Nuclear Disaster

Chernobyl 2012: People, Places, and Photos

Glen Browder | Posted 05.29.2012

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My purpose in writing this post was not to present another horrific portrait of devastation but to present, as best I could, a picture of day-to-day life in still-impacted communities.

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How To Survive A Nuclear Meltdown

Posted 03.11.2012

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You're riding your bike to a Cub Scout meeting. Or maybe Dad is cooking hot dogs out for a picnic. And then suddenly, BOOM, it's a nuclear nightma...

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Thousands Of Nuclear Refugees Unable To Return Home

Reuters | Posted 04.13.2012

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By Chris Meyers OKUMA, Japan, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Back home for just three hours, a tearful Miyoko Takeda sorted through her belonging...

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Reading the Pictures: Unit 4 in Danger of Collapse? (And Then, Don't Tell Me There's Nothing To See at Fukushima)

Michael Shaw | Posted 07.13.2011

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What we're sadly lacking from Fukushima is a bigger and much better picture of what is a still-boiling disaster.

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Chernobyl And Fukushima: The Toll Of Nuclear Disasters

AP | Associated Press | Posted 06.22.2011

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-- With the passage of time, Chernobyl has become well-explored territory. Guides take you through the nearest town, Pripyat, and they know exactly w...

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Leadership in the Face of Disaster

The European Magazine | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Transparency, Nuclear Energy, Leadership, Fukushima, Hans Jonas, Nuclear Disaster, Technology, Imperative of Responsibility, World News

We need to take a strategic and sustainable decision on how we want to deal with technological risks.

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Chernobyl: 25 Years Later, A 'Vision Of Apocalypse'

Posted 06.11.2011

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PRYPYAT, Ukraine (Reuters) - Only a Hollywood doomsday movie can prepare a visitor for Prypyat, the ghost town at the epicenter of the world's wor...

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Details On Japan's Nuclear Workers Emerge

Posted 06.01.2011

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The so-called "Fukushima 50" -- a group of about 300 technicians, soldiers and firemen who have been working in shifts of 50 at Japan's troubled plant...

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Kill Nuke Power Before it Kills Us All!

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Japanese people are now paying a horrific price for the impossible dream of the "Peaceful Atom." For a half-century they have been told that what'...

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Obama Takes a Meeting With Mephistopheles. Again.

MP Nunan | Posted 05.25.2011

As close readers of this blog might recall, last summer President Obama took a meeting with Mephistopheles - the representative of the Devil - for o...

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The Tokyo Syndrome

Adario Strange | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is the resolute determination to remain in Tokyo no matter what. I will never forget seeing Tokyo going about its business in a slow, orderly, dignified fashion.

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Japan Could Avoid An Economic Meltdown By Pulling Together

Reuters | Alan Wheatley | Posted 05.25.2011

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TOKYO (Reuters) - In these dark hours, Japan would do well to heed former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's memorable maxim that you never...

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US-Japan Friendship Dolls Then & How to Help Today

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is a time when Japan and its current leader, Naoto Kan, or some as yet undiscovered inspiring visionary, need to figure out a pathway to reinvention. This is a time when Japan needs help.

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Obama Administration, Senators Stand Behind Nuclear Power Amid Meltdown Scare In Japan

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

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With additional reporting by Sam Stein UPDATE: A spokesman for the Obama administration told the Huffington Post on Sunday that the president was w...

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Chernobyl-Like Disaster Not Expected In Japan

Posted 05.25.2011

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BRUSSELS (Elizabeth Piper) – Japan should not expect a repeat of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster after an explosion blew the roof off one of its nucl...

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Stunning Photos Of Chernobyl 25 Years Later

Posted 09.19.2011

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From iLCP: This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. At 1:23am on April 26th, 1986, operators in the control room of...

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The World's Creepiest Places (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

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Regardless of how much faith you hold in the supernatural, there are certain places in this world where even the bravest souls might think twice befor...

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Nuclear Disaster In England Averted By Dirty Laundry

Telegraph | Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent | Posted 05.25.2011

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A radioactive leak that could have caused Britain's worst nuclear disaster was only averted when a worker in an adjoining room spotted water as he sor...

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Planning for Nuclear Terrorism as Well as the Flu

Arnold Bogis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Local officials should not delude themselves into thinking that existing plans for responding to dirty bombs can be simply expanded to deal with nuclear terrorism.

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