Sentences with phrase «after nuclear accidents»

The breakthrough could hold the key to cleaning radioactive waste in nuclear reactors and after nuclear accidents like the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

A three - man team from the University of Bristol have devised a semi-autonomous, drone to help monitor radiation levels after nuclear accidents.

Forster Rothbart hopes to help reveal with his photos the true value of home and to confront the ultimate question after a nuclear accident: Would you stay?

Potassium iodide (KI) is an over-the-counter supplement that, when taken within hours after a nuclear accident (or attack on nuclear facilities) may help protect the thyroid from the risk of thyroid cancer.

Discovered, however, by the big and homely Bergens — think a race of Miss Piggys after a nuclear accident — they soon become «happy meals» for the sullen creatures.

What it shows is random fluctuations that don't correlate well with radiation exposures, on top of an overall downward trend in mortality after the nuclear accident.

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After the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the United States, messages were continually available on computer bulletin boards like «emergency hotline,» «emergency planner information,» and «operations and maintenance information,» and many others.

After the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island — a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania — stricter regulations driven by public fear prompted TVA to shut down its two nuclear reactors.

But no new nuclear power plants have been built here in 30 years, partly because of the public's aversion to nuclear power after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

After analyzing the data, researchers found radiocesium from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in the sediment samples along with a high fraction of clay material, which is characteristic of shelf and slope sediments suggesting a near shore source.

After all, no one has ever died in a commercial nuclear power accident on American soil; in contrast, emissions from fossil - fuel plants kill 24,000 Americans each year, according to a 2004 report commissioned by the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental group.

Shortly after the accident, needles on pine trees in a 1.5 - square - mile area around the crippled nuclear plant turned red.

Despite the severity of the accident at the Fukushima I plant, nuclear reactor designers don't expect the same type of backlash against the nuclear industry as occurred a generation ago after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

Heart disease and depression are likely to claim more lives than radiation after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident, experts say

This month, Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor was supposed to begin generating power, a tangible sign of the revival of the nuclear industry outside of Asia after nearly 30 years of no new construction because of accidents, cost - overruns and other issues.

But with about half of the world's nuclear power plants located on coastlines, such areas are potentially important contamination reservoirs and release sites to monitor after future accidents.

Common freshwater algae might hold a key to cleaning up after disasters such as Japan's Fukushima nuclear accident, scientists said yesterday at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim, Calif..

This is what happened in parts of western Europe after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine in 1986.

The authors point out that some workers after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster received donated bone marrow transplants, and two Japanese nuclear workers got donated stem cell transplants after a 1999 accident.

Following a massive underestimate straight after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the crisis, in April NISA said that between 370,000 and 630,000 terabecquerels were released between 11 and 15 March, putting the crisis at level 7, the most severe category on the international scale used to rate nuclear accidents.

Seven years after the world's worst nuclear accident, vegetation in parts of Snowdonia and Cumbria still contains high levels of radioactivity.

After all, 30 kilometers was the extent of the spread of dangerous radioactive material even at Chernobyl, a far worse nuclear accident that included an intense fire that wafted radioactive particles more than 9,000 meters into the air.

Recent accidents and increasing political instability make Russia a dangerous destination for nuclear material, say nuclear experts, but the International Atomic Energy Agency says it had no alternative after Britain and France backed down from their initial offer to take it.

Robots cleaned up what humans could not because of radioactive contamination after the worst nuclear accident in the nation's history 30 years ago

Nearly 28 years after the worst nuclear accident in history, several bird species are doing the seemingly impossible: flourishing inside the radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.

New research suggests that few people, if any, should be asked to leave their homes after a big nuclear accident, which is what happened in March 2011 following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

But it is in danger of becoming established as the prime policy choice after a big nuclear accident.

Based on the J - value, only ten to 20 per cent of the 335,000 people who moved away permanently after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident needed to leave their homes on grounds of radiological protection.

After 900 hours of hearings and 1100 interviews over a six - month period, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission — chaired by Kiyoshi Kurokawa, an academic fellow at Tokyo's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies — said that the accident was «a profoundly man - made disaster that could and should have been foreseen and prevented».

«Homes should not be abandoned after a big nuclear accident, study suggests.»

