In 1986, the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear complex in the Ukraine exploded and caught fire, spreading a radioactive cloud across Europe in the world's worst nuclear disaster.
Rather than installing automatic response systems, the plant would rely on employees to perform a series of complex manual actions, which the NRC has not authorized as a means of adequately protecting nuclear facilities in the event of a fire.
Sea water is being pumped into the reactors by special high pressure fire extinguisher hoses to prevent a nuclear meltdown.
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When excitement was hard to come by aboard a nuclear submarine in the early stretches of "Crimson Tide, " he turned a fat fire on a stove in the sub's galley into something just short of a nuclear explosion.
Electricity dropped out at a nuclear power plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts, said fire spokesman Ed Bradley, but backup generators sprang into action.
This week, India announced it will soon fire a new missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads across much of Asia and the Middle East.
The nuclear strategy will not take U.S. nuclear weapons off submarines, bombers and missiles that could fire them at a moment's notice.
The artists range from Leonardo Da Vinci to LS Lowry and the locations of artworks include fire stations, courts, libraries, a former nuclear bunker, London Zoo and a lighthouse - as well as major museums and art galleries.
In estimating the impact on the market of the removal of a major U.S. city in a nuclear attack, he analyzes the effects of the San Francisco earthquake and fire early in the last century and the destruction of New Orleans after Katrina.
Bush administration officials -- Powell among them -- argued that Iraq had harbored stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, a hidden nuclear weapons program and long-range missiles in violation of the cease-fire that ended the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
Nuclear fission in the context of the span of history is, like the ancient discovery of fire, game-changing.
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The new department would concentrate on safeguarding borders, working with first-responders such as local police and fire departments, analyzing threats and promoting technological changes to counter chemical, biological and nuclear threats.
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