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60 relations: Anhui, Anti-nuclear movement, AP600, Arnold Gundersen, Caijing, Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code, Combined Construction and Operating License, Core damage frequency, Cumbria, Design-basis event, Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor, Economics of nuclear power plants, Edwin Lyman, England, Environmental impact assessment, Environmental organization, Friends of the Earth, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Gansu, Generation III reactor, Georgia Power, Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant, HTR-10, Hubei, Hunan, International Atomic Energy Agency, Jiangxi, Jilin, Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant, Moorside Nuclear Power Station, Nuclear Power 2010 Program, Nuclear power in Bulgaria, Nuclear power in China, Nuclear power in the United Kingdom, Nuclear power in the United States, Nuclear power plant, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuclear safety in the United States, NuGeneration, NUREG-1150, Passive nuclear safety, PDF, Pressurized water reactor, Probabilistic risk assessment, Reactor pressure vessel, Rebar, Sanmen Nuclear Power Station, Santee Cooper, SCANA, Sellafield, ..., Shandong, State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation, The Guardian, Three Mile Island accident, Toshiba, Union of Concerned Scientists, Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station, Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Westinghouse Electric Company, Zhejiang. Expand index (10 more) »
Anhui
Anhui is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the eastern region of the country.
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Anti-nuclear movement
The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies.
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AP600
The AP600 is a model of relatively small, 600 MWe nuclear power plant designed by Westinghouse Electric Company.
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Arnold Gundersen
Arnold "Arnie" Gundersen (born January 4, 1949 in Elizabeth, New Jersey) is a former nuclear industry executive, and engineer with more than 44 years of nuclear industry experience who became a whistleblower in 1990.
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Caijing
Caijing (财经) (meaning Finance and Economics Magazine in English) is an independent magazine based in Beijing that covers societal, political, and economic issues, with a focus on civil rights, public affairs, and business.
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Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code
Chapter 11 is a chapter of Title 11, the United States Bankruptcy Code, which permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States.
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Combined Construction and Operating License
The Combined Construction and Operating License (Regulatory Guide 1.206, COL) replaced the previous Draft Regulatory Guide 1145 as the licensing process for new nuclear power plants in the United States.
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Core damage frequency
Core damage frequency (CDF) is a term used in probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) that indicates the likelihood of an accident that would cause severe damage to a nuclear fuel in nuclear reactor core.
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Cumbria
Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.
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Design-basis event
A design basis event (DBE) is a postulated event used to establish the acceptable performance requirements of the structures, systems, and components, such that a Nuclear power plant can withstand the event and not endanger the health or safety of the plant operators or the wider public.
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Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor
The Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) is a passively safe generation III+ reactor design derived from its predecessor, the Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (SBWR) and from the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR).
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Economics of nuclear power plants
New nuclear power plants typically have high capital costs for building the first several plants, after which costs tend to fall for each additional plant built as the supply chains develop and the regulatory processes improve.
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Edwin Lyman
Edwin Lyman is Senior Global Security Scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Environmental impact assessment
Environmental assessment (EA) is the assessment of the environmental consequences (positive and negative) of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action.
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Environmental organization
An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces.
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Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of environmental organizations in 74 countries.
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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
The was an energy accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture, initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tōhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011.
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Gansu
Gansu (Tibetan: ཀན་སུའུ་ Kan su'u) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northwest of the country.
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Generation III reactor
A Generation III reactor is a development of Generation II nuclear reactor designs incorporating evolutionary improvements in design developed during the lifetime of the Generation II reactor designs.
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Georgia Power
Georgia Power is an electric utility headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
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Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant
Two units at the Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant are under construction in Haiyang, Shandong province, China.
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HTR-10
HTR-10 is a 10 MWt prototype pebble bed reactor at Tsinghua University in China.
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Hubei
Hubei is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the Central China region.
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Hunan
Hunan is the 7th most populous province of China and the 10th most extensive by area.
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International Atomic Energy Agency
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons.
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Jiangxi
Jiangxi, formerly spelled as Kiangsi Gan: Kongsi) is a province in the People's Republic of China, located in the southeast of the country. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hillier areas in the south and east, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to the northwest. The name "Jiangxi" derives from the circuit administrated under the Tang dynasty in 733, Jiangnanxidao (道, Circuit of Western Jiangnan; Gan: Kongnomsitau). The short name for Jiangxi is 赣 (pinyin: Gàn; Gan: Gōm), for the Gan River which runs across from the south to the north and flows into the Yangtze River. Jiangxi is also alternately called Ganpo Dadi (贛鄱大地) which literally means the "Great Land of Gan and Po".
