Sentences with phrase «daiichi nuclear crisis»

To be sure, with the North Korean nuclear crisis escalating and a missile flying directly over Japan last week, they have ample reason to chat.

Japan's stock market nose - dived nearly 11 percent, leading world markets sharply lower on Tuesday, as an escalating nuclear crisis threatened to compound the devastation from last week's earthquake and tsunami.

Japan's Nikkei stock index nose - dived more than 12 percent Tuesday as the earthquake - shattered country faced an unfolding nuclear crisis after a radiation leak was detected at a crippled power plant.

The ongoing Syrian civil war, the Iran nuclear crisis and the Middle East peace process will be on the agenda.

«Nothing can save us that is possible,» the poet W H. Auden intoned over the madness of the nuclear crisis; «we who must die demand a miracle.»

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday described the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan as «beyond biblical in terms of its proportion.»

The threat of a nuclear crisis only adds to the uncertainty.

It is here that Atkinson finds a challenge to confront the problem of a creation that will either explode (the nuclear crisis has changed since 1990 but has not disappeared) or die of environmental poisoning.

It is notable that unlike Hu Jintao, Xi has quickly consolidated his power base and demonstrated resolve on the North Korean nuclear crisis, stating to a South Korean special envoy earlier this year on 23rd January that China «could not tolerate North Korea possessing nuclear weapons».

First, whilst nuclear crises and stand - offs are close to unthinkable in the short - term, they could return in the future, as American hegemony declines and nuclear technology spreads amongst middle powers like Iran, North Korea or Pakistan.

A first nuclear crisis erupted but was temporarily dealt with in the 1990s, but tensions rose again in 2002, when US President George Bush included North Korea in the «Axis of Evil» with Iraq and Iran, as regime which «pursues weapons of mass destruction while starving its citizens.»

«Basically, Jeremy Corbyn faces an imminent nuclear crisis with Russia, and the secret of unlocking this lies in his past.

Former U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson: The path to resolving the North Korea nuclear crisis lies through China and abandoning American isolationism

The request comes as Japanese authorities increased the alert level at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis to level five, signifying an «accident with wider consequences».

Trump today embarked on the longest trip to Asia by an American president in more than a quarter century, looking for help to pressure North Korea to stand down from a nuclear crisis.

Beyond that, new rules are expected to address any lessons learned from the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

Uncertainty resulting from the disrupted infrastructure and the nuclear crisis is prompting foreign nationals to decamp for cities farther south or overseas.

A top U.S. nuclear regulator has now given a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis, saying that radiation from uncovered spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns there

A few days after the nuclear crisis began to unfold at the Fukushima power station in Japan, Singh, who also serves as minister in charge for atomic energy, ordered a safety review of all 20 nuclear power plants and a half dozen research reactors owned and operated by the government.

The U.S. has reactors of the same designs that melted down at Fukushima Daiichi, but regulators hope changes could prevent a repeat of Japan's nuclear crisis

Having led Japan through the 2011 nuclear crisis, the elder statesman is now campaigning for a world without nuclear power

The NRC considers the storage situation to be safe in this country, but will review it once the staff has a full understanding of the details of the Japanese nuclear crisis, he said.

The top U.S. nuclear regulator, Gregory Jaczko, gave a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis yesterday, saying that lethal radiation from uncovered spent fuel above one of the reactors could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns of damaged reactor cores at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

«Setting [such radiation limits] for elementary schools is inexcusable,» Toshiso Kosako, a radiation health expert at the University of Tokyo, said on 30 April, when he resigned as an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the nuclear crisis.

Given limited public knowledge about the details of nuclear energy and encumbered access to disaster sites, the media have disproportionate power around the globe to shape public knowledge, perception, and reaction to nuclear crises, Pascale said.

And although that region was one of Japan's best - prepared for tsunamis, the high sea walls along much of the coast were built to stop waves far smaller than the 13 -15-metre-tall giants that battered the coastline, causing most of the damage and triggering a nuclear crisis.

