Sentences with phrase «about nuclear disaster»

«When I watched Pandora, a Korean movie about a nuclear disaster, on Netflix, I was extremely surprised.

As fears rise in Japan about nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant, the first and best line of defense are the reactor's six inch thick steel - walled chambers, made by a company that still forges samurai swords by hand.

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Kids like me, myself included, rode bikes in fallout rain and swam in rivers with nuclear run off, as our government kept silent about the disaster.

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

Prior to the disaster, which is still affecting communities in Japan today, nuclear plants provided about 30 % of Japan's energy mix.

Only a blind man can not see we are at end times, third world countries with nuclear arms, a finacial system that is about to collapse, global disasters becoming more prominate, Godlessness that would try to redefine nature, men marrying men, women marrying women, mothers killing their babies rather than loving their babies and those who would mock the only one who could save them, JESUS, all that will hear prepare to stand before him let him be your savior rather than your judge, just a little while not much time is left before this world learns his wrath.

As the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was unfolding in March 2011, Ryugo Hayano started posting Twitter observations about radioactive releases.

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 Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, fanning doubts about the future of nuclear power — currently the leading zero - carbon energy nuclear power — currently the leading zero - carbon energy source.

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A series of secret nuclear disasters has spawned a unique database about the effects of radiation.

Sources told Reuters in May that German utilities were in talks with the government about setting up a «bad bank» for nuclear plants, in response to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to close them all by 2022 after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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.

This raised the original rating from level 5 and puts the Fukushima Daiichi disaster technically in the same category as Chernobyl, although the quantity of discharged radioactive materials in Japan so far is about 10 percent of what was released by the Chernobyl reactor explosion, considered history's worst nuclear accident.

After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, moreover, he had ready access to detailed information about Tokyo's power consumption, much of it used for illumination.

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Presumably figuring that somebody should profit off of the world's newly resurgent interest in nuclear annihilation, HBO announced today that it's working on a miniseries about the Chernobyl disaster, with Mad Men and The Crown's Jared Harris in a starring role.

Gold was midway through working on an epic Sky - HBO five - parter called Chernobyl, about the 1986 nuclear disaster, which had more than 100 speaking parts.

... She connected to nuclear decay, local customs, policies regarding clean up after a disaster etc. (all things she is deeply interested in), and then she talked about her struggles in statistics and how applying the knowledge from chemistry gave context to what she had been attempting to master in statistics.

The collective Don't Follow the Wind, whose inaccessible, Fukushima - based 2015 group exhibition has been written about before in these pages, is now made accessible via A Walk in Fukushima, 2016 — 17, a 360 - degree video experience of what has been, since the 2011 nuclear - plant disaster, an uninhabitable area, with crafty headsets made in collaboration with artist Bontaro Dokuyama and three generations of a Japanese family who live in a zone deemed «safe to live» by the government but still subject to restrictions due to its proximity to a radioactive locale.

Perhaps the most glaring glitch comes when Flannery writes about a species of mid-ocean crustacean found in the Mediterranean following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with an extraordinary level of radioactive polonium - 210 in some organs.

On other notes, Rogers said he is intrigued about the prospect of modular nuclear plants — «By 2030 they will be cost competitive with the larger nuclear plants,» he said — and by 2050 nuclear (despite the Fukushima disaster) and solar could become mainstays in the power business.

With Europe facing its own problems in reaching emissions targets and Japan strapped by costs associated with making up for nuclear power capacity that was lost in the disaster at the Fukushima power plant in 2011, Ladislaw said, «It's really about the United States and China trying to show — and actually define — what leadership is on this issue.»

concluded that it makes clear «that international nuclear agencies and some national authorities remain in denial about the scale of the health disasters in their countries due to Chernobyl's fallout.

Given the unlimited downside of nuclear war and what we now know about the near - disasters of Cold War brinkmanship, it certainly suggests focus on the goal of avoiding escalating crises involving nuclear weapons, and this goal has vast consequences for America's whole approach to China.