Radioactive Waste and Contamination

Hiroshima to Fukushima Hiroshima to Fukushima

The problem with mankind wielding nuclear power isn’t about backup generators or safety rules—it’s our essential human fallibility.

Mar 17, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

A Warning From Japan

A Warning From Japan A Warning From Japan

The message out of Fukushima is clear: our own fleet of leaky old nuclear plants should be decommissioned now.

Mar 17, 2011 / Christian Parenti

From Chernobyl to Fukushima: What Will It Take? From Chernobyl to Fukushima: What Will It Take?

There are no effective “safeguards” against nuclear disasters, and Japan’s crisis is only the latest display of the overwhelming risks involved in splitting atoms for energy.

Mar 17, 2011 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Christian Parenti: Fukushima in America?

Christian Parenti: Fukushima in America? Christian Parenti: Fukushima in America?

America's nuclear power plants are poorly managed and regulated, and it's time they were taken out of commission.

Mar 17, 2011 / Press Room

Christian Parenti: Fukushima in America?

Christian Parenti: Fukushima in America? Christian Parenti: Fukushima in America?

America's nuclear power plants are poorly managed and regulated, and it's time they were taken out of commission.

Mar 16, 2011 / The Ed Show

No Nukes Is Good Nukes

No Nukes Is Good Nukes No Nukes Is Good Nukes

Sorry, President Obama, but there is a dimension of fear properly associated with the word nuclear that is not matched by any oil spill.

Mar 16, 2011 / Robert Scheer

Burying Our Heads in Radioactive Sand Burying Our Heads in Radioactive Sand

Is Earth becoming Easter Island?

Mar 15, 2011 / Leslie Savan

From Hiroshima to Fukushima

From Hiroshima to Fukushima From Hiroshima to Fukushima

The problem with mankind wielding nuclear power isn’t about backup generators or safety rules—it’s our essential human fallibility.

Mar 15, 2011 / Jonathan Schell

Fukushima’s Spent Fuel Rods Pose Grave Danger

Fukushima’s Spent Fuel Rods Pose Grave Danger Fukushima’s Spent Fuel Rods Pose Grave Danger

Even if reactor containment vessels hold, pools of spent fuel rods could combust and release clouds of radioactive cesium into the air—a calamity that could happen at US nucl...

Mar 15, 2011 / Christian Parenti

What a Spare $1 Million Can Buy What a Spare $1 Million Can Buy

BP's CEO "got his life back" by going yachting, and the rest of the world's millionaires are doing OK, too. But one Gulf fisherman would rather have something e...

Jun 22, 2010 / Laura Flanders

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