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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Chances of nuclear accident put higher

Chances of nuclear accident put higher
UPI.com
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz have calculated that given the operating hours of all civil nuclear reactors and the number of nuclear meltdowns that have occurred to date, such disasters may occur once every 10 to 20 ...
 

Probability Of Contamination From Nuclear Reactor Accidents Higher Than Expected

Newsroom America -
By Newsroom America Staff at 3:00 pm Eastern (Newsroom America) -- Catastrophic nuclear accidents such as the core meltdowns in Chernobyl and Fukushima are more likely to happen than previously assumed, according to scientists.

Probability of contamination from severe nuclear reactor accidents is higher ...

Phys.Org -
This shows the global risk of radioactive contamination. The map shows the annual probability in percent of radioactive contamination by more than 40 kilobecquerels per square meter. In Western Europe the risk is around two percent per year.

Nuclear meltdowns 200x more likely than previously estimated

ScienceBlog.com (blog) -
Catastrophic nuclear accidents such as the core meltdowns in Chernobyl and Fukushima are more likely to happen than previously assumed. Based on the operating hours of all civil nuclear reactors and the number of nuclear meltdowns that have occurred, ...

Probability of contamination from severe nuclear reactor accidents is higher than expected: study
Catastrophic nuclear accidents such as the core meltdowns in Chernobyl and Fukushima are more likely to happen than previously assumed. Based on the operating hours of all civil nuclear reactors and the number of nuclear meltdowns that have occurred, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz have calculated that such events may occur once every 10 to 20 years (based on the current number of reactors) — some 200 times more often than estimated in the past.
 

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