Sentences with phrase «nuclear disaster last»

Japan is still dealing with the costs, and the uncertainties, following the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year.

The opportunity for the purchase was presented by a confluence of events — the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, the generous support for brown coal generators in the government's carbon pricing package, which will see Loy Yang A alone get more than $ 1.2 billion in cash payments and free permits, and the anticipated sharp cost increases for NSW black coal generators as their subsidized source of coal comes to an end.

In the aftermath of Japan's nuclear disaster last month, China officials made known their intent to double the country's solar energy target — from 5 gigawatts (GW) by 2015 to 10 GW by 2015.

Not exact matches

Last weekend was the seventh anniversary of the disaster at the Japanese nuclear power plant located in Fukushima.

A commission set up by Japan's parliament last week blamed Tokyo Electric Power Co. and government regulators for what it called the «manmade» disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Last March, after the Sendai earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the aftershocks of the disaster seemed to put the worldwide nuclear power industry on shaky ground.

A long - awaited report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sees nuclear power as an important component of the U.S. energy supply, a message not affected by last month's nuclear disaster in Japan.

The world's top specialists are competing to design a robot that can carry out emergency - response duties in disaster situations that are often too dangerous for humans, such as last year's nuclear accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

Jones noted that the nuclear power plant disaster in Japan last year had made some countries backpedal on their nuclear power plans, while others were pushing ahead.

For the last century, filmmakers have explored countless apocalyptic scenarios on screen, with everything from natural disasters (2012) to planetary collisions (Melancholia), and technological advancement (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) to nuclear warfare (The Sum of All Fears) seen as catalysts for the destruction of humanity.

She makes video installations that poetically grapple with threats to the natural world, from the extinction of species to long - lasting environmental disasters such as the nuclear fallout of Chernobyl.

The problem of nuclear waste remains unsolved, and public opposition, rekindled by last year's Fukushima disaster in Japan, will probably frustrate the nuclear industry for the foreseeable future.

Last fall, a South Korean filmmaker released the trailer for a feature - length disaster movie that opens with a nuclear power plant exploding and ends with the hero crying for his mother.

For the first time in decades, the nation's treasured trade surplus is gone, eroded by soaring imports of fossil fuels needed to replace the 30 percent of the nation's electricity once supplied by more than 50 nuclear reactors idled since last March's disaster.

The data reveal that last month, despite an overall drop in economy - wide energy use, Japan imported and consumed far larger quantities of fossil fuels than it did in January 2011, before its earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster updended its economy and energy system.