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The Bulletin: February 13-19, 2025
The Bulletin: February 13-19, 2025 CLICK HERE What Will Energy Dominance Be Used For? – by Arthur Berman Thirsty For Solutions, Water Scarcity Grips Iraq Humans will Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Nine Meals To Chaos The Double Bind of Collapse | how to save the world Ecological Collapse Supersedes Financial Collapse […]
Conflict Between Nuclear-Powered Nations: Chernobyl Is Now a War Zone
Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few weeks after the disaster. Chernobyl, Ukraine, USSR, May 1986. (Photo: Igor Kostin/Laski Diffusion/Getty Images) Conflict Between Nuclear-Powered Nations: Chernobyl Is Now a War Zone The next Chernobyl scale nuclear disaster could happen in Chernobyl as the Ukraine conflict intensifies. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia poses several nuclear threats, including […]
Nuclear Reactions At Chernobyl “Cause for Concern”
Nuclear Reactions At Chernobyl “Cause for Concern” Sensors have detected increased levels of neutrons in an inaccessible chamber at the Chernobyl site, signaling that nuclear fission reactions are taking place in the entombed reactor hall, Science reports. The signs that fission reactions are occurring come 35 years nearly to the date when the Chernobyl nuclear power […]
Chernobyl Radiation Levels Suddenly Surge 17x
Chernobyl Radiation Levels Suddenly Surge 17x Radiation across the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone spiked 17x as firefighters over the weekend battled a 250-acre forest fire, reported NBC News. More than 100 firefighters, several Antonov AN-32P Firekiller air tankers, and a Mil Mi-8 helicopter were dispatched near the village of Vladimirovka to fight the fire. Ukrainian emergency services […]
Nuclear Power Offers an Abundant Supply of Low-Carbon Energy. But What to Do With the Deadly Radioactive Waste?
NUCLEAR POWER OFFERS AN ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF LOW-CARBON ENERGY. BUT WHAT TO DO WITH THE DEADLY RADIOACTIVE WASTE? The race is on to develop new strategies for permanently storing some of the most dangerous materials on the planet. Photo of Chernobyl confinement structure © iStockphoto.com/E_Kryzhanivskyi There’s a small red hammer and sickle flag of the […]
The lessons of Chernobyl: It’s the West that now needs Glasnost
The lessons of Chernobyl: It’s the West that now needs Glasnost The much-acclaimed series ‘Chernobyl’ tells the story of the 1986 nuclear disaster and the authorities’ attempts to play it down. Ironically, 33 years on, it’s Western leaders who need to learn how to be honest and transparent. It was the accident which some think […]
American Chernobyl
American Chernobyl In the Spring of 1986 the Soviet Union was in a slow motion collapse. No one in the US intelligence agencies predicted it, the military was taken completely by surprise and no apologies were ever made for the thirty year, multi-trillion dollar oversight. It’s political and social institutions were Potemkin villages kept alive […]
Why a Chernobyl-like Financial Disaster is Inescapable
Why a Chernobyl-like Financial Disaster is Inescapable In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986 – roughly 33 years ago – things went horribly wrong in the town of Pripyat, in northern Soviet Ukraine. Reactor No. 4 at the V. I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant, also known as the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, was […]
Chernobyl’s Deadly Effects Estimates Vary
Chernobyl’s Deadly Effects Estimates Vary April 26 marks the 33rd anniversary of the 1986 radiation disaster at Chernobyl reactor Number 4 in Ukraine, just north of Kiev the capital. It is still nearly impossible to get scientific consensus on the vast extent of the impacts. The explosions and two-week long fire at Chernobyl spewed around […]
Russian Sea Monsters: Rudderless Reactors on the High Seas
Russian Sea Monsters: Rudderless Reactors on the High Seas Did you hear the one about the Exxon Valdez, Fuku-Chernobyl, Gulf Oil Titanic? Yeah: Russia floated two nuclear reactors on a bargeto power oil rigs in the Arctic Ocean and nothing went wrong! Unsatisfied with trouncing Japan at the Winter Olympics, 14 gold medals to four, […]
Move Over Chernobyl, Fukushima is Now Officially the Worst Nuclear Power Disaster in History
Move Over Chernobyl, Fukushima is Now Officially the Worst Nuclear Power Disaster in History Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 The radiation dispersed into the environment by the three reactor meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in Japan has exceeded that of the April 26, 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe, so we may stop calling it the “second […]
Move Over Chernobyl, Fukushima is Now Officially the Worst Nuclear Power Disaster in History
Move Over Chernobyl, Fukushima is Now Officially the Worst Nuclear Power Disaster in History Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 The radiation dispersed into the environment by the three reactor meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in Japan has exceeded that of the April 26, 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe, so we may stop calling it the “second […]
“Chernobyl in a Can” – 71 Vulnerable-To-Cracking Radioactive Waste Canisters Set for CA Ocean-Front Burial at San Onofre: Donna Gilmore, NH #335
“Chernobyl in a Can” – 71 Vulnerable-To-Cracking Radioactive Waste Canisters Set for CA Ocean-Front Burial at San Onofre: Donna Gilmore, NH #335 This Week’s Featured Interview: Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org reports on Southern California Edison’s plans to bury 1,800 tons – that’s 3,600,000 pounds <!> of high-level radioactive waste a mere 36 yards from high […]
Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists and the Chernobyl Death Toll
Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists and the Chernobyl Death Toll With few if any exceptions, self-styled pro-nuclear environmentalists peddle misinformation regarding the Chernobyl death toll. Before considering their misinformation, a brief summary of credible positions and scientific studies regarding the Chernobyl cancer death toll (for detail see here). Epidemiological public health studies are of course important but they’re not […]
Fukushima Today
Fukushima Today Throughout the world, the name Fukushima has become synonymous with nuclear disaster and running for the hills. Yet, Fukushima may be one of the least understood disasters in modern times, as nobody knows how to fix neither the problem nor the true dimension of the damage. Thus, Fukushima is in uncharted territory, a […]
