Chancellor Angela Merkel has shut the older reactors in response to Fukushima and, though this may be temporary, it goes further and faster than any other country.
Although Germany also started to build nuclear reactors in response to the oil crises of the 1970s, public opinion soured in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
For example, some equipment stored at nuclear reactors in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — like portable pumps, hoses, extra batteries and extra sources of energy — is held in places that are not protected from flooding, and the items are not regularly tested, the task force found.
Many such processes were originally manufactured in moderately sized reactors with a height diameter ratio of around 1. Operators have subsequently driven up their production rates by intensifying the reaction and by increasing the reactor size (and often increased the reactor's height diameter geometry) in response to the economic requirement for world-scale manufacturing plants.
To shut down: Three nuclear reactors in central Japan, in response to expert predictions of a massive earthquake there within the next thirty years.
Nine organizations, including the Southern Alliance, said on Wednesday that they would sue to try to block the license because the commission had not adequately analyzed the new reactors' design for hazards in response to last year's disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan.
Operability of Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) hydrogen cogeneration systems in response to abnormal transients initiated by the hydrogen production plant is one of the important concerns from economical and safety points of views.
Non-isothermal packed-bed- and monolith reactors tend to be convectively unstable: in response to changes in operating conditions (start-up, shut-down, load change), they may develop pronounced travelling waves of temperature and chemical composition.
It is based on axial thermal coupling (e.g. through shared walls) of two or more dynamically dissimilar reactors that develop different temperature waves in response to identical perturbation.
Local and state public health agencies in California have warned against taking potassium iodide in response to the Japanese reactor crisis, because of the minuscule chance of radiation traveling thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean.
