Sentences with phrase «larger nuclear catastrophe»
When it comes to radiation, the nuclear weapons testing conducted from the 1940s to the 1980s contributed orders of magnitude more radioactivity to the oceans than Fukushima (even when combined with Chernobyl, a much larger nuclear catastrophe).
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Looking at the largest economic losses, the year 2011 with major earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand is the highest loss to date: «with around 335 billion USD direct damage, the Tohoku earthquake - tsunami - nuclear sequence on 11 March 2011 is the highest single - event natural catastrophe loss,» says James Daniell.
«Medusa» is part of a large body of sculptures featuring other famous catastrophes, including the nuclear meltdown of Three Mile Island.
In a ranking of near - term «fatal discontinuities» in his 2008 book, «Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years,» Vaclav Smil puts asteroid collisions far below the persistent risk of large - scale war (particularly because so many nuclear weapons are still arrayed around the world), great earthquakes and tsunamis and pandemics, but above global warming (because of its gradual slope).