the energy crisis. (cbsnews.com)
  • In this context, the crisis in Ukraine comes at the worst possible time for those trying to address the needs of the displaced. (undispatch.com)
  • But the displacement crisis still poses a serious political and economic problem for Ukraine and an overwhelmed international aid community. (undispatch.com)
  • Will Putin Turn the War in Ukraine into a Nuclear Crisis? (harvard.edu)
  • Russia's war in Ukraine has raised the specter of a nuclear incident in Europe. (harvard.edu)
  • Following the destruction of a critical dam in Ukraine, water levels at a large reservoir are dropping fast, and that's creating new problems at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • On 19 August, Russia agreed to allow IAEA inspectors access to the Zaporizhzhia plant from Ukrainian-held territory, after a phone call between the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, and Russian president, Vladimir Putin. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has completely come under the control of the Russian military. (harvard.edu)
  • The Zaporizhzhia plant, which was on fire last week, is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe . (harvard.edu)
  • Keeping them cool takes lots of water, which is why the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant sits on one of Ukraine's largest reservoirs, or it did until this week. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • On 11 August, Russia called a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the situation at the plant. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Ukrainian delegation stated that Russia had "staged shelling of the nuclear power plant", that Russia used the plant to shell Ukrainian towns, and they also supported a visit by the IAEA traveling through Ukrainian controlled territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 14 August, Zelenskyy accused Russia of stationing troops at the plant to fire at the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets across Kakhovka Reservoir. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2011, an agreement was made with Russia to build a nuclear plant, and in 2017 construction finally began at Rooppur, 87 miles (140 km) west of Dhaka, on two nuclear power units capable of generating 1,200 MW each. (eco-business.com)
  • That said, several German politicians are now pushing to once again extend the life of the nuclear plants because Russia has become overtly hostile and the world is shifting from a unipolar one under the U.S. to a multipolar planet with power divided between the U.S. and the West and the Russian and Chinese economies. (newstarget.com)
  • How Many Tactical Nuclear Weapons Does Russia Have? (harvard.edu)
  • The second dangerous scenario is that Russia will use tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield. (harvard.edu)
  • Many countries, especially the USA and Russia, have made intensive studies to utilize nuclear energy, and as a result of these studies, systems have been developed to convert the heat energy, which is the result of atomic reaction, into electrical energy. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • During the Webinar on COVID-19 and Its Impact on the Nuclear Power Supply Chain on 9 July, which was attended by 155 people from 52 countries, speakers from Russia and the United States discussed how their organizations met these challenges, including by carrying out remote assessments. (iaea.org)
  • Putin added that 'a new, democratic Russia was born, a free state open to the world, and a state in which power really does belong to the people. (rferl.org)
  • This month's Current Status focuses on how spent fuel from nuclear power plants is handled in Russia. (bellona.org)
  • Although power has so far been restored only at reactor buildings 5 and 6, which were not considered a particular threat, that success suggests that workers are finally beginning to make some headway in their effort to prevent more radiation from escaping the plant. (latimes.com)
  • The most recent reports suggest that the heavy spraying is working and has reduced radiation levels at the plant. (latimes.com)
  • Are workers at nuclear plants expected to stay at their posts even if radiation is high? (thedailybeast.com)
  • Every person working at the plant has a limit on how much radiation they may be exposed to, but due to the complex nature of secondary employment arrangements, oversight is proving to be a challenge. (uchicago.edu)
  • On top of that, the spent nuclear fuel in Unit 4, which was down for maintenance at the time of the quake, has twice ignited and appears to be the source of the high levels of radiation released so far. (motherjones.com)
