Sentences with phrase «catastrophic meltdown»

How many blog posts and articles have I written about the catastrophic meltdown of traditional universal life insurance policies?

In preparing to help write an article about the catastrophic meltdown of traditional universal life insurance policies I was seeking some industry assistance in nailing down approximately what percentage of the total number of UL's were in danger of imploding.

Since then, risk assessment has been used to estimate the probability of a catastrophic meltdown at a nuclear power plant, or the probability of a population of grizzly bears becoming locally extinct because too many roads were cut into their forest home, or the probability of children having their IQ lowered by exposure to toxic lead and PCBs in the soil near schools built on a toxic waste dump.

That Wednesday, what had started as a series of bizarre, unexplainable glitches in quant models turned into a catastrophic meltdown the likes of which had never been seen before in the history of financial markets.

Payne likes to work with troubled, fully fleshed - out characters and he has found a gem in Giamatti's interpretation of a man nearing a catastrophic meltdown.

Though cooling will need to continue for months, the risk of a catastrophic meltdown diminishes with each passing hour.

From a quaint foundation built on vacuum tubes and X-rays to 2011's catastrophic meltdown at Fukushima, Nelson deftly weaves together science and history as he spans the Atomic Age.

But the PM won't be sucked into a narrative of catastrophic meltdown.

CATASTROPHIC meltdowns of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had less to do with the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March last year, and more to do with the plant owners» and government's failure to anticipate and prepare for emergencies on such an epic scale.

But critics question the safety of nuclear power, citing such concerns as the potential for catastrophic meltdowns, their potential vulnerability to terrorists, the lack of workable evacuation plans in the event of accidents as well as the problem of dealing with radioactive waste.

Not exact matches

The tantrums and meltdowns were catastrophic.

The recent UK growth statistics underline the catastrophic damage and continuing aftershocks inflicted by the financial meltdown in 2008 - 9, exacerbated by the never - ending crisis in the eurozone.

We are tackling the deficit today, making horrible decisions to avoid the catastrophic alternative of market meltdown and mass unemployment or, as Ed Balls calls it «plan B».

The question boils down to the accumulating impacts of daily incremental pollution from burning coal or the small risk but catastrophic consequences of even one nuclear meltdown.

The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.

That helps explain why such a large earthquake was unexpected in the region, resulting in catastrophic consequences that included more than 24,000 people dead or missing and fuel meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the coast.

Fortunately, there has not been a catastrophic nuclear accident in the United States, and no partial core meltdown accident since Three Mile Island in March 1979.

It is safer because while mechanical items can fail under catastrophic conditions, such as a loss of all electrical power onsite, PRISM is not dependant on these for a safe shutdown, so even a catastrophic situation will not result in a reactor meltdown.

We have no intention of EVER going back to work (barring some utterly catastrophic market meltdown) and see this as a critical back - stop in terms of our overall drawdown strategy.

Some of the participating artists include: Abbas Akhavan who will exhibit a water fountain created using stacks of dishes pots and cooking pans that explores the politics of hospitality; Zineb Sedira whose large - scale photographs and sugar sculpture references the history of sugar, race, migration and globalization; Tadasu Takamine reflects on the consequences of the catastrophic nuclear meltdown at Fukushima in a series of performative videos; Asunción Molinos whose work in the show originates for a «pop - up» restaurant she ran in Cairo which dealt with issues related to Egypt's export / import policies and Senam Okudzeto whose work Portes - Oranges features metal sculptures used by Ghanaian fruit sellers to display oranges.

Imperial meltdown is at the center of our catastrophic times.

Ever since a catastrophic earthquake hit Fukushima in March 2011, resulting in the meltdown of three nuclear reactors and the release of radioactive material into the surrounding environment, this rural northeastern region of Japan has never recovered.