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Chernobyl: A monument to folly that may outlast human civilization

In Causes, Commentary, Human Interest, Illnesses, Important Articles, Main, Nuclear disaster, Radiation, Recovery
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In addition to the sixth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon spill, this month marked another grim environmental anniversary — 30 years since the April 24, 1986 nuclear accident at the Chernobyl plant in what was then the Soviet Union and is now the Ukraine. In a strange way, the fact that the accident occurred well behind the Iron Curtain of the 20th Century has left much of the Western...

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America can’t afford to ease up on nuclear safety

In Commentary, Main, Nuclear disaster, Politics, Radiation, Regulation, Safety
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There was a brief scare earlier this week from the part of the world that gave us the Chernobyl nuclear disaster nearly 30 years ago, In the Ukraine, a strife-torn nation where good information is often in short supply, officials announced there had been an accident at one of the country’s nuclear power plants. It was only later that more information emerged that, at least according to the...

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