Sentences with phrase «of nuclear catastrophe»

Atom Boy was among the many attempts in Japanese pop culture to exorcise the fear of nuclear catastrophe that is unfolding today in real - life, reality catching up with fiction.

The artist was a key figure of Tokyo's Anti-Art Movement in the late 1950s, where his performative paintings and installations marked the beginning of his preoccupation with the impact of nuclear catastrophe and the excess of consumer society associated with the post-war economic boom.

«I can close my eyes and probably be okay — short of a nuclear catastrophe.»

Craig Zobel's Z for Zachariah concerns a lone young woman, Ann (Margot Robbie), still living on her parents» farm up in the mountains of West Virginia after some kind of nuclear catastrophe has apparently wiped out everyone else.

Sixty years later, officials are still reckoning with the consequences of a nuclear catastrophe in regular NPS1 exercises.

So far neither the threat of nuclear catastrophe, the starvation of millions nor the destruction of vast habitats has done it.

Indeed, our cold war with the Russians, with whom we wrestle on the edge of the abyss of a nuclear catastrophe, must be solved spiritually, but by what specific political methods?

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

Not exact matches

Leatherbarrow recently published a book, called «1:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster,» that recounts the catastrophe's history on its 30th anniversary.

The cap: For decades, Canada's Nuclear Liability Act provided that, in the event of a catastrophe at a nuclear facility, its operators faced a maximum liability of just $ 75 mNuclear Liability Act provided that, in the event of a catastrophe at a nuclear facility, its operators faced a maximum liability of just $ 75 mnuclear facility, its operators faced a maximum liability of just $ 75 million.

But what is most striking about this image is again its similarity to Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, where a religious order like the Benedictines is what keeps at least a fragmentary knowledge of science alive after a nuclear catastrophe.

While there has been controversy about testing, there is no dispute as to the magnitude of the catastrophe of actual nuclear warfare.

The possibility of major human catastrophe, whether by nuclear holocaust or by irreversible ecological disaster, is all too real.

The political and economic system created by the United States and its allies after World War II — a system built around common defense measures and free trade — rescued Europe from the self - inflicted catastrophe of 1914 - 1945, prevented nuclear war, preserved the peace until the collapse of the Soviet empire, and allowed once - captive nations to reclaim their liberties.

We have grown used to the threats of nuclear war, the population explosion, and ecological catastrophe.

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.

Elected officials, residents and environmental activists have criticized the proposal, saying that a rupture of the pipeline could unleash a nuclear catastrophe.

When it comes to radiation, the nuclear weapons testing conducted from the 1940s to the 1980s contributed orders of magnitude more radioactivity to the oceans than Fukushima (even when combined with Chernobyl, a much larger nuclear catastrophe).

So, coming within hours of the Exxon Valdez oil disaster, and with the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl still fresh in people's minds, the sudden possibility of «cold fusion» captured everyone's attention.

The first, by Tepco itself last November, placed blame for the nuclear catastrophe on a once - every -1000-year «unforeseeable» combination of earthquake and tsunami.

Humanity's failure to reduce global nuclear arsenals as well as climate change prompted the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to advance their warning about our proximity to a potentially civilization - ending catastrophe

To avoid any kind of catastrophe, the reptiles went into hibernation for millions of years before being awakened by secret nuclear experiments in a Welsh mine.

Whether it's the result of a meteor, a fireball, tidal wave or nuclear catastrophe, the Earth has been annihilated on screen hundreds of times over.

The clone of Big Boss who thwarted multiple potential nuclear catastrophes, the chiseled, bandana - wearing agent is a hardened hero.

Director Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser will be in attendance at the screening of this new documentary film based on Schlosser's book of the same name, about the 1980 accident in an Arkansas missile silo that nearly caused a nuclear catastrophe.

In the new sequel «London Has Fallen,» terrorists destroy much of London, and Banning has to rescue the Prez while preventing nuclear catastrophe.

In Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 3, players will embody Captain Scott Mitchell as he commands the Ghosts and Special Forces allies equipped with the IWS in the quest to save the president of the United States, recover stolen nuclear codes and eliminate a vicious band of renegade soldiers hell - bent on unleashing catastrophe.