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Jilin
Jilin, formerly romanized as Kirin is one of the three provinces of Northeast China.
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Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant
The Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Bulgaria situated north of Sofia and east of Kozloduy, a town on the Danube river, near the border with Romania.
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Moorside Nuclear Power Station
Moorside Nuclear Power Station is proposed for a site near Sellafield, in Cumbria, United Kingdom.
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Nuclear Power 2010 Program
The "Nuclear Power 2010 Program" was launched in 2002 by President George W. Bush in order to restart orders for nuclear power reactors in the U.S. by providing subsidies for a handful of Generation III+ demonstration plants.
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Nuclear power in Bulgaria
Bulgaria's first commercial nuclear reactor began operation in 1974.
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Nuclear power in China
As of March 2018, the People's Republic of China has 38 nuclear reactors operating with a capacity of 34.5 GW and 18 under construction with a capacity of 21 GW.
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Nuclear power in the United Kingdom
Nuclear power in the United Kingdom generates around a quarter of the country's electricity as of 2016, projected to rise to a third by 2035.
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Nuclear power in the United States
Nuclear power in the United States is provided by 99 commercial reactors with a net capacity of 100,350 megawatts (MW), 65 pressurized water reactors and 34 boiling water reactors.
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Nuclear power plant
A nuclear power plant or nuclear power station is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with protecting public health and safety related to nuclear energy.
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Nuclear safety in the United States
Nuclear safety in the United States is governed by federal regulations issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
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NuGeneration
NuGeneration (NuGen) is a company with plans to build a new nuclear power station nearby the Sellafield nuclear site in the United Kingdom.
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NUREG-1150
NUREG-1150 "Severe Accident Risks: An Assessment for Five U.S. Nuclear Power Plants", published December 1990 by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is a follow-up to the WASH-1400 and CRAC-II safety studies that employs the methodology of plant-specific Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA).
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Passive nuclear safety
Passive nuclear safety is a safety feature of a nuclear reactor that does not require operator actions or electronic feedback in order to shut down safely in the event of a particular type of emergency (usually overheating resulting from a loss of coolant or loss of coolant flow).
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Pressurized water reactor
Pressurized water reactors (PWRs) constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (notable exceptions being the United Kingdom, Japan, and Canada) and are one of three types of light water reactor (LWR), the other types being boiling water reactors (BWRs) and supercritical water reactors (SCWRs).
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Probabilistic risk assessment
Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) is a systematic and comprehensive methodology to evaluate risks associated with a complex engineered technological entity (such as an airliner or a nuclear power plant) or the effects of stressors on the environment (Probabilistic Environmental Risk Assessment - PERA) for example.
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Reactor pressure vessel
A reactor pressure vessel (RPV) in a nuclear power plant is the pressure vessel containing the nuclear reactor coolant, core shroud, and the reactor core.
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Rebar
Rebar (short for reinforcing bar), collectively known as reinforcing steel and reinforcement steel, is a steel bar or mesh of steel wires used as a tension device in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures to strengthen and hold the concrete in compression.
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Sanmen Nuclear Power Station
The Sanmen Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power station under construction in Sanmen County, Zhejiang Province in China.
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Santee Cooper
Santee Cooper, also known officially from the 1930s as the South Carolina Public Service Authority, is South Carolina's state-owned electric and water utility that came into being during the New Deal as both a rural electrification and public works project that created two lakes and cleared large tracts of land while building hydro-electric dams and power plants.
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SCANA
SCANA Corporation is a $5 billion energy-based holding company, based in Cayce, South Carolina, a suburb of Columbia.
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Sellafield
Sellafield is a nuclear fuel reprocessing and nuclear decommissioning site, close to the village of Seascale on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England.
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Shandong
Shandong (formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region.
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State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation
State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation Limited (abbreviation SNPTC) is a Chinese state owned enterprise in nuclear power.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Three Mile Island accident
The Three Mile Island accident occurred on March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg.
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Toshiba
, commonly known as Toshiba, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a nonprofit science advocacy organization based in the United States.
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Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station
The Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station occupies a site near Jenkinsville, South Carolina, in Fairfield County, South Carolina, approximately northwest of Columbia.
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Vogtle Electric Generating Plant
The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, also known as Plant Vogtle, is a 2 unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia, in the southeastern United States.
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Westinghouse Electric Company
Westinghouse Electric Company LLC is a US based nuclear power company formed in 1998 from the nuclear power division of the original Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
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Zhejiang
, formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000
