Sentences with phrase «nuclear explosions at»

The day before launch, the U.S. had set off a nuclear explosion at an altitude of 400 kilometers just southwest of Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean.

Not exact matches

The report mentions that the explosion would have caused significant flooding in Kent, but that the nuclear option would be «100 per cent effective» at ensuring «totally irreversible total collapse, rupture [of] tunnel and seabed to cause total flooding and complete collapse of part of tunnel.»

Javier Paz, senior analyst at Aite Group, says: «The full impact of the SNB decision is months away from being known, but it is closer to a nuclear explosion than a 1,000 kilogram conventional bomb.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

Large transformer explosion at Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.

Because all elements in the universe heavier than hydrogen, helium, and lithium have been forged by nuclear fusion in the cores of stars and then scattered into space by supernova explosions, the find indicates that the galaxy, at the age we're now observing it, was old enough for at least one generation of stars to have formed, lived, and died.

In late April 1986, Sladek was hobbling around her home with a broken leg, the result of a skiing accident, when she heard a news report about an explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Even when they're underground, nuclear tests can be detected in the skies — and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful new tool in the arsenal of weapons to help detect clandestine underground nuclear explosions, a team of scientists reported here today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

The terrifying meltdowns and hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in the days following 11 March 2011 made the importance of backup electricity generators painfully clear.

Children living near the site of Tomsk - 7 are being evacuated as the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that plutonium was released by the explosion at the Siberian nuclear plant earlier this month.

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation, which watches out for nuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft expNuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation, which watches out for nuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft expnuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft explosion.

Just after 6 AM local time on Tuesday in Japan, a sound like an explosion was heard near the suppression pool of reactor No. 2 at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

North Korea has said it has carried out a «higher level» nuclear warhead test explosion which will allow it to finally build «at will» an array of stronger, smaller and lighter nuclear weapons.

Separately, physicists have conducted an unprecedented set of six explosions at the U.S. nuclear test site in Nevada.

Aliens would have to simultaneously deploy nuclear weapons a billion times more powerful than Earth's entire stockpile for us to see the gamma - ray burst from the explosion, and even then it is so brief that we're unlikely to be looking at the right time.

«This work is of great interest to the nuclear detection community,» LANL's Philip H. Stauffer says, noting the importance of the Carrigan team's addition of a more complete set of isotopes, which will help inform a model of explosion - generated fractures recently developed at Los Alamos.

April marks the 30th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear power disaster, the explosion and fire at a reactor at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union.

The arguments for the reliable replacement warhead include, obviously, reliability, which is in the title of it, although that has somewhat been put to rest by expert study of the plutonium pets that rest at the center of a nuclear weapon; these are the key items for making a nuclear explosion.

The U.S. continues to observe a moratorium on nuclear testing, so scientists, particularly at government facilities such as LLNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), develop ways to detect these events without creating an explosion themselves.

He arrived at Los Alamos in April 1943 and witnessed the first nuclear explosion, at Alamogordo, N.M., on July 16, 1945.

And the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2006 suggested the practice of overcrowding pools for the storage of spent nuclear fuel rods — that has caused fires and explosions at Fukushima Daiichi, which stores far less used fuel than typical U.S. plants — could prove dangerous.

In fact, atmospheric pressure rapidly increased eightfold before the explosion in reactor No. 1 on March 12 (nuclear power plants typically operate at roughly 4 atmospheres of pressure).

A fresh explosion has rocked the nuclear reprocessing plant at Chelyabinsk in Russia, releasing 7.4 million becquerels of radioactivity up a ventil - ation shaft.

The Swedish Defence Research Institute says it has detected traces of the explosion last month at a nuclear reprocessing plant near Tomsk in Siberia.

Hydrogen and steam explosions pose ongoing risks at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, where three such events have already occurred in the past five days

Visible amid the detritus of bomb blasts are simple examples of plutonium's power — telltale shards of the radioactive green glass that is created at ground zero during a nuclear explosion.

