Exhausted and irritated parents do at times fight, making the overall nuclear family atmosphere rather stressful for these young children.
To replace just one of those cubic miles with a source of energy that will not add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere — nuclear power, for instance — would require the construction of a new atomic plant every week for fifty years; to switch to wind power would mean erecting thousands of windmills each month.
I was too young to understand the TV images of the winter of discontent, all those rubbish bags piled up on the streets, but I was very affected by the struggles of the 80s, the riots, the threat of nuclear attack, the atmosphere of bitter belatedness.
Appreciable quantities of plutonium radionuclides were released into the atmosphere during atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the mid to last half of the 20th century, and their presence has subsequently been detected in several plant species [32].
In fact, while there are some recipes that read like a survival guide for a post-nuclear dystopia, the atmosphere is carnivalesque: a thinking person's carnival, with a real sense of direction.
The shot, without fall-out, was "in marked contrast to Soviet nuclear tests in the atmosphere," the announcement said.
7] he should be ready "within the month" to decide whether the United States will resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere.
The reactors could be a source, and tests of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, which ended in 1980, left trace amounts of plutonium around the world.
From 1945 to 1963, the United States tested 206 nuclear weapons in the atmosphere — 100 in Nevada and 106 in the South Pacific — while the Soviet Union conducted 216 such tests.
Of more recent date was the overcompensating effect of man-made carbon-14 injected into the atmosphere during nuclear bomb testing.
