Sentences with phrase «nuclear event scale»

This prompted Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority to upgrade the situation from 1 to 3 — a «serious incident» on the 8 - point International Nuclear Event Scale.

That was why they re-set the accident classification at level 7 on the UN's International Nuclear Events Scale - i.e. involving «major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended countermeasures».

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Anne Thompson, chief environmental affairs correspondent for NBC News, moderated the event, which was held the same day the Japanese government raised the Fukushima reactor disaster to 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, fanning doubts about the future of nuclear power — currently the leading zero - carbon energy soevent, which was held the same day the Japanese government raised the Fukushima reactor disaster to 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, fanning doubts about the future of nuclear power — currently the leading zero - carbon energy Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, fanning doubts about the future of nuclear power — currently the leading zero - carbon energy soEvent Scale, fanning doubts about the future of nuclear power — currently the leading zero - carbon energy nuclear power — currently the leading zero - carbon energy source.

Japanese officials initially rated the incident a level 4, an «accident with local consequences,» on the seven - tier International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), but Princeton University physicist Frank von Hippel told The New York Times that the Fukushima Daiichi situation is «way past Three Mile Island already.»

The study, aimed at quantifying the small - scale circulation that can not be captured by satellite - based altimeter measurements or general circulation models, has immediate practical applications to help better predict the path of catastrophic pollutant events, such as from future oil spills or nuclear disaster events.

One possible solution to quickly measure a population's exposure to radiation in the event of a nuclear disaster or some other large - scale leak of radioactive material — such as a so - called «dirty bomb» attack — would be to scan the body in places where that material is most readily absorbed.

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For roughly three decades, twin sisters Jane and Louise Wilson have created large - scale photographs inspired by important events in European history — in the process, capturing the nuclear site at Chernobyl and the former headquarters of the East German secret police.

Perhaps a confluence of these two events will allow African countries to leapfrog over the large - scale, traditional light - water nuclear technologies to nuclear technology that is smaller, modular, more flexible, and overall more appropriate.