The widespread adoption of limited liability status began a trend towards a concentration of ownership, reducing some of the economic risks involved in coalmining: unstable coal prices, inflated acquisitions, geological difficulties, and large scale accidents.
Because this is the first large-scale accident involving aluminum sludge, experts are feeling their way in the cleanup.
Large-scale accidents have sometimes led to anger at the government, especially when the country's somewhat cavalier approach to safety has played a role.
Today, there are four senior White House officials with partial responsibility for biodefense, but each of them is also responsible for a raft of other issues, like natural disasters, terrorism and large-scale accidents like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
At Kosovo' s border, the situation is very unsettled and the regime in Belgrade is creating a climate in which large-scale accidents are likely.
Thus, I is a problem associated with large-scale accidents or failures at nuclear facilities, whereas I is a problem related to environmental remediation and long-term stewardship of disposed nuclear waste.
Because of this scale of production, huge numbers of farmed salmon escape (during routine handling and large-scale accidents) from both freshwater and marine aquaculture at all life stages (reviewed in Gross 1998; Naylor et al. 2005; Thorstad et al. 2008).
Since that time, there has been a growing interest in applying concepts and constructs from STS to the broad domain of safety, including aspects of occupational risk, injury and health (e.g. Kleiner 2004; Carayon 2006) as well as work which attempts to understand the causes of large-scale accidents and disasters (Rasmussen 1997; Leveson 2012).
The Fukushima case was the first opportunity in the history of mankind to rigorously study the biological effects of a large-scale nuclear accident from the very beginning of the accident.
It was found from this calculation that the public aversion to nuclear energy is catastrophically aggravated with every large-scale nuclear accident, that the opinions of individual members of the public as to the value of nuclear energy were gradually attracted to a few views with time, and that the unification of such views occurred with the Chernobyl accident as a promoter.
The technology was first tried on a large scale in Alaska, which has a high accident rate and not much radar.