  • Thanks to safety systems they have, nuclear power plants have negligible influence, with only about 1% of the radiation exists around us. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • He also reported that there were no major delays at Rosatom's construction sites and that a Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) inspection of the Hanhikivi nuclear power plant project in Finland was carried out remotely. (iaea.org)
  • China said Tuesday that radiation levels around the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant are normal, following CNN's exclusive report the United States government was assessing a reported leak at the facility. (cnn.com)
  • There is no abnormality in the radiation environment around the nuclear power plant. (cnn.com)
  • The warning included an accusation the Chinese safety authority was raising the acceptable limits for radiation detection outside the plant in order to avoid having to shut it down, according to a letter from French firm Framatome to the US Department of Energy, obtained by CNN. (cnn.com)
  • However, Zhao declined to answer follow-up questions regarding Framatome's language in its warning to US officials, specifically, its use of the term "imminent radiological threat," and the suggestion that Chinese authorities had raised acceptable limits of radiation for the plant and its surrounding area. (cnn.com)
  • On Wednesday, China's National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) denied raising the acceptable limits of radiation outside the plant to avoid its shutdown. (cnn.com)
  • These limits are used for operational management and have nothing to do with radiation levels outside the nuclear power plant," the administration said in a statement on its official social media account. (cnn.com)
  • Charles W. Miller, Ph.D., Chief of the Radiation Studies Branch, CDC, set the stage for the session by outlining the reality of the threats associated with radiological and nuclear materials. (cdc.gov)
  • Past nuclear disasters, such as the atomic bombings in 1945 and major accidents at nuclear power plants, have highlighted similarities in potential public health effects of radiation in both circumstances, including health issues unrelated to radiation exposure. (bvsalud.org)
  • Although the rarity of nuclear disasters limits opportunities to undertake rigorous research of evidence-based interventions and strategies, identification of lessons learned and development of an effective plan to protect the public, minimise negative effects, and protect emergency workers from exposure to high-dose radiation is important. (bvsalud.org)
  • Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Image Gallery The Fukushima II Dai Ni nuclear power plant after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami. (howstuffworks.com)
  • It's been two and a half years since a tsunami severely damaged the Fukushima nuclear power complex in Japan and authorities are still struggling to contain the radioactivity from the related meltdown. (loe.org)
  • The power plant's owner, Tokyo Electric Power Company, has been struggling to bring reactor units 1, 2, and 3 under control after last week's earthquake and tsunami caused a massive power failure that disabled the cooling systems. (motherjones.com)
  • Though every year the anniversary reminds us of the perils of nuclear power, this year it sent an advance message through a ferocious messenger-the tsunami of Japan. (org.in)
  • So rare that even nuclear statisticians never simulated such a situation while designing the plants in Japan, an earthquake and tsunami-prone country. (org.in)
  • The tsunami made redundant even the back up power supply system. (org.in)
  • Going by the statements of the Department of Atomic Energy, diesel power backups for our nuclear power plants, particularly in tsunami prone areas, have been constructed at high altitudes to avoid flooding by tsunami. (org.in)
  • Saito T, Kunimitsu A. Public health response to the combined Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant accident: perspective from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal , 2011, 2(4):7-9. (who.int)
  • With the epicentre off the Sanriku coast, the magnitude 9.0 quake triggered a tsunami, which together with the effects of the quake ignited a serious accident at a nuclear power plant. (who.int)
  • The nine magnitude earthquake snapped the plant's power supply, vital to run the cooling mechanism. (org.in)
  • On July 16, 2007 an earthquake damaged the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. (berkeley.edu)
  • The nation's new nuclear regulator ignored earthquake risk and its own rules in approving the safety of the Sendai nuclear plant, said Kobe University professor and seismologist Katsuhiko Ishibashi. (japantimes.co.jp)
  • Ishibashi, well-known in Japan for books and papers on earthquake threats that later became reality, said he has filed a formal complaint to the Nuclear Regulation Authority challenging the legality of its decision. (japantimes.co.jp)
