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

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FRANCE - PARIS - Cherchant à promouvoir son réacteur EPR, censé être le plus sûr du monde, la France se fait l'apôtre de normes...

UGANDA - Uganda plans to resettle at least 500,000 people living in mountainous areas over fears that last week's deadly...

FRANCE - RENNES - Des associations antinucléaires ont annoncé samedi avoir reçu d'une source anonyme interne à EDF des documents...

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DEBATES

When factories explode

Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) is a French public research institution (publicly-owned establishment in...

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

It is as far out of sight, and as far out of mind, as any...

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

17/11/2009	Maladie neurologique détruiisant le système nerveux, la maladie de...	02/11/2009	Des images impressionnantes d’un feu qui s’est déclenché sur une...
13/05/2009	Le Bangladesh est l'un des pays les plus touchés par les catastrophes...	09/03/2009	"20 years ago: Chernobyl" est un clip compilant diverses images d'archives...

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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