With nuke rebirth come new worries
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Global warming and rocketing oil prices are making nuclear power fashionable, drawing a once demonized industry out of the shadows of the Chernobyl disaster as a potential shining knight of clean energy.
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Wednesday after a more than two-week journey from Charleston in the United States. They fear it is vulnerable to. plutonium will be recycled into nuclear fuel.
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A shipment of weapons-grade plutonium has left the United States for a nuclear reactor in France, drawing protests from activists who believe the shipment poses both an environmental and terrorist threat.
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Doctors and their patients in many countries are facing increasing problems receiving lifesaving isotopes for treating a range of illnesses.
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Worries about government actions to cool economic growth reverberate around the globe.
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Scientific evidence that fallout from Chernobyl may have raised cancer rates in western Europe has emerged for the first time. Researchers in Sweden identified a suspicious increase in cancer incidence in
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Beware a temper tantrum when the kid's holding nukes.
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US concern is growing as China develops new nuclear submarines and more accurate missiles, a report says.
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While there has been progress in protecting nuclear materials in Russia, the threat of terrorists stealing a nuclear device remains high in many parts of the world, a private study concluded Wednesday.
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PARIS, Aug 17  (IPS) - The fatal accident at the Japanese nuclear power  plant Mihama last week has raised  fears about French nuclear  facilities -- and also the desire to have more.
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Some of the scientists who first advanced the controversial "nuclear winter" theory more than two decades ago have come up with another bleak forecast: Even a regional nuclear war would devastate the environment.
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By Bill Jackson, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 18--It may not seem a big deal like Y2K, but it might cause a lot more headaches.
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The world's biggest nuclear power plant may be shut for more than a year for safety checks after an earthquake in Japan caused radiation leaks, prompting speculation of power shortages and prompting a run on the firm's shares.
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On Amchitka Island, former site of nuclear-weapons testing, a federal monitoring program takes effect this week.
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Security concerns after 9/11 mean the days of high jinks-first, question-later are gone
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The shocking discovery only deepens the mystery (and creeping anxiety) over the fatal radiation poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko
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Out of death may come a rebirth. The alternative is much more likely to happen. And if it does the consequence will be a living hell that will go on and on and on.