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The 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the world's biggest nuclear accident, turned Germans against atomic energy for years as they panicked about safety and the environment, fears the Green lobby capitalised on to strengthen their influence. The previous German coalition of Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens agreed the phase-out and Merkel's CDU, which supports the nuclear industry, was forced to agree to stick to the closure deal in order to clinch a coalition pact with the SPD in 2005. (Planet Ark, United States)
US removes uranium from Iraq... Jul 7, 2008
What's now left is the final and complicated push to clean up the remaining radioactive debris at the former Tuwaitha nuclear complex about 12 miles south of Baghdad - using teams that include Iraqi experts recently trained in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Ukraine ... Last month, a team of Iraqi nuclear experts completed training in the Ukrainian ghost town of Pripyat, which once housed the Chernobyl workers before the deadly meltdown in 1986, said an IAEA official who spoke on condition of... (The Drudge Report)
Environmentalists are turning into religious zealots Jul 7, 2008
cross1242 wrote on Jul 6, 2008 2:09 PM:" This week, Prof. Clayson goes after environmental scientists who are apparently proposing that we all freeze to death in the dark.Really?Scientists proposing that we all freeze to death in the dark?That hardly sounds like science since it is the hallmark of science to prove assertions and finding practical answers to real questions.Those readers using a critical eye on what they read will note that while Prof. Clayson starts off talking about... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
U.S. removes 'yellowcake' from Iraq Jul 6, 2008
What's now left is the final and complicated push to clean up the remaining radioactive debris at the former Tuwaitha nuclear complex about 12 miles south of Baghdad using teams that include Iraqi experts recently trained in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Ukraine. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Race)
Urban air pollution 'more dangerous than Chernobyl' Jul 6, 2008
Urban air pollution 'more dangerous than Chernobyl ... Air pollution in major cities may be more damaging to health than the radiation exposure suffered by survivors of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, according to a report published today ... Two explosions at the Chernobyl reactor killed three people immediately and more than 30 died from acute radiation poisoning, but the radioactive plume released from the reactor spread over most of Europe and is estimated to have caused up to 16,000 deaths. (Yahoo News -- Pollution)
Catfish chokes on soccer ballin Bavarian canal Jul 2, 2008
Ned Colt travels to Chernobyl, Ukraine, site of the notorious nuclear disaster, to find tourists seeking a holiday in the hotzone. Video: Strange news. (MSNBC -- International)
* GOING GREEN: Confessions of a nuclear turncoat Jul 2, 2008
Half of Ukraine sets off a Geiger counter like a microwave oven sets off popcorn, thanks to a little meltdown called Chernobyl. The US had its own near catastrophe at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Letters from readers Jul 2, 2008
The petition demands an investigation by a bipartisan commission, regarding how effectively the NRC is doing its job, before we have a catastrophic nuclear disaster like Chernobyl in the United States. Our goal is to provide a voice to the American people. (Florida Times-Union)
Nuclear, yes please! Jul 1, 2008
Half of the Ukraine sets off a Geiger counter like a microwave oven sets off popcorn, thanks to the meltdown at Chernobyl in 1986. The U.S. had its own near catastrophe with Three Mile Island. (CNN -- International)
Nigeria:G8 Worried Over Country's Nuclear Programme Jun 30, 2008
In April 1986, there was a nuclear reactor accident in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the old Soviet Union, regarded as the worst in history, resulting in a severe release of radioactivity into the environment following a massive power excursion which destroyed the reactor ... The 2005 report prepared by the Chernobyl Forum, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and World Health Organisation (WHO), attributed 56 direct deaths - 47 accident workers, and nine children with... (allAfrica.com)
Bhopal Victims Still Seeking Redress Jun 29, 2008
The biggest industrial disaster ever, many times deadlier than the Chernobyl nuclear accident, made headlines around the world, but soon receded into the. Related Articles. (Time.com)
Turn Out The Lights, The Party's Over Jun 26, 2008
It took darned near 25 years of meetings and protests, and hundreds of "Willmotts and Why Nots" to convince the people and politicians of the Island that a nuclear disaster on the order of Three Mile Island or Chernobyl would devastate the population of Long Island, New York City and southern Connecticut. Finally, in 1989 the nuclear plant was shut down. (Suffolk Life Newspapers, NY)
