inexpensive electricity without greenhouse gases, it also produces highly radioactive waste that must be stored for thousands of years. Some activists have argued that nuclear power can never be safely generated, and a number
Are there still bodies in Chernobyl? Does the Kingdom of Hawaii still exist? Does the Social Security Act still exist? Is the American Indian Movement still active? Did anyone die at the march of Selma? Did anyone die in the Glorious Revolution? Does the Ba'ath Party still exist? Does ...
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It was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl 25 years earlier. Hundreds of deaths have been attributed to the chaos of evacuations during the crisis and to the hardship and trauma refugees have experienced since then, but the government only last month acknowledged for the first tim...
Chernobyl excellently breaks down the complex mechanisms of a nuclear disaster and makes it entertaining, but it does miss some things in the process.
Chernobyl. The word alone evoke fear among the people born in the 80’s and earlier, that can remember this horrible April night in 1986. The iron curtain over the Soviet Union prevented the information about the accident to reach the rest of the world for several days. Even the inhabitants...
Chernobyl at last due for new reactor component (4,3) Answer:FUEL ROD(i.e. “reactor component”). Solution is an anagram (indicated by “new”) of L (i.e. “Chernobyl at last”, i.e. the last letter of “Chernobyl”) and DUE FOR. ...
Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, is one of the most popular dark destinations. When its nuclear reactor (核反应堆) exploded in 1984, it released a radioactive (放射性的) cloud so devastating that the surrounding area will remain uninhabitable (不适宜居住的) for 20,000 years. Despite the destructio...
“A Clearing”. We follow William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth, a contemporary descendant of the playwright, as he tries to rediscover/reinvent stories in the world after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. The film does incorporate some quotes from Shakespeare, but it also draws on other sources...
My March 2011 statement was not a lucky guess, rather, based on a perspective -- with the awful exception of Chernobyl in 1986, nuclear power has been safe. Since the Chernobyl meltdown, a quarter century has passed in which nuclear power has done no harm to human health or the environme...