Sentences with phrase «by nuclear disaster»

i do nt believe it anymore it has been over 2000 years n jesus never return to earth n i think the earth will end by nuclear disaster o food shortage o disease only n so we will c what going to happen on earth...

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It's been 32 years since the Chernobyl disaster, a nuclear reactor meltdown caused by a mix of design flaws and human error.

The nuclear power industry, another area on which Hitachi has set its sights, is still recovering from the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that was triggered by the massive Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, the Swiss government adopted a gradualist approach toward transitioning the country to renewable energy by 2050.

With high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy void.

by Jason Smith Blue Sky Uranium finds cause for optimism in Argentina Uranium prices have plummeted in recent years, as Japan's nuclear power industry has continued to recover very slowly from the Fukushima disaster in 2011.

The possibility of major human catastrophe, whether by nuclear holocaust or by irreversible ecological disaster, is all too real.

The terrible environmental and human impact of a nuclear disaster is overshadowed by the impact of fossil fuels, climate change and natural disasters.

Speakers will describe the roles that S&T and scientific cooperation play in preventing and remediating disasters caused by chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents.

The workshop will focus on prevention and remediation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear disasters that could occur either through accidental (caused by, for example, facility problems, personnel issues, a natural disaster, or some combination of events) or intentional means...

A commission set up by Japan's parliament last week blamed Tokyo Electric Power Co. and government regulators for what it called the «manmade» disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Help researchers study the impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster by taking and submitting radiation readings

The nuclear industry, which until a few years ago anticipated a «renaissance» of new construction, has found its growth checked by the aftershocks of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi disaster.

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.

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.

The investigation was requested by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which is concerned about the potential impact tsunamis might have on new and existing nuclear power plants, especially in light of the devastating tsunami in Japan in March that sparked the greatest nuclear disaster inNuclear Regulatory Commission, which is concerned about the potential impact tsunamis might have on new and existing nuclear power plants, especially in light of the devastating tsunami in Japan in March that sparked the greatest nuclear disaster innuclear power plants, especially in light of the devastating tsunami in Japan in March that sparked the greatest nuclear disaster innuclear disaster in years.

On April 26, Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff did a safety «walkdown» of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster inNuclear Regulatory Commission staff did a safety «walkdown» of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster innuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster innuclear plant disaster in Japan.

Excerpted with permission, Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, by Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill.

Fuelled by fears of nuclear accidents following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, more than 1 million signatures were collected to register public objections to the construction.

Hotspots of radiation from the nuclear disaster are still likely to cause localized, small increases in cancer risk, according to a new report by the World Health Organization

The study, aimed at quantifying the small - scale circulation that can not be captured by satellite - based altimeter measurements or general circulation models, has immediate practical applications to help better predict the path of catastrophic pollutant events, such as from future oil spills or nuclear disaster events.

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.

This is almost twice the radioactivity released at Chernobyl, according to Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters, by Kate Brown, a history professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

A long - awaited report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sees nuclear power as an important component of the U.S. energy supply, a message not affected by last month's nuclear disaster in Japan.

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.

Created by the Norwegian government and funded by foundation donors, the vault is built to withstand centuries of climate change, natural disasters, and even a nuclear attack.

A typhoon killed 17 people in Japan on Wednesday, most on an offshore island, but largely spared the capital and caused no new disaster as it brushed by the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power station, the plant's operator said.

Spurred by a series of nuclear - power mishaps, starting with 2011's disaster at Fukushima, large - scale solar and wind plants now dot the country.

The devastating 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and resulting nuclear disaster in Japan had a high mental health impact — with some effects persisting several years later, according to a comprehensive research review in the January / February issue of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, published by Wolters Kluwer.

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.

The findings raise hopes that wildlife in the area of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, which was damaged by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in the world's second - worst nuclear disaster, might also begin to recover in the comingNuclear Power Plant in Japan, which was damaged by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in the world's second - worst nuclear disaster, might also begin to recover in the comingnuclear disaster, might also begin to recover in the coming years.

A new report by the environmental group Greenpeace reveals that residents living in areas affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters continue to suffer from the adverse effects of radioactive contamination.

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.

Iodide supplementation is usually recommended in case of some nuclear disaster and radioactive activity as it protects thyroid by flooding it with iodine to prevent it from absorbing the radioactive form.

And it's been an utter disaster, perhaps only topped by the nuclear meltdown of Chernobyl.

As fears rise in Japan about nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant, the first and best line of defense are the reactor's six inch thick steel - walled chambers, made by a company that still forges samurai swords by hand.

In the 1980s, he was ordered by the Cuban government to translate for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, who had been relocated to the island from the former Soviet Union.

These include war, or threat of war, riots, civil strife, terrorism, contamination, extreme or unusual weather conditions, industrial disputes, changes to sports itineraries, natural and nuclear disasters, fire, flight cancellations or rescheduling by airlines or any similar event beyond our control.

Across town, in a fascinating group show at White Cube in Hoxton, featuring work inspired by Edgar Allen Poe, Kiefer has created two signature pieces: a giant vitrine in which a grey, ash - encrusted landscape is overlain with branches; and an installation in the bowels of Shoreditch town hall featuring his sculptures of what look like hospital beds rescued from a nuclear disaster.

The collective Don't Follow the Wind, whose inaccessible, Fukushima - based 2015 group exhibition has been written about before in these pages, is now made accessible via A Walk in Fukushima, 2016 — 17, a 360 - degree video experience of what has been, since the 2011 nuclear - plant disaster, an uninhabitable area, with crafty headsets made in collaboration with artist Bontaro Dokuyama and three generations of a Japanese family who live in a zone deemed «safe to live» by the government but still subject to restrictions due to its proximity to a radioactive locale.

This is the dilemma faced by tens of thousands of refugees in Japan who fled their homes when an earthquake and tsunami damaged Fukushima's nuclear power plant, causing three major meltdowns — the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.

He ended up visiting that restaurant, which is near areas irradiated by the Fukushima nuclear power — plant disaster.

Every day of the fair, Japanese artists Ei Arakawa and his brother Tomoo (UNITED BROTHERS) are serving soup made from the vegetables grown in Fukushima, the area of Japan most devastated by the 2011 nuclear disaster, as part of Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent?

Somewhere in the desolate, radioactive landscape that resulted from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, lies an art exhibition featuring work by renowned artists like Trevor Paglen, Taryn Simon, and Ai Weiwei.

These two disasters, both caused by sloppy construction work and maintenance, and a lack of attention to detail, have put the kabosh on the nuclear power industry in the United States.

8:25 p.m. Updated There are some heated headlines out there as fires spring up in the zone contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster.

In the aftermath of Japan's nuclear disaster last month, China officials made known their intent to double the country's solar energy target — from 5 gigawatts (GW) by 2015 to 10 GW by 2015.

Perhaps the most concentrated source of non-carbon energy is nuclear power, but unfortunately, due to the Fukashima disaster and other issues, nuclear power generation is now declining or taken off the table by several nations, just when needed the most to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (see graphic).

On other notes, Rogers said he is intrigued about the prospect of modular nuclear plants — «By 2030 they will be cost competitive with the larger nuclear plants,» he said — and by 2050 nuclear (despite the Fukushima disaster) and solar could become mainstays in the power businesBy 2030 they will be cost competitive with the larger nuclear plants,» he said — and by 2050 nuclear (despite the Fukushima disaster) and solar could become mainstays in the power businesby 2050 nuclear (despite the Fukushima disaster) and solar could become mainstays in the power business.