Congress needs to waive roadblocks Jun 26, 2008
Leonard wrote on Jun 26, 2008 7:38 AM:" Brilliant!!! Lets waive the environmental regs on nuclear power. Who needs those 10 foot concrete containment walls? Radiation is good for cockroaches, maybe it is good for humans as well. As for the waste, lets store it on playgrounds. The glow will make them safer at night.I am all for increasing the role of nuclear power in America but progress in this area MUST be accommodated by the STRICTEST environmental and safety regulation.A single Chernobyl... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Editorial: McCain’s right on N-power Jun 25, 2008
Jules wrote on Jun 24, 2008 3:38 PM:" Ahh, yes, barefoot ignores a few facts about Chernobyl, like the fact that Chernobyl was a different type of reactor -- that isn't built in the US. It isn't built here precisely because it can do what it did. You repeatedly try to put words in my mouth and lie about things I've said, so you get to put up with a correct paraphrasing or two. I didn't say we were independent, I said "any possibility of independence". We cannot get there if loud-mouthed liberals... (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Uranium poised for a rebound as reactor construction booms Jun 24, 2008
Proposed reactors were canceled in the 1970s because of environmental protests, while accidents at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979 and Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986 further eroded support. In Japan, new projects face delays as utilities improve earthquake resistance to restore confidence after the closure of Tokyo Electric Power's Kashiwazaki Kariwa and revelations that companies falsified safety records. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Uranium prices poised to soar Jun 24, 2008
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Nuclear generationHow the power industry is hunting young new talent Jun 18, 2008
At the same time, the industry's image has been tarnished by accidents such as Chernobyl in 1986. Tackling concerns about safety is vital to improve the public perception of nuclear energy, according to Peter Bleasdale, managing director of Nexia Solutions, the public sector company that runs the research operation at Sellafield. (BBC News -- Science)
Netherlands Nuclear Energy Profile Jun 17, 2008
The Netherlands pursued a small, active nuclear program until the government shelved a new construction project in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster in the USSR. In 1994, after years of inactivity, the Dutch Parliament voted to phase-out the Borssele Plant and the entire nuclear program by 2003. Legal problems prevented the government from implementing their decision and in 2003, the government changed the closure date to 2013. (Suite101.com)
Let's Go Nuclear Jun 16, 2008
Accidents in Chernobyl and Three Mile Island put paid to the idea of using nuclear technology in power generation for a couple of decades. But the soaring price of crude oil means that governments can no longer afford to ignore nuclear energy. (India Times, India)
Is local food safer? Jun 14, 2008 Biggest N-reactor spreads the word Jun 12, 2008 Is Nuclear Power Viable? Jun 10, 2008 Striking Oil Jun 9, 2008 Marine Power Lags Wind by Only 5 Years - Triodos Jun 9, 2008 Russia shutters 2nd plutonium reactor Jun 6, 2008 Environmental crisis, democracy and morality Jun 5, 2008 Infotainment Jun 1, 2008 Op-Ed / Jerry Jackson: Time for nuclear power May 31, 2008 Italy Greens Say No To Nuclear, Push Renewable Energy May 30, 2008 New Protective Tomb To Be Built At Chernobyl May 26, 2008 Italy 'to revive nuclear power' May 23, 2008 Italy signals turnaround on nuclear power May 23, 2008 Italy Reverses Policy, To Build Nuke Power Stations May 23, 2008 A wing and an error May 23, 2008 Italy wants to bring back nuclear power May 22, 2008 Oh, The Humanity May 20, 2008 As China opens up, it keeps a wary eye on the former U.S.S.R. May 20, 2008 EBRD says former Soviet bloc facing slower economic growth May 18, 2008 Europe.view: Prague's silent spring May 16, 2008 Western experts monitor China's nuclear sites for signs of damage May 16, 2008 When Cyber Terrorism Becomes State Censorship May 15, 2008 Urban air pollution 'more dangerous than Chernobyl' May 15, 2008 In a Kyrgyz garden, unburied Soviet memories May 15, 2008 Hyperion opponents spreading confusion May 15, 2008 Plugging the gapHow a 'national lab' will re-energise the UK's nuclear sector May 14, 2008 There's no 'whole truth' in traffic court May 12, 2008 Realities of nuclear power’s costs dim enthusiasm May 12, 2008 Nuclear Middle East: Tempting targets May 10, 2008 - Anacortes Red Cross will honor Real Heroes at fundraising… May 8, 2008 U.S., Russia sign civilian nuclear pact May 7, 2008 Hoyle on Matter -- Our Readers? -- Killing Beauty May 7, 2008 Russia and US in nuclear trade deal May 7, 2008 Rise in thyroid cancer due to detection Apr 22, 2008 Condo-hotels stir twice the anger Apr 20, 2008 Nuclear power briefing Apr 19, 2008 A Chernobyl Holiday? Apr 18, 2008 Chernobyl among hot spots in Ukraine Apr 18, 2008 Gorbachev visiting South Florida today Apr 16, 2008 An Earth Day look at nuclear energy, climate change Apr 15, 2008 Letters to the Editor • Environmental group misrepresented Apr 14, 2008 Drug maystop radiation harm Apr 11, 2008 Drug to protect against radiation Apr 11, 2008 Duncan Hawthorne: He longs for the day Alberta's gone fission Apr 7, 2008 Letters from readers Apr 7, 2008 The stoic victims of the nuclear age Apr 3, 2008 Cell Phones Used To Thwart Speed Traps Apr 3, 2008 Bush offers support for NATO bids from Georgia, Ukraine Apr 2, 2008 Chernobyl, 22 Years Later Apr 1, 2008 Bush Seeks Afghan Troop Pledges In Europe Apr 1, 2008 4,000-Year-Old Gold Necklace Found In Peru Apr 1, 2008 Atomic Future Apr 1, 2008 Nuclear power revival leaves safety issues unresolved Mar 30, 2008 U.S. Will Approve New Nuclear Reactors Mar 29, 2008 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Mar 28, 2008 Nuclear Devastation In The Former Soviet Union Mar 27, 2008 Britain Promotes Dash For Nuclear Power Mar 27, 2008 Area families play host to Children of Chernobyl Mar 25, 2008 Raleigh's arena in isolation Mar 25, 2008 Stuck in 1979 Mar 22, 2008 Hepatitis likely did not stay in Vegas Mar 19, 2008 France must act fast to train nuclear energy staff Mar 15, 2008 Putin Beats Soviet Sword Into Atomic Weapon for Selling Generator Plants Mar 15, 2008 Cities and pollution Mar 10, 2008 Safety fears dog Japan N-plants Mar 7, 2008
We can use canned tomatoes, however, remember years ago when the Chernobyl disaster spread in Europe and some said Italian canned tomatoes could still be infected with air-borne radiation. Maybe we should substitute blueberries. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Atomic power merits new look Jun 14, 2008
It has been anathema since the radiation leak at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and especially since the accident at Chernobyl, yet nuclear power does not consume massive quantities of fossil fuels and thus does not produce large amounts of greenhouse gases. That makes this source of energy very attractive at a time when global warming is almost palpable and when we have to speedily find new energy sources if we are to maintain our current lifestyle while not cannibalizing the planet. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
The Finnish parliament voted to build OL3 in 2002, in a decision seen as revolutionary in a Europe that had built no new nuclear plants since the 1986 Chernobyl accident and where opposition to nuclear power has traditionally been fierce. But OL3's strict counter-terrorism safety features post-9/11, a plane could be crashed into it but the reactor will not leak and calm agreement on nuclear waste disposal appear to be winning European hearts and minds. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
That reverse is chiefly due to safety concerns the lingering Chernobyl fears of nuclear meltdown, or the fact that we still have yet to devise a long-term method for the disposal of atomic waste. But to Amory Lovins a veteran energy expert and chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute there's a much better green reason to be against nuclear power: economics. (Time.com)
Heck, if France can do it without turning Paris into Chernobyl, it cant be that hard. In the meantime, thanks to these buffoons, Im stuck paying $4. (Townhall.com)
2 billion) in assets, has been investing in wind projects since it turned against nuclear power after the 1986 Chernobyl power station disaster. "The appetite is there, the market is there, the growth will be surprisingly fast," Triodos Renewables operations director Matthew Clayton said. (Planet Ark, United States)
The design of the Seversk and Zheleznogorsk reactors similar to the Chernobyl reactor that exploded in 1986 also raised fears of accidents. According to the National Nuclear Security Administration, a U.S. agency that coordinates nonproliferation programs, the plants together produced more than 1 ton of plutonium annually. (MSNBC -- International)
The Chernobyl disaster is a leading example of environmental abuse by the ambitious agenda of an authoritarian government, the Soviet Union. Indonesia's repressive New Order regime also had a bad record of environmental management, some of which are still problems now. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Editorial)
Suspects were detained carrying scrap 20-30 times the legal radiation level from the 30-kilometer exclusion zone around the Chernobyl. An Indonesian businessman planned to throw 5,429 from an airplane today, as part of a marketing ploy for his second book, organisers said. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Katalyst wrote on May 30, 2008 6:48 AM:" Human beings have a responsibility to live in balance with nature, not taking more than needed -the golden rule of our living planet. A lot of hot air about leaving our children a better world than the one we knew- exactly how does high-level radioactive nuclear waste, deadly for centuries hence, fit into your sustainability model? 100's of years ago, indigenous people named Yucca Mountain, meaning SNAKE mountain because over centuries it CRAWLED across... (Heber Springs Sun-Times, AR)
Italy banned nuclear power in a 1987 referendum after the Chernobyl disaster. But calls for a nuclear renaissance have intensified this month under the new government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as oil prices stormed record highs. (Planet Ark, United States)
CHERNOBYL POWER PLANT, Ukraine - Work is expected to start this year at Chernobyl on a new structure to entomb its shattered reactor and stop radiation leaks at the site of the world's largest nuclear disaster ... But Chernobyl general director Nikolai Dmitruk plays down any suggestion of harmful radiation levels ... Ukraine first asked the West to help make Chernobyl safe in 1992 after Soviet rule collapsed. (Planet Ark, United States)
Italy says it is to restart its nuclear energy programme, more than 20 years after it was scrapped by referendum in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster. Since then Italy has become the world's biggest net importer of electricity. (BBC News -- Europe)
Perhaps more important for the public psyche, Europe's nuclear bans and restrictions were almost all enacted in the years after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union ... Also, instead of Chernobyl, Europeans have more recently watched in horror as the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, cut off the natural gas supply to Ukraine in a price dispute, leaving that country in darkness. (International Herald Tribune)
A decision to renounce nuclear power generation and to close the country's four nuclear plants was taken by referendum in 1987 following the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine on April 26, 1986. But according to Confindustria head Emma Marcegaglia the time has now come "to invest in nuclear energy" as the country has become too dependent on foreign energy sources. (Newsmax)
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant, near the Ukrainian town of Pripyat, had experienced a catastrophic meltdown ... Everybody and everything downwind of Chernobyl would become, like the flies, part of a giant lab experiment ... In the 22 years since Chernobyl, innumerable studies have been conducted to assess the health and environmental consequences of the radiation release. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Italians decided to close the country's nuclear energy program in a referendum a year after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986. It was unclear how Silvio Berlusconi's new government intended to move forward despite that referendum. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
In 1986 humans were forced to evacuate the thriving city when the nuclear reactor at nearby Chernobyl went into meltdown. Since then it has been abandoned to its fate, the buildings crumbling and destroyed by rampant vegetation. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The explosion of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl in April 1986 shattered the Kremlin's credibility - and gave a powerful impetus to glasnost ... The first government announcement - an innocuous 44 words - came more than a day after the reactor meltdown, and hours after Sweden detected alarming levels of radiation in its air, 1,300 kilometers, or 800 miles, north of Chernobyl. (International Herald Tribune)
In addition, the remaining cash will help finance a new shelter around the Chernobyl reactor, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident and also located in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine. The sarcophagus, which should be ready by 2012, was estimated to cost 1. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
A sign of how much the bad guys dislike the radios' work came only last month, with a big cyberattack that temporarily brought down the website of the Belarusian-language service, probably to stop people reading it on the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. That recalled the Soviet-era practice of jamming, at vast expense, foreign short-wave radio broadcasts. (The Economist)
Reactors are usually rigged to shut down in an earthquake, and it is unclear if the Plant 821 reactor could undergo the same kind of disaster that struck the Chernobyl reactor in 1986. It spewed radioactivity across large parts of Russia and Europe. (International Herald Tribune)
The attacks were timely: Radio Free Europe was planning coverage of protests by Belarusian opposition groups on the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl, hoping to highlight the lack of compensation for victims of the nuclear disaster and the Belarusian government's plan to build a new nuclear reactor. That broadcast was cut off by a flood of traffic that reached 50,000 fraudulent requests for information per second at its peak. (Forbes -- Technology)
Urban air pollution 'more dangerous than Chernobyl ... Air pollution in major cities may be more damaging to health than the radiation exposure suffered by survivors of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, according to a report published today ... Two explosions at the Chernobyl reactor killed three people immediately and more than 30 died from acute radiation poisoning, but the radioactive plume released from the reactor spread over most of Europe and is estimated to have caused up to 16,000 deaths. (Yahoo News -- Pollution)
He died in 2003 (the Soviet military sent him to clean up Chernobyl, and he was never quite the same when he returned), but she grimaced when asked if she had married again. "If I had had a second one, he would have been the same," she said. (International Herald Tribune)
They mentioned things like Chernobyl, the reactor number four disaster. This was a Soviet-built nuclear power plant that was NOT under the guidance of the EPA. This has nothing to do with a gas refinery, built with EPA guidance. (Sioux City Journal)
It has numerous advantages and even the worst case disaster of Chernobyl didn't prove to be anything like as damaging to the environment as first feared, as a Horizon programme a few years ago showed. Les Howarth, Saffron Walden, UK. (BBC News -- Science)
The poisonous airborne fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union arrived in New York and hit his elbow, which was sticking out his driver-side window, and this distraction caused him to turn his car accidentally. "The defense failed. So the man produced a doctor's note saying that he had eaten a bad turkey.". (Anchorage Daily News)
Critics of the nuclear industry said they hoped to show a documentary movie about the 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl in the Ukraine during the conference, but they were not allowed to book a room at the Fairmount Hotel, which hosted the event. They contend that nuclear plant construction costs have been almost as stable as weapons-grade plutonium. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Dimona is no Chernobyl ... Although health risks would be very low outside the immediate vicinity of the installation, concerns nonetheless could generate costly economic dislocations and, like Chernobyl, significant and lingering public anxiety over health impacts ... Once the plant has operated for a period of time and built up a radioactive inventory, the consequences of a strike could rival the 1986 Chernobyl accident. (International Herald Tribune)
Nadya lives near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. When she comes here she gets to be in a healthy environment away from radiation and eat healthy foods and that helps her immune system, Hoglund wrote in an essay. (Anacortes Weekly, WA)
That would be important for the United States, where nuclear development was virtually dormant in the wake of a 1979 reactor accident at Three Mile Island in the U.S. and the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in the Soviet Union, experts say. The U.S. is especially interested in developments in areas including fast-neutron reactors and recycling nuclear fuel. (MSNBC -- International)
APRIL 1908 SPA CHERNOBYL. In connection with the Austrian governmental establishment for the preparation of uranium products, there has been built in Joachimsthal, Bohemia, a laboratory for working up radio-active substances found in the tailings and by-products of the uranium minerals. (Scientific American)
After the signing ceremony, Burns said: "The US and Russia were once nuclear rivals. Today, we are nuclear partners with unique capabilities and unique responsibilities for global nuclear leadership." The access to Russian nuclear technology will be important for the US, where civilian nuclear development has been virtually dormant in the wake of a 1979 reactor accident at Three Mile Island and the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in the Soviet Union. The US is especially interested in... (Aljazeera.Net)
"We're not living in Chernobyl, so something else is going on here.". But there are many theories of other causes, such as exposure to low-level doses of radiation in the environment (including the practice of treating many childhood illnesses with radiation prior to 1960), iodine deficiency, genetics and a personal history of goiter or thyroid nodule. (Globe and Mail)
It's like a timeshare in Chernobyl, good luck selling that, everyone on earth know nows these are a seriously money loosing proposition. By Lou Vales. (The Palm Beach Post)
Before the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the nuclear building program was experiencing rapid growth ... Because construction slowed after Chernobyl, many of the world's reactors are now old and approaching retirement -- all but one of the UK's active reactors will be closed down by 2023. (CNN -- International)
Chernobyl among hot spots in Ukraine. Article:Chernobyl among hot spots in Ukraine:/c/a/2008/04/16/TRIN105PNL.DTL Article:Chernobyl among hot spots in Ukraine:/c/a/2008/04/16/TRIN105PNL.DTL ... Chernobyl among hot spots in Ukraine. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
The Kiev native, who works for the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation ( , (202) 223-2228), based in Washington, D.C., quickly confirmed that trips to the Chernobyl nuclear plant - 80 miles north of his hometown - are unaccountably popular with Americans ... For a reminder of how fragile these picturesque scenes are, there's always Chernobyl, site of the devastating 1986 nuclear accident that left whole towns uninhabitable and whose environmental effects are ongoing. (San Francisco Chronicle)
While there were failures in his tenure, like the Soviet's handling of the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine, he moved quickly to open the marketplace and become friendly with the West. "People still say the United States and Reagan won the Cold War, but more significant was the Soviet's internal decay and Gorbachev's willingness to pursue his policy that paid off for the West," said Ken Osgood, history professor at Florida Atlantic University. (The Palm Beach Post)
C-10 hopes to have a more public profile and to call attention to the anniversaries of nuclear accidents Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, both atomic energy disasters. Grinnell points out that while we are celebrating Earth Day we have to remember that we have a nuclear power plant in our back yard. (Amesbury News, MA)
Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were the highest profile incidents, but reactor accidents aren't just a thing of the past. For example, last summer in Japan, an earthquake damaged a nuclear power plant and led to the release of radioactive waste into the sea. (The Augusta Chronicle)
And when it comes to radiation emergencies, such as the Chernobyl accident, full-body exposure to high doses can cause an extremely lethal "GI syndrome" that has no treatment. It turns out that radiation doesn't kill healthy cells in the same way that it kills cancer cells. (MSNBC -- Health)
The drug may also be useful in protecting against fall out from a nuclear disaster, such as Chernobyl, or the effects of a terrorist "dirty bomb". Dr Andrei Gudkov from the Lerner Research Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, said they had set out to enable healthy cells to imitate the ability of tumour cells to avoid cell death. (BBC News -- Health)
The issues of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island scare people. You've got to deal with all those issues head on and communicate openly. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Do not think about the shoddy design of Chernobyl. Think about the design of Three Mile Island, a plant that had a worst-case meltdown that did not do any harm to the surrounding community. (Florida Times-Union)
His exhibition Certificate No. 000358/ at the Australian Centre for Photography documents the effects of nuclear pollution - from weapons testing, fuel production to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster - on the stoic citizens of the former Soviet Union. The centrepiece of the exhibition and a book that accompanies it is a photograph of a Chernobyl victim called Anna Pesenko, but the main story lies elsewhere, Knoth says ... "Chernobyl wasn't strictly an accident," he maintains, "but an experiment that... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
(1:11)"Only On The Web": Bill Plante visits Pripyat, Ukraine, just a mile away from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. When disaster struck, residents were given 36 hours to leave. (CBS News -- Iraq)
The country that suffered the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 has come a long way since winning independence in 1991. It adopted its first constitution in 1996. (USA Today)
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine, March 31, 2008 ... Chernobyl nuclear power plant's damaged Reactor No. 4 is seen from Pripyat on March 1, 2006 ... Chernobyl Still Draws Concern. (CBS News)
(1:58)It has been over 20 years since the world's worst nuclear disaster, but Chernobyl is still generating dangerous radiation levels. As Bill Plante reports, a new steel arch could provide a solution. (CBS News)
(3:10)"Only On The Web": Bill Plante explores the construction site at Chernobyl, where a massive steel arch will be built over the dangerous reactor to contain radiation for at least one hundred years. (1:58). (CBS News -- World)
Nuclear energy is by no means a new technology, but the accidents at Chernobyl in the erstwhile USSR and Three Mile Island in the USA effectively put paid to it for a couple of decades. But in recent times there's been a revival of interest in nuclear power because of its potential to combat climate change. (India Times, India)
Yet the March 1979 accident at Three Mile Island, in the United States, and the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, are grim reminders of the limits of that safety. An inquiry ordered by President Jimmy Carter after the Three Mile Island accident found that the plant's owner, operator and designer "failed to acquire enough information about safety problems, failed to analyze adequately what information they did acquire, or failed to act on that information." Less than 10 years later,... (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
(Subsequently, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the then Ukrainian Soviet Republic melted down in April 1986 in what would become the worst nuclear power accident in history, spreading radiation as far away as North America and leading to the evacuation and resettlement of more than 336,000 people). "The politics is changing," she added, noting growing enthusiasm for nuclear power as the clean alternative to coal-burning plants. (Scientific American)
March 27, 2008 - Publishers Koch Media and GSC Game World have announced that FPS will be releasing worldwide August 29, 2008. Clear Sky will be set in 2011, and players will be placed into the events prior to the third campaign of Strelok. (IGN PC Games)
Dutch photographer Robert Knoth shows us the never-ending aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident ... The seemingly never-ending effects of the world's most notorious nuclear accident, Chernobyl, have ravaged kids who weren't even born when it occurred in 1986 ... au/ffximage/2008/03/27/chernobyl_080327114701785_wideweb__300x300. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Interest in nuclear power, which slumped after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, has revived since scientists began warning that carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels for power and transport were making the world warmer, unbalancing the planet's eco-system. China, which opens a coal-fired power plant a week, is also embarking on a major nuclear building programme, and the United States is actively promoting nuclear power. (Planet Ark, United States)
The local homestays have been ongoing since 1995 when the Ellensburg chapter of the nonprofit Children of Chernobyl began, according to a news release ... Although the children coming to the United States through the Children of Chernobyl program, or CofC, were born after the accident, lingering effects of the disaster continue to affect some of the living environment in Belarus and can depress residents health and youngsters development ... Cecelia Cec Calhoun, head of the Ellensburg CofC... (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)
That's the only acceptable explanation for the worst civic missteps since the mayor of Chernobyl said, "Sure, y'all can build your nuclear reactor here."Why else other than switched blueprints did Raleigh build the RBC Center out in the hinterlands away from everything, while Durham plopped its big white elephant of a jailhouse downtown in the midst of everything. As have thousands of others, people in Raleigh for last weekend's NCAA Tournament complained about the paucity of diversions near the... (News & Observer)
While the accident was scary, its actual negative effects were few completely unlike the 1986 catastrophe at the Soviet nuclear power plant in Chernobyl. No one was killed at Three Mile Island, and the additional radiation exposure suffered by nearby residents was the equivalent of one-sixth of a typical chest X-ray. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
Tice said the dangerous practices uncovered in the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada underscore "the value and importance of infection control. People are often unwilling to pay for it because it may not make a difference this month. ... But down the road, we will see the consequences in 20 to 30 years from what happened in that clinic. "It's like Chernobyl, if you will," he said, referring to the 1986 nuclear accident in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. May event will raise funds for... (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
The nuclear industry in much of the world languished for decades after an accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979, and another at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union in 1986, aroused fears about the safety of the technology ... " The number of schools that train nuclear engineers and plant operators has halved in the last 25 years, it said. France, with 58 nuclear reactors, is counting on its expertise to win lucrative contracts if, as it hopes, many countries choose atomic power... (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Since the 1986 meltdown of a reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine, Russian engineers have adopted safety measures similar to those used in the U.S., including reactors that shut down automatically when there's a fault ... Russia rebuilt its nuclear industry with help from the U.S. After the 1979 Three Mile Island reactor leak in the U.S. and Chernobyl, the Cold War rivals stopped all new domestic construction and collaborated to improve nuclear safety, said Asmolov, who in 1991 spent six months with... (Bloomberg)
The pollutants in question amongst the cities in this top 10 were predominantly made up of toxic chemicals, lead, radioactive materials (one of the cities is Chernobyl) and airborne particulates. Don't Miss. (CNN -- International)
The 2000 accident at the Tokaimura plant was the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl ... Tokaimura was the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. (Aljazeera.Net)
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