By Paul DeRienzo | WhoWhatWhy | June 4, 2015 A 2014 explosion at a remote facility in New Mexico has exposed a cover-up of the mounting problems encountered in modernizing the United States nuclear weapons arsenal. What US officials have called “stockpile stewardship”—the maintenance of an aging supply of nuclear weapons without detonation—has failed its […]
By Gordon Edwards | Dissident Voice | May 8, 2015 Ontario Power Generation owns 20 nuclear power reactors. Two of them permanently shut down. Six more scheduled to be retired by 2020. The largest nuclear power station in North America is the Bruce NPP, located close to the shore of Lake Huron. The Western Waste […]
RT | May 9, 2015 Waste outside an abandoned uranium mine on the Navajo Nation, Cameron, Arizona (Image from ehp.niehs.nih.gov) As part of a cleanup settlement, the US will pay out more than $13 million to start dealing with hundreds of abandoned uranium mines on Navajo Nation territory. Navajo officials tell RT it is just […]
RT | April 29, 2015 A forest fire near Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear site may cause problems for communities a long way from the area as the dispersal plumes can transport radiation further to the north, nuclear safety expert John Large told RT. RT: How dangerous is the situation in your opinion? Do you agree with ecologists […]
By Noel Brinkerhoff and Steve Straehley | AllGov | April 29, 2015 What’s $300 million when a project could end up consuming more than $50 billion over its lifetime? That’s what Congress seems to have said about one of the greatest boondoggles by the Department of Energy (DOE): the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MOX). […]
By Niqnaq | April 29, 2015 Yatsenyuk inspects forest fire in the exclusion zone. After visiting the zone, the Head of Government told journalists at the airport: The situation is under control. Fire stations are from Chernobyl at a distance of about 20 km. Our State emergency service actively works to cut off the spread […]
RT | April 28, 2015 The Ukrainian National Guard has been put on high alert due to worsening forest fires around the crippled Chernobyl nuclear power plant, according to Ukraine Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. Earlier the country’s emergency ministry said there was no danger posed to the sealed-off power plant from the three forest fire […]
Press TV – April 14, 2015 A court in Japan has issued a landmark ruling against the resumption of activities by two atomic reactors at a nuclear power plant, overturning an approval by the country’s nuclear watchdog. The district court in the central prefecture of Fukui issued the injunction on Tuesday to prohibit the restart […]
By Denis G. Rancourt | Activist Teacher | February 2007 NOT THE GREATEST POTENTIAL THREAT TO HUMANITY Global warming is often presented as the greatest potential threat to humankind and as the greatest environmental and ecological threat on the planet. It is also presented as a problem that could be solved or contained by determined […]
By JOHN LAFORGE | CounterPunch | March 27, 2015 The partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, March 28, 1979, involved the loss-of-coolant, the melting of half its fuel, a hydrogen explosion in the “containment” building,(i) the uncontrolled, frightening buildup of explosive hydrogen in the reactor vessel, the venting of radioactive gases, and the dumping of […]
