The Price-Anderson Act and its 2005 expansion shift the insurance burden for nuclear accidents from utilities to taxpayers.
If the courts permit the closures, Sweden will be poorer and dirtier and may be more at risk from nuclear accidents.
But so far no nuclear accidents have occurred and Gordon is ready with all the figures that make my simple statement sound ignorant and uniformed.
Experts had been particularly worried about a spike in thyroid cancer, since iodine released in nuclear accidents is absorbed by the thyroid, especially in children.
Indian legislation about the liability for nuclear accidents in effect closes to American companies the very market Mr Bush sacrificed so much to prise open.
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The former commanding general of U.S. forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan equated the situation in Syria today with one of the most deadly nuclear accidents in history.
"A real exit strategy has to start with an inspection by the world's top experts on nuclear accidents, " Iida told reporters at Japan's national press club last week.
While the nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl turned public opinion in the United States and Europe against nuclear energy, in France nuclear power never went out of fashion.
In many ways, Japan's cleanup and restoration plans are more ambitious and challenging than those following the nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island in the U.S. and Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union.
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Despite several low-level nuclear accidents, Japan's power generators such as Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), owner of the Fukushima plant, have sworn blind that their safety records are exemplary and there is no danger of any meltdowns.
The Center for Security Policy believes that the United States simply cannot tolerate these nuclear accidents-waiting-to-happen and must demand that Moscow immediately suspend its shipment of all equipment, technology and nuclear fuel associated with completion of thisprogram.
TEPCO, the company that operates the failed reactors in Fukushima that at the time caused one of the biggest nuclear accidents in history, said it detected slightly tainted "rainwater flowing out into the ocean" from the site earlier in the week.
The ongoing drama at the power plant in Fukushima -- a name now ranked alongside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl as history's worst nuclear accidents -- has erased the momentum the nuclear industry has seen in recent years.
Even though the company experienced several low-level nuclear accidents in recent years TEPCO has never appointed a board-level committee to oversee enterprise risk management, and because of the limited presence of independent directors on its board, suffered from a lack of alternate perspectives in its board room.
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As a former commissioner at the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Peter Bradford knows something about nuclear power accidents.
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The system could also be used to monitor fallout from accidents at nuclear reactors, Sandia officials said.
And voters see Mr Noda as someone who has restarted the first nuclear reactors since the Fukushima accidents.
If such a reactor could meet the targets claimed for it by its proponents (a big if, says Harvard's Mr Bunn), it has the potential to be cheaper than existing types of nuclear energy, safe from Chernobyl-style large accidents, and more proliferation-resistant than typical reactors.
Military establishments with poor discipline, poor training and poor civilian oversight are particularly prone to such accidents, and it is almost certain that as the number of nuclear powers increases the reliability of the average military establishment looking after those weapons will drop.
Accidents at Three Mile Island in 1979 and Chernobyl in 1986 were pivotal events in the history of nuclear power plants.
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For those who are concerned about climate change, we have to recognize that countries like Japan and France and others have been much more aggressive in their nuclear industry and much more successful in having that a larger part of their portfolio, without incident, without accidents.
"With Fukashima and what's been going on with the accidents, and the terrorism threats, and the lack of security and solutions for waste storage, the nuclear issue is ... first and foremost on my mind, " she said.
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