Sentences with phrase «unusual event level»

This investigation is examining multiple unplanned shutdowns, a transformer fire that triggered the declaration of an unusual event level emergency, and most recently, a radioactive tritium leak that has caused groundwater radioactivity levels to rise more than 65,000 percent.

Not exact matches

Amy Mandelker has drawn attention to the term «reverse perspective» as used by Russian Orthodox theologians to describe the unusual dimensions of icon paintings, with the gaze of the viewer drawn to the level of earthly events and yet given a peculiar perspective, as from a heavenly seat, so that people and objects do not have their expected everyday appearance.

Because carbon in the air is absorbed by trees, carbon - 14 levels in tree rings actually reflect solar activity and unusual solar events in the past.

It appears there was some slight warming during the event at the surface (the red / brown blob at the 1,000 hpa surface level in the timeseries map above which is unusual for January but common during the SSW events.

«The climate has always changed and it always will — there is nothing unusual about the modern magnitudes or rates of change of temperature, of ice volume, of sea level or of extreme weather events,» Mr Carter added.

Modern temperatures, sea levels, and extreme weather events are neither unusual nor unprecedented.