Sentences with phrase «about nuclear fallout»

Concerns about nuclear fallout and the signing of the Partial Test Ban Treaty ended the project in the early 1960s.

The bottom line is you may not have to worry about the nuclear fallout now, but look out down the road.

Not exact matches

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.

But that story is about what to do after a nuclear weapon blows up by surprise, such as in a terrorist attack — the goal is to limit exposure to radioactive fallout that arrives minutes after a detonation.

Shortly after Trump posted the statement, which received about 700,000 interactions, store managers across the country noticed a spike in sales of potassium iodide (or KI) pills, which are often advertised as able to block radiation from nuclear fallout.

But in this Gilead, Atwood has imagined a time when our nightmares about the perils of toxic waste, radioactive fallout, chemical and biological warfare, nuclear sabotage and the building

To introduce a unit on photosynthesis, for instance, he launches into a story from his childhood about building a fallout shelter with a friend after seeing a TV movie about a nuclear attack.

Public concerns about nuclear power have traditionally centered on two issues: the risk of widespread radioactive fallout from an accident and the hazards of nuclear waste.

Until a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on April 26, 1986, spreading the equivalent of 400 Hiroshima bombs of fallout across the entire Northern Hemisphere, scientists knew next to nothing about the effects of radiation on vegetation and wild animals.

Ken Watanabe (Inception) and Sally Hawkins play researchers who believe Godzilla can help prevent nuclear fallout, but like the rest of the cast, there's not a big incentive to care about them despite screenwriter Max Borenstein devoting the majority of the film on the humans.

In this extremely sponsored episode, we talk about the benefits of sleeping on Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, nuclear fallout, the...

And it was her recognition of an exact parallel with the steady rain of fallout from nuclear testing that helped her explain what we knew... and didn't know... about the consequences and potential collateral damage from heedless tampering with global ecosystems.

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.

The word he uses is technocrat, and one example of his dangerously brilliant and impractical ideas was to fuel early spacecraft with nuclear, before they knew about the consequences of fallout.

Exclusions on open perils would be things like nuclear hazards — not a terribly likely risk in The Bronx, and chances are strong that if there's a nuclear hazard impacting your property, you probably have bigger things to worry about, like finding a fallout shelter.