Sentences with phrase «massive nuclear explosion»

Following a massive nuclear explosion the moon, its inhabitants were...

However, we lost communication with the Mars colony after a massive nuclear explosion.

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At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

The U.S. Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), in a report last November, related desperate actions by TEPCO crews to contain the reactor accident in the critical first week of the crisis, as they tried to operate crucial valves and instruments with truck batteries; hauled massive emergency power cables over flooded passageways where manhole covers had been dislodged; and faced a series of hydrogen explosions and sudden spikes in radiation.

When the nuclear reactions that power them run out of fuel, the stars can no longer resist their own intense gravity; they collapse and trigger the massive explosions called supernovae.

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).

The spaceships of Project Orion, designed in the late 1950s but never built, had in common their massive size (this one was more than 30 feet in diameter) and a propulsion system that relied on controlled nuclear explosions.

The method, which has taken Spalding more than a decade to develop, hinges on a massive pulse of radioactive carbon - 14 isotopes released by nuclear explosions in the 1950s and»60s, which doubled the amount of carbon - 14 in the atmosphere.

A pulsar is formed when a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel and dies in a cataclysmic explosion called a supernova.

Seismic activity occurs around a nuclear plant near Tokyo, Japan causing a massive explosion which leads to the collapse of the plant and the area to be quarantined due to radiation.

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

According to the computer simulations, fires ignited in large cities by nuclear explosions would send several million metric tons of soot into the upper stratosphere, which would be heated by massive smoke injections.