Sentences with phrase «nuclear accident resulted»
The Fukushima nuclear accident resulted in the largest ever accidental release of radioactivity to the oceans.
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We just passed the one year anniversary of Japan's devastating earthquake, tsunami and resulting nuclear accident.
«Such a possibility of a nuclear exchange with Russia, starting by accident, no matter how remote it might be at present, would have such a catastrophic result that we should be working hard now to ensure that it can never happen.
And yet the manager has seemingly remained unconvinced that the Frenchman should start ahead of a player composed almost entirely of elbows; a player who resembles the probable result of an unfortunate nuclear accident involving a donkey and the Jackson 5.
In late April 1986, Sladek was hobbling around her home with a broken leg, the result of a skiing accident, when she heard a news report about an explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.
Mindful that drinking contaminated milk led to most of the cancers that resulted from the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, the Japanese government also launched a massive effort to check foods for contamination and ban any items exceeding set limits.
It also resulted in the largest nuclear contamination accident in U.S. history, as shifting winds carried radioactive fallout across the inhabited atolls of Rongelap, Ailinginae and Utirik as well as Rongerik — where U.S. servicemen were stationed — in the central Pacific's Marshall Islands.
During a drill simulating a criticality accident on June, 15, 2016, some alarms at PF - 4 didn't work, and workers showed «inattentiveness» to a colleague who pretended to be wounded, according to a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board summary of the exercise; as a result, they were judged to have failed portions of the test.
Some of these substances are natural, but many are the result of human activity, such as the Chernobyl accident or nuclear weapons testing, and now releases at Fukushima.
Proponents of nuclear power note that no one died as a direct result of the Three Mile Island accident and the radiation was contained.
And just as the atomic bomb indiscriminately killed tens of thousands of civilians, this nuclear reactor accident, albeit on a smaller scale, will be responsible for indiscriminate suffering and lives cut short; the consequences are likely to play out over the next several decades due to radiation pollution and the resulting economic costs.»
Some of these substances are natural, but many are the result of human activity, such as the Chernobyl accident or nuclear weapons testing, and now releases at Fukushima.
1983: Davis Polk successfully defends Babcock & Wilcox, a designer and manufacturer of nuclear reactors, in a $ 4 billion suit brought by General Public Utilities as a result of the Three - Mile Island accident.