  • In the afternoon presentations Dr. Monica Braw, who has written extensively upon Hiroshima, discussed the ongoing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Power Plant, and Professor Marie Söderberg, Sweden's leading economist working upon contemporary Japanese economics, presented and analysed the enormous and far-reaching political and economic consequences that could occur as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake. (lu.se)
  • A historic marker in front of Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in 2009. (thedailybeast.com)
  • The partial meltdown, caused by human error, marked Three Mile Island as America's most infamous-and perhaps educational-nuclear accident. (thedailybeast.com)
  • At Three Mile Island, word had gotten out that day, the media showed up that afternoon, and the plant management held a presser and tried to play down the severity of the accident. (thedailybeast.com)
  • An informed American public might not have been so complacent about nuclear power plant development such as that at Three Mile Island. (projectcensored.org)
  • Increases in capital costs, construction delays, and public opposition to nuclear power following the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 curtailed expansion of the technology, and many construction projects were canceled. (thecapitol.net)
  • Bromet E, Schulberg HC, Dunn L. Reactions of psychiatric patients to the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. (cdc.gov)
  • Others see nuclear power as an inherently dangerous technology that poses a threat to any community located near a nuclear power plant. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Engineers said they hoped to have the power connected to the remaining reactor buildings sometime Sunday or early Monday. (latimes.com)
  • An open and joint learning process is essential to prepare for, and minimise the effects of, future nuclear disasters. (bvsalud.org)
  • But the accident changed so much, from how we operate plants to training, to our very culture, everything. (thedailybeast.com)
  • We ask your cooperation for this petition so that Tokyo Electric, the Japanese government, and the Nuclear Regulation Authority will responsibly implement measures to deal with the Fukushima accident and these radioactive discharges into the Pacific Ocean. (change.org)
  • There's no protection," says Kenneth Bergeron, a physicist who previously worked on nuclear reactor accident simulations at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories. (motherjones.com)
  • Secondly, India will have to rethink in terms of liability in case of a similar nuclear accident. (org.in)
  • After the Fukushima nuclear accident, some countries have announced that they will review their nuclear energy programs but investment in nuclear power plants have continued on a global scale. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • Japan, the country where the Fukushima accident happened, temporarily stopped all nuclear power plants after the accident to check these nuclear power plants according to updated safety standards. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • The increase in the level of radioactivity in the primary circuit is completely different from a radiological leakage accident," as the "physical barriers are safe," it said, adding the level "is still within the range of allowable stable operation," and the "operational safety of the nuclear power plant is guaranteed. (cnn.com)
  • This was not the first Japanese nuclear accident "beyond our imagination. (berkeley.edu)
  • Due to the potential effects from the accident at the power plant, many residents living nearby were forced to evacuate. (who.int)
  • As a direct consequence of the accident, the Italian government decided to begin to shut down the country's nuclear power plants in 1988. (lu.se)
  • They also worried about problems for future generations, which may relate to problems with long-term final storage of nuclear waste, rather than to the risk of a new accident. (lu.se)
  • Even plants that are shut down need people to continuously ensure that a variety of systems, including those that keep used nuclear fuel cool, are operating. (thebulletin.org)
  • Last August, Dominion Power was forced to shut down its 871-MW Unit 2 of the two-unit Millstone Nuclear Plant in Waterford, Conn., saying average water temperatures in the Niantic Bay in Long Island Sound, from which it draws cooling water for plant safety-related systems, exceeded limits of 75F. (powermag.com)
  • Even before Tom Kauffman stepped inside the plant on the morning of March 28, 1979, he could tell something was wrong. (thedailybeast.com)
  • EDF holds a 30% stake in the power plant's owner and operator, TNPJVC - a joint venture with state-owned China General Nuclear Power Group. (cnn.com)
  • Back in the 1980s, Yucca Mountain in Nevada was chosen as the nation's nuclear waste dump, but widespread resistance has stalled the project. (loe.org)
