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July 7, 2024
on warnings by tory mps to the prime minister of a looming double by—election defeat this week, ahead of the elections in constituencies tiverton and honiton, and wakefield. steel yourselves for a long war — the sunday times leads on the war in ukraine, with the prime minister urging allies to hold nerve and continue providing ukraine with aid. and the mail on sunday claims sir keir starmer has been accused of hypocrisy after leaked documents allegedly reveal he privately supported...
February 6, 2023
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June 18, 2022
Four— previously. at the heart of it is a four point plant that he says will meet _ four point plant that he says will meet the — four point plant that he says will meet the ways they met was to stand united _ meet the ways they met was to stand united not— meet the ways they met was to stand united not fractured. not allow vladimir— united not fractured. not allow vladimir putin to wait it out and secure — vladimir putin to wait it out and secure some kind of victory in ukraine _ secu...
June 3, 2013
Many chinese are really complaining about this issue, the danger of people working in these factories. we do understand that there is concerns because there is lax safety standards at many other plants across the country. we have had these kind of disasters before in china. back to you, bill. bill: explain why the death toll at this point plant was so high? >> reporter: well the major issue that seems to becoming out of this is that many of the doors seemed to have been locked shut during the sh...
March 12, 2011
Radioactivity is dramatically increasing in the plant. is the only option to open it up, let the radioactivity escape into the air in order to avoid a complete melt down of that plant or explosion within that plant? >> well, the point of venting the gas thats accumulating is to prevent a catastrophic rupture of the containment. if you vent the gas through filters, then theres a possibility of eliminating radioactive to the environment. if you accumulate to a high pressure, you can get a rupture,...
March 12, 2011
23 foot tsunami that wiped out anything in its path. homes, cars, boats, and people. and now, a new nightmare is developing at a nuclear power plant in northeastern japan. the amount of radiation at the plant has reached 1,000 times the normal level after the cooling system failed. 3,000 people living near the plant have been told to leave immediately. the kyodo news agency is now reporting that the government is ordering the plant to release pressure. in other words, radioactive vapor is going ...
March 12, 2011
Northeastern japan, dr. he did win lymon, senior staff scientist at the union of concerned scientists. dr. lymon, what do you make of the situation at the nuclear power plant at this point, and is a plant like this built to withstand these shocks? >> well, i dont think this plant was built to withstand this kind of a shock. the problem is that no nuclear regulator requires a nuclear plant to be resistant to the worst case earthquake and looks like what we have here is a pretty close to the worst...
March 12, 2011
Minutes. the airport at sendai was completely destroyed. workers and others scrambled to rooftops trying to stay above the move. a huge fire near an oil refinery near tokyo continues to burn. 80 other massive fires are burning on the coastline after the quake cut off gas lines, causing a series of explosions, leaving homes and businesses ablaze. power is out throughout ports of the country, and mass transit is down. in some places, trains derailed. tonight, evacuations are under way for miles ar...
March 12, 2011
>> and the containment if the worst case scenario occurred in the plant and there was what we called a melt down, what is the effect? is the effect like an explosion? like a nuclear bomb going off or simply what gets released into the air around that area? >> no, it wouldnt be as dramatic. the scenario is this. the fuel in a normal nuclear reactor is in solid form in the form of rods. if that fuel overheats and melts, it essentially becomes like a lava, which would then flow down into the floor ...