Sentences with phrase «nuclear accident occurred»

It will be exactly 30 years tomorrow since the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred on a three - mile (five kilometer) slip of land in the Susquehanna River in the shadow of Harrisburg, Pa..

That changed on April 25, 1986, as he was touring the then - Soviet Union with 38 students — and the Chernobyl nuclear accident occurred.

A world population analysis reveals the locations that could put the most people in danger should a nuclear accident occur.

When the next nuclear accident occurs (on historical trends, around 2030), it will almost certainly occur in China (due to China's aggressive nuclear capacity buildout).

All bigg nuclear accidents occured due to that phisical reason.

Not exact matches

Despite the severity of the accident at the Fukushima I plant, nuclear reactor designers don't expect the same type of backlash against the nuclear industry as occurred a generation ago after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

Some sources of pollution, such as nuclear power plants or oil tankers, can produce widespread and potentially hazardous releases when accidents occur.

The Three Mile Island accident occurred on March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI - 2) in Dauphin County Stoogemojis From BareTree Media, Inc. — STOOGEMOJIS is the official emoji - sticker app for The Three Stooges.

Though not all viewers appreciated the film's unwavering anti-nuclear sentiments, it proved to be chillingly prophetic; only a short time after its release the nearly catastrophic nuclear reactor accident at Three Mile Island occurred.

If plant cancellations were from the accidents, as is frequently claimed, then why did the backlash against nuclear not occur after the far more dangerous 1957 Windscale fire, which shot iodine - 131 across the English countryside, or after the 1966 Fermi - 1 sodium fast reactor fire?

Residents said they had often been assured of the safety of nuclear power, and thought that an accident could never occur.

Nearly three dozen nuclear power plants are inadequately protected against major flooding guaranteed to occur after an upstream dam failure — flooding that could easily lead to an accident or meltdown on the scale of the 2011 nuclear power disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

It's a culture of opacity and (often) false assurance that everything is under control, accidents can easily be dealt with when they inevitably occur — not restricted to the Japanese nuclear industry but seemingly endemic to the fossil fuel industry more broadly.