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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Nuclear disaster"”.
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STAMP applied to Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and the safety of nuclear power plants in Japan
… Japan Earthquake triggered an extremely severe nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. This thesis analyzes why the stakeholders could not prevent the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, and, with regard to the future nuclear safety in Japan, what the potentially hazardous …
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Alarm for Autonomous UAV Radiation Mapping Algorithm
… for radiation mapping purposes in the event of a nuclear disaster or use of nuclear weapons. Information from this alarm could feed into real time decision making on the UAV system, so the alarm is based on data from 1 second collection windows. All data collection was done with a Cs₂LiLa(Br,Cl)₆ …
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From Pop Culture to Nuclear Debate: The Impact of The Day After in Lawrence and Kansas City
… the creation and response in America to the 1983 nuclear disaster film The Day After. Fueled by renewed nuclear buildup of the 1980s Cold War, the release of the movie became a worldwide sensation, but historians have often contested the overall impact of its release on the grounds of its limited …
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Sociotechnical imaginary and rationality : political factuality and public authority in Taiwanese energy politics
After the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, an outcry erupted in Taiwanese society demanding a sustainable energy transition. However, the dominant sociotechnical imagination in postwar Taiwan – developmental high modernism – manifests itself in tacit answers to the questions of what a better …
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Dynamic response of spar-type offshore floating wind turbines
… and academia. Partially driven by the recent nuclear disaster in Japan, but also by the lack or complete absence of shallow waters in various countries around the globe (making fixed offshore wind turbines infeasible), multiple different topology floating offshore wind turbines have been …
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When War Becomes Peace: Ruination and Transvaluation in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Memorial Parks
… dominant public discourses of peace-making and nuclear remembrance were actualized through the reconstruction of the post-atomic cities. The processes behind the making of the two parks and their approaches to remembering atomic violence trouble the perception that the memorials are shaped …
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Variation-aware algorithms for cancer genome analysis
… sources. In the years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, thousands of individuals in areas where radionuclides were deposited developed thyroid cancer. The excess relative risk of thyroid cancer has been estimated to be between fifteen and thirty fold higher following $^{131}I$ exposure. …
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High temperature steam oxidation of titanium-coated Zircaloy-2 and Titanium-Zirconium Alloys
In March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster changed the course of nuclear power production worldwide. Though most people have focused on the negatives of the events, there have been major advantageous outcomes. An industry, which general consensus would say is extremely safe, has become …
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Price Dynamics in LNG Spot Markets: An Econometric Analysis
… Finally, we find no evidence that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has a shock impact on the already-increasing LNG prices in Japan. We believe that these findings offer government administrators, oil and gas companies, consulting firms, and other energy industry professionals valuable insights …
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The Improvised Expert: Performing authority after Fukushima (2011-2018)
… those responding to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster can be found drawing lines, which determine: where people can live, what they can eat, and who receives additional protections (Potassium Iodide pills, for example). The essential questions of radiological protection …