By Daniel Ford The New Yorker, October 6, 1980 P. 49 Talk story about a visit to Arkansas after an atomic accident.
A 9.0-magnitude undersea earthquake triggered a huge tsunami that swamped cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan's north-east, sparking the worst atomic accident in a generation.
For it also marks the 50th anniversary of a fire at the Windscale nuclear reactor in Cumbria that was, until Three Mile Island in 1979, the world's worst atomic accident (the Chernobyl explosion in 1986 dwarfs both).The fire broke out during a maintenance operation and burned for over 40 hours before engineers realised what was happening.
The reactor meltdown at Fukushima caused the world's worst atomic accident in decades.
Three reactors melted down in the world's worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986.
TOKYO -- Nearly one month after Japan's devastating nuclear accident, atomic energy experts, regulators and politicians around the world are still puzzling over a basic question: How much danger is still posed by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant?
Extensive understanding of the cancer risks following ionising radiation exposure derives from studies of patients exposed to diagnostic or therapeutic irradiation, victims of nuclear accidents and survivors of the atomic bombings in Japan [8 11].
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Friday, Feb. 23 (Agence France-Presse) — Pakistan successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile on Friday, two days after signing a deal with its rival India to cut the risk of atomic weapons accidents, the nation's military said.
Imports of fuel, which account for more than a third of Japan's total imports, surged last year as the nation's atomic plants remained idled from the March 2011 nuclear accident.
TOKYO (AP) -- Chanting "Sayonara nuclear power" and waving banners, tens of thousands of people marched in central Tokyo on Monday to call on Japan's government to abandon atomic energy in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident.
