Sentences with phrase «nuclear catastrophe in»

Sixty years later, officials are still reckoning with the consequences of a nuclear catastrophe in regular NPS1 exercises.

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The cap: For decades, Canada's Nuclear Liability Act provided that, in the event of a catastrophe at a nuclear facility, its operators faced a maximum liability of just $ 75 mNuclear Liability Act provided that, in the event of a catastrophe at a nuclear facility, its operators faced a maximum liability of just $ 75 mnuclear facility, its operators faced a maximum liability of just $ 75 million.

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

On Friday, Dec. 2 U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler introduced legislation to help prevent a meltdown at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant and further safeguard New Yorkers in the event of a catastrophe.

Even the big threats — nuclear warfare or an ecological catastrophe, perhaps following from climate change — aren't existential in the sense that they would wipe us out entirely.

Scholars think a self - induced catastrophe such as nuclear war or a bioengineered pandemic is most likely to do us in.

So, coming within hours of the Exxon Valdez oil disaster, and with the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl still fresh in people's minds, the sudden possibility of «cold fusion» captured everyone's attention.

Looking at the largest economic losses, the year 2011 with major earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand is the highest loss to date: «with around 335 billion USD direct damage, the Tohoku earthquake - tsunami - nuclear sequence on 11 March 2011 is the highest single - event natural catastrophe loss,» says James Daniell.

When we talk about lessons learned, the most immediate lessons that we have to learn from this catastrophe in Japan is not whether nuclear power is good or bad or whether to continue with nuclear power growth or not.

To avoid any kind of catastrophe, the reptiles went into hibernation for millions of years before being awakened by secret nuclear experiments in a Welsh mine.

Nuclear reprocessing, weapons tests, and nuclear accidents, such as the 2011 catastrophe in Japan, release xenon radioisotopes into the atmoNuclear reprocessing, weapons tests, and nuclear accidents, such as the 2011 catastrophe in Japan, release xenon radioisotopes into the atmonuclear accidents, such as the 2011 catastrophe in Japan, release xenon radioisotopes into the atmosphere.

Craig Zobel's Z for Zachariah concerns a lone young woman, Ann (Margot Robbie), still living on her parents» farm up in the mountains of West Virginia after some kind of nuclear catastrophe has apparently wiped out everyone else.

Director Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser will be in attendance at the screening of this new documentary film based on Schlosser's book of the same name, about the 1980 accident in an Arkansas missile silo that nearly caused a nuclear catastrophe.

In the new sequel «London Has Fallen,» terrorists destroy much of London, and Banning has to rescue the Prez while preventing nuclear catastrophe.

In Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 3, players will embody Captain Scott Mitchell as he commands the Ghosts and Special Forces allies equipped with the IWS in the quest to save the president of the United States, recover stolen nuclear codes and eliminate a vicious band of renegade soldiers hell - bent on unleashing catastrophIn Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 3, players will embody Captain Scott Mitchell as he commands the Ghosts and Special Forces allies equipped with the IWS in the quest to save the president of the United States, recover stolen nuclear codes and eliminate a vicious band of renegade soldiers hell - bent on unleashing catastrophin the quest to save the president of the United States, recover stolen nuclear codes and eliminate a vicious band of renegade soldiers hell - bent on unleashing catastrophe.

With riots throughout Turkeyand the Spanish economy collapsing, and Japan with a nuclear catastrophe, is this a precursor to something much worse in 2020?

The artist was a key figure of Tokyo's Anti-Art Movement in the late 1950s, where his performative paintings and installations marked the beginning of his preoccupation with the impact of nuclear catastrophe and the excess of consumer society associated with the post-war economic boom.

Atom Boy was among the many attempts in Japanese pop culture to exorcise the fear of nuclear catastrophe that is unfolding today in real - life, reality catching up with fiction.

Polk and Noam Chomsky co-authored the book Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe in 2013.

There is a piece, by Peter Applebome, «The Power Grid Game: Choose a Catastrophe», about the Indian Point nuclear power plant and, in part, about climate change.

In a ranking of near - term «fatal discontinuities» in his 2008 book, «Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years,» Vaclav Smil puts asteroid collisions far below the persistent risk of large - scale war (particularly because so many nuclear weapons are still arrayed around the world), great earthquakes and tsunamis and pandemics, but above global warming (because of its gradual slopeIn a ranking of near - term «fatal discontinuities» in his 2008 book, «Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years,» Vaclav Smil puts asteroid collisions far below the persistent risk of large - scale war (particularly because so many nuclear weapons are still arrayed around the world), great earthquakes and tsunamis and pandemics, but above global warming (because of its gradual slopein his 2008 book, «Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years,» Vaclav Smil puts asteroid collisions far below the persistent risk of large - scale war (particularly because so many nuclear weapons are still arrayed around the world), great earthquakes and tsunamis and pandemics, but above global warming (because of its gradual slope).

In the whirlwind of events following the Japanese catastrophe in March 2011, Merkel's government reversed its stance on nuclear power and, citing safety concerns, immediately instituted a three - month moratorium on all nuclear plant operation for safety checkIn the whirlwind of events following the Japanese catastrophe in March 2011, Merkel's government reversed its stance on nuclear power and, citing safety concerns, immediately instituted a three - month moratorium on all nuclear plant operation for safety checkin March 2011, Merkel's government reversed its stance on nuclear power and, citing safety concerns, immediately instituted a three - month moratorium on all nuclear plant operation for safety checks.

To avoid any kind of catastrophe, the reptiles went into hibernation for millions of years before secret nuclear experiments in a Welsh mine awakened them.

In 1982, nations have two choices: to carry on as they are and face, by the turn of the century, an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete and as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust, or to begin now in earnest a cooperative effort to use the world's resources rationally and fairly.&raquIn 1982, nations have two choices: to carry on as they are and face, by the turn of the century, an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete and as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust, or to begin now in earnest a cooperative effort to use the world's resources rationally and fairly.&raquin earnest a cooperative effort to use the world's resources rationally and fairly.»

Dirty bombs make big messes, and may require massive relocations, as at Chernobyl, but they pale by comparison to the primary threat that Allison has written about in Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe — the possibility that terrorists might get hold of and detonate a nuclear bomb in a majoNuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe — the possibility that terrorists might get hold of and detonate a nuclear bomb in a majonuclear bomb in a major city.

You can only believe there is a looming catastrophe if a) you believe that man is responsible for 100 % of the CO2 increase (that is in serious doubt), b) an increase of up to 2.0 °C is not beneficial (there is much evidence that it is beneficial), c) over the next 100 years there will not be any major advances in energy production (now we can switch to nuclear within 10 - 20 years), and d) man can realistically do anything to effect global temperatures (the US EPA estimates proposed CO2 restrictions costing tens of trillions of US dollars would reduce global temperature by 0.006 °C).

Their presentations focused on the ongoing impact of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe and the implications for the nuclear disaster in Japan.

Whatever your views are about nuclear energy, and mine were very negative for most of my life, we are in desperate need of powerful and scalable clean - energy technologies if we are to avert a climate catastrophe.

But in the real world where we face multiple uncertain catastrophes: nuclear war, asteroid strikes, pandemics, earthquakes, peak oil, economic collapse, etc., as well as climate change, how do we respond?

If constitutional courts are nonetheless keen to avoid preliminary references to the ECJ, this has to do with the difficulties to come to a different conclusion than the ECJ's preliminary ruling and to thereby cause an open judicial conflict — especially since such a scenario has been portrayed as the legal equivalent of a constitutional catastrophe or the first nuclear blow in EU legal scholarship.