Sentences with phrase «worst nuclear accidents»

The southern Urals are home to the secretive Mayak facility, the scene of one of the world's worst nuclear accidents 60 years ago, and speculation soon turned to a possible accident at its reprocessing plant, which extracts isotopes from spent nuclear fuel.

She also toured Three Mile Island, walking viewers through how cheap natural gas is shutting that plant down when one of the worst nuclear accidents in history could not.

Chernobyl is still considered the worst nuclear accident in history — but it could have been much, much worse, if not for a so - called «suicide squad» of three brave volunteers.

Engineers are planning to entomb the site of the worst nuclear accident in history, using robotics to dismantle the ruins and permanently seal the wreckage

These conclusions regarding the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986 could be less comforting than they sound: In fact, Japan dodged a bullet thanks to the weather.

This raised the original rating from level 5 and puts the Fukushima Daiichi disaster technically in the same category as Chernobyl, although the quantity of discharged radioactive materials in Japan so far is about 10 percent of what was released by the Chernobyl reactor explosion, considered history's worst nuclear accident.

KIEV, Ukraine — In 1986 the worst nuclear accident in history took place when reactor No. 4 in the power plant at nearby Chernobyl exploded, spewing large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.

Seven years after the world's worst nuclear accident, vegetation in parts of Snowdonia and Cumbria still contains high levels of radioactivity.

After all, 30 kilometers was the extent of the spread of dangerous radioactive material even at Chernobyl, a far worse nuclear accident that included an intense fire that wafted radioactive particles more than 9,000 meters into the air.

Robots cleaned up what humans could not because of radioactive contamination after the worst nuclear accident in the nation's history 30 years ago

Nearly 28 years after the worst nuclear accident in history, several bird species are doing the seemingly impossible: flourishing inside the radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.

The first independent studies of Japan's worst nuclear accident, which has already caused the death of two workers from multiple organ failure, also suggest that radiation doses outside the 350 - metre evacuation zone breached the safety limit.

The 1986 fire and explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was the worst nuclear accident in history.

Amanda Wright was 10 years old when Unit 4 of the Lenin Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl blew apart, creating the worst nuclear accident in history.

Maria Gillardin hosts reports from nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen from Fukushima Japan, site of world's worst nuclear accident.

A view of the Three Mile Island power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history.

Maria Gillardin hosts reports from nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen from Fukushima Japan, site of world's worst nuclear accident.

Not exact matches

Prices for the metal have been depressed in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, but the situation got so bad this year that Cameco, the world's largest publicly traded uranium miner, had to suspend production at multiple mines.

But nuclear accidents aren't bad for all species.

The next accident involving a manned spacecraft could be far worse: NASA is pushing forward a $ 1 billion program that includes development of a nuclear - powered rocket.

It will be exactly 30 years tomorrow since the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred on a three - mile (five kilometer) slip of land in the Susquehanna River in the shadow of Harrisburg, Pa..

«Dale Klein told me that those three nuclear applications will be approved,» she told the State of the Planet conference at Columbia University today, the 29th anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Island in Middletown, Pa. (Subsequently, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the then Ukrainian Soviet Republic melted down in April 1986 in what would become the worst nuclear power accident in history, spreading radiation as far away as North America and leading to the evacuation and resettlement of more than 336,000 people).

As the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, Chernobyl drove the city of Pripyat, Ukraine (the U.S.S.R. at the time), into an overnight dystopian empire that's become a haunting landscape of ruins that time gnaws on.

«8.5 The nuclear power industry: a tactician behind the CO2 based global warming In my view, the CO2 based global warming theory was contrived to revive a nuclear power generation industry that suffered from high cost infrastructure and from a bad public image after the disastrous Chernobyl accident in 1986.

I'd far rather live with the aftereffects of a «worse than worse case» nuclear accident like this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4923342.stm than what a few of those concentrating solar plants would do to the Mojave.

The economics of nuclear power would look even worse if there were another nuclear accident.

Three Mile Island - 20 Years Later Three Mile Island was the site of America's worst commercial nuclear accident.

The accident at Fukushima is «potentially worse» than the accident at Chernobyl, claims Vidal, while complaining that his erstwhile green comrades have compared those who question nuclear safety to «climate change deniers».

In 1986, an unshielded reactor burned for over a week at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the world's worst - ever nuclear accident.

As to the effects of nuclear accidents in general, consider that Chernobyl was a «worse than worst case» accident, yet the Earth kept on ticking just fine: no temperature increase, no Arctic ice melt, no ocean acidification... Indeed, it seems that for most creatures life in the so - called «dead zone» is a distinct improvement on previous condidtions.