Category Archives: Nuclear

Most powerful US nuclear bomb dismantled

By doris | Published: October 25, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com AMARILLO, Texas — The last of the nation’s most powerful nuclear bombs has been taken apart in Texas. Technicians at the Pantex Plant near Amarillo removed the uranium Tuesday from the last of the nation’s largest nuclear bombs, a Cold War relic known as the B53. The bomb put into service [...]

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Build safer nuclear plants? We have the power

By doris | Published: July 4, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com In the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in March, the appetite for new nuclear power plants slipped to post-Chernobyl lows. Regulators from Italy to Switzerland to Texas moved to stop pending nuclear-power projects, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) began to re-evaluate the safety of all domestic plants. Yet nuclear [...]

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Back-up generators put to use at Nebraska nuclear plant

By doris | Published: June 27, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A nuclear power plant in Nebraska, which is being threatened by rising floodwaters, switched to back-up generators for a time after a water-filled berm protecting the site collapsed Sunday, a statement from the plant said. “As a precaution, per plant procedure, the operators started the diesel generators and temporarily [...]

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Operator airs plan to control Japan nuclear crisis

By doris | Published: April 17, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com TOKYO – The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant laid out a blueprint Sunday for stopping radiation leaks and stabilizing damaged reactors within the next six to nine months as a first step toward allowing some of the tens of thousands of evacuees to return to the area.

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Power lines reconnected to Japan’s quake-damaged nuclear plant

By james | Published: March 22, 2011

Full Story at LATimes.com Lights are turned on in the control room of reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima complex, but officials warn that equipment must be checked before the restored electricity can be used to operate cooling systems at the plant. Meanwhile, the death toll from the quake and tsunami rises to nearly 10,000, [...]

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Experts: U.S. won’t feel health effects from Japan

By doris | Published: March 16, 2011

Full Story at The Chart.Blogs.cnn.com The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, which has suffered numerous fires, explosions and subsequent radiation leaks since Friday’s earthquake, could get worse, and just how much worse is unknown. But health and nuclear safety experts agree that even if radiation levels around the plant reach Chernobyl-like [...]

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Vietnam partners with Japan to build nuke plant

By doris | Published: October 31, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com HANOI — Vietnam has chosen to partner with Japan in the construction of a nuclear power plant and in mining rare earth minerals in the southeast Asian country, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan told reporters on Sunday. “I understand that becoming partners in these two issues means that the two countries [...]

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North Korea to abandon disarmament over U.S. exercises

By doris | Published: March 8, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — North Korea said Sunday it would no longer move forward with nuclear disarmament in response to a planned U.S.-South Korean joint military exercise. The announcement was made by the official Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA. “The maneuvers clearly indicate once again that the U.S. and the South Korean [...]

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