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A five-year campaign to improve China's notoriously deadly industrial safety record is seeing results, with accidental deaths falling by 13.9 percent in the first ten months of this year, the country's top safety official said Monday.
After clocks are turned back this weekend, pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour are nearly three times more likely to be struck and killed by cars than before the time change, two scientists calculate. Ending daylight saving time translates into about 37 more U.S. pedestrian deaths around 6 p.m. in November compared to October, the researchers report.
Catherine Hartman is familiar with the concrete barrier where a bus carrying a baseball team from a small Ohio college crashed last week. Five years ago, she and her husband were in an accident at the same spot after she mistook the exit ramp for a commuter lane.
Tuesday's release of a study downplaying any danger from the nuclear accident at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata Prefecture following the Niigata Prefecture Chuetsu Offshore Earthquake suggests there is a gap between public and official views of the incident.
This week, Tom Mullarkey, chief executive of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), warned against wrapping children in cotton wool.
British Energy has warned that profits will take a knock after problems at four of its nuclear reactors. The UK's biggest power provider posted a small increase in half-year earnings but was downbeat on the outlook for the second half of the financial year.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish utility group Vattenfall said on Monday it will create a new executive post to keep tabs on its nuclear power activities after criticism over operations at plants in Sweden and Germany.
TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese company said Saturday it shut down a nuclear reactor after detecting a problem, but there was no radioactive leakage.
Veterans exposed to radiation during atomic weapons tests as well as accidents at Ontario's Chalk River nuclear plant in the 1950s will be each offered up to $24,000 in compensation by the Conservative government.
I live in a neighborhood that gets swarmed with trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Folks even truck their kids in from other parts of town, as my neighborhood is well-lighted and pretty safe. But that's cool, as we enjoy seeing the little buggers decked out.
One former Davis-Besse worker was found guilty this afternoon and another was acquitted of lying to the government about the nuclear plant's dangerous condition in the fall of 2001.
Russia says there has been a radiation leak at a nuclear reprocessing plant in the Ural mountains
Rail union employees from Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads testified yesterday before a House committee about how their supervisors discouraged them from reporting serious accidents or even delayed treatment for their injuries.
A RECENT study claims the cancer effects of the 1957 Windscale fire had been under estimated.
A control rod at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata Prefecture remains stuck, raising concerns that the July 16 earthquake may have distorted the shape of a key area in the reactor, officials said Thursday.
The increase in the number of accidents is not that alarming, but according to the Helsinki police the number of minor traffic violations is definitely heading sharply upwards.
F WINDSCALE had not been a bomb-making factory, the fire of 1957, which in the years ahead caused potentially hundreds cancers, would not have happened. According to at least one expert in the field, it was an accident waiting to happen.
We all shrug off our mortal coil eventually. Whilst we all look forward to a long and happy life, there are some unfortunate souls who leave this world with a touch of humor. If you're gonna go, go out in style!
Accidents do happen to everyone from time-to-time, but the most painful or most memorable accidents are the ones that happen quickly and without any long-term after effects.
PITTSBURGH - A 17-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the leg while standing in line at a McDonald's restaurant and now he faces an illegal weapons charge.
Imagine traveling across the country to meet people youd never met in real life to find that they would become some of your favorite people in the world. Imagine a virtual friendship, extended to the real world and a bond that most social networkers will never know.
A town council in Germany has decided the best way of improving road safety is to remove all traffic lights and stop signs downtown.
A town council in Germany has decided the best way of improving road safety is to remove all traffic lights and stop signs downtown.
Considering the number of nations and political leaders we have had, it should not really come as a surprise to learn that a few have gone to meet their maker in unconventional ways.
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