Sentences with phrase «impacts of a nuclear disaster»

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

The Fukushima disaster also showed NRC that the physical impacts of a nuclear disaster were not constrained only to radiation exposure, he said.

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Halpern says for radiation disasters, the primary concern is a small nuclear bomb, an event he says that carries a low probability of occurring, but such high impact if it did.

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

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.

«The WHO report shamelessly downplays the impact of early radioactive releases from the Fukushima disaster on people inside the 20 km evacuation zone who were not able to leave the area quickly,» says Rianne Teule, a nuclear expert at Greenpeace International.

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.

The meeting's participants also addressed social and political implications of global scientific challenges, including the impact of the Arab Spring movement and reverberations from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster.

But in terms of the politics surrounding nuclear energy, the impact of the disaster appears to have been much smaller than many were anticipating at the time.

Will the McGuinty government make public today any emergency plans, briefing notes or studies in its possession that assess the impact of a potential nuclear disaster on human health, the environment and the economy?

Their presentations focused on the ongoing impact of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe and the implications for the nuclear disaster in Japan.