Sentence examples for large-scale accident from inspiring English sources

Because this is the first large-scale accident involving aluminum sludge, experts are feeling their way in the cleanup.

That was the fear expressed by speakers this week during the state's annual review of the plan that would be put into action in case of a large-scale accident at one of New Jersey's four nuclear reactors.

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.

There have been three large-scale accidents involving nuclear power reactors since the onset of commercial nuclear power in the mid-1950s: Three-Mile inland in Pennsylvania, Chernobyl in Ukraine, and Fukushima in Japan.

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.

Last week, the same official suggested that Stuxnet was the work of the United States and warned that it could have caused large-scale accidents and loss of life.

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).

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.

Large scale accidents are almost unprecedented, and the type of horror seen in Massachusetts on Thursday is not something previously experienced.