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Then it became "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms", about an Apedosaurus who is released from his cryogenic state by a nuclear blast, attacks New York City, pillages rabidly, kills with its radioactive blood, and perishes amid a conflagration in Coney Island's roller coaster.
Gene Evans is the scientific expert who cuts up the radioactive fish that wash ashore in adumbration of the monster's appearance.
Just desserts!! I'd love to see a remake of this movie using the same type dinosaur with today's modern fx!! Finally, with today's concern about radioactive waste & it's effect on the enviorment, this film was fifty years ahead of it's time!!
Down at the nearby nuclear power plant, illegal chemical dumping (part of an obligatory and half-assed cover-up subplot) has resulted in animated, super-intelligent, radioactive tree roots that are killing everyone off.
Interpretation of Ikaria was full of agreements with "new" socialist ideas against capitalist ideas (dead casino in space, criticism of red nail polish, etc.) but in one time "between lines" there is the criticism of socialist reality during fifties and sixties (predestined madness and "no future" impasse: deadly illness from radioactive accident at the end of the Magellan Cloud novel).
It's not only radioactive but has an electric charge that sends out the radiation.
After a devastating nuclear war most of the land has become contaminated by radioactive fallout.
Due to kegs of radioactive chemicals ants become large, angry and intelligent!
I admit initially I thought the movie bore a distinct resemblance to an episode of the original "Outer Limits" (where a high energy physics experiment goes awry and spews out living radioactive material) and might have been inspiration for the later TV show.
However Josie has picked a bad time to return home as the corrupt head of a nearby nuclear power plant has been stealing the money used to safely dispose of radioactive waste & dumping it in the local woods which has the unwanted side effect of producing mutated killer roots which have a taste for human flesh!
This director understands layering -- a multiple-level approach to scene-building that juxtaposes high tech gadgetry like mind-probes and radioactive oxygen memory tracers and erasers with the gritty underbelly of Parisian catacombs.
But I found the whole movie to be morbidly fascinating, especially the details about how the plant treated those they suspected of radioactive contamination.
A large metropolitan office building is gradually overcome by gigantic radioactive ants who trap the helpless maintenance workers and office staff.
All right, so it's another tidbit of trashy 80s post-apocalyptic fluff, but it's really the cream of the crop and has a great soundtrack, fun sets and costumes, tongue-in-cheek writing and acting, cannibalism, swing dancing, love, innocence, mayhem, violence, and plenty of silly 50s references... Philip and Marlowe (ha, ha) leave the bomb shelter after basically their whole entire lives, and emerge into a radioactive wasteland, to search for their fathers.
As a result, the plant’s three active reactors suffered near-meltdowns, leading to a buildup of hydrogen gas, a series of explosions and fires, and leakage of radioactive material into the atmosphere.
And some 5,000 cases of thyroid cancer, attributed to radioactive iodine absorbed through consumption of milk in the weeks immediately following the accident, have been detected among those who were children at the time.
It is possible to supply the cell with one of the building blocks of the new DNA, and to put a little radioactive tag on that building block.
To ensure that nuclear facilities are operated to the highest standards of safety, measures are in place, for example, to control the release of radioactive material to the environment, to prevent the occurrence of events that might lead to a loss of control over a nuclear reactor core, and to mitigate the consequences of such events if they were to occur.
Progress is needed in demonstrating the safety of long-term disposal of radioactive waste.
Given that diplomatic relations between the two countries had been severed for more than 30 years, and that each country was radioactive in the domestic politics of the other, holding preliminary negotiations in public would have been a non-starter.
In three reactors, the fuel has melted, almost certainly through the reactor vessels; primary containment structures have been breached; explosions have torn away the secondary containment (the buildings); radioactive releases continue; and closed-loop cooling has not been re-established.
More than 100,000 tons of highly radioactive wastewater now flood the facility to capacity, as water continues to be poured in to prevent further massive radioactive emissions.
The nuclear reactions that drive reactors and weapons are the same, as are the radioactive products that are dispersed by wind, rain, and water if released, with the same lack of respect for borders and the same indiscriminate long-term cancer and genetic hazards.
NEW YORK – When parts of Japan were devastated recently by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami, news of the human toll was quickly overshadowed by global fears of radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant.
And nuclear power plant designs can be made safer with passive (automatic) safety systems and fuel cycles that leave behind less radioactive waste and fissile material that could be turned into weapons.
The device will process and analyze radioactive waves collected from two million individual antennae, enabling researchers to map the shape of the universe by (they hope) 2020.
Nuclear energy presents a number of disadvantages, owing to concerns about safety and disposal of radioactive waste.
In the future, geologists will see telltale markers like radioactive carbon – debris from nuclear blasts – and plastic waste scattered across the planet’s surface and embedded in rock.
These nine boundaries include climate change, ozone depletion, ocean acidification, interference in the global nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, land-use change, global freshwater use, biosphere integrity, air pollution, and novel entities (such as organic pollutants, radioactive materials, nanomaterials, and micro-plastics).
First, the nuclear fuel is not seawater, but a mixture of the two heavy isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, a radioactive element that has been produced in small quantities for hydrogen bombs.
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