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24 Mar 2011, 2:59 am
But even through Fukushima is far more distant from the White House than was Three Mile Island, so too was another president's response to a potential nuclear plant disaster.On Sunday, April 1, 1979, President and Mrs. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 4:44 pm
Tokyo Electric Power, whose nuclear plant was damaged by the natural disaster in Japan, is in negotiations with its bankers for loans of as much as 2 trillion yen, a person close to the lenders said. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 1:20 pm
More than 108 million Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant, and Tokyo is 150 miles from the Fukushima plant. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 12:53 pm
For example, it is reported that Japan had at least one prior earthquake that seriously affected a nuclear power plant. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 11:44 am
All claims are channeled through the nuclear power plant operator. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 5:30 am
Bad Call: Japanese regulators discussed in recent months the use of new cooling technologies at nuclear plants that could have lessened or prevented the disaster that struck this month when a tsunami wiped out the electricity at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power facility. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 4:18 am
As we understand it, the legal limit for nuclear power plant worker exposure is 50 millisieverts a year. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 6:58 pm
And my kids were at first very skeptical last week when I tried to tell them that so far coal had killed far more people than nuclear power. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 4:09 pm
Report Strengthens Suspicions That Stuxnet Sabotaged Iran’s Nuclear Plant Iran: Computer Malware Sabotaged Uranium Centrifuges New Clues Point to Israel as Author of Blockbuster Worm, Or Not Clues Suggest Stuxnet Virus Was Built for Subtle Nuclear Sabotage Blockbuster Worm Aimed for Infrastructure, But No Proof Iran Nukes Were Target SCADA System’s Hard-Coded Password Circulated Online for Years Simulated Cyberattack Shows Hackers Blasting Away at the… [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 2:27 pm
The world is looking anxiously on as the Japanese attempt to prevent the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from melting down. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 1:54 pm
Just as the computers that ran Iran’s nuclear program were sabotaged and crippled by a cyber “super worm” virus, the software used to run much of America’s industrial, transportation and power infrastructure — including nuclear power plants and major airports — is vulnerable to cyber attack, and two software companies have revealed dozens of successful hacks to prove it. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 6:00 am
Watching events unfold at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant over the past week have reminded me how little I really know about how nuclear power is regulated. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 6:00 am
Watching events unfold at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant over the past week have reminded me how little I really know about how nuclear power is regulated. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 4:53 am
GEORGE MONBIOT: Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 1:17 am
Since a power outage destroys the nuclear plant and risks large-scale radiation spread, there should be at least five different ways to power these plants. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 10:50 am
Damage to nuclear power plants in Japan caused by the earthquake and tsunami caused concerns and panic not only among the general public in Japan but also around the world including the people in the U.S. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 9:41 am
It is foreseeable that a nuclear plant in an earthquake zone might lose power, and that its auxiliary backup generators might fail, just as it was foreseeable that a blowout protector might fail and thus not stem a gushing oil leak. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 9:32 am
Alaskan Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell (R) told Reuters last Friday that outages at Japanese nuclear power plants could cause an increase in demand for Alaskan oil and LNG exports. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 9:17 am
So, even though the vulnerability of this kind of nuclear plant has been clear for decades, there are at least 32 such facilities continuing to operate around the world. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 8:05 am
—President Obama has ordered a comprehensive review of the safety of U.S. nuclear power plants in response to Japan’s nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. [read post]
