Sentences with phrase «nuclear disasters like»

After a nuclear disaster like the one in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011, first responders need to quickly measure radiation exposure en masse and decide who requires urgent treatment.

Not exact matches

Kids like me, myself included, rode bikes in fallout rain and swam in rivers with nuclear run off, as our government kept silent about the disaster.

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

A world of looming economic insecurity, ecological disaster, and even nuclear war doesn't exactly seem like the type of place that would invite those responsible for steering the fate of humanity (i.e. all of us adults) to kick back and goof off awhile.

With high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy void.

In September 2016, Musk first revealed his plan to send people to Mars in case of an apocalyptic disaster, like a nuclear war, on Earth.

And he said the federal Nuclear Energy Commission has required U.S. nuclear plants to take steps to avoid a Fukushima - like diNuclear Energy Commission has required U.S. nuclear plants to take steps to avoid a Fukushima - like dinuclear plants to take steps to avoid a Fukushima - like disaster.

In this way, diseases such as MERS are more like nuclear disasters than car accidents.

While it is clear that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown was a consequence of an earthquake and tsunami, like all disasters, it was also the result of political, economic and social choices that created or exacerbated broad - scale risks.

Ten months later, though, the Fukushima disaster looks less like a global nuclear wake - up call and more like a watershed event that accelerated changes already under way.

The breakthrough could hold the key to cleaning radioactive waste in nuclear reactors and after nuclear accidents like the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

As a share of global energy supply, nuclear power has actually contracted since 1993, and not just because of high - profile setbacks like the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan.

Once a bright prospect for as a limitless energy resource, the dangers of nuclear radiation and weaponry have far outweighed the benefits of nuclear energy, with disasters like Chernobyl acting as a reminder of humanity's overzealous drive to harness immense power.

He's been too busy carting his large - format camera around the world to document the aftermath of events like the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Hurricane Katrina and the Lebanese Civil War.

Across town, in a fascinating group show at White Cube in Hoxton, featuring work inspired by Edgar Allen Poe, Kiefer has created two signature pieces: a giant vitrine in which a grey, ash - encrusted landscape is overlain with branches; and an installation in the bowels of Shoreditch town hall featuring his sculptures of what look like hospital beds rescued from a nuclear disaster.

Somewhere in the desolate, radioactive landscape that resulted from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, lies an art exhibition featuring work by renowned artists like Trevor Paglen, Taryn Simon, and Ai Weiwei.

«Is there anything like that that might happen as a result of the Japan tsunami and earthquake and nuclear disaster?

By analogy, the Chernobyl exclusion zone now hosts lush, park - like forests only decades after the nuclear disaster.

I think a black swan event is more like the failure of the Fukushima nuclear plant, where a number of unlikely events had to conflate (earthquake + tsumani + failure of the surge wall + backup generators in the basement) to cause — in this case — a disaster.

«In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, Japan shut down a good deal of its nuclear reactors — and it looks like coal may be replacing them.

Any catastrophic event like flood, war, earthquake and nuclear disasters.

Graphene oxide can help absorb radioactive waste from nuclear accidents like the one at Fukushima disaster.