Sentences with phrase «nuclear meltdown in»

The Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown in 1979 forced the utility companies General Public Utility and Metropolitan Edison to pay out millions of dollars in settlements to area residents

The government hopes the wind farm will create employment to help Fukushima and the surrounding region recover after its massive earthquake, tsunami and a nuclear meltdown in 2011.

A solar - powered car wash popped up in California, we peeked in on a near nuclear meltdown in Sweden, and, in Japan, they were generating electricity from train station ticket gates.

★ Diana Thater: «Chernobyl» (closes on Saturday) In this four - walled video projection, the viewer is immersed in layered, shifting images of the decaying buildings, rusting rubble and overgrown fields in and around Prypiat, a Ukrainian city built in the early 1970s for workers at the Chernobyl reactor and hastily abandoned after the reactor's nuclear meltdown in 1986.

Even the best - behaved child has had some kind of thermal nuclear meltdown in public.

Not exact matches

«If you remember the Fukushima nuclear reaction in Japan [in 2011], no one could get in there to turn the appropriate knobs to shut down the meltdown,» he says.

Under pressure to resign as leader of a country ravaged by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, Naoto Kan's last act in August 2011 was to transform Japan's energy policy.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) has requested that Pokémon Go developer Niantic and the Pokémon Company prevent Pokémon appearing in and around areas affected by the nuclear reactor meltdown in Fukushima to help prevent encouraging players to enter dangerous areas.

The most sense you can possibly make of the stupid sh!t is: Big invisible and undetectable sky wizard chanted magic spells for six days to make the entire universe «perfect,» yet fragile enough that one twist of one woman's wrist threw the entire thing into nuclear meltdown (sin / corruption)---- oh yeah, and throw a talking snake in there, somewhere.

On Friday, Dec. 2 U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler introduced legislation to help prevent a meltdown at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant and further safeguard New Yorkers in the event of a catastrophe.

The economic meltdown that the editorial predicts if other Upstate nuclear plants close will occur in Oswego County if FitzPatrick closes.

Well before a March 11 earthquake led to a partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, local antinuclear activists and elected officials were warning of the potential for disaster if a hurricane or other unusual weather...

It is now clear that at least one reactor at Fukushima experienced a full core meltdown, so what does that mean for similar nuclear power plants in the U.S.?

The Fukushima cleanup operation is likely to resemble the protracted cleanup at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania, where one reactor experienced a partial meltdown in 1979.

In the wake of the meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi, the IAEA urged a critical review of nuclear safety systems

In the U.S., because of a lack of a long - term plan for dealing with such nuclear waste, spent - fuel pools are even more densely packed, making it easier for a meltdown to occur in the event of a loss of wateIn the U.S., because of a lack of a long - term plan for dealing with such nuclear waste, spent - fuel pools are even more densely packed, making it easier for a meltdown to occur in the event of a loss of watein the event of a loss of water.

The explosions tore open reactor buildings, damaging the 12 - meter - deep pools where used nuclear fuel is kept cool, potentially setting off another meltdown in the fuel there as the surrounding water drained away or boiled off.

In making their deliberations about how to update the clock's time, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists focused on the current state of nuclear arsenals around the globe, disastrous events such as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and biosecurity issues such as the creation of an airborne H5N1 flu strain.

The researchers discovered uranium from nuclear fuel embedded in or associated with caesium - rich micro particles that were emitted from the plant's reactors during the meltdowns.

The meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant last spring cast the issue of nuclear safety in stark relief.

Technology showed its dark side in March 1979 as the Three Mile Island power plant suffered a severe core meltdown, the nation's most serious commercial nuclear accident.

The Fukushima evacuation zone raises the issue of what would happen during an evacuation in heavily populated U.S. metropolises during a nuclear meltdown

In fact, low natural gas prices stalled the U.S. nuclear renaissance outside Georgia and South Carolina, long before the reactor meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi in JapaIn fact, low natural gas prices stalled the U.S. nuclear renaissance outside Georgia and South Carolina, long before the reactor meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi in Japain Japan.

