To find out why start by watching the movie "The China Syndrome, " which came out in the 1970s immediately before the Three Mile Island nuclear incident.
But the wheels of government turn slowly, though Dr Eastlund says interest at the energy department increases whenever there is a nuclear incident elsewhere in the world.
Events like the Fukushima nuclear incident and the Indonesia tsunami made clear that the U.S. remains uniquely capable of delivering non-traditional security like humanitarian assistance and disaster relief as well.
On March 11, 2011, at the time of the Japan nuclear incident, 25 of the 124 installed RadNet monitors, or 20 percent, were out of service for an average of 130 days.
They have also suspended refuelling at their Calder Hall plant in Cumbria, which uses the same refuelling system as Chapelcross, while moving to reassure the public that the incident was a "low level" nuclear incident.
If China cannot have a grown-up discussion with America about something as clear-cut as the attack on the Cheonan, how much greater will be the danger of miscommunication in the event of something hitherto unthinkable happening: an outbreak of war, say, a nuclear incident, or the collapse of the regime.
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The trends are much broader than this and although a single nuclear exchange or terrorist incident could skew the numbers, even such a horrific tragedy, Heaven forbid, would not skew the secular trend.
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The reported incident against a nuclear facility, which the department did not specifically name, was found to be the result of a USB drive that an employee had used to download presentation materials onto a laptop.
An example is the Minot incident, where six live nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a B-52 and flown from North Dakota down to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
Mr Cooper said he had been further angered by the treatment of anti-nuclear protesters, and also by an incident involving Walter Wolfgang, then 82, who was thrown out of the 2005 Labour Party conference for shouting "nonsense" at then foreign secretary Jack Straw as he delivered a speech.
It follows a minor incident at France's Flamanville nuclear reprocessing plant, less than 30 miles (50km) away.
There were no injuries and little release of radiation from that incident, which remains the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history.
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The second incident took place in 2004 when a Chinese nuclear-powered submarine entered Japanese territorial waters near Okinawa prefecture's Ishigaki Island.
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There should be no doubt that tragic events in Japan will afford an unwasted crisis for avid nuclear power opponents, just as the Three Mile Island incident did in 1979.
Hackers linked to China's government broke into one of the U.S. government's most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to defense and intelligence officials familiar with the incident.
Asked whether the outcome of the yacht incident would be linked to ongoing concerns about Iran's nuclear program, Miliband said that would not happen.
Mr. Obama tried to make light of the incident Tuesday as he attended a fresh round of meetings at the nuclear security summit.
But the president was shaken by the incident, coming so soon after a crisis which could have led to nuclear war with the Soviet Union one in which luck had played a big part in the outcome, not just executive courage or clear-headedness.
Nixon was certain there were untold stories about the Bay of Pigs incident and the Kennedy administration's 1962 Cuban missile crisis and brushes with nuclear war over Berlin in 1961.
For those who are concerned about climate change, we have to recognize that countries like Japan and France and others have been much more aggressive in their nuclear industry and much more successful in having that a larger part of their portfolio, without incident, without accidents.
This incident linked with the tubes is another indicator of Iraq's attempt to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program.
Mr. Carter said countries that had been considering building new nuclear plants, such as Indonesia, Vietnam or Turkey, may decide not to after the Japanese incident.
For example, the United States is working closely with Russia to reach an agreement that would establish links between our computer emergency response teams and our nuclear risk reduction centers to build cooperation and to set up lines of communication in the event of an alarming incident.
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