Sentences with phrase «nuclear emergency at»

Here are a couple of excerpts, contrasting how certain Japanese traits have facilitated the response to the chaos created along coastlines by the tsunami, but probably exacerbated the conditions leading to the ongoing nuclear emergency at Fukushima (I've adjusted a couple of spellings to conform with Times style):

Not exact matches

«The good news is the «get inside, stay inside, stay tuned» phrase works for both for the threat of a potential nuclear detonation as well as a nuclear detonation that has occurred,» Brooke Buddemeier, a health physicist and expert on radiation and emergency preparedness at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, told Business Insider.

Cuomo's fashion choice for disasters and emergencies has become a familiar sight for many New Yorkers, whether he's standing on New York City streets flooded after Hurricane Sandy, trudging along a snow - crippled Buffalo highway or issuing statements in front of a burning transformer at the Indian Point nuclear facility.

Officials at the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant near Oswego are investigating why fuel rods in the reactor's core are leaking radiation and while not considered an emergency, it could potentially spread contaminated water to other parts of the plant.

The historically high water levels in Lake Ontario this year have threatened homeowners, municipalities and nuclear power plants - almost triggering emergency action at the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Facility in Oswego nuclear power plants - almost triggering emergency action at the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Facility in Oswego Nuclear Facility in Oswego County.

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

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.

CATASTROPHIC meltdowns of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had less to do with the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March last year, and more to do with the plant owners» and government's failure to anticipate and prepare for emergencies on such an epic scale.

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.

You say that a tsunami damaged emergency generators that would have provided power to keep the nuclear reactors at Fukushima...

In an emergency, unlike today's reactors, it shuts down without human intervention and without requiring electric power... Hundreds of nuclear scientists believe this technology has the ability to generate carbon - free power at a cost per kW less than coal.»

Back at home, where Keller's wife, Grace (Maria Bello), and 6 - year - old daughter, Anna (Erin Gerasimovich), safely await his return, the basement is stocked with enough emergency provisions for a nuclear holocaust.

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Our Nuclear Medicine Department at Valley Central Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center is designed exclusively for the treatment of cats with hyperthyroidism.

While working at a very large specialty hospital, I was privileged to gain more experience in internal medicine, radiation oncology, nuclear medicine, surgery, emergency and critical care, and dermatology.

We've only experienced two types so far - freeing a City State from the clutches of another civ, and a nuclear emergency right at the end of our Mongol game.

Michael Schlesinger, a climate scientist and engineer at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, sent this comment after reading my Dot Earth post rounding up reader views on next steps for nuclear power in the wake of Japan's extraordinary nuclear emergency.

The Wall Street Journal and New York Times have pieces painting a convincing picture that officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company, reluctant to wreck a huge investment, hesitated to flood overheating parts of the damaged nuclear plant complex with corrosive seawater even though that step was clearly laid out in emergency plans.

There have been a host of efforts to describe Japan's earthquake and nuclear emergency, ranging from volumes of helpful graphics generated by The Times and other media to freelance efforts, including the «sonification» of a month of earthquake activity surrounding the great quake off Japan by Paul May and a chart by Randall Munroe comparing human radiation exposure from an array of sources — ranging from a banana to a mammogram to a leaking nuclear plant and «A Layman's Intro to Radiation» by Ellen McManis, who operates a research reactor at Reed College.

In the fall of 2007, workers at the Byron nuclear power plant in Illinois were using a wire brush to clean a badly corroded steel pipe — one in a series that circulate cooling water to essential emergency equipment — when something unexpected happened: the brush poked through.

Robert Pollard, a nuclear engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, which focuses on energy and environmental issues, said that valves, cables and wiring at the plant and others like it have never been tested under conditions simulating emergencies.

FirstEnergy's request for an emergency order isn't the only play to bolster coal and nuclear plants at customers» expense.