Sentences with phrase «largest nuclear disaster»

This is the dilemma faced by tens of thousands of refugees in Japan who fled their homes when an earthquake and tsunami damaged Fukushima's nuclear power plant, causing three major meltdowns — the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.

In two years of reporting, across all four media outlets, there were only a combined total of 17 articles reporting any noteworthy risk from the largest nuclear disaster in history.

More than two decades after the world's largest nuclear disaster, life around Chernobyl continues to adapt.

Not exact matches

With high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy void.

Nuclear disasters are also far more likely to make national or international media than the plethora of car accidents that take place every day, looming large in people's minds despite their relative rarity.

For this reason, nuclear reactors are designed with passive and active safeguards, and separate dedicated systems are used to identify and to neutralise possible faults which could lead to large - scale disasters.

Nuclear disasters have potentially large - scale and long - term consequences for people, environments, and economies around the globe.

One possible solution to quickly measure a population's exposure to radiation in the event of a nuclear disaster or some other large - scale leak of radioactive material — such as a so - called «dirty bomb» attack — would be to scan the body in places where that material is most readily absorbed.

Tokyo Electric Power Co must give a fuller account of the Fukushima disaster and address its «institutionalized lying» before it can expect to restart another nuclear station, the world's largest, said a local government official who holds an effective veto over the utility's revival plan.

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.

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.

Ever since the reactor at Chernobyl exploded in 1986 spewing radioactivity over more than 20 countries, Europeans have lived in fear of another large - scale nuclear disaster.

Many dogs that eat small fish and sardine and herring oil appear to have elevated levels of strontium, a radioactive element that has been released in large quantities from the nuclear power plant involved in the Fukushima disaster, which is still going on.

He's been too busy carting his large - format camera around the world to document the aftermath of events like the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Hurricane Katrina and the Lebanese Civil War.

On other notes, Rogers said he is intrigued about the prospect of modular nuclear plants — «By 2030 they will be cost competitive with the larger nuclear plants,» he said — and by 2050 nuclear (despite the Fukushima disaster) and solar could become mainstays in the power business.

And they can't forget Forbes» 1985 denunciation of nuclear power as industry's «largest managerial disaster.»

On Feb. 11, 1985, the cover page of Forbes thundered, «The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale.

By 1985, Forbes had labeled U.S. nuclear power «the largest managerial disaster in business history.»

The data reveal that last month, despite an overall drop in economy - wide energy use, Japan imported and consumed far larger quantities of fossil fuels than it did in January 2011, before its earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster updended its economy and energy system.

In the wake of the recent earthquake and tsunami, the situation at the Fukushima nuclear facility remains in flux from day to day, with the ultimate losses directly attributable to it (as opposed to the larger geophysical disaster) still unknown.

Broadly speaking, however, a nuclear incident is a large enough disaster that insurance coverage is the least of one's worries.