Sentences with phrase «nuclear crisis on»

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If we are to ever find a solution to the current crisis, there is one fact that must be soberly and humbly recognized: There is no preventive military solution to the North Korean nuclear program that would not impose unacceptable, catastrophic cost on the U.S. and our allies South Korea and Japan.

In a recent Compas Inc. poll, Canadian CEOs said the crisis in Japan is bad news for new nuclear energy installations in the short term, until safety reviews are completed, and ranked the statement a 5.6 on a 7 - point scale, where 1 means strongly disagree and 7 means strongly agree.

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.

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

We have also become aware that the anthropocentrism that characterizes much of the Judeo - Christian tradition has often fed a sensibility insensitive to our proper place in the universe.2 The ecological crisis, epitomized in the possibility of a nuclear holocaust, has brought home to many the need for a new mode of consciousness on the part of human beings, for what Rosemary Ruether calls a «conversion» to the earth, a cosmocentric sensibility (Ruether, 89).3

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

On the other hand, there are horrendous dangers of worldwide misery implicit in the threat of nuclear war, extinction by ecological disruption, the explosion of population, and the political problems of governing the world's peoples during a period of such momentous crises.

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».

Our priorities for defence spending should be properly protecting the front line men and women of our armed forces, and empowering Britain's capacity to respond to complex 21st Century crises around the world, not speculatively gambling on unnecessary nuclear contingencies.

11.13 - «In 2010 the needle on the dial was at crisis point» but now we've «turned the corner» says Cameron mixing his driving / nuclear metaphors up.

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.

The Japanese government's most controversial misstep in response to the Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis may have been the release of guidelines on allowable radiological contamination in schoolyards.

Japan's nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing reactor fuel, authors of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on the nuclear fuel cycle said yesterday.

CNN plays continuously on the TV so employees can be alerted to a crisis — a flood, a North Korean nuclear test, a border skirmish — and quickly send orders to the satellite to capture pictures of a specific site.

Aside from waffling a bit on questions about the wisdom of nuclear - weapons testing and whether climate change represents a global crisis, Perry generally said the right things, says Michael Lubell, a physicist at the City College of New York.

They introduced the subjects to statements from a mock political candidate on the topics of illegal immigration, economic crisis and the nuclear pursuits of Iran.

«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.

Across the East China Sea, west of Japan and its ongoing crisis, sits the growing Qinshan nuclear power plant, where four new pressurized - water reactors are under construction in addition to the five already operating on - site.

Three months on, and the impact of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is still unfolding.

Following a massive underestimate straight after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the crisis, in April NISA said that between 370,000 and 630,000 terabecquerels were released between 11 and 15 March, putting the crisis at level 7, the most severe category on the international scale used to rate nuclear accidents.

He detailed how the crisis propelled the United States and the Soviet Union into a limited ban on nuclear testing and then to a series of arms control agreements in ensuing years.

The country doubled down on its nuclear bet after the oil crisis in 1973, convinced of the acute need for energy security built on a domestic source.

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.

TOKYO — As Japan's nuclear power plant crisis entered its seventh day, Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said it would be «unrealistic to think this accident will not impact decisions by governments» on the use of nuclear power.

The world is on the cusp of some kind of global crisis, but though there are mentions of escalating tensions and constant intercutting of footage of nuclear bombs being detonated and asteroids crashing into Earth, none of that actually matters to the story.

On top of that, Japan faces an ongoing power shortage caused by its nuclear crisis and an already huge government debt burden.

With all eyes on the current escalating international crisis and flexing of nuclear arms, this film is compelling in its relevance to our present reality, and uses it as a platform to raise some appropriate questions about the boundaries of art and the role of cinema.

As a young person increasingly fearful about the threat of nuclear annihilation, especially as the Cuban missile crisis unfolds, Fanning displays a dazzling naturalness on camera, an ability to move persuasively between any number of emotions, from hesitant to sassy to distraught to anything else you can name.

Includes: - 9/11 terror attacks - Attack on Pearl Harbor - Beer hall putsch - «Brexit» - Chernobyl nuclear disaster - Crimean war - Cuban missile crisis - Falklands war - Holocaust - Kristallnacht - Night of the long knives - Russian revolution - Rwandan genocide - Sinking of the Titanic - Vietnam wat - War of the roses - Wounded knee massacre

You sometimes find yourself on the same day writing about North Korea, nuclear weapons on the one hand, and the opioid crisis on the other, and some sort of big personnel shuffle at the same time.

«In the Wake» reveals photographic responses to the earthquake and tsunami that struck northeast Japan on March 11, 2011 and triggered a nuclear crisis.

In recent days agency officials have noted that other factors besides economic recovery are likely to amplify the challenge of reining in emissions, among them a retreat on nuclear power in the wake of the ongoing crisis at Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex.

A review of European press coverage of Japan's crisis by the magazine summarizes a Czech piece describing Europe as «the world champion of hysteria around nuclear power» and criticizing leaders there for «surfing on a wave of emotions» disconnected from sober analysis of relative risks.

Last year, after the CNN host Nancy Grace debated the meteorologist Bernie Rayno on air, insisting he was wrong in saying there was no chance that Japan's nuclear crisis posed any radiation danger in the United States (he was right), Rayno «visited» us to describe the experience and the methods he uses to maintain composure and cogency in such situations.

Once the public catches on to how much this self - induced energy crisis is costing us, we will enter a new golden age of fossil and nuclear energy development, which will eventually carry us to the age of renewables.

I leave this space open to your civil, constructive input on the future of nuclear power given the issues that made these Japanese plants glaringly vulnerable to the crisis that has unfolded in the aftermath of the great earthquake and resulting tsunami.

With nuclear power, that gradient was on stark display after the Fukushima nuclear crisis, with two passionate environmentalists, Bill McKibben and George Monbiot, drawing entirely different lessons from the post-earthquake events.

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.

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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.

The country doubled down on its nuclear bet after the oil crisis in 1973, convinced of the acute need for energy security built on a domestic source.

Breakthrough Institute President Michael Shellenberger debated the future of nuclear power today on KQED Radio's Forum, joining host Dave Iverson and the Sierra Club's David Hamilton to discuss the impacts and implications of the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan.

Lessons from the Ottawa Treaty showed that the international community should not wait until there is a humanitarian crisis with huge stockpiles and thousands of casualties and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons puts that lesson in to practice.

Given the unlimited downside of nuclear war and what we now know about the near - disasters of Cold War brinkmanship, it certainly suggests focus on the goal of avoiding escalating crises involving nuclear weapons, and this goal has vast consequences for America's whole approach to China.

Nuclear weapons increase destructive power a million-fold and give a leader just minutes to decide whether a (possibly false) warning justifies firing weapons that would destroy civilisation, while relying on the same sort of hierarchical decision - making processes that failed in the much slower 1914 crisis.