Sentences with phrase «nuclear crisis»

Perhaps that is why the world is now further away from a solution to the Korean nuclear crisis than it was a decade ago.

Her work reflects the fear of catastrophic events, such as nuclear crises or global climate change.

In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan, Beijing cut its 2020 nuclear power capacity target to 58 gigawatt (GW) from 80 - 90 GW.

«Basically, Jeremy Corbyn faces an imminent nuclear crisis with Russia, and the secret of unlocking this lies in his past.

Should the talks fall through, or play out as a kind of trap to generate positive propaganda for North Korea while laying the blame for the burgeoning nuclear crisis on the US, as some experts fear, Trump's White House will be without one more voice urging against strikes.

To be sure, with the North Korean nuclear crisis escalating and a missile flying directly over Japan last week, they have ample reason to chat.

In the Geneva Agreed Framework of 1994, which ended the first nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula, the US and North Korea agreed to full normalization of political and economic relations.

The ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan is causing political effects around the world, particularly in Europe, with several countries putting on hold plans to build new reactors or let existing ones run longer.

Written while Michael Crichton was still in medical school, The Andromeda Strain caused an immediate sensation: partly because the author was still in his twenties; partly because it focused on a biological crisis when most people were thinking about nuclear crises; and partly because of the cool, non-fiction tone it adopted to tell its story.

Japan's stock market nose - dived nearly 11 percent, leading world markets sharply lower on Tuesday, as an escalating nuclear crisis threatened to compound the devastation from last week's earthquake and tsunami.

Japan's Nikkei stock index nose - dived more than 12 percent Tuesday as the earthquake - shattered country faced an unfolding nuclear crisis after a radiation leak was detected at a crippled power plant.

The ongoing Syrian civil war, the Iran nuclear crisis and the Middle East peace process will be on the agenda.

First, whilst nuclear crises and stand - offs are close to unthinkable in the short - term, they could return in the future, as American hegemony declines and nuclear technology spreads amongst middle powers like Iran, North Korea or Pakistan.

A first nuclear crisis erupted but was temporarily dealt with in the 1990s, but tensions rose again in 2002, when US President George Bush included North Korea in the «Axis of Evil» with Iraq and Iran, as regime which «pursues weapons of mass destruction while starving its citizens.»

Former U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson: The path to resolving the North Korea nuclear crisis lies through China and abandoning American isolationism

The request comes as Japanese authorities increased the alert level at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis to level five, signifying an «accident with wider consequences».

The NRC considers the storage situation to be safe in this country, but will review it once the staff has a full understanding of the details of the Japanese nuclear crisis, he said.

The top U.S. nuclear regulator, Gregory Jaczko, gave a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis yesterday, saying that lethal radiation from uncovered spent fuel above one of the reactors could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns of damaged reactor cores at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Of course, even in the worst case, the Fukushima nuclear crisis pales in comparison to the 7,000 dead and 10,000 missing as a result of the March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami — no one has yet died from the Japanese nuclear accident.

TOKYO (Reuters)- Japan on Monday expanded the evacuation zone around its crippled nuclear plant because of high levels of accumulated radiation, as a strong aftershock rattled the area one month after a quake and tsunami sparked the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

The emergency plans developed by school systems that have had to face the possibility — however remote — that they might be enveloped in a communitywide nuclear crisis, vary from locality to locality depending principally upon the site of the reactor and the geography of the community.

Faced with the on - going nuclear crisis in Japan — the costs of which could make the March earthquake and subsequent tsnuami the most expensive natural disaster the world has ever seen — nearby China may be moving to double its target for solar photovoltaic (PV) power capacity over the next five years.

Meanwhile, US - China relations have soured on trade issues, and Trump has criticized Beijing for not doing more to solve the North Korean nuclear crisis.

CEI's Iain Murray has an op - ed in The Washington Times today explaining what can be learned from the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan.

Written while Michael Crichton was still in medical school, The Andromeda Strain caused an immediate sensation: partly because the author was still in his twenties; partly because it focused on a biological crisis when most people were thinking about nuclear crises; and partly because of the cool, non-fiction tone it adopted to tell its story.

Beyond that, new rules are expected to address any lessons learned from the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday described the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan as «beyond biblical in terms of its proportion.»

The world's fifth largest uranium producer has backed away from a $ 1.1 billion takeover of Perth - based Mantra Resources on concerns Japan's nuclear crisis would harm the local uranium industry.

«Nothing can save us that is possible,» the poet W H. Auden intoned over the madness of the nuclear crisis; «we who must die demand a miracle.»

The threat of a nuclear crisis only adds to the uncertainty.

As the country quells a nuclear crisis, I'm reminded that even the best - intentioned parents can't fully protect their children.

It is here that Atkinson finds a challenge to confront the problem of a creation that will either explode (the nuclear crisis has changed since 1990 but has not disappeared) or die of environmental poisoning.

It is notable that unlike Hu Jintao, Xi has quickly consolidated his power base and demonstrated resolve on the North Korean nuclear crisis, stating to a South Korean special envoy earlier this year on 23rd January that China «could not tolerate North Korea possessing nuclear weapons».

The brainchild of writers Rupert Myers and Bobby Friedman, it focuses on Corbyn facing a nuclear crisis with Russia and sheds light on a motorcycle holiday he reportedly took with Labour MP Diane Abbott in East Germany during the 1970s.

Sens. David Carlucci, a Hudson Valley Democrat, along with Republicans Greg Ball and George Maziarz (a WNYer who chairs the Energy Committee), plan to hold a hearing Thursday in Stony Point to discuss contingency plans in the event of a nuclear crisis.

Trump today embarked on the longest trip to Asia by an American president in more than a quarter century, looking for help to pressure North Korea to stand down from a nuclear crisis.

In the aftermath of Japan's nuclear crisis, many nuclear - energy boosters were quick to cite a study commissioned by the Boston - based nonprofit Clean Air Task Force.

Thanks to such evacuations and the heroic efforts of Japanese emergency workers, however, no one has died as a result of the nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi.

Uncertainty resulting from the disrupted infrastructure and the nuclear crisis is prompting foreign nationals to decamp for cities farther south or overseas.

A top U.S. nuclear regulator has now given a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis, saying that radiation from uncovered spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns there

A few days after the nuclear crisis began to unfold at the Fukushima power station in Japan, Singh, who also serves as minister in charge for atomic energy, ordered a safety review of all 20 nuclear power plants and a half dozen research reactors owned and operated by the government.

The U.S. has reactors of the same designs that melted down at Fukushima Daiichi, but regulators hope changes could prevent a repeat of Japan's nuclear crisis

Having led Japan through the 2011 nuclear crisis, the elder statesman is now campaigning for a world without nuclear power

«Setting [such radiation limits] for elementary schools is inexcusable,» Toshiso Kosako, a radiation health expert at the University of Tokyo, said on 30 April, when he resigned as an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the nuclear crisis.

Given limited public knowledge about the details of nuclear energy and encumbered access to disaster sites, the media have disproportionate power around the globe to shape public knowledge, perception, and reaction to nuclear crises, Pascale said.

And although that region was one of Japan's best - prepared for tsunamis, the high sea walls along much of the coast were built to stop waves far smaller than the 13 -15-metre-tall giants that battered the coastline, causing most of the damage and triggering a nuclear crisis.

Science has asked our readers to chime in with their most pressing questions on the earthquake in Japan and its aftermath, including the nuclear crisis.