Sentences with phrase «disaster at a nuclear plant»

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Family Roots December 9, 2014 A woman finds an unexpected new family when she adopts a son, a bad soldier learns to write from personal loss, and a man is working at a nuclear power plant when disaster strikes.

Last weekend was the seventh anniversary of the disaster at the Japanese nuclear power plant located in Fukushima.

It triggered a devastating tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people and an ongoing nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

As the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was unfolding in March 2011, Ryugo Hayano started posting Twitter observations about radioactive releases.

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.

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 multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011 caused a humanitarian disaster: Upwards of 100,000 people had to be evacuated from within a 20 - kilometer ring around the site.

April marks the 30th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear power disaster, the explosion and fire at a reactor at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union.

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.

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 world's top specialists are competing to design a robot that can carry out emergency - response duties in disaster situations that are often too dangerous for humans, such as last year's nuclear accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

Germany is the largest country to announce that it will forgo generating nuclear power in the aftermath of the disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan.

Even before the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi could be brought under control and investigated, Germany earlier this week said it would shut down seven of its nuclear power plants built before 1980.

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.

This film's prologue featuring Bryan Cranston working at a 1999 nuclear plant is an unmistakable nod to the recent Fukushima disaster, and sets the stage for the collision of science (Watanabe) and military (Strathairn).

Working for Novosti Press Agency (APN) at the time, Kostin was one of only five photographers who covered the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on the day it actually happened (April 26, 1986), with his aerial shot of the buckled plant becoming one of the most notable around the world.

In 2011, Gallup conducted its annual Environment poll a few days before the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan, and at that time, 57 percent of Americans were in favor of nuclear energy.

The disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan convinced German Chancellor Angela Merkel that nuclear power would never again be a viable option for her country.

While watching the events in Japan unfold, it is important to remember that although redundant safety measures have improved greatly at nuclear power plants since the Chernobyl accident in1986, the strength of a natural disaster can easily overcome such measures.

With Europe facing its own problems in reaching emissions targets and Japan strapped by costs associated with making up for nuclear power capacity that was lost in the disaster at the Fukushima power plant in 2011, Ladislaw said, «It's really about the United States and China trying to show — and actually define — what leadership is on this issue.»

So can nuclear power, but the nuclear industry is still reeling from the March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan.

In the wake of the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan is looking to harness more of its offshore wind, a resource plentiful enough to meet national electricity needs nearly three times over.

The earthquake also lead to a meltdown at Fukushima nuclear power plant, which has become the most severe nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

There was no widespread nuclear disaster, but the Tokyo Electric Power Co. admitted that a radioactive water leak occurred at one plant, but claimed it posed no threat.

Full story: Japan moved parts of a massive floating wind farm towards waters off the coast of Fukushima on Friday (July 12), two years after a massive disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The disaster in Fukushima still has Japan and the rest of the world reeling at the dangers of nuclear power plants.

It's been 30 years since the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine in which a fire and explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant unleashed a slew of radioactive particles into the atmonuclear disaster in Ukraine in which a fire and explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant unleashed a slew of radioactive particles into the atmoNuclear Power Plant unleashed a slew of radioactive particles into the atmosphere.

In addition to its human and environmental costs, the nuclear power disaster at Tokyo Electric Power's Dai - ichi plant in Fukushima is having dramatic repercussions on Japan's electricity production and energy security.