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The Chernobyl series, why now?

The Chernobyl series, why now?

Pinar Demircan | Declaring Soviet Russia as the sole perpetrator of the world’s largest nuclear disaster over the Chernobyl series by ignoring nuclear realities to the extent I have described above, shows that the image of the risks on nuclear power plants around the world is tried to be reshaped.

On 20 years of Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Countdown’: A Nuclear Derangement Plagues South Asia

On 20 years of Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Countdown’: A Nuclear Derangement Plagues South Asia

From the Editor’s Desk |A number of occasions coalesced together this month to inspire discussion around Amitav Ghosh’s scintillating career as a leading literary figure from South Asia. It is also 20 years since he published ‘Countdown’ in 1999 – a petite, but deeply insightful book, written soon after India’s nuclear tests. Yet the book finds infrequent mention in the several praises that have been penned in honour of Ghosh, following the award.

HBO’s Chernobyl: A cautionary tale about splitting atoms, or another chapter of Anti-Russia Propaganda?

HBO’s Chernobyl: A cautionary tale about splitting atoms, or another chapter of Anti-Russia Propaganda?

by Dennis Riches I’ve always been kind of obsessed by things nuclear. From the time I learned about nuclear arsenals as a child, I wondered how masses of people could tolerate this Sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. A few years ago, I started reading and writing intensively onRead More

‘Confessions of a rogue nuclear regulator’: excerpts from the latest book by former US NRC Chief Gregory Jaczko

‘Confessions of a rogue nuclear regulator’: excerpts from the latest book by former US NRC Chief Gregory Jaczko

Featured, Nuclear Safety Regulation, Reviews January 23, 2019 at 7:49 am 0 comments

My interest in fire safety was sparked years earlier, when I learned about the 1975 fire at the Browns Ferry nuclear power plant in Tennessee. That fire grew out of routine maintenance work on the buildings that housed the reactor. Despite their formidable size, the containment structures of many nuclear power plants, designed to corral dangerous radiation in the event of an accident, are punctured by vents and ducts. These penetration points are the weak spots that can undermine an otherwise airtight containment shell. A leak in one of these areas is a significant problem.