  • China General Nuclear Power Group and three of its affiliates were added to a US entity list in August 2019, cutting the Chinese company's access to US technology. (cnn.com)
  • Nuclear power plants could be launched on an accelerated basis with reshuffles in planning to try to alleviate the country's energy crisis," the publication said. (bitcoinminershashrate.com)
  • Of Germany's six nuclear plants, which provided 13.3 percent of the country's energy, three were closed last year, with the remaining three at Emsland, Isar and Neckarwestheim planned for closure by year's end. (newstarget.com)
  • She said that plant operators during wartime might "decide to go and protect their families. (thebulletin.org)
  • CURWOOD: Without the Yucca Mountain project, where else can nuclear power operators in the United States turn for nuclear waste storage? (loe.org)
  • Temperatures in the Northeast have been soaring as a heat wave sweeps through the region, prompting independent grid operators to encourage consumers to conserve power. (powermag.com)
  • BRUMFIEL: Plant operators have been slurping all the water they can out of the falling reservoir and into the pond. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
  • Nuclear power plant operators are carrying out remote quality and safety related assessments of systems, structures and components (SSC) to overcome physical distancing and mobility restrictions during the global pandemic, participants in a recent IAEA webinar said. (iaea.org)
  • Marc Tannenbaum, a senior technical executive at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in the United States, talked about issues experienced by US nuclear power plant (NPP) operators as a result of the pandemic, including inability to perform source verification for critical items from suppliers due to travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders. (iaea.org)
  • Without congressional action, the default alternative to Yucca Mountain would be indefinite on-site storage of nuclear waste at reactor sites and other nuclear facilities. (thecapitol.net)
  • The flexibility and responsiveness they continue to show is an asset for the future of nuclear power, particularly as the world may face similar challenges again in the future. (iaea.org)
  • In Swedish politics, the future of nuclear power has been a major issue for several decades. (lu.se)
  • As emergency workers begin "last-ditch efforts" to take control of the damaged power station, experts worry that a meltdown is still possible. (motherjones.com)
  • If plant workers can't regain control over the units, there could be a meltdown. (motherjones.com)
  • However, the Japanese government is focusing much of its efforts on the restart of nuclear plants in Japan. (change.org)
  • In a May 1986 Washington Post/ABC News poll, 55% said that U.S. plants were safer (the question asked about overall safety, not the design of the plants). (pewresearch.org)
  • The NRP includes a "Nuclear / Radiological Incident Annex," which applies to the full range of possible radiological incidents, including terrorism and nuclear power plant accidents. (cdc.gov)
  • Instead, the regulator said it "reviewed and approved the relevant limits of specific radioactivity of inert gases in the reactor coolant at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant. (cnn.com)
  • The major contribution to radioactivity in nuclear waste accumulated in the world comes from the spent nuclear fuel. (bellona.org)
  • MHLW was primarily responsible for securing food and water safety by establishing a monitoring system for food, setting provisional regulation values of radioactive materials in food in accordance with the Food Sanitation Act, adopting the indices for limits on food and drink ingestion established by the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, 2 and regularly inspecting radioactivity levels in tap water to restrict the intake of contaminated water. (who.int)
  • The second is geologist Evelyn Mervine's phenomenal set of telephone interviews with her dad , a retired Naval and civilian nuclear engineer. (keithhennessey.com)
  • As part of this program, the U.S. helped Iran and other countries develop civilian nuclear technology based on the belief this would keep them from seeking nuclear weapons on their own. (npr.org)
  • It was part of President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace program, an initiative to provide countries with peaceful, civilian nuclear technologies in the hope that they wouldn't pursue military nuclear programs. (npr.org)
  • But, says Vaez, "as a result of the oil boom of the 1970s, that [Iranian] nuclear program morphed into a full-fledged civilian nuclear program. (npr.org)
  • Tepco, the Japanese government, and the Nuclear Regulation Authority have continuously failed to undertake effective countermeasures to deal with liquid radioactive discharges. (change.org)
