Disaster

ISSUES

Technological disasters

Nuclear accidents and risk
For a long time, a nuclear disaster was deemed unlikely. Nuclear energy was presented as carefully monitored. But when half of the core of a reactor melted in the Three Miles Island (TMI) nuclear power station in the United States in 1979, concern grew. Even though there were no casualties and the radiation was confined by the security system, the accident led to the suspension of the United States' civil nuclear program. For those against nuclear power, this was proof that accidents could indeed happen.

NEWS

Alaskan ecologists see surge in Japan tsunami debris

Elgin platform gas leak plugged safely, says Total

Total diverts gas cloud away from stricken North Sea rig

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DEBATES

When factories explode

Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

The emerging disaster at Dounreay is a powerful argument for open government.

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FOCUS

Collapse

Sooner or later, societies disappear and are replaced by others. What can we learn from the ones that came before us, just before the onset of the forthcoming climate crisis? A widely researched example is Easter...

VIDEOS

27/04/2011	This short video reveals a space-based view of the burning oil rig, the...	18/04/2011	25 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, residents of the area are...
23/03/2011	In July 2010, Chinese photographer Lu Guang documented the oil spill at...	16/06/2010	So many people across the U.S. want to help with the oil spill, especially...

GREEN TIPS

Vegetalized barriers against the tsunami

From 2006 to 2007, the government of Tamil Nadu, a state at India’s land’s end (in the south-east) and the...

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