Sentences with phrase «after nuclear disasters»

This series of photographs explores why people chose to remain after nuclear disasters struck their locales and their lives afterward.
After the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, Germany adopted a policy of phasing out nuclear energy by 2022 and ensuring that 80 percent of the country's electricity supply comes from clean energy by 2050, or more than three times the level of 2010.
After a nuclear disaster like the one in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011, first responders need to quickly measure radiation exposure en masse and decide who requires urgent treatment.
In the area around Chernobyl, 29 years after the nuclear disaster, animal populations are thriving.
After the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, a group of children was given a daily dose of spirulina, and then followed by the Institute of Radiation Medicine in Minsk.
Won't give too much away as don't want to ruin the plot of the game but if you are looking for game that combines action along with rebuilding the world after a nuclear disaster than this is the game for you.
By analogy, the Chernobyl exclusion zone now hosts lush, park - like forests only decades after the nuclear disaster.
Google Street View has caught many interesting things: Fukushima after the nuclear disaster, Mount Everest, a super hero in Japan, and a horse - mask wearing figure.
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Neighboring Germany took a sharper turn away from nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster in 2011.
After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, the Swiss government adopted a gradualist approach toward transitioning the country to renewable energy by 2050.
China may lift an import ban imposed on 10 prefectures after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Resource - poor Japan has long been interested in tapping Africa's vast natural resources, even more so since dependence on oil and natural gas imports jumped after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster shut almost all of Japan's nuclear reactors.
Cuomo's fashion choice for disasters and emergencies has become a familiar sight for many New Yorkers, whether he's standing on New York City streets flooded after Hurricane Sandy, trudging along a snow - crippled Buffalo highway or issuing statements in front of a burning transformer at the Indian Point nuclear facility.
After the Fukushima nuclear disaster spewed radiation across northern Japan in March, some feared that farming there would be shut down for years.
Zerbo negotiated agreements to share data after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan.
More than two decades after the world's largest nuclear disaster, life around Chernobyl continues to adapt.
In 2006, 20 years after reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was encased in cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposed.
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 the public soured on nuclear power following Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster, a previous administration even decided to build new coal - fired power plants rather than turn to renewable energy, Yun says.
Last March, after the Sendai earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the aftershocks of the disaster seemed to put the worldwide nuclear power industry on shaky ground.
Six years after the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan, radioactive material is leaching into the Pacific Ocean from an unexpected place.
Japan will push nuclear operators to draft plans to scrap a quarter of the country's 48 reactors, which are either too old or too costly to upgrade to meet new standards imposed after the Fukushima disaster, the Nikkei reported on Friday.
The breakthrough could hold the key to cleaning radioactive waste in nuclear reactors and after nuclear accidents like the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
Six months after the disaster that caused three meltdowns, efforts to stabilize the Japanese nuclear power plant continue
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.
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..
Tests off the coast of Japan shortly after the 2011 earthquake and nuclear plant disaster measured radiation at 50 million becquerel per cubic meter, Buesseler said.
Austrian researchers have used a worldwide network of radiation detectors — designed to spot clandestine nuclear bomb tests — to show that iodine - 131 is being released at daily levels 73 per cent of those seen after the 1986 disaster.
The question that should be asked is why zirconium is still used in cladding for nuclear fuel rods after being implicated in the Three Mile Island disaster.
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.
While Japan has implemented new energy and environment polices after the March 11 disaster, many issues remain unsettled surrounding nuclear safety, renewable energy policy, and reactor decommissioning.
But nuclear power development has gone into a trough after Japan's Fukushima disaster.
After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, moreover, he had ready access to detailed information about Tokyo's power consumption, much of it used for illumination.
As Japanese officials consider whether and when to reactivate most of the country's 54 nuclear plants, a year after the Fukushima reactor disaster, they continue to face challenges to public confidence in the nuclear industry and its regulator.
This year enthusiasm for nuclear power in some developed nations seemed to vanish after Japan's nuclear disaster.
At least one major sticking point between the parties — differing positions on nuclear energy — disappeared as Merkel's CDU decided to support Germany's phaseout of nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster.
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.
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».
Authorities dealt with the problem after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster by turning over a deep layer of soil to bury the radioactive dust.
In the few years following publication of the 2007 scenarios, at least three major energy - market events failed to fit the world energy model: the 2008 financial crisis; the U.S. shale - gas boom; and Germany's decision, after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, to speed up its transition to renewables.
... 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.
When uranium firm Cameco faced mine floods a few years ago and again after the Fukushima - Daiichi nuclear disaster, its stock cratered, but the bonds dropped only a buck.
Jon was inspired to develop Tokyo Dark after his firsthand experience of the Tōhoku earthquake and Fukashima nuclear disaster in 2011.
After all, this is a game in which an acrobatic anime robot can backflip buildings into oblivion to prevent a nuclear disaster.
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.
But along with the recent economic stagnation, the earthquakes in Eastern Japan, and the after effects of the nuclear disaster, a collective depression from an inability to vent their frustrations continues to accumulate within their society.»
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Germany increased burning of lignite coal for exports as JE says, and as a bridge after nuclear was taken offline after the Fukushima disaster as follows.
And in Japan, the quick suspension of nuclear power generation after the Fukushima disaster led to more natural gas and oil use, pushing emissions up 1 percent to 336 million tons in 2012.
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