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your inbox. Nuclear safety covers the actions taken to prevent
nuclear and radiation accidents or to limit their consequences.
This covers nuclear power plants as well as all other nuclear
facilities, the transportation of nuclear materials, and the use
and storage of nuclear materials for medical, power, industry,
and military uses. The nuclear power industry has improved the
safety and performance of reactors, and has proposed new safer
reactor designs but there is no guarantee that the reactors will
be designed, built and operated correctly. Mistakes do occur and
the designers of reactors at Fukushima in Japan did not
anticipate that a tsunami generated by an earthquake would
disable the backup systems that were supposed to stabilize the
reactor after the earthquake. According to UBS AG, the Fukushima
I nuclear accidents have cast doubt on whether even an advanced
economy like Japan can