All-in-all, nuclear power plants still meet the most stringent design criteria of any structure.
Incredibly strong and, fortunately, within the design limit for structures like nuclear power plants.
Iran does not have any nuclear power plants, and thus does not need enriched uranium anyway.
Inspectors checked out several nuclear power plants in the region and found no problems.
So how does Fukushima measure up with other radioactive leaks at nuclear power plants globally?
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Throughout the country most of the expected additions would be expansions of existing nuclear power plants.
Several other nuclear power plants in Japan are also located on unstable land, they pointed out.
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Problems led to the temporary shut-down of two East Coast nuclear power plants over the weekend.
Earlier this year, Turkey announced plans to build three nuclear power plants by 2015.
As of July 2012, there were 435 nuclear power plants in operation around the world.
SMRs near most nuclear power plants were elevated 6-10 years after startup, particularly for leukemia.
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Natural-gas plants are cheaper than renewables but emit greenhouse gases, which nuclear power plants do not.
It is part of a program to use mixed-oxide fuels in Japan's nuclear power plants.
But Japanese power companies will have a harder time building new nuclear power plants from now on.
There is enough empirical research documenting the safety of nuclear power plants to fill several small libraries.
This is very complex and untested technology compared, say, to coal- and gas-fired or nuclear power plants.
Conventional nuclear power plants in the U.S. have their reactors refueled once every 18 to 24 months.
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Nowadays, barely half of the uranium needed to run the world's nuclear power plants comes from mines.
American nuclear power plants' capacity utilisation has risen from 56% in 1984 to more than 90% today.
Currently, Brazil has two nuclear power plants operating in Rio de Janeiro, with a third under construction.
Back in the 1960s and 70s, getting rural Japanese communities to accept nuclear power plants was hard.
And we're going to have to build a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in America.
The eight companies with nuclear power plants (working or under construction) are: Chubu Electric Power Company, Inc.
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It is amazing to think that inland US nuclear power plants are more flood-proof than their Japanese counterparts.
"It is vital that U.S. nuclear power plants fully incorporate the lessons learned from this disaster, " she said.
By threatening to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1994, he secured two western-designed nuclear power plants.
But the region gets roughly 30% of its electricity from nuclear power plants, and each plant needs prodigious amounts of water.
But without Belo Monte, Brazil would probably have to build nuclear power plants or invest in coal-fired thermal energy.
Spanish nuclear power plants are also seeking extensions, though the political climate for new plants is much less favorable.
Quite a few interests made considerable profits by the construction of nuclear power plants over the last 40 years.
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