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

Thousands rally against nuclear power in Tokyo

S. Korea halts two more reactors over faulty parts

Japan nuclear reactor atop active fault: regulator

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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

Nobel Price of ecology

Designed to recognize grassroots environmental heroes, the Goldman Environmental Prize, founded by Richard and Rhoda Goldman in 1989 In San Francisco, is awarded annually to individuals from the six inhabited continental regions for sustained and significant efforts to...

VIDEOS

07/03/2013	Two years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began but...	06/09/2012	Mississippi officials struggle to clean up thousands of dead nutria washed...
04/06/2012	The documentary from husband-and-wife directing and producing team Josh...	27/04/2011	This short video reveals a space-based view of the burning oil rig, the...

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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