Meltdown

Saved -- in Spite of Ourselves

Carl Pope | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Nrc, Ft Calhoun, Nebraska, Meltdown, Cooper, Nuclear Power, Missouri River, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Fukushima, Nebraska Floods, Missouri River Floods, Green News

Although the Missouri River floods threatening Nebraska's Ft. Calhoun and Cooper nuclear power plants will put tremendous stress on both the systems and their operators, the immediate risk of a meltdown like Fukushima is small.

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Japan Admits Disasters Overwhelmed Government

AP | By MARI YAMAGUCHI and ERIC TALMADGE | Posted 05.25.2011

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TOKYO -- Sirens wailed Friday along a devastated coastline to mark exactly one week since an earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear emergency, and...

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Japan Raises Severity Of Nuclear Accident

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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TOKYO -- Japan's nuclear safety agency raised the severity rating of the country's nuclear crisis Friday from Level 4 to Level 5 on a seven-level inte...

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Japan Nuclear Plant Emits Smoke, Workers Struggle To Reconnect Electricity

AP/The Huffington Post | By ERIC TALMADGE and MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fukushima, Japan Earthquake 2011, Tokyo Electric Power, Daiichi, Japan Nuclear Crisis, Nuclear Power, Fuel Rods, Meltdown, Tokyo, Fukushima Daiichi, Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, Japan Tsunami, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Gregory-Jaczko, Japan Tsunami 2011, Japan Nuclear Meltdown, Japan, World News

YAMAGATA, Japan -- Smoke billowed from a building at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant Friday as emergency crews worked to reconnect electricity to...

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Japan Military Helicopters Dump Seawater On Nuclear Reactor

AP/The Huffington Post | By ERIC TALMADGE and MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 05.25.2011

ZAO, Japan -- Japanese military helicopters dumped loads of seawater onto a stricken nuclear reactor Thursday, trying to avoid full meltdowns as plant...

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Meltdown: Unsafe at Any Screed

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

The incisive logic of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed applies equally to nuclear power -- and furthermore, to the workings of the military-industrial complex with which it is intimately intertwined.

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Japan's Nuclear Nightmare

Father Paul Mayer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Japan Earthquake Nuclear Energy, Atom Bomb Survivors, Meltdown, Chernobyl, Japan Earthquake, Wall Street, Japan Tsunami, Three Mile Island, Politics News

The calamitous Japanese earthquake and tsunami -- with the reluctant official admissions of possible reactor core meltdowns -- is a tragic reminder of...

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An Extraordinary Machine

Dr. Philip Neches | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chernobyl, Fukushima, Radiation, Meltdown, Nuclear Power, Safety, Japan Earthquake, Japan Earthquake 2011, Japan Tsunami, Japan, Technology News

An ordinary machine stops generating heat when it is shut off. Leave it alone, and it will cool down. A reactor, on the other hand, keeps making heat. Lots of heat. Enough heat to melt itself.

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Too Cheap to Meter: The Top 10 Myths of Nuclear Power

Michael Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meltdown, Atoms for Peace, Tva, J. Robert Openheimer, Japan, Daniel Hirsch, David Freeman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Peter A. Bradford, Nrc, Bridge the Gap, President Eisenhower, Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Complex, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Michael Rose, Nuclear Power, Victor Gilinsky, Green News

Wrapping nukes in a green cloak and declaring their oneness with those concerned with climate change has helped to sway public opinion. But nuclear power is really too expensive and dangerous to use.

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No Word for Meltdown: Nukespeak Returns

Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Japanese Nuclear Crisis, Barack Obama, Meltdown, Nuclear Warnings, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Dangers, Nuclear Plants, Nuclear Power, Media News

Some things never change: the Orwellian impulse to hide the truth about nuclear dangers remains one of them.

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A Nuclear Accident Prescription: Why Japan Has Distributed Potassium Iodide Doses

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Thyroid Cancer, Tsunami, Ki Pills, Reactor, Doses, Meltdown, Earthquake, Fda, Potassium Iodine, Nuclear, Japan, Radiation, Los Angeles News

The tragic events connected with Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami have been compounded by the threat of nuclear contamination.

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Black Swan Over Tokyo

Michael Moynihan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fukushima, Earthquake, Clean Energy, Three Mile Island, Utility 2.0, Meltdown, Electricity 2.0, Green News

While the world's attitude toward nuclear will not be the same after Fukushima, it is equally unlikely that the world will quickly disband its nuclear power capacity.

