Nuclear and water

The Discharge of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water could be a Precedent for Similar Actions

The Discharge of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water could be a Precedent for Similar Actions

Climate Change and Nuclear Power, Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Power, Fukushima, Latest, Nuclear and water, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Waste, Radiation and Health September 7, 2023 at 9:40 pm 0 comments

Pinar Demircan The author, Pınar Demircan (Ph.D. in sociology) is an independent researcher, Nukleersiz.org Coordinator and nuclear editor at Yesil Gazete. Her earlier articles on our website can be accessed here. The Discharge of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water could be a Precedent for Similar Actions [1] Underlying the disregard for objectionsRead More

“A River is Not a Radioactive Sewer”: Dr. Gordon Edwards on Radioactive Water Dumping in the Pacific Ocean, Hudson River

“A River is Not a Radioactive Sewer”: Dr. Gordon Edwards on Radioactive Water Dumping in the Pacific Ocean, Hudson River

Asia, Documents, Editor's choice, Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Power, Fukushima, Latest, Nuclear America, Nuclear and water, Nuclear Anthropocene, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Waste, Radiation and Health September 3, 2023 at 1:29 am 0 comments

A River is Not a Radioactive Sewer Dr. Gordon Edwards | Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility Media conference presentation, New York State, August 23 2023, Re: Plans to dump radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River In 2017, I was invited to give a talk on the shores of the HudsonRead More

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Nuclear Safety Regimes and India: What the Silence on the latest Fukushima Crisis Tells Us

Anthropocene, Asia, Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Power, Fukushima, India's Nuclear Expansion, International, International Solidarity, Nuclear and non-humans, Nuclear and water, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste January 25, 2021 at 9:32 pm 0 comments

Sonali Huria| The Leaflet  THE new year has begun on a grim note with a toxic gas leak at the Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha on 6 January, which claimed the lives of four contractual workers. This is the latest in a disconcerting string of industrial accidents in India over the last fewRead More

Nuclear accidents, as seen through the history of water-related disasters

Nuclear accidents, as seen through the history of water-related disasters

Nuclear and water April 14, 2020 at 7:04 am 0 comments

This paper reinterprets the history of nuclear power as a history of water, and the history of nuclear accidents as a special case of droughts, floods, and other water-related disasters. The utmost importance of large-scale uninterrupted water flows for cooling nuclear facilities, and the need to simultaneously protect them from flooding and from contaminating their wet surroundings, have turned nuclear engineers into hydraulic engineers who interact with and transform nature in a variety of ways.

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