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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster “Man-Made” Reports Japanese Panel; Quake Damaged...
Aerial view of the Oi Nuclear Power Plant, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. (photo: Japan Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport via Wikipedia) The massive disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear...
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Made in Japan? Fukushima Crisis Is Nuclear, Not Cultural
(photo: Steve Snodgrass) Since the release of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Committee’s official report last week, much has been made of how it implicates Japanese culture as one of the...
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NRC Report on San Onofre: Close Enough for Government Work
An aerial view of the San Onofre Generating Station. (photo: Jelson25 via Wikipedia) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission released its report on recent failures at the San Onofre nuclear facility [PDF] on...
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Book Salon – Joseph Mangano, Author of Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment
[Note: On Saturday afternoon, I hosted FDL Book Salon, featuring a live Q&A with Joseph Mangano, author of Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment. This is a repost of that discussion.] In...
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Superstorm Sandy Shows Nuclear Plants Who’s Boss
Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Station as seen in drier times. (photo via wikipedia) Once there was an ocean liner; its builders said it was unsinkable. Nature had other ideas. On Monday evening, as...
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Oyster Creek Nuclear Alert: As Floodwaters Fall, More Questions Arise
Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in pre-flood mode. (photo: NRCgov) New Jersey’s Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station remains under an official Alert, a day-and-a-half after the US Nuclear...
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The Long, Long Con: Seventy Years of Nuclear Fission; Thousands of Centuries...
From here to eternity: a small plaque on the campus of the University of Chicago commemorates the site of Fermi’s first atomic pile–and the start of the world’s nuclear waste problem. (Photo: Nathan...
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Fukushima Plus Two: Still the Beginning?
An IAEA inspector examines the remains of reactor 3 at Fukushima Daiichi (5/27/11) (photo: Greg Webb/IAEA imagebank) I was up working in what were in my part of the world the early morning hours of...
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Two Years On, Fukushima Raises Many Questions, Provides One Clear Answer
Fukushima’s threats to health and the environment continue. (graphic: Surian Soosay via flickr) You can’t say you have all the answers if you haven’t asked all the questions. So, at a conference on the...
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The Brief Wondrous Life (and Long Dangerous Half-Life) of Strontium-90
At roughly 5:30 in the morning on July 16, 1945, an implosion-design plutonium device, codenamed “the gadget,” exploded over the Jornada del Muerto desert in south-central New Mexico with a force...
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