  • The Nuclear Regulation Authority had neglected to take action. (change.org)
  • The first is Maggie Koerth-Baker's simple and clear post, Nuclear energy 101: Inside the "black box" of power plants . (keithhennessey.com)
  • Ijaz Hossain, professor and dean of engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in Dhaka, said the nuclear plant could help ease the country's power problems and increase its use of low-carbon energy. (eco-business.com)
  • Hossain said nuclear power could not only boost Bangladesh's energy security, but also help meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement to curb climate-heating emissions by reducing fossil fuel use. (eco-business.com)
  • But treating nuclear as a renewable or green energy source remains controversial worldwide , as the spent fuel left after power production is not fully recyclable and nuclear waste is hazardous. (eco-business.com)
  • The plant is being built by Rosatom, Russia's state-owned nuclear energy corporation, using Russian technology, with 90 per cent of the project financed by a Russian loan worth $11.38 billion that will be repaid over two decades starting from 2027. (eco-business.com)
  • Today's cheap, bountiful supplies make it hard to see humanity's looming energy crisis, but it's possibly coming within our lifetimes. (businessinsider.com)
  • LYMAN: The Department of Energy was supposed to take title to the nuclear waste generated at nuclear power plants by 1998. (loe.org)
  • Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France - As global energy prices soar, 35 countries are working together at a sprawling facility nestled in the French countryside to try to create a new source of unlimited, clean power for the entire planet. (cbsnews.com)
  • The tokamak will, ITER hopes, create net energy by producing more power from the fusion reaction than is required to trigger it. (cbsnews.com)
  • And yet, the 'greenies' in the West insist that windmills and solar panel farms can produce enough "clean" energy to power modern economies, despite a couple of decades' worth of proof that demonstrates otherwise. (newstarget.com)
  • Now, German leaders have been forced to rethink previous decisions to cut their energy production from traditional sources including nuclear power, which generates no emissions whatsoever. (newstarget.com)
  • Germany famously decided to stop using atomic energy in 2011, and the last remaining plants were set to close at the end of this year. (newstarget.com)
  • In response, Peru, which suffers from significant seismic activity, has already announced that it will do without nuclear power plants in its energy matrix. (upenn.edu)
  • Is there a viable alternative to nuclear energy for Chile? (upenn.edu)
  • On February 24, Laurence Golborne, Chile's minister of mining and energy, signed a huge cooperative agreement on nuclear power with France, which derives 74% of its energy from nuclear energy. (upenn.edu)
  • As France's minister of industry and energy Eric Besson said, 'We are going to put into action an unrestricted institutional effort to cooperate with Chile in its efforts to deal with' nuclear power. (upenn.edu)
  • Only a few weeks later, the Chilean government signed another cooperative agreement, this time with the United States, involving research and training of human personnel for developing nuclear energy. (upenn.edu)
  • This agreement aims to bolster research and training of personnel involved in nuclear energy. (upenn.edu)
  • According to the media, the goal of the [Chilean] government is to establish the foundations for technical and professional training on nuclear energy in that country over the next decade, during which authorities will 'probably' decide that the country needs to equip itself with nuclear power plants. (upenn.edu)
  • Nuclear energy is competitive for urban district heating applications. (powermag.com)
  • These systems, in other words, nuclear power plants, ensure that nuclear energy is obtained in a safe, controlled and sustainable way. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • Countries that do not have oil and other hydrocarbon resources have inclined to nuclear power plants to reduce their dependence on these resources and ensure security of energy supply. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • The need for a reliable, affordable, sustainable and accessible energy source with increased environmental awareness places more emphasis on nuclear power plants than other alternatives. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • The 2005 Energy Policy Act (P.L. 109-58) authorized streamlined licensing that combines construction and operating permits, and tax credits for production from advanced nuclear power facilities. (thecapitol.net)
  • DOE's Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems Initiative is developing advanced reactor technologies that could be safer than LWRs and produce high-temperature heat to make hydrogen. (thecapitol.net)
