Sentences with phrase «near nuclear meltdown»
A solar - powered car wash popped up in California, we peeked in on a near nuclear meltdown in Sweden, and, in Japan, they were generating electricity from train station ticket gates.
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After the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor on April 26, 1986, a parade of doomsayers predicted that the end of the world was near.
The U.S. has endured a slew of «near misses» in recent years: a 0.48 - centimeter thick stainless steel lining is all that stood between Davis — Besse nuclear power plant in Ohio and a meltdown in 2002.
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.