Science has asked our readers to chime in with their most pressing questions on the earthquake in Japan and its aftermath, including the nuclear crisis.

On top of that, Japan faces an ongoing power shortage caused by its nuclear crisis and an already huge government debt burden.

The emergency plans developed by school systems that have had to face the possibility — however remote — that they might be enveloped in a communitywide nuclear crisis, vary from locality to locality depending principally upon the site of the reactor and the geography of the community.

Perhaps that is why the world is now further away from a solution to the Korean nuclear crisis than it was a decade ago.

The second development that bodes well for energy stocks is Japan's nuclear crisis.

«In the Wake» reveals photographic responses to the earthquake and tsunami that struck northeast Japan on March 11, 2011 and triggered a nuclear crisis.

Her work reflects the fear of catastrophic events, such as nuclear crises or global climate change.

For the moment, Japan can only wonder if its nuclear crisis is the result of a case of the Hesitation Blues (performed here by Uncle Wade — I love being part of this band!

At around the sixteenth minute, I illustrate my notion of «an inconvenient mind» by recalling the reactions of two leading environmentalists to the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plants.

Last year, after the CNN host Nancy Grace debated the meteorologist Bernie Rayno on air, insisting he was wrong in saying there was no chance that Japan's nuclear crisis posed any radiation danger in the United States (he was right), Rayno «visited» us to describe the experience and the methods he uses to maintain composure and cogency in such situations.

With nuclear power, that gradient was on stark display after the Fukushima nuclear crisis, with two passionate environmentalists, Bill McKibben and George Monbiot, drawing entirely different lessons from the post-earthquake events.

Faced with the on - going nuclear crisis in Japan — the costs of which could make the March earthquake and subsequent tsnuami the most expensive natural disaster the world has ever seen — nearby China may be moving to double its target for solar photovoltaic (PV) power capacity over the next five years.

Written while Michael Crichton was still in medical school, The Andromeda Strain caused an immediate sensation: partly because the author was still in his twenties; partly because it focused on a biological crisis when most people were thinking about nuclear crises; and partly because of the cool, non-fiction tone it adopted to tell its story.

Breakthrough Institute President Michael Shellenberger debated the future of nuclear power today on KQED Radio's Forum, joining host Dave Iverson and the Sierra Club's David Hamilton to discuss the impacts and implications of the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan.

Germans reacted to the nuclear crisis in Japan by calling for a phasing out of all its nuclear power plants.

Prior to the earthquake and nuclear crisis, Japan's government had pledged to reduce CO2 emissions to 25 % below 1990 levels by 2020, a challenge that would be virtually impossible should coal or LNG play a greatly expanded role in the nation's electricity system.

After Japan's recent earthquake and the subsequent tsunami and nuclear crisis, tourism dropped to such low levels that a national campaign was begun and Japan is now considering an innovative approach to boost tourism: 10,000 free airfares to visit the country.

Not exact matches

She also had moments of incredible and unconventional bravery as when she vowed to stay by his side during the Cuban missile crisis when the threat of nuclear war was greater than it has ever been.

Well aware voters punished the Democrats for their perceived inability to govern, Abe's team is taking pains to act quickly when crises erupt, such as this month's North Korean nuclear test.

It includes market crashes, periods of high inflation, deflation, economic collapse, a nuclear missile crisis, a world war, a cold war and countless seemingly intractable crises.

Talks will center around the European refugee crisis, Syria's civil war, the recent Iranian nuclear arms agreement, and climate change.

The auction of the prized asset is essential to Toshiba's plans to cover multi-billion writedowns at U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse that have plunged it into crisis.

If we are to ever find a solution to the current crisis, there is one fact that must be soberly and humbly recognized: There is no preventive military solution to the North Korean nuclear program that would not impose unacceptable, catastrophic cost on the U.S. and our allies South Korea and Japan.

In a recent Compas Inc. poll, Canadian CEOs said the crisis in Japan is bad news for new nuclear energy installations in the short term, until safety reviews are completed, and ranked the statement a 5.6 on a 7 - point scale, where 1 means strongly disagree and 7 means strongly agree.