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Chernobyl: Remembrance of Remembrances Past

Chernobyl: Remembrance of Remembrances Past

Chernobyl, Editor's choice, Latest March 21, 2016 at 6:47 pm 0 comments

“Ninety kilometers away from a modern industrial city with an atomic substation, people still wove their own clothes, lived on their own natural means, and even confessed to their own pre-Christian gods… During Easter, instead of carrying the specially baked bread to church, they offered it to the setting sun,Read More

Exporting Disaster: The Cost of Selling CANDU Reactors

Exporting Disaster: The Cost of Selling CANDU Reactors

On March 14th, 2016, Greenpeace India called for a probe by independent experts into all aging heavy water reactors in the country, claiming the country’s nuclear regulator has failed to ascertain the reason behind the recent incident at Kakrapar Atomic Power Station in Gujarat, which happened, ironically, exactly five yearsRead More

On Forgetting Fukushima

On Forgetting Fukushima

On Forgetting Fukushima by Robert Jacobs, March 2016 This article appeared originally in The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 5, No. 1, March 1, 2016 This month the media and social networks are busy remembering Fukushima on the fifth anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, but what weRead More

French Polynesia and other Pacific Island Nations Join the Marshall Islands in the ICJ Case against Nuclear Weapon States

French Polynesia and other Pacific Island Nations Join the Marshall Islands in the ICJ Case against Nuclear Weapon States

The Marshall Islands submitted complaints at The International Court of Justice in The Hague in 2014 against the United States, Russia, France, the United Kingdom and China for flagrant violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which was signed by these countries in 1968. India, North Korea, Israel and Pakistan are named as well, as they too are nuclear-armed states.