Sentences with phrase «as nuclear fallout»

«There are so many [problems] from which to choose,» Sharon Squassoni, a military strategy expert and member of the Bulletin's Science and Security Board, said with a little laugh that I'll hear in my head as the nuclear fallout fills my lungs.

She makes video installations that poetically grapple with threats to the natural world, from the extinction of species to long - lasting environmental disasters such as the nuclear fallout of Chernobyl.

However, peak testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere — the most potentially dangerous type of nuclear testing, as nuclear fallout could easily be dispersed by wind currents — occurred between 1961 to 1962 almost exclusively between the US and the USSR.

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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.

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.

U.S. equity futures declined on Labor Day, as investors reacted to the fallout from North Korea's latest nuclear provocation.

And in a chapter on the radioactive elements carried in nuclear fallout, there's Pig 311, a sow that survived a nuclear test blast only to be used as propaganda for the weapons» supposed safety.

It also triggered the meltdowns at Fukushima and the evacuation of 150,000 people from within 20 kilometers of the nuclear plant as well as from areas beyond that were hard hit by fallout.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

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.

It also resulted in the largest nuclear contamination accident in U.S. history, as shifting winds carried radioactive fallout across the inhabited atolls of Rongelap, Ailinginae and Utirik as well as Rongerik — where U.S. servicemen were stationed — in the central Pacific's Marshall Islands.

Boundaoui and Bell chose the brutalist AT&T Long Lines Building as the site for their projection, an informed choice given that the NSA conducts secret surveillance from inside the very same building, designed to withstand nuclear fallout.

Radiation damage has been shown to happen in cancer patients who receive radiation therapy as a form of treatment, though it may also happen if the person is exposed to nuclear power, nuclear fallout from nuclear weapons, and x-ray imaging.

Set in a near - future United States ravaged by nuclear fallout, widespread plagues, and chemical contamination, Armageddon's Children follows a handful of unlikely heroes as they struggle to survive in a poisoned world infested by demons, insane «once - men,» and other mutant creatures too horrific to describe.

As the world could pass through nuclear fallout and fans still wouldn't be able to agree on the best anime of all, the e-book instead gathers various thoughts and opinions on contributors» personal favorite.

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Dan Gunn's stand is a nuclear fallout shelter — at least as imagined by New York artist Michael Smith, as «Mike», the naive, bumbling character he invented for his performances.

It's hardly a perfect fuel, as accidents like Japan's Fukushima fallout have shown, but with safety precautions new nuclear plants can meaningfully offset dirtier types of energy, supporters say.

That missing radioactivity, originating as fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests during the 1950s and 1960s, routinely provides researchers with a benchmark against which they can gauge how much new ice has accumulated on a glacier or ice field.