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INTERVIEW: The multi-Oscar-winning director and his producer, Fernando Sulichin, talk to Louis Chilton about the message behind their campaigning documentary ‘Nuclear Now’
A nuclear and radiation accident is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as "an event that has led to significant consequences to people, the environment or the facility." Examples include lethal effects to individuals, large radioactivity release to the environment, or a reactor core melt. [6]
Scenarios in which a global catastrophic risk creates harm have been widely discussed. Some sources of catastrophic risk are anthropogenic (caused by humans), such as global warming, [1] environmental degradation, and nuclear war. [2] Others are non-anthropogenic or natural, such as meteor impacts or supervolcanoes.
The world's worst nuclear accident has been the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union, one of two accidents that has been rated as a level 7 (the highest) event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. [9] Note that the Chernobyl disaster may have scored an 8 or 9, if the scale continued.
With worst-case scenario averted for now, White House and Harris campaign still face a serious risk in Middle East conflict Kevin Liptak, CNN October 26, 2024 at 11:39 AM
UPDATING previous exclusive with trailer: Watch the first trailer Nuclear Now, the pro-nuclear energy documentary from three-time Academy Award winner Oliver Stone. Abramorama and Giant Pictures ...
e. A global catastrophic risk or a doomsday scenario is a hypothetical event that could damage human well-being on a global scale, [ 2 ] even endangering or destroying modern civilization. [ 3 ] An event that could cause human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's existence or potential is known as an " existential risk ".
Mushroom cloud from the 1954 explosion of Castle Bravo, the largest nuclear weapon detonated by the U.S.. A nuclear holocaust, also known as a nuclear apocalypse, nuclear annihilation, nuclear armageddon, or atomic holocaust, is a theoretical scenario where the mass detonation of nuclear weapons causes widespread destruction and radioactive fallout.