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Japan Meltdown Risk Stirs Fears Over California Nuclear Plants

losangeles.cbslocal.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Nuclear Reactors, California Nuclear Power, Japan Earthquake, Meltdown, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES (CBS) -- The safety of Southern California's two nuclear power plants are facing increased scrutiny in the wake of the catastrophic quake ...

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Charlie Sheen: 'Network 2011'?

Amy Spies | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men, Network, Unemployment, Meltdown, Economy, Addiction, Jobs, Drugs, Mortage, Getting Fired, Move Star, Recession, Rehab, Mental Health, Celebrity, Spousal Abuse, Custody, Entertainment News

Just like the Network newscaster Howard Beale, Sheen felt unsupported and unappreciated by his network employer and lashed out. Beale had been coldly fired; Sheen felt he'd been dissed.

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WATCH: Interview With Oscar Winning Director Of 'Inside Job'

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Market, Oscar, New York, Money, Lehman, Economy, Meltdown, Worldwide, Dollars, Aig, Movie, Collapse, Politics, Merrill Lynch, Investment, Finance, Stock, Banking, Documentary, Banks, Ferguson, Charles Ferguson, Wall Street, American, International, Arts News

"When Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and AIG collapsed together in a 48 hour period and we were all wondering if next week we'd be able to get money ...

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Tent Cities: An American Tradition

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, Economic Turndown, Meltdown, Economic Meltdown, Tent City, Tents, Video, Politics News

A couple weeks ago a reader shared word with the Huffington Post of a tent city in Virginia, about an hour outside of D.C., where tons of middle class...

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The Best (And Worst) Fiction Of The Financial Crisis

Telegraph | Rowena Mason | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A Week in December, Get Me Out of Here, Meltdown, This Bleeding City, Sebastian Faulks, Union Atlantic, Books, Best Books, Financial Crisis, Books News

Fiction has never been a particular friend of high finance. Even before banker-bashing became common currency, literature reserved a special scorn for...

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Slaves of Wall Street

Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizen Action, Anger, Aristocrats, Wall Street, Solon, Deliberative, Debt, Unrest, Democracy, Debt Slavery, Oligarchs, Athens, Greece, Rage, Meltdown, Politics News

Each time there's an eruption, ordinary people are the ones caught in the lava flow while the gods of high finance watch blissfully untouched from their own Mount Olympus.

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Angelides Commission Staff Announced Before Probe Into 2008 Meltdown

Los Angeles Times | Michael Hiltzik | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Angelides commission, convened by Congress to investigate the financial meltdown of 2008, today announced a passel of "senior staff" appointments....

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Meltdown Home Run Hitter on the Future

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Stock Market, Financial Meltdown, Meltdown, Business News

CEO Prem Watsa discusess how Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. of Toronto has not only weathered the greatest financial storm since the Depression, but has profited mightily.

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Radiation Found At Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, Site Of '79 Partial Meltdown

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the small amount of radiation detected at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plan...

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Fear and Envy of Black Masculinity: How Politico's Jonathan Martin Mugged President Obama and Got Away With It

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Almost all black men recognize the contemptuous look Jonathan Martin gave Obama on Thursday.

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How Not To Be A Horse's A#$%!: 3 Tips For When You Blow A Public Fuse

Debbie Robins | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Joe Wilson Obama, Kanye West Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Meltdown, Serena Williams US Open, How to Apologize, Joe Wilson, Public Anger, Kick-Ass Advice, Serena Williams, Marilynne Robinson, Peacemaking, Kick-Ass, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News

It's been a month now since American pop culture witnessed three consecutive bursts of public anger. Serena Williams, wielding her racquet as a weapon at the U.S. Open, kick-started a week in which Kanye West stole the microphone from young, doll-faced Taylor Swift at the MTV Awards, and ended with Congressman Joe Wilson shouting down the President of the United States like a British heckler.

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Reports of Another Stock Market Fall this Fall Exaggerated

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Real Estate Crisis, Merrill Lynch, Credit, Stock Market Crash, Wall Street, Lehman Bros., Real Estate Bubble, Meltdown, Banks, Stock Market, Influenza, Wall Street Crisis, Financial Crisis, Business News

A quick survey of market catastrophes reveals that autumn is not only when the traditional harvest comes in, but also when we reap what we have sown -- whether it's corn or bad economic policy.

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Little Change On Wall St. A Year After Lehman Collapse

New York Times | Alex Berenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Industry, Wall St, Wall Street, Finance, Economy, Meltdown, Wall Street Meltdown, Financial Crisis, Wall Street Pay, Business News

One year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the surprise is not how much has changed in the financial industry, but how little....

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