Nuclear Accidents

The Deadly Folly of Nuclear Power Overhead

Karl Grossman | Posted 04.12.2012

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Karl Grossman

These missions don't present threats to life on Earth -- unlike the use of nuclear power overhead. Also, the production of nuclear fuel on Earth for use in space -- or in the atmosphere for drones -- constitutes danger, too.

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Fukushima Nuclear Plant's Tsunami Plan A Single Page

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD | Posted 07.27.2011

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TOKYO — Japanese nuclear regulators trusted that the reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex were safe from the worst waves an earthquake cou...

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Environmental Toxins: What Your Doctor's Not Telling You

Sarah Lovinger | Posted 07.07.2011

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Sarah Lovinger

The link between a bad habit like smoking and health is linear, and a very easy one for doctors and other medical professionals to discuss with their patients who smoke. The individual risk of exposure to environmental toxins is much harder to pinpoint.

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U.N. Chief: More Nuclear Disasters Are Likely

AP | By JIM HEINTZ | Posted 06.21.2011

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KIEV, Ukraine -- The world must prepare for more nuclear accidents on the scale of Chernobyl and Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, the U.N. chief warn...

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In The Public Interest: An Unacceptable Risk, Two Decades of "Close Calls," Leaks and Other Problems at U.S. Nuclear Reactors

Johanna Neumann | Posted 05.29.2011

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Johanna Neumann

The nuclear crisis in Japan is a terrifying reminder of all that can go wrong at a nuclear power plant. The United States must move away from this inherently dangerous technology and towards safer energy sources.

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How To Survive In An Age Of Crisis

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.17.2011

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Alison Rose Levy

In the current critical moment, the Japanese calamity has shown all the world the harsh downside risks of just a few of the societal compromises we've made. In response to this wake-up call, a shift could happen.

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Nuclear Emergency in Japan

Karl Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Karl Grossman

After the earthquake, Japan is now trying to avoid a meltdown accident at its Fukushima nuclear power plant -- a disaster which could have catastrophic impacts on Japan and much of the world.

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Building a Nuclear Weapons-Free World

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Cuban Missile Crisis, Hiroshima, Nuclear Abolition, Nuclear Terrorism, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nuclear Accidents, Books News
Lawrence Wittner

Apocalypse Never , by Tad Daley, is a new book that deserves wide circulation, for it is a spirited, ringing call for nuclear weapons abolition.

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