Sentences with phrase «event of a meltdown»

A subsequent review of the entire power plant by the NRC in the wake of the near - miss revealed that its emergency cooling system — a critical line of defense in the event of a meltdown — might have failed due to clogging resulting from «generic» flaws built into the plant prior to 1977.

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It came after the country's financial meltdown, which put bankers in jail and prompted a $ 4.6 billion bailout, and on the cusp of political events that would add to the populist spirit that fueled the party's meteoric rise.

The discovery of the twin flaws Meltdown and Spectre and the events related to the information leak that followed carry a huge message: we all need...

This report describes a new age of growing crisis: food price spikes and oil price hikes, devastating weather events, financial meltdowns, and global contagion.

So there is the risk, however slight, that Buffett's view understates the risk Berkshire is shouldering in the event of another unforeseen market meltdown.

A cold storage wallet ensures that your Bitcoins stay safe and accessible in the event of a hack, electrical meltdown or Internet outage.

The drama of Week 29 in Liga NOS was primarily reserved for off - the - field events as Sporting fell into near complete meltdown with a very public spat between the players and club president Bruno de Carvalho.They recovered of sorts to ultimately win their game against Paços Ferreira, while Porto also

Within a matter of seconds, a seemingly minor event can lead an angry child to have a complete meltdown.

My 4 - year - old boys Remy and Lolo threw the mother of all meltdowns when I refused to let them get unicorn bike helmets a few weeks ago (not because I care about gender roles and having my boys wear pink or glitter, but because I didn't feel the horn would be a bonus in the event they took a tumble).

The same report also stated that Rees - Evans planned to build a secure compound in Bulgaria to support his family and friends in the event of global meltdown.

On Friday, Dec. 2 U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler introduced legislation to help prevent a meltdown at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant and further safeguard New Yorkers in the event of a catastrophe.

Labour are so convinced that the referendum could trigger a meltdown of the coalition that officials have been put on alert to ensure the party is ready in the event of an emergency general election as early as this year.

In the U.S., because of a lack of a long - term plan for dealing with such nuclear waste, spent - fuel pools are even more densely packed, making it easier for a meltdown to occur in the event of a loss of water.

But, although the risk of a nuclear core meltdown is very low, the impact of such an event creates a stigma around the noncarbon power source.

In making their deliberations about how to update the clock's time, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists focused on the current state of nuclear arsenals around the globe, disastrous events such as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and biosecurity issues such as the creation of an airborne H5N1 flu strain.

The shaking evoked memories of the events off the coast of Japan in 2011 that triggered meltdowns at a nuclear power plant that the country is still struggling with.

After events like the 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, and the Chernobyl accident, there was substantial psychological trauma, even among people who were not affected, because there is such a fear of radiation and its long - term consequences.

The only thing standing between the escape of nuclear steam and a possible chain of events leading to a meltdown was an internal liner of stainless steel just three sixteenths of an inch (0.48 centimeter) thick that had slowly bent out about an eighth of an inch (0.32 centimeter) into the cavity due to the constant 2,200 pound - per — square - inch (155 - kilogram - per - square - centimeter) pressure.

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.

Thanks to Anchorman (2004) auteur Adam McKay's caustic comedy The Big Short, the events of the great economic meltdown of 2008 are beginning to make sense.

Jean's impending meltdown was teased during the events of Apocalypse, but fans will have to wait and see how this unfolds on screen when Dark Phoenix premieres next year.

In a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper after recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the violent protests concerning the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue led to the loss of three lives, West reflected, «We are dealing with the life and death of the American democratic experiment, what I mean by that is the spiritual blackout, the eclipse of honesty and integrity; moral meltdown where there's no space for prophetic witness of love and justice.»

It seems like unfortunate timing that what should have been one of the biggest news events in the DIY investing space since the commission drop by RBC Direct Investing in January of 2014 actually got eclipsed by the major market meltdowns.

«That spring, in the midst of tumultuous political and economic events, I learned the hard way that in a market meltdown, not only does liquidity evaporate, but prices can fall so steeply that all decisions have the potential for serious adverse consequences.»

That's because in the event of a market meltdown, retirees can be vulnerable to the risk of having to sell investments at beaten down prices in order to provide funds to live on, which is known as «sequence of returns risk.»

Meltdown is reknown for screening the world's largest eSports tournies from across the world, as well as running their own weekly events focusing on the likes of DOTA 2 and Starcraft 2.

The AP1000 is, in theory, safer than previous models because it has an 8 million - pound water tank perched on its roof; in the event of a power outage or generator failure, it provides an emergency cooling system powered by gravity for up to three days — a window of time estimated to be long enough to avert a meltdown.

Still traumatized by that event, Japan's Prime Minister inappropriately involved himself in managing the meltdowns at Fukushima in ways that created great harm, according to both independent investigations of the accident.

Such an event could be a massive release of radiation due to a plant meltdown or a terrorist attack, and could kill tens of thousands of people as well as poison large areas with radioactivity.

With the recent meltdown of financial institutions, some lawyers have been wondering whether and how client funds held in a lawyer's IOLTA account are be covered by FDIC insurance in the event of a bank failure.

The discovery of the twin flaws Meltdown and Spectre and the events related to the information leak that followed carry a huge message: we all need...

The interview process can be one of the most anxiety producing events in your life, particularly if you've found yourself downsized in the global economic meltdown.

While the event provided a positive counterpoint to the credit meltdown that was dominating the news headlines at the time, not all of Coldwell Banker's brokerages supported the initiative.

The series of events that followed the historic meltdown of property values bankrupted me.