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.

With nuclear safety in the spotlight since the 2011 reactor meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant - which in turn prompted Germany to call time on its entire nuclear fleet - operators can take no chances with their elderly plants, but the outages get longer and more difficult.

Radioactive iodine is a common byproduct of nuclear fission and is a pollutant in nuclear disasters including the recent meltdown in Japan and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

The multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011 caused a humanitarian disaster: Upwards of 100,000 people had to be evacuated from within a 20 - kilometer ring around the site.

The shaking evoked memories of the events off the coast of Japan in 2011 that triggered meltdowns at a nuclear power plant that the country is still struggling with.

Meeting coal demand in Japan Indonesian coal is also expected to help fuel a surge in fossil power generation in Japan after that country shuttered its nuclear plants in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor meltdown in 2011.

That helps explain why such a large earthquake was unexpected in the region, resulting in catastrophic consequences that included more than 24,000 people dead or missing and fuel meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the coast.

Lake Barrett — director of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant during its decommissioning after a partial meltdown at the Middletown, Pa., facility in 1979 — says TEPCO will use robots to remotely dig out the melted fuel and store it in canisters on - site before shipping to its final disposal spot.

The question now is whether the U.S. will re-evaluate its nuclear power plans in the wake of this latest meltdown.

Nuclear power fell into a long funk after the partial core meltdown at the Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania in 1979.

Last march, as the world watched the nuclear meltdown unfold in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, a curious thing began happening in West Coast pharmacies.

After reading the differing views on nuclear power across the globe (25 June, p 12), I was saddened to see decisions in Germany, Italy and Switzerland to stop pursuing nuclear energy, obviously as a backlash following the dangerous meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania went into partial meltdown after someone spilled a cup of water.

The third - generation reactors have safety features that should prevent a meltdown similar to Fukushima's but political controversy, along with the high price tag means that new nuclear complexes in the U.S. and Europe could be in the single digits instead of dozens originally planned less than a decade ago.

The U.S. has endured a slew of «near misses» in recent years: a 0.48 - centimeter thick stainless steel lining is all that stood between Davis — Besse nuclear power plant in Ohio and a meltdown in 2002.

As night fell on Friday in Japan, workers and soldiers continued heroic efforts to douse the potential meltdown underway at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

They were driven to take part because they believe that humanoid robots should have been more useful in the response to the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.

This was the reaction of Len Green, a spokesman for Nuclear Electric, to accusations that the company's nearly completed Sizewell B pressurised water reactor in Suffolk has a flaw that increases the likelihood of a meltdown.

Nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi station in Japan are critically endangered but have not reached full meltdown status.

Due to lingering radiation from the 1986 meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, humans aren't allowed to live there — but the region has become an accidental ecological testing ground for scientists interested in studying the effects of radiation on wild animals.

A study projects 130 future cancer deaths from the meltdowns at the reactors in Fukushima last year, but does that suggest nuclear power is safer than fossil fuel alternatives?

Even the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns in Japan, which led many countries to question nuclear power and led Germany to disavow it altogether, haven't rekindled opposition in the United States.

But critics question the safety of nuclear power, citing such concerns as the potential for catastrophic meltdowns, their potential vulnerability to terrorists, the lack of workable evacuation plans in the event of accidents as well as the problem of dealing with radioactive waste.

Put it this way: If you're designing a nuclear reactor containment vessel, do you design it for the 5 % chance that the pressure in a meltdown is 100 atmospheres or the 5 % chance that the pressure in a meltdown is 10 atmospheres?

Fortunately, there has not been a catastrophic nuclear accident in the United States, and no partial core meltdown accident since Three Mile Island in March 1979.

Penn State College of Medicine researchers have shown, for the first time, a possible correlation between the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station and thyroid cancers in the counties surrounding the plant.

After Dr. Wilson spoke to over 3,000 doctors on adrenal fatigue in Japan after the tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown in 2011, the Japanese government declared adrenal fatigue an illness in its own right.