Sentence examples for nuclear power facility from inspiring English sources

Pickering and Luers, in a recent article in the New York Review of Books, advocate building an international nuclear power facility on Iranian soil, which might be acceptable to Iran.

Multiple units at one nuclear power facility (common practice in the United States), creating the potential for mind-boggling negative synergies — a serious problem at one unit vastly complicates management, salvage or use of the others.

"The Next Chernobyl?," by Khosrow B. Semnani and Gary M. Sandquist (Op-Ed, nytimes.com, Jan . 3, rightly calls attention to the Bushehr nuclear power facility in Iran and raises important issues regarding operational safety.

As at Diablo Canyon, fears of an earthquake near the Indian Point nuclear power facility, about 30 miles north of New York City, were stoked in 2008 when researchers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University discovered a pattern of small but active faults in the area, suggesting that earthquakes near the plant were more common than once thought.

That was before an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in March, damaging the company's nuclear power facility in Fukushima and unleashing a radiation threat that displaced more than 160,000 people in Japan and could pose risks to the nation's food supply.

For example, radiation leak from Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility contaminated an area of 12.5 mi.

As a society, we are gambling – with our big banks, with our nuclear power facilities, with our planet.

The power per area of nuclear power facilities, by the way, is about 1,000 watts per square meter — much higher than that of renewables.

After all, some countries seem to be going the other way: Germany and others are planning to cut back or eliminate their nuclear power facilities altogether.

By the end of this week, more than 1,500 guardsmen will be stationed at sites in and around New York City, including the city's upstate reservoirs and the state's four nuclear power facilities, said Gov. George E. Pataki.

The report by the Union of Concerned Scientists examined 14 instances in 2010 in which significant problems at nuclear power facilities set off special inspections by federal regulators — incidents characterized by the regulators as "near misses".