Sentences with phrase «as nuclear explosions»

Infrasound signals can remain strong as they travel over large distances, making them useful for pinpointing the location and size of events such as nuclear explosions, meteorite strikes, volcanic eruptions and sometimes earthquake ruptures.

Not exact matches

Nuclear explosions loft this material high into the atmosphere as dust -, salt -, and sand - size particles, and it can take up to 15 minutes to fall to the ground.

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The new theory suggests the first of the two explosions reported by eyewitnesses was a nuclear and not a steam explosion, as is currently widely thought and is presented by researchers from the Swedish Defence Research Agency, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, and Stockholm University.

The explosions tore open reactor buildings, damaging the 12 - meter - deep pools where used nuclear fuel is kept cool, potentially setting off another meltdown in the fuel there as the surrounding water drained away or boiled off.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Even when they're underground, nuclear tests can be detected in the skies — and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful new tool in the arsenal of weapons to help detect clandestine underground nuclear explosions, a team of scientists reported here today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Reuters reports that the Australian Geological Organization registered Pakistan's nuclear tests as one explosion of 5 magnitude on the Richter scale.

Children living near the site of Tomsk - 7 are being evacuated as the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that plutonium was released by the explosion at the Siberian nuclear plant earlier this month.

As ever, the presentations covered a wide range of topics from HIV in the dentist's surgery to the risks of accidental nuclear explosions.

Scientists have improved their ability to detect underground nuclear explosions set off by rogue nations, a development sure to be of interest as the Nuclear Security Summit kicks off its 2016 meeting in Washington D.C.nuclear explosions set off by rogue nations, a development sure to be of interest as the Nuclear Security Summit kicks off its 2016 meeting in Washington D.C.Nuclear Security Summit kicks off its 2016 meeting in Washington D.C. today.

Known as 2014J, this was a Type la supernova caused by the explosion of a white dwarf star, the inner core of star once it has run out of nuclear fuel and ejected its outer layers.

The U.S. continues to observe a moratorium on nuclear testing, so scientists, particularly at government facilities such as LLNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), develop ways to detect these events without creating an explosion themselves.

On Earth today, curium exists only when manufactured in laboratories or as a byproduct of nuclear explosions.

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.

The U.S. Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), in a report last November, related desperate actions by TEPCO crews to contain the reactor accident in the critical first week of the crisis, as they tried to operate crucial valves and instruments with truck batteries; hauled massive emergency power cables over flooded passageways where manhole covers had been dislodged; and faced a series of hydrogen explosions and sudden spikes in radiation.

Volcanic explosions can produce these low - frequency acoustic waves, as well as events such as meteors entering Earth's atmosphere, and even chemical or nuclear explosions.

Kilpatrick et al. show how these observations can be explained by an explosion known as a kilonova, which produces large quantities of heavy elements in nuclear reactions.

FULL - BLOWN FALLOUT Remnant radiation levels from nuclear testing near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, as seen in this explosion in 1946, are far higher than previously predicted, new research shows.

The explosion came as a surprise and brought in energy comparable to a small nuclear weapon.

The first seismic waves generated by temblors and explosions — those from mining operations as well as underground nuclear tests — are sharp and distinct, says Göran Ekström, a seismologist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.

Indeed, this is not the first time a contemporary composer has recognized the seemingly limitless potential for atomic Sturm und Drang; two previous operas — Steve Reich's Three Tales and Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach — take as a central symbol the explosion of a nuclear bomb.

Under a new agreement with MasterCard, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are trying to adapt computer algorithms that were developed to detect clandestine nuclear explosions to spot attempts at credit - card fraud, such as using someone else's credit card number without authorisation.

The revelations about Iran's apparent electronic prowess come as the US, Israel, and some European nations appear to be engaged in an ever - widening covert war with Iran, which has seen assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, explosions at Iran's missile and industrial facilities, and the Stuxnet computer virus that set back Iran's nuclear program.

«Subsequently, because of his conviction that if a nuclear chain reaction could be made to work it might be used as an instrument of war to set up violent explosions, Szilard separated that part of the application which related to the nuclear chain reaction and incorporated it in modified form into a later filed application, No. 19157, which he assigned to the British Admiralty in order to prevent its publication.

As galaxies age, they develop greater concentrations of heavy elements formed by the nuclear reactions in the cores of stars and in the cataclysmic explosions of supernovae.

An explosion occurs on the Klingon moon known as Praxis (an allusion to the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl), which makes the Klingon race face possible extinction, as their way of life crumbles, rendering them a superpower no longer (akin to the breakup of the USSR).

After a fictional second explosion at Chernobyl, the land surrounding the nuclear plant has become a wasteland known as the Zone, where mutant creatures and humans roam and the laws of nature no longer apply.

But you'll find no pansy conventional explosives here — it's a nuclear explosion, so it takes out not only you (the owner of the device), but at least the whole block as well.

In this exhibition, the artist presents the first step on the moon cast in «trinitite», the substance that formed after the explosion of the first nuclear bomb in 1945 in New Mexico, and a bronze model of the liferaft of the Mercury 1 missile, presented as if it were a contemporary version of the ark of Noah.

The Doom Show displayed toys that had been burned and mutilated to summon the aftermath of a nuclear bomb explosion, as well as agitprop phrases spray - painted onto canvas.

Rough calculations show if you drill about a dozen mine shafts as deep as possible into the thing, and plunk megaton nuclear bombs down there, and then fire them off simultaneously, you'll get a repeat of the Long Valley Caldera explosion of about 800,000 years ago — which coated everything east of it with miles of ash and injected a giant aerosol cloud into the stratosphere — the ash layer alone formed a triangle stretching from the caldera to Louisiana to North Dakota, including all of Arizona and most of Idaho and everything in between — I bet that would have a cooling factor of at least -30 W / m ^ 2 — and you could go and do the Yellowstone Plateau at the same time — geoengineering at its finest.

So, tomorrow will be a fun day at the monitor, looking at as many nuclear explosions as I can find on videos.

Similar conclusions hold for the contaminated river and the 1957 Chelyabinsk explosion of a tank with 80 tons of nuclear waste produced by the Soviet Union as well as for the Chernobyl tragedy.

Atmospheric nuclear explosions can be regarded as full - scale in situ tests for nuclear winter.

Thankfully, a big part of the problem with the Chernobyl explosion was horrible communist management and serious reactor design flaws (partly because they needed access to the core to get plutonium for nuclear weapons, as far as I know).

The resulting run - away nuclear reaction, fire and explosion released more than 400-fold the amount of radiation from the Hiroshima bomb, hitting Belarus hardest and extending as far as Ireland.

These plans may have certain exclusions in terms of coverage, such as acts of war, hostilities, military actions, terrorist acts, nuclear explosions, and other civil commotions, with or without the declaration of war.

Earthquake may occur due to many reasons such as explosions of high atomic bomb or nuclear power, high flow tides, heavy traffic in city streets, tumbling of streams over high falls etc..