Sentences with phrase «nuclear disaster made»

Not exact matches

Perry has repeatedly said that storing fuel on site makes coal and nuclear plants less prone to shutdowns than other power generators in the event of disasters and attacks.

I don't know what foolish things people and nations will permit themselves to do in the near future, what compacts we will make with hell through the use of nuclear and biological weapons, what ecological disasters we will actively perpetrate or merely permit to happen or what unprecedented human tragedy we will willingly or witlessly sponsor.

Nuclear disasters are also far more likely to make national or international media than the plethora of car accidents that take place every day, looming large in people's minds despite their relative rarity.

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.

After 900 hours of hearings and 1100 interviews over a six - month period, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission — chaired by Kiyoshi Kurokawa, an academic fellow at Tokyo's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies — said that the accident was «a profoundly man - made disaster that could and should have been foreseen and prevented».

As fears rise in Japan about nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant, the first and best line of defense are the reactor's six inch thick steel - walled chambers, made by a company that still forges samurai swords by hand.

An explosion occurs on the Klingon moon known as Praxis (an allusion to the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl), which makes the Klingon race face possible extinction, as their way of life crumbles, rendering them a superpower no longer (akin to the breakup of the USSR).

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 collective Don't Follow the Wind, whose inaccessible, Fukushima - based 2015 group exhibition has been written about before in these pages, is now made accessible via A Walk in Fukushima, 2016 — 17, a 360 - degree video experience of what has been, since the 2011 nuclear - plant disaster, an uninhabitable area, with crafty headsets made in collaboration with artist Bontaro Dokuyama and three generations of a Japanese family who live in a zone deemed «safe to live» by the government but still subject to restrictions due to its proximity to a radioactive locale.

The devastating disaster of the March 11, 2011 tsunami and the nuclear accident afterwards were both a shock and inspiration for Japanese Neo-Pop artist Mr.. In response, he composed a massive installation made of hundreds of everyday objects from Japanese life.

Continuing her investigation of human - made catastrophes, Dora Longo Bahia presents two paintings from her series «Nuclear Accidents» (2017) at Vermelho, São Paulo; the works depict abandoned theme parks after the fallout of two of the most famous nuclear disasters, Fukushima and CheNuclear Accidents» (2017) at Vermelho, São Paulo; the works depict abandoned theme parks after the fallout of two of the most famous nuclear disasters, Fukushima and Chenuclear disasters, Fukushima and Chernobyl.

Every day of the fair, Japanese artists Ei Arakawa and his brother Tomoo (UNITED BROTHERS) are serving soup made from the vegetables grown in Fukushima, the area of Japan most devastated by the 2011 nuclear disaster, as part of Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent?

Next month will make the three - year anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, and sadly, the disaster is still unfolding.

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.

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.

That decision, made largely in response to the 2011 Fukushima disaster, doomed a fleet of zero - emissions baseload [nuclear] power suppliers.

These risks also make nuclear power vulnerable to public rejection (as seen in Japan and Germany following the Fukushima disaster of 2011).

6) More research funding into improved nuclear energy makes lots of sense (fast breeder, thorium, nuclear fusion, etc.) 7) Preparation for natural weather disasters and adaptation to whatever climate Nature (or anyone else) throws at us both make imminent sense, as our hostess has stressed.

With Europe facing its own problems in reaching emissions targets and Japan strapped by costs associated with making up for nuclear power capacity that was lost in the disaster at the Fukushima power plant in 2011, Ladislaw said, «It's really about the United States and China trying to show — and actually define — what leadership is on this issue.»

Will the McGuinty government make public today any emergency plans, briefing notes or studies in its possession that assess the impact of a potential nuclear disaster on human health, the environment and the economy?

concluded that it makes clear «that international nuclear agencies and some national authorities remain in denial about the scale of the health disasters in their countries due to Chernobyl's fallout.

The organization further warns that moving away from nuclear energy, following the Fukushima disaster, may make it more difficult and expensive to combat climate change.

The true message of Fukushima is this: whatever your disaster, nuclear power plants can make it worse.