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Nuclear Power Regulators Scale Back Emergency Readiness Efforts

AP | JEFF DONN | Posted 05.16.2012

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Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, req...

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Atomic Titanics

Karl Grossman | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Fukushima, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Titanic Anniversary, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Power Plant Accidents, Green News
Karl Grossman

Indeed, human error is a big part of what can go wrong at a nuclear power plant. However, even without human error, nuclear power is fraught with the potential for immense catastrophe.

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Japanese Workers and Children Overexposed to Radiation

Alexia Parks | Posted 07.02.2011

Read More: Aplastic Anemia, Bone Marrow Transplant, Hypoxia, Fukushima, Health Risks, Tokyo Electric Power, Nuclear Power, Fukushima-Dai-Ichi-Plant, Decomissioning, Nagasaki, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Immune System, Radiation, Chromosomes, Anemia, Leukemia, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Hiroshima, Spent Fuel Rods, Nuclear Proliferation, Joel Rauch M.D., Health Care, Three Mile Island, Home News
Alexia Parks

While the world news media has shifted its attention elsewhere, tragedy continues to unfold at Tokyo Electric Power's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...

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What Began in Hiroshima Must End in Fukushima

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Hiroshima Precedent, General Electric, Somoza?S Nicaragua, Johnson Administration, Gulf of Mexico, Death Squads, Tsunamis, Fukushima, Hiroshima, Cold War, Central American Dictators, El Salvador, Nagasaki, Nuclear Age, Nuclear Blackmail, Katrina, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Albert Einstein, Atlantic City, Green News
Norman MacAfee

It was a bad idea all around for most of the human race. When Albert Einstein learned of the bombing of Hiroshima and the dawn of the Nuclear Age, he ...

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Double Deja Vu

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fukushima, Three Mile Island, Pan Am 103, Politics News
Gary Hart

The problem with nuclear power is not simply one of safety. It is one more of economics. So long as we depend on OPEC oil supplies, OPEC can drop its prices and make plant investments uneconomic overnight.

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Can Obama Lose?

Matthew Dowd | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Obama Election, Obama Reelection, Divorce, Economy, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Elections 2012, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Three Mile Island, GOP Candidates, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Matthew Dowd

Only one Democratic president has lost a reelection bid. What combination of factors must come together to cause a catastrophe for Obama politically that would result in his defeat?

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Political Fallout: Will Germany Go Nuclear-Free?

Katie Engelhart | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Europe, Nazi Germany, Germany, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi, Nuclear Renaissance, Manhattan Project, Angela Merkel, Die Grunin, Natural Gas, Atomic Bomb, Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Three Mile Island, World News
Katie Engelhart

Germany could well become the first major industrial power to abandon nuclear energy entirely.

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No Word for Tsunami: Imagining the Unimaginable

Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Chernobyl, Japan Nuclear Meltdown, Japan Tsunami, Three Mile Island, World News
Rory O'Connor

George Orwell argued that controlling language was the ultimate tool for getting people to accept the unacceptable -- like the catastrophic risks of operating nuclear power plants.

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Kill Nuke Power Before it Kills Us All!

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fukushima, Obama, Nuclear Disaster, Melt-Downs, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Nuclear Power, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

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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Beyond Fukushima: A World in Denial About Nuclear Safety

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Danny Schechter

What will it take for our world to recognize the dangers that nuclear scientists and even Albert Einstein were warning about at the "dawn" of the nuclear age?

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A Three Mile Island Primer

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Three Mile Island, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Pennsylvania, Nuclear, Green News
Joanne Doroshow

If you're still not convinced that nuclear energy should be an unacceptable risk for any nation, I've got a mothballed nuclear reactor sitting in Central Pennsylvania that I'd like to sell you.

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The Tokyo Syndrome

Adario Strange | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tokyo, Tokyo Earthquake, Japan, Nuclear Disaster, Japan Tsunami, China Syndrome, Earthquakes, Three Mile Island, Nuclear Power, World News
Adario Strange

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 Nuclear Crisis May Spur Use Of Safer Reactors

Daily Finance | DAWN KAWAMOTO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fukushima, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Westinghouse, Cooling Systems, Nuclear Energy, Areva, Three Mile Island, Passively Safe Reactors, Business News

As people in the earthquake-tsunami disaster zone north of Tokyo either flee or hunker down in response to the fear of radiation being released from t...

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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
Father Paul Mayer

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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Vulnerable Is Not Just An Island In The Pacific

Lisa Guest | Posted 11.17.2011

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Lisa Guest

I recognize I can't do much but prepare myself as best I can, then trust and have hope.

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

Michael Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Rose

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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Japanese Government Warns Those Nearby Plant To Stay Indoors

AP/The Huffington Post | By ERIC TALMADGE and SHINO YUASA | Posted 05.25.2011

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SOMA, Japan -- Dangerous levels of radiation leaking from a crippled nuclear plant forced Japan to order 140,000 people to seal themselves indoors Tue...

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Shadow Elite: "Safe" Nuclear Power? No Such Thing

Lloyd J. Dumas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chernobyl, Japan Tsunami, Japan Earthquake 2011, Terrorism, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Nuclear Power, Shadow Elite, Nuclear Crisis, Three Mile Island, Green News
Lloyd J. Dumas

Natural disasters, such as the gigantic earthquake off the coast of Japan, remind us of the fragility of even our most impressive technologies and the utter interconnectedness of our modern societies.

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The Japan Syndrome

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carl Pope

European governments are publicly reconsidering their nuclear power plans after a devastating earthquake and tsunami caused several Japanese reactors to fail. Why aren't American politicians doing the same?

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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
Michael Moynihan

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's Nuclear Tremors After Quake

Jayshree Bajoria | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fukushima, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Daiichi, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Nuclear Energy, Japan, Nuclear Meltdown, Three Mile Island, World News
Jayshree Bajoria

The unfolding nuclear crisis will shake public confidence in the safety of nuclear power both in Japan and abroad. Japan will also face other, longer-term political and economic costs.

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How Bad Is The Nuclear Accident In Japan?

Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK (Scott DiSavino) – The Japanese nuclear safety agency rated the damage at a nuclear power plant at Fukushima at a four on a scale of one to...

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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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Why I Care About BP's Legal Accountability

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bhopal, Deepwater Horizon, Bp, Gulf Oil Spill, Three Mile Island, Green News
Joanne Doroshow

Twelve years ago, I got together with some consumer advocates from around the country and formed the Center for Justice & Democracy. Our mission has ...

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Big Coal "Expendables": Three Mile Island Firm to Build FutureGen 2.0? DOE Corruption?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Doe, Dick Durbin, Dirty Coal, Clean Coal, Mining, Steven Chu, President Obama, Illinois, Coal, Three Mile Island, Nuclear Power, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Here in the heartland, we wonder when Illinois will become the leader in the clean energy revolution, not the eternal springtime of dirty coal machinations.

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