Sentence examples for radioactive emergency from inspiring English sources

The certification is a checklist confirming that rescue workers have completed training and have the resources to deal with a radioactive emergency.

The Westchester County executive, Andrew J. Spano, said today that confusion over federal dosage guidelines was hampering plans to distribute a cancer-blocking pill to residents in a radioactive emergency.

The plan, developed over several years, consists of documents, several inches thick, laying out how the counties and the state would respond to a radioactive emergency at the plant -- from which bus routes and radio frequencies would be used to where residents could seek shelter.

The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, a top nuclear scientist who narrowly avoided an assassination attempt less than two years ago, has been given a new post as the commander for nuclear and radioactive emergencies, the Iranian military announced Tuesday.

The report came a day after Iran said it had appointed one of its top nuclear scientists — and the target of an assassination attempt in November 2010, also by a motorcyclist with a magnetized bomb — to a new post as the commander for nuclear and radioactive emergencies.

The liner would contain radioactive steam in an emergency and supports hundreds of tons of water in a pool above the reactor during routine refueling.

However, Indian Point and county and state officials understand plume behavior and are well equipped to track a radioactive plume during an emergency".

American officials are also concerned that mounting stresses on the reactors' containment structures as they fill up with radioactive water used in emergency cooling make them vulnerable to rupture in an aftershock from the March 11 earthquake.

In the letter to Jaczko, however, Anthony R. Pietrangelo, the senior vice president and chief nuclear officer with the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry lobby group, argued that the filters should be considered separately from the vent guidelines and weighed against other means already available to control potential radioactive releases during an emergency.

A conceptual design is presented to use measurements of localized absorbed dose in inner cities for production of high resolution maps of the radioactive contamination following a nuclear emergency or radiological attack.

Radioactive tritium and strontium leaks; defective emergency sirens; control rod malfunctions; defective fireproofing; seriously flawed emergency sump pumps; back-up cooling pumps impaired by nitrogen leaks; worn wiring; failing emergency generators; failing emergency communications systems and on and on and on it goes.