The first seismic waves generated by temblors and explosions — those from mining operations as well as underground nuclear tests — are sharp and distinct, says Göran Ekström, a seismologist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.

Oil leaked into the Hudson River on Sunday after a transformer fire and explosion a day earlier at the Indian Point nuclear plant north of New York City, putting the local environment at risk

Under a new agreement with MasterCard, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are trying to adapt computer algorithms that were developed to detect clandestine nuclear explosions to spot attempts at credit - card fraud, such as using someone else's credit card number without authorisation.

The revelations about Iran's apparent electronic prowess come as the US, Israel, and some European nations appear to be engaged in an ever - widening covert war with Iran, which has seen assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, explosions at Iran's missile and industrial facilities, and the Stuxnet computer virus that set back Iran's nuclear program.

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In the months and years after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, scientists were able to track the spread of radioactive material in the atmosphere and the ocean around the globe.

This animation shows the explosion of a white dwarf, an extremely dense remnant of a star that can no longer burn nuclear fuel at its core.

In this made - for - TV movie, a potentially dangerous explosion at a nuclear power plant is kept under control.

Director Robert Kenner and author Eric Schlosser look at a potentially catastrophic explosion in a nuclear missile site in Arkansas during the Cold War in their documentary «Command and Control.»

At night the pages are lowered into a vault with doors so thick, they can withstand a nuclear explosion.»

(Nuclear explosions would have been quieter than their shock at the news.

He participated in the Passage to Freedom in Vietnam and the experimental nuclear bomb explosions at Enewetak.

Axton can gain an ability that causes his turret to be deployed with a nuclear explosion, or he can learn to deploy two separate turrets at the same time.

After a fictional second explosion at Chernobyl, the land surrounding the nuclear plant has become a wasteland known as the Zone, where mutant creatures and humans roam and the laws of nature no longer apply.

But you'll find no pansy conventional explosives here — it's a nuclear explosion, so it takes out not only you (the owner of the device), but at least the whole block as well.

Once a player inserts a quarter and presses start, a typo - filled and grammatically hilarious introduction quickly fills us in on the game's events, about how an explosion at a nuclear power station turned a coal miner into «Invincible Warrier Chelnov».

In its 36 minutes duration, the film presents footage of one of the first nuclear tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in 1946; Conner shows the underwater explosion from fifteen different angles, in extreme slow motion — at some points one second of real time becomes three minutes of screen time.

On April 26th 1986 there was an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, reactor number four spewed out huge amounts of radiation contaminating soil, water and atmosphere with the radiation A new show The Unseen: The Red Forest opens at the end of the month at the Continue Reading»

The proposal has received broad support from key researchers and institutions within the field, and it is desired to date the beginning of the epoch at the first successful nuclear explosion (Trinity in 1945).

Rough calculations show if you drill about a dozen mine shafts as deep as possible into the thing, and plunk megaton nuclear bombs down there, and then fire them off simultaneously, you'll get a repeat of the Long Valley Caldera explosion of about 800,000 years ago — which coated everything east of it with miles of ash and injected a giant aerosol cloud into the stratosphere — the ash layer alone formed a triangle stretching from the caldera to Louisiana to North Dakota, including all of Arizona and most of Idaho and everything in between — I bet that would have a cooling factor of at least -30 W / m ^ 2 — and you could go and do the Yellowstone Plateau at the same time — geoengineering at its finest.

The levels of exposure to radiation following the leaks and explosions at the earthquake - damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in 2011 were so low that they led today to this important conclusion from experts convened in Vienna by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effect of Atomic Radiation:

The power came back on Saturday in the control room of Reactor No. 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where the tsunami caused explosions and fires after the earthquake in Japan.

After the great 2011 earthquake and tsunami triggered leaks and explosions at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex (problems continue), pressures intensified on the operators of America's nuclear plants to demonstrate they can be run safely.

So, tomorrow will be a fun day at the monitor, looking at as many nuclear explosions as I can find on videos.