Sentences with phrase «on nuclear fallout»

Over his career, Commoner worked on nuclear fallout, pesticides, water contamination, air pollution, toxic metals, the petrochemical industry, population, energy and nuclear power, urban waste disposal, dioxin, recycling, and all manner of other environmental issues.

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Signs on building throughout New York City are all that's left of a widespread government effort to shelter millions of people from the fallout of a nuclear attack.

U.S. equity futures declined on Labor Day, as investors reacted to the fallout from North Korea's latest nuclear provocation.

A quick recap of Trump's first year in office: an airstrike on a Syrian airbase, FBI Director James Comey's firing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's appointment to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the GOP healthcare fiasco, U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, North Korea's ongoing threats of nuclear annihilation, «Crazy Mika «tweets, the Mooch, Charlottesville, #MeToo, Democratic gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey, Roy Moore's Alabama Senate run, Paul Manafort's indictment, Mike Flynn's plea deal, an ongoing battle over the Consumer Financial Bureau, the annihilation of ISIS, a resurgence of al - Qaeda terrorist networks, the repeal of net neutrality, the move of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Republican tax reform, Steve Bannon's fall from grace, «shithole» countries and continuing Fire and Fury fallout.

To introduce a unit on photosynthesis, for instance, he launches into a story from his childhood about building a fallout shelter with a friend after seeing a TV movie about a nuclear attack.

And in a chapter on the radioactive elements carried in nuclear fallout, there's Pig 311, a sow that survived a nuclear test blast only to be used as propaganda for the weapons» supposed safety.

Public concerns about nuclear power have traditionally centered on two issues: the risk of widespread radioactive fallout from an accident and the hazards of nuclear waste.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

Until a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on April 26, 1986, spreading the equivalent of 400 Hiroshima bombs of fallout across the entire Northern Hemisphere, scientists knew next to nothing about the effects of radiation on vegetation and wild animals.

This and other nuclear fallout myths and facts will be explored during the Herbert M. Parker Foundation Fall 2009 Lecture at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 22 in the Battelle Auditorium, 902 Battelle Blvd. Admission is free and open to the public.

WHAT: After a nuclear war wipes out most of humanity, a young woman named Ann (Margot Robbie) endures on her own, miraculously isolated from the fallout.

It's been four months since we last caught up with the Malibu Crew on The Last Man On Earth, but not to worry, they're exactly where we left them: On a yacht and headed for Mexico to escape nuclear fallout and the unstable, heavily armed Pat (Mark Boone Junioron The Last Man On Earth, but not to worry, they're exactly where we left them: On a yacht and headed for Mexico to escape nuclear fallout and the unstable, heavily armed Pat (Mark Boone JuniorOn Earth, but not to worry, they're exactly where we left them: On a yacht and headed for Mexico to escape nuclear fallout and the unstable, heavily armed Pat (Mark Boone JuniorOn a yacht and headed for Mexico to escape nuclear fallout and the unstable, heavily armed Pat (Mark Boone Junior).

Ken Watanabe (Inception) and Sally Hawkins play researchers who believe Godzilla can help prevent nuclear fallout, but like the rest of the cast, there's not a big incentive to care about them despite screenwriter Max Borenstein devoting the majority of the film on the humans.

As the world could pass through nuclear fallout and fans still wouldn't be able to agree on the best anime of all, the e-book instead gathers various thoughts and opinions on contributors» personal favorite.

In this extremely sponsored episode, we talk about the benefits of sleeping on Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, nuclear fallout, the...

The fallout from nuclear waste is one; humans» contribution to global warming through greenhouse - gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, and its impact on rising sea levels, is another.

Does this mean humans can, for example, drill and blast nuclear charges underneath active volcanoes, or shoot nuclear missiles at passing asteroids causing fallout on Earth?

Amongst the fallout from nuclear explosions was carbon 14, an unstable isotope of carbon that has six protons and eight neutrons in the nuclei of its atoms (the most abundant by far, forming 98.9 % of all carbon on Earth, is carbon 12 with six protons and six neutrons).

That missing radioactivity, originating as fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests during the 1950s and 1960s, routinely provides researchers with a benchmark against which they can gauge how much new ice has accumulated on a glacier or ice field.

Exclusions on open perils would be things like nuclear hazards — not a terribly likely risk in The Bronx, and chances are strong that if there's a nuclear hazard impacting your property, you probably have bigger things to worry about, like finding a fallout shelter.

No, not on the power irradiating from the nuclear infused desert sand from the fallout, but by its education system.