Sentences with phrase «meltdowns at a nuclear power plant»

The shaking evoked memories of the events off the coast of Japan in 2011 that triggered meltdowns at a nuclear power plant that the country is still struggling with.

Since then, risk assessment has been used to estimate the probability of a catastrophic meltdown at a nuclear power plant, or the probability of a population of grizzly bears becoming locally extinct because too many roads were cut into their forest home, or the probability of children having their IQ lowered by exposure to toxic lead and PCBs in the soil near schools built on a toxic waste dump.

Not exact matches

It is now clear that at least one reactor at Fukushima experienced a full core meltdown, so what does that mean for similar nuclear power plants in the U.S.?

The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.

The March 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant caused extensive human suffering — evacuations, emotional trauma and premature deaths, disrupted jobs and schooling.

Japan still struggles with the effects of a powerful earthquake, devastating tsunami and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

Some 16 months after meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operations to remove the nuclear fuel rods from the site have finally begun

The multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011 caused a humanitarian disaster: Upwards of 100,000 people had to be evacuated from within a 20 - kilometer ring around the site.

That helps explain why such a large earthquake was unexpected in the region, resulting in catastrophic consequences that included more than 24,000 people dead or missing and fuel meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the coast.

Seven years after one of the largest earthquakes on record unleashed a massive tsunami and triggered a meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, officials say they are at last getting a handle on the mammoth task of cleaning the site before it is ultimately dismantled.

After reading the differing views on nuclear power across the globe (25 June, p 12), I was saddened to see decisions in Germany, Italy and Switzerland to stop pursuing nuclear energy, obviously as a backlash following the dangerous meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Diane DiEuliis and Shin Chang - Hoon AAAS / Carla Schaffer Imagine a malware program like the 2010 Stuxnet worm creating a nuclear meltdown at a power plant.

As night fell on Friday in Japan, workers and soldiers continued heroic efforts to douse the potential meltdown underway at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Imagine a malware program like the 2010 Stuxnet worm creating a nuclear meltdown at a power plant.

Jack Lemmon plays a shift supervisor at a nuclear power plant who narrowly averts a core meltdown while being surreptitiously filmed by Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas» visiting TV news crew.

Systems are designed to have a probability of less than one in ten thousand for a core meltdown in any given year; but that could mean one every 5 years if nuclear supplied 2 TW of power, or one per year at the 10 TW or higher level (with roughly 10,000 nuclear plants worldwide).

After the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami led to nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and a release of radioactive material, all Japanese nuclear plants were closed out of safety concerns.

«Japan is to resume the use of nuclear power for the first time since last year's triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi power plant after the government on Saturday approved the restart of two idled reactors»

The earthquake also lead to a meltdown at Fukushima nuclear power plant, which has become the most severe nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

That was the case of the robots built to clean up the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered the restart of two idle nuclear reactors Saturday amid widespread public opposition, more than a year after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai - ichi Power Plant, and halted all 50 reactors in Japan...