New investigations showed higher levels of radiation off Fukushima after the 2011 nuclear accident in Japan.

After his retirement from Tohoku University in 2012, he moved to Maui to complete a 60 cm telescope moving the project from Tohoku University's Iitate observatory, which has been contaminated with radiation by the accident of nuclear reactor in March 2011, to Haleakala summit.

For example, a year after the Fukushima nuclear accident, contamination was found in the waters off California, and this included contaminated kelp.

Though not all viewers appreciated the film's unwavering anti-nuclear sentiments, it proved to be chillingly prophetic; only a short time after its release the nearly catastrophic nuclear reactor accident at Three Mile Island occurred.

However, back in the 1960s said Bruce Banner turned into the Hulk after being bathed in gamma rays during an accident with nuclear bomb test.

15 years after an accident at a Japanese nuclear power plant, Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston, Argo) goes back to investigate the cover up and discovers that a monster is waking there.

Continuing her investigation of human - made catastrophes, Dora Longo Bahia presents two paintings from her series «Nuclear Accidents» (2017) at Vermelho, São Paulo; the works depict abandoned theme parks after the fallout of two of the most famous nuclear disasters, Fukushima and CheNuclear Accidents» (2017) at Vermelho, São Paulo; the works depict abandoned theme parks after the fallout of two of the most famous nuclear disasters, Fukushima and Chenuclear disasters, Fukushima and Chernobyl.

«8.5 The nuclear power industry: a tactician behind the CO2 based global warming In my view, the CO2 based global warming theory was contrived to revive a nuclear power generation industry that suffered from high cost infrastructure and from a bad public image after the disastrous Chernobyl accident in 1986.

It is worth watching a 3 - minute clip of an «anti-nuke» concert held in New York City in 1979 after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania.

Because of inflation in the 1970s and more stringent safety regulation on nuclear power plants placed shortly before and after the Three - Mile Island accident in 1979, US nuclear plant construction times increased from around 7 yr in 1971 to 12 yr in 1980.

After nearly 60 years of nuclear power, 15,000 reactor - years of operational experience and only one accident that caused fatalities, it is clearly demonstrated, by virtually all authoritative studies, that nuclear is about the safest way of generating electricity.

If plant cancellations were from the accidents, as is frequently claimed, then why did the backlash against nuclear not occur after the far more dangerous 1957 Windscale fire, which shot iodine - 131 across the English countryside, or after the 1966 Fermi - 1 sodium fast reactor fire?

The UK's nuclear energy programme had been abandoned in the 1980s following the environmental movement's successful mobilisation of public opinion after the Chernobyl accident.

Yamamura, Eiji (2011): Effect of free media on views regarding nuclear energy after the Fukushima accident.

After the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, we are once again reminded that the environment knows no borders and that there are critical regional and global environmental issues on which joint actions are needed.

After the Fukushima accident in Japan, Germany began mothballing its entire nuclear fleet, but some of its citizens fear they could still be at risk from nuclear accidents across the border with Belgium.

Nearly three dozen nuclear power plants are inadequately protected against major flooding guaranteed to occur after an upstream dam failure — flooding that could easily lead to an accident or meltdown on the scale of the 2011 nuclear power disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

«We feel we were betrayed [by the central government and TEPCO],» Sato said during an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun on Thursday, nearly a month after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and the outbreak of a series of accidents at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

Indeed a global agency that covers nuclear safety, based on the 72 - nation Convention on Nuclear Safety (which was set up after the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown), has decided to delay reporting on its assessment of the accident until August next year, saying that «the lessons - learned process can not be completed until sufficient additional information is known and fully analyzed.nuclear safety, based on the 72 - nation Convention on Nuclear Safety (which was set up after the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown), has decided to delay reporting on its assessment of the accident until August next year, saying that «the lessons - learned process can not be completed until sufficient additional information is known and fully analyzed.Nuclear Safety (which was set up after the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown), has decided to delay reporting on its assessment of the accident until August next year, saying that «the lessons - learned process can not be completed until sufficient additional information is known and fully analyzed.»

A cross-sectional study was performed on the adverse effects of sleep time on the mental health of children after the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent nuclear reactor accident in March 2011.