«Medusa» is part of a large body of sculptures featuring other famous catastrophes, including the nuclear meltdown of Three Mile Island.

Framed around the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, the 2010 video installation spotlights the consequences of manmade catastrophes on the natural world.

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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.

His most celebrated work La Jetée (The Pier, 1962) imagines a Paris devastated by nuclear catastrophe and is composed almost entirely of black - and - white still photographs, which informed the narrative of Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995) and influenced James Cameron's Terminator (1984).

We have advocates assuring us that rapid introduction of renewables, or rapid introduction of nuclear, or rapid introduction of carbon capture, are all we need to avoid catastrophe; no need for sharp demand reductions independent of non-fossil technology introduction.

> We have advocates assuring us that rapid introduction > of renewables,... nuclear, or... carbon capture, are > all we need to avoid catastrophe; no need for sharp > demand reductions

Surely the theoretical risk of accidents (catastrophes if you like) associated with civil nuclear reactors are on an insignificant scale relative to the risks faced by humanity by running out of energy.

In a ranking of near - term «fatal discontinuities» in his 2008 book, «Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years,» Vaclav Smil puts asteroid collisions far below the persistent risk of large - scale war (particularly because so many nuclear weapons are still arrayed around the world), great earthquakes and tsunamis and pandemics, but above global warming (because of its gradual slope).

Japan faced a potential catastrophe on Tuesday after an earthquake - hit nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating toward Tokyo, prompting some people to flee the capital.

In the whirlwind of events following the Japanese catastrophe in March 2011, Merkel's government reversed its stance on nuclear power and, citing safety concerns, immediately instituted a three - month moratorium on all nuclear plant operation for safety checks.

To avoid any kind of catastrophe, the reptiles went into hibernation for millions of years before secret nuclear experiments in a Welsh mine awakened them.

In 1982, nations have two choices: to carry on as they are and face, by the turn of the century, an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete and as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust, or to begin now in earnest a cooperative effort to use the world's resources rationally and fairly.»

''... or someone who pioneered runaway CO2 greenhouse effects (Venus) and human catastrophes (Nuclear winter), AGW would have become one of his long cherished beliefs.»

For someone who pioneered runaway CO2 greenhouse effects (Venus) and human catastrophes (Nuclear winter), AGW would have become one of his long cherished beliefs.

Three years ago the world was reminded of the dangers nuclear energy poses when catastrophe struck Japan at the Fukushima power plant.

If we really were «running out of time» then (unless the politicians actually wanted climate catastrophe to happen) every country would be building nuclear power stations as fast as possible, and machine - gunning any protesters who tried to stop them, wouldn't they?

I interviewed Kiyoshi Kurokawa from the Japanese government and Yoichi Hunabashi, former chief editor of Asahi Shimbun newspaper, authors of the two prominent reports on the nuclear catastrophe.

Dirty bombs make big messes, and may require massive relocations, as at Chernobyl, but they pale by comparison to the primary threat that Allison has written about in Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe — the possibility that terrorists might get hold of and detonate a nuclear bomb in a majoNuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe — the possibility that terrorists might get hold of and detonate a nuclear bomb in a majonuclear bomb in a major city.

You can only believe there is a looming catastrophe if a) you believe that man is responsible for 100 % of the CO2 increase (that is in serious doubt), b) an increase of up to 2.0 °C is not beneficial (there is much evidence that it is beneficial), c) over the next 100 years there will not be any major advances in energy production (now we can switch to nuclear within 10 - 20 years), and d) man can realistically do anything to effect global temperatures (the US EPA estimates proposed CO2 restrictions costing tens of trillions of US dollars would reduce global temperature by 0.006 °C).

Their presentations focused on the ongoing impact of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe and the implications for the nuclear disaster in Japan.

The unfolding catastrophe occurring at the Fukushima plants also raises serious questions about our reliance on nuclear energy and its status as a clean and safe source of power.

Whatever your views are about nuclear energy, and mine were very negative for most of my life, we are in desperate need of powerful and scalable clean - energy technologies if we are to avert a climate catastrophe.