Antinuclear

Nuclear energy – a danger unlike any other

Nuclear energy: Danger zone New Scientist, 29 May 2013 by Richard Garwin Even before the meltdown of the three reactor cores at Fukushima Daiichi, a nuclear renaissance was far from assured. In the US and Europe, any shift to nuclear had stalled more generally amid long-standing questions over safety, disposal of nuclear waste and the possibility that nuclear plants could generate material suitable for weapons

• Accidents involving the meltdown of a reactor core are unlikely, but when they do happen the consequences can be far-reaching. Two have directly led to loss of human life: the first in 1986 at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine and the second at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan in 2011.

  Nuclear fission is not like combustion, where the process is stopped by cutting off the fuel supply. Shut down a reactor in a nuclear power plant, and while the chain reaction ceases, radioactive decay carries ..subscribers only http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829192.000-nuclear-energy-danger-zone.html

May 30, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized