NUCLEAR TIMELINE
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- Root Causes and Impacts of Severe Accidents at Large Nuclear Power Plants. Högberg, Lars // AMBIO - A Journal of the Human Environment;Apr2013, Vol. 42 Issue 3, p267
The root causes and impacts of three severe accidents at large civilian nuclear power plants are reviewed: the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, the Chernobyl accident in 1986, and the Fukushima Daiichi accident in 2011. Impacts include health effects, evacuation of contaminated areas as well...
- Nuclear Power's Unsettled Future. Zehner, Ozzie // Futurist;Mar/Apr2012, Vol. 46 Issue 2, p17
The article assesses the future of nuclear power in the United States in light of environmental concerns following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan. It notes the public reaction to disasters at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania; Chernobyl, Ukraine; and Fukushima,...
- Do Advocacy Coalitions Matter? Crisis and Change in Swedish Nuclear Energy Policy. Nohrstedt, Daniel // Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory;Apr2010, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p309
The article discusses the use of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) to study developments in Swedish nuclear energy policy in the 1970s and 1980s. It explores hypotheses about advocacy coalition stability, and analyzes the motivations explaining policy change in the wake of the 1979 Three...
- The fallout from Fukushima. // New Scientist;3/19/2011, Vol. 209 Issue 2804, p5
The article focuses on the history of nuclear reactor accidents and what should be learned from the 2011 accident at the Fukushima nuclear station in Japan. It talks about previous nuclear accidents such as the Windscale fire of 1957 in England, the 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island,...
- Nuclear Meltdown. // Background Information Summaries;2011, p6
Since the widespread advent of nuclear power plants in the early 1960s, three accidents -- at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania; at Chernobyl, in Ukraine; and at Fukushima in Japan -- have raised the prospect of "meltdown," a term that refers to uncontrolled, runaway nuclear fission that literally...
- MELTDOWN MOMENTS. // Ralph;Nov2006, p52
The article offers a look at nuclear power plant accidents in modern history. The March 28, 1979 incident on Three Mile Island was contained, there were no explosions and the 25,000 people living within 15 clicks of the plant only received about one X-ray's worth of radiation. At the April 26,...
- Dead of night: Fatigue culprit in major accidents. // Occupational Health Management;Sep2008, Vol. 18 Issue 9, p102
The article highlights some worldwide accidents that occurred on the night shift or accidents associated with sleep deprivation. These include the Three-Mile Island nuclear meltdown in Pennsylvania on March 28, 1979, which was caused by a mechanical failure. The gas leak in Bhopal, India on...
- MELT DOWN. Hylton, Wil S. // GQ: Gentlemen's Quarterly;Mar2008, Vol. 78 Issue 3, p304
The article reflects on the nuclear plant at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. It views on the meltdown of the nuclear industry on March 28, 1979, which accident was described as a nightmare. It discusses the developments of the industry after the accident, and the cases which oppose the...
- THE QUEEN OF NUKES. Tomlinson, Richard // Fortune;5/17/2004, Vol. 149 Issue 10, p122
Highlights Anne Lauvergeon, the head of the French nuclear giant, Areva, who is lobbying for the world to give atomic power another chance as an energy source. Why the public fears nuclear power; How the meltdown at Three Mile Island power plant in 1979 and the Chernobyl disaster have kept...
