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The partial meltdown at Three Mile Island 30 years ago ended the first wave of building nuclear power plants, but are plans about to be revived?
March 27, 2009 |
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Robots cleaned up what humans could not because of radioactive contamination after the worst nuclear accident in the nation's history 30 years ago
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Tom Zoellner's book Uranium explores how a historic mine in Africa poses an existential threat
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Thirty years ago there was a partial meltdown of a reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania
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Nuclear waste is either a millennia's worth of lethal garbage or the fuel of future nuclear reactors--or both
Even environmentalists are reevaluating nuclear power as a possible solution to global warming, but can it really help?
A new wave of nuclear power plant construction has boosted the price of uranium reactor fuel
An obscure scale helps communicate the relative severity of a nuclear accident
Newly approved reactor designs could reduce global warming and fossil-fuel dependence, but utilities are grappling with whether better nukes make market sense
What companies are doing to keep consumers out of the dark when a power facility fails
Now that Yucca Mountain seems to be out of contention as a nuclear waste repository, how safe was it?
A threefold expansion of nuclear power could contribute significantly to staving off climate change by avoiding one billion to two billion tons of carbon emissions annually
Imitating the sun remains an elusive goal for energy researchers. David Biello reports
Nuclear power--like most forms of electricity generation--carries inherent risks. Is it worth the minor chance of a major catastrophe?
Using comic books to explore the issues and history of nuclear power
Imitating the sun remains an elusive goal for energy researchers. David Biello reports
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