Sentences with phrase «from nuclear explosions»

Amongst the fallout from nuclear explosions was carbon 14, an unstable isotope of carbon that has six protons and eight neutrons in the nuclei of its atoms (the most abundant by far, forming 98.9 % of all carbon on Earth, is carbon 12 with six protons and six neutrons).

When the crunch comes and the place gets locked down, you are safe from nuclear explosions, asteroid strikes, pandemics and sudden pole shifts, all in the comfort of your own RV.

By measuring the relative abundance of various elements in debris left over from nuclear explosions, researchers say they can accurately estimate the amount of energy released during the initial blast.

The Incredible Hulk was transformed from mild scientist into wild superhero by gamma rays from a nuclear explosion.

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These types of nuclear explosions «suck up dirt, or water, contaminates it with debris from the bomb, and then lofts it into the atmosphere,» Schwartz said.

If you can shuffle enough of them around fast enough, you can solve complex equations, which has changed the way we do everything from trading stocks to simulating nuclear explosions to storing recipes.

Last November he unveiled a new electric semi-truck that can apparently withstand a nuclear explosion and go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in five seconds.

Javier Paz, senior analyst at Aite Group, says: «The full impact of the SNB decision is months away from being known, but it is closer to a nuclear explosion than a 1,000 kilogram conventional bomb.

But Love evinced a tough side also, recording a number of remarkably angry songs: the garage - punk classic «My Flash on You,» one the fastest versions of «Hey Joe,» a cover of «My Little Red Book» that ditches the lost - love vibe of the original, and finally «7 and 7 Is,» a breath - taking hardcore punk prototype from early» 67, complete with a nuclear explosion finale and lyrics about throwing one's Bible in the fireplace.

@Keith McClary: About the only way that could happen, and happen quickly enough that those eliminated from the succession wouldn't be replaced, would involve the explosion of numerous nuclear devices.

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The new theory suggests the first of the two explosions reported by eyewitnesses was a nuclear and not a steam explosion, as is currently widely thought and is presented by researchers from the Swedish Defence Research Agency, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, and Stockholm University.

In a million years, barring profound shifts, the climate should have returned to its natural rhythms but any cities buried in sediment by rising seas should still be preserved, along with those signs of anthroturbation, human - induced disturbances underground, like the plutons from underground explosions of nuclear bombs.

The film shows the two characteristic light output pulses that are seen only in nuclear weapon blasts, which correlate with the device's yield (the amount of energy given off from the explosion).

Pakistan has replied to India's recent round of nuclear tests with five underground explosions today in the desolate Chagai region in Baluchistan province barely 50 kilometers from the Iranian border.

As ever, the presentations covered a wide range of topics from HIV in the dentist's surgery to the risks of accidental nuclear explosions.

In this new work, Carrigan's team injected gas tracers into an old cavity in Nevada created by an underground nuclear explosion and studied how the gases were transported and released from the cavity.

Aliens would have to simultaneously deploy nuclear weapons a billion times more powerful than Earth's entire stockpile for us to see the gamma - ray burst from the explosion, and even then it is so brief that we're unlikely to be looking at the right time.

Among many more was Project Orion, a 20 - storey egg - shaped starship whose escape from Earth's gravity would have been powered by about 200 nuclear explosions.

This rich account details everything from the project's first calculations run simulating nuclear explosions to its legendary parties that once drew poet Dylan Thomas.

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.

The explosion immediately killed two workers, and 28 firemen and nuclear power plant staff died from acute radiation syndrome in the three months afterward.

The CTBT would prohibit the U.S. and every other signatory from conducting test explosions, no matter how small, of nuclear weapons underground, in space or anywhere else.

Chelyabinsk was the site of a massive explosion in 1957, and is the probable destination of fuel taken by the UN from nuclear reactors in Iraq (This Week, 19 June).

From the fascinating (an intricately diagrammed explanation of nuclear fission) to the terrifying (an in - depth hypothetical example of what would happen if a 150 kiloton nuclear explosion occurred in New York City), the site covers all the bases.

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.

The first seismic waves generated by temblors and explosions — those from mining operations as well as underground nuclear tests — are sharp and distinct, says Göran Ekström, a seismologist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.

The collection includes an intelligence report from August 1964 predicting that the Chinese would not conduct their first nuclear explosion before the end of the year.

