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Relations with Russia chill, and nuclear security cooperation gets put on ice
The US and Russia have cooperated for two decades to secure Russia’s nuclear stockpile, a program that was a rare bright spot in the relationship between the two powers. But while the dangers haven’t decreased, Russia may be ready to end American aid because of the situation in Ukraine.
Radioactive Leak Plugged at Japan’s Reactor
Workers at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant say they’ve stopped a the leak that was sending highly radioactive water into the ocean. However, enough radioactive material has already flowed into ocean that it’s worked its way up the food chain with fish 43 miles away testing for high levels of radioactive iodine 131. Ken Belson, reporter […]
Will We Ever Stop Using Unsafe Energy?
Tokyo’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is said to be registering at 100-thousand times the normal level of radiation following the Sendai earthquake three weeks ago. Is the breach at Fukushima further proof that, in our search for energy independence, nuclear power may just be an uncontrollable gambit? Or is there a safer means to […]
The Japanese Government’s Response to Disaster
The chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given a much more dire analysis of the nuclear threat bearing down on Japan than Japanese officials. Gregory Jaczko told Congress yesterday that the damage to at least one reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant was more serious than Tokyo has described, and suggested Americans […]