Nuclear Power's Unsettled Future
Tags: NUCLEAR energy; REACTOR fuel reprocessing; SUBSIDIES; NUCLEAR nonproliferation; RADIOACTIVE pollution; FOSSIL fuel power plants -- Environmental aspects; FUKUSHIMA Nuclear Accident, Fukushima, Japan, 2011; THREE Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa.); CHERNOBYL Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986
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- 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...
- Six Ways Fukushima is Not Chernobyl. Beckett, Lois // Pro Publica;3/13/2011, p20
The article presents some factors which suggest that the impact of Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine in 1986 is more than the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan in 2011. The factors include absence of containment structure in Chernobyl's reactor, flaws in its design, carbon in Chernobyl's...
- NUCLEAR TIMELINE. // Government Executive;Jul2007, Vol. 39 Issue 12, p44
The article presents a list of significant events in the nuclear industry. The list includes the Three Mile Island accident on March 28, 1979 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the most significant in the history of American commercial nuclear industry, and the major accident in the Chernobyl...
- Accidents Happen, Futures Are Made. Tomb, Gordon // Vital Speeches International;May2012, Vol. 4 Issue 5, p137
The article presents a speech by Gordon Tomb, energy affairs communications professional, delivered at the International Atomic Energy Agency's National Seminar on Stakeholder Involvement in Tokyo, Japan on March 7, 2012, in which he discussed the response of the U.S. to the Fukushima accident...
- The implications of Fukushima: The US perspective. Cooper, Mark // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Jul2011, Vol. 67 Issue 4, p8
The effects of the tragedy at Japan�s Fukushima power plant will continue to reverberate over the upcoming weeks, months, and years. And, as the writers in this symposium explain, the consequences of the disaster go beyond Japan�like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, Fukushima will reshape...
- Seeds in Chernobyl: the database on proteome response on radioactive environment. Klubicov�, Katar�na; Vesel, Martin; Rashydov, Namik M.; Hajduch, Martin // Frontiers in Plant Science;Oct2012, Vol. 3, p1
Two serious nuclear accidents during the last quarter century (Chernobyl, 1986 and Fukushima, 2011) contaminated large agricultural areas with radioactivity. The database "Seeds in Chernobyl" (http://www.chernobylproteomics.sav.sk) contains the information about the abundances of hundreds of...
- 25 Years Later, Fukushima. Peltier, Robert // Power;May2011, Vol. 155 Issue 5, p32
The author reflects on the impact of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in Japan in 2011, which occurred days after the magazine completed an article on the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine in 1986. He states that the disaster in Japan raised questions on the...
- About the Cover: Looking Backward and Forward. Reitenbach, Gail // Power;May2011, Vol. 155 Issue 5, p30
An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses the cover story and cover images of the issue on topics including the nuclear accidents at nuclear plants in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986 and Fukushima, Japan in 2011.