His research has been valuable to the Laboratory's nuclear - test - detection satellite programs, and his work is significantly increasing the accuracy of predictions for the behavior of energetic electrons from high - altitude nuclear explosions.

To further support integrated space situational awareness, Reeves also led a team that developed the Dynamic Radiation Environment Assimilation Model (DREAM) to predict hazards from the natural space environment or high - altitude nuclear explosions.

There is also thought to be nuclear radiation from powerplant explosions that is around us in varying amounts depending upon our geography.

Moving away from the horror elements of The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day is an all - out war of car chases, fight scenes, shoot outs, nuclear explosions and a phenomenal, if gratuitous set piece where the Terminator blows up numerous police cars with a machine gun for no other reason than the script required an action beat.

McGhee's images capture an array of disaster scenarios, from eco-apocalypses and nuclear explosions to tentacled alien monsters firebombing the streets.

Inside one of the Autostadt halls is a transparent floor glowing with constantly rotating globes, each one depicting facts that range from the world's time zones to where aircraft crashes or nuclear explosions have taken place.

There are 9 missions loaded with objectives that range from rescuing civvies, fighting a giant battleship, and even trying to stop a nuclear bomb explosion.

«Lente Missile Base» is a Warzone map that features a missile launch environmental hazard, similar to the nuclear explosion from the Killzone 2 DLC map «Southern Hills» (any players caught in the underground exhaust vents will be killed by the missile's engine blast).

Perhaps it's a learned response, from growing up in an era where even the best game stories featured characters who could shrug off a nuclear explosion in «game mode» with a healing potion, but who could then be fatally wounded by a single sword swipe in «story mode», but I've always been able to compartmentalize what happens in a game's story from what happens in the gameplay when necessary.

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In its 36 minutes duration, the film presents footage of one of the first nuclear tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in 1946; Conner shows the underwater explosion from fifteen different angles, in extreme slow motion — at some points one second of real time becomes three minutes of screen time.

The proposal has received broad support from key researchers and institutions within the field, and it is desired to date the beginning of the epoch at the first successful nuclear explosion (Trinity in 1945).

Half of my family has died from cancers that I believe were a result of radioactive fallout caused by aboveground nuclear explosions tested in the Nevada desert from 1945 to 1962....

Rough calculations show if you drill about a dozen mine shafts as deep as possible into the thing, and plunk megaton nuclear bombs down there, and then fire them off simultaneously, you'll get a repeat of the Long Valley Caldera explosion of about 800,000 years ago — which coated everything east of it with miles of ash and injected a giant aerosol cloud into the stratosphere — the ash layer alone formed a triangle stretching from the caldera to Louisiana to North Dakota, including all of Arizona and most of Idaho and everything in between — I bet that would have a cooling factor of at least -30 W / m ^ 2 — and you could go and do the Yellowstone Plateau at the same time — geoengineering at its finest.

It was always inconceivable that President Obama would consider using a nuclear explosion to cut the flow of oil from the unrelenting seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico — no matter how many other options faltered.

The levels of exposure to radiation following the leaks and explosions at the earthquake - damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in 2011 were so low that they led today to this important conclusion from experts convened in Vienna by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effect of Atomic Radiation:

From 1945 onwards there were nuclear explosions in the atmosphere injecting massive quantities of particulates into the stratosphere.

Besides its role in ensuring that no nuclear explosion escapes detection, the system generates a wealth of scientific data that can be applied, for example, to tsunami warnings, probing the Earth's structure, tracking emissions from nuclear accidents, analyzing meteor blasts and volcano eruptions, listening to whales or environmental monitoring of the atmosphere and oceans.

The accuracy of the simulations of GST by IPCC would also be improved significantly by introducing the influence of fine dust from the actual atmospheric nuclear explosions into their climate models; thus, global warming behavior could be more accurately predicted

The estimated GST drop due to fine dust from the actual atmospheric nuclear explosions based on the published simulation results by other researchers (a single column model and Atmosphere - Ocean General Circulation Model) has served to explain the stagnation in global warming.

The resulting run - away nuclear reaction, fire and explosion released more than 400-fold the amount of radiation from the Hiroshima bomb, hitting Belarus hardest and extending as far as Ireland.

In general, you're covered for most losses resulting from just about any peril — except nuclear explosion, war or intentional acts of destruction.