  • It focuses on deploying Generation III+ advanced light-water reactor designs, and is managed by DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy. (thecapitol.net)
  • In March 2010, the Secretary of Energy filed to withdraw its application for a nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain. (thecapitol.net)
  • The plant, which is the largest of its kind in Europe, has seen destruction of its infrastructure via shelling, damage to its power lines, amounting to what Ukrainian authorities call the largest situation of its kind in history. (wikipedia.org)
  • A mission to inspect the plant was being planned by the IAEA, waiting on approval by Ukrainian and Russian sides, as well as United Nations authorisation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Local Russian-backed authorities said that Ukrainian forces had hit the site with a multiple rocket launcher, damaging administrative buildings and an area near a nuclear storage facility. (wikipedia.org)
  • A strike on the Ukrainian plant, Rosner said, would have caused more localized risk. (thebulletin.org)
  • The Ukrainian managers of the power plant are still on the job, but the plant is occupied by Russian military forces, and the specialists could be under duress. (harvard.edu)
  • This crisis will also be studied extensively, but not yet, we're still in an emergency. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Nevertheless, for Chilean public opinion, the Fukushima nuclear emergency has created a powerful emotional barrier when it comes to establishing nuclear power plants in the future, notes Claudio Tenreiro, professor of engineering at the University of Talca, Chile. (upenn.edu)
  • Nuclear power plants outfitted with VVERs have a pond with free rack space for emergency transfer of the complete reactor core. (bellona.org)
  • On average, approximately 4,000 people work for Tepco subcontractors at the Fukushima No. 1 plant each day. (uchicago.edu)
  • Tepco is also considering accepting workers from overseas at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, the officials said. (uchicago.edu)
  • Tepco has confirmed with the Justice Ministry that holders of visas under the latest plan are eligible to work at the Fukushima plant. (uchicago.edu)
  • We petition the Nuclear Regulatory Authority to instruct Tepco to implement the above. (change.org)
  • The worst-case scenario, a direct hit on radioactive material at the plant, seems to have been avoided. (thebulletin.org)
  • There have been both administrative and technical improvements to establish and operate safer nuclear power plants all over the world. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • On Monday, CNN reported that the French company which helps operate the nuclear plant in southern Guangdong province had warned Washington of an "imminent radiological threat. (cnn.com)
  • Grossi said the situation was "very alarming" but there was no immediate threat to nuclear safety, though the situation could change. (wikipedia.org)
  • But construction delays, cost concerns and public fears about nuclear safety are clouding the outlook for the new plant. (eco-business.com)
  • Last year, the WS released a report titled "Scientists' Group Judges Federal Nuclear Safety Inspection Effort" which received little coverage. (projectcensored.org)
  • Union of Concerned Scientists, November 26, 1978, "Scientists' Group Judges Federal Nuclear Safety Inspection Effort. (projectcensored.org)
  • Ukraine's regional military administration said there was damage to the compartment of reactor No. 1 at the plant in the city of Enerhodar, but it does not affect the safety of the power unit, adding that operational personnel are ensuring its safety. (harvard.edu)
  • Cooling for 72 hours without external human intervention, airplane crash protection, passive safety systems, digital control rooms, compact equipment and system designs and other vital advancements made it possible for nuclear power plants to have a safer design. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • China attaches great importance to nuclear safety and has established a nuclear safety supervision system that is in line with international standards and national conditions," he said. (cnn.com)
  • The goal of developing a nuclear power plant in Bangladesh dates back to the 1960s, but plans adopted by successive governments over the decades were not implemented due to a lack of funding and skilled engineers. (eco-business.com)
  • The U.S. had begun working with Iran to launch its nuclear program two years earlier and would provide Iran with its first nuclear research reactor in the 1960s, at Tehran University. (npr.org)
  • Nuclear power started coming online in significant amounts in the late 1960s. (thecapitol.net)
