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11Drinking water quality in the United States — is a source of concern about pollutants in certain localities. In 2006, 89.3 percent of the nation s community water systems were in compliance with all of more than 90 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards.[1]:220 Most of the… …
12Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity — The Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity (actual name, Commission de Recherche et d Information Indépendantes sur la Radioactivité, or CRIIRAD) is a French NGO which specializes in the analysis of radioactivity in… …
13Drinking water directive — The European Drinking Water Directive (DWD), Council Directive 98/83/EC concerns the quality of water intended for human consumption and forms part of the regulation of Water supply and sanitation in the European Union. The Directive is intended… …
14Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor — The reactor formally known as Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) is a passively safe generation III+ reactor which builds on the success of the ABWR. Both are designs by General Electric, and are based on their BWR design.The ESBWR …
15Atomic Age — This article is about the historical era. For the comic book miniseries, see Atomic Age (comics). An early nuclear power plant that used atomic energy to generate electricity. The Atomic Age, also known as the Atomic Era, is a phrase typically… …
16Operation Plowshare — Not to be confused with the anti nuclear Plowshares Movement. The 1962 Sedan plowshares shot displaced 12 million tons of earth and created a crater 320 feet (100 m) deep and 1,280 feet (390 m) wide. Project Plowshare was the overall United… …
17radiation — radiational, adj. /ray dee ay sheuhn/, n. 1. Physics. a. the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves. b. the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and… …
18Chernobyl disaster — This article is about the 1986 nuclear plant accident in Ukraine. For other uses, see Chernobyl (disambiguation). Chernobyl disaster …
19nuclear reactor — Physics. reactor (def. 4). Also called nuclear pile. [1940 45] * * * Device that can initiate and control a self sustaining series of nuclear fission reactions. Neutrons released in one fission reaction may strike other heavy nuclei, causing them …
20Radioactive waste — 2007 ISO radioactivity danger logo, designed in part for long term radioactive waste depositories which might survive into a far future time in which all knowledge of the meaning of present common radiation danger symbols and signs has been lost… …