  • His successor, Angela Merkel, herself a former physicist, sought to extend nuclear power use until 2037, calling it a "bridging technology" until clear alternatives could be found and, more importantly, built and implemented. (newstarget.com)
  • To date no nuclear waste has been transported to Yucca Mountain. (thecapitol.net)
  • Last year, the Swedish government was overthrown as a result of opposition to nuclear power plant development. (projectcensored.org)
  • These threats include acts of terrorism, such as a targeted attack on a nuclear facility, but also include accidental releases of radiological materials at weapons laboratories and medical facilities. (cdc.gov)
  • The shah's government paid for dozens of Iranian students to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology and study nuclear engineering in the mid-1970s, the university said. (npr.org)
  • The spread of nuclear power plants began with the oil crisis of the early 1970s. (enerji.gov.tr)
  • It is the largest nuclear power plant in all of Europe. (kpbs.org)
  • The pandemic has tested the resilience of the nuclear power industry and sparked the development of innovative solutions to a range of challenges, including to the supply chain of goods and services such as assessments of SSC and suppliers. (iaea.org)
  • Putin has been noisily rattling his nuclear saber to remind the world that he has plenty of dangerous weapons in his arsenal, writes Executive Director Alexandra Vacroux. (harvard.edu)
  • Some 9,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel is annually removed from the nuclear power plants in the world. (bellona.org)
  • By the year 2000, world stocks of spent nuclear fuel will amount to approx. (bellona.org)
  • It is accurate to say that we reduced power to 85% for a short time yesterday to stay within prescribed discharge temperature limits but we returned the plant to full power yesterday and are at full power today," said Entergy spokesperson Jim Sinclair. (powermag.com)
  • Last winter, Moscow's drones and missiles zeroed in on Ukraine's power grid, hoping to erode the country's will to resist Russia's invasion by denying civilians heating. (wkbn.com)
  • We simulated a bioterrorism-related out- mals and continued during the next 9 days with an epi- break in a U.S. community to examine (prospectively) the demiologic investigation and the identification by federal community's reaction to the crisis and assess the need for authorities of intentional release of RVFV. (cdc.gov)
  • Construction of the nuclear power plant in the village of Rooppur, located 175 kilometers west of the capital, Dhaka, began in 2017 as part of a project with a cost of $12.65 billion, with 90% of the funding provided by Moscow. (lbcgroup.tv)
  • As early as 1973, the Wall Street Journal , in a well documented article, pointed out the economic liabilities of nuclear power plants and termed them "atomic lemons," another story which did not receive widespread coverage. (projectcensored.org)
  • The deep crisis of the socialist public-political system and the breakup of a huge country like the Soviet Union in the early 1990s resulted in political chaos, economic paralysis and social collapse in Azerbaijan like in other post-Soviet countries. (who.int)
  • The dynamics of economic growth, which gained a new impulse through the comprehensive extraction and export of natural resources and economic growth in Azerbaijan even during the 2009 global economic crisis, show that the strategic line that was chosen was being conducted successfully. (who.int)
  • Some experts fear the plant could melt down in a way similar to what happened in Fukushima, Japan, over a decade ago. (kpbs.org)
  • The country has planned to end any existing reliance on nuclear power for more than a decade. (newstarget.com)
  • It is only in the last one decade that the nuclear power witnessed a resurgence, mostly due to India and China aggressively pursuing it. (org.in)
  • Host Steve Curwood talks with Ed Lyman from the Union for Concerned Scientists, about what the United States can do with all the nuclear waste from its power stations. (loe.org)
  • The waste is still with us, though, and Ed Lyman, the nuclear expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists says that's a problem. (loe.org)
  • The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a national public interest group, has for years been trying to tell the story of nuclear hazards to the American public with little success. (projectcensored.org)
  • The media's failure to provide a forum for groups such as the Union of Concerned Scientists and others and its failure to inform Americans of successful anti-nuclear activities in other countries qualifies this story for nomination as a "best censored" story of 1978. (projectcensored.org)
  • Media reports quote scientists and experts as saying, this situation is so low in probability that even Japan never factored this situation in its crisis management. (org.in)