The danger scenarios at Zaporizhizhia

Writing in Down To Earth, Dr. M.V. Ramana explains the various meltdown risks at the besieged Zaporizhizhia six-reactor nuclear power plant in Ukraine, currently caught up in war fighting: “Broadly speaking, there are three scenarios that might result in the expulsion of radioactive materials from some facility at the Zaporizhzhia complex. “The first is the…

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How Safe Are Nuclear Power Plants?

A new history reveals that federal regulators consistently assured Americans that the risks of a massive accident were “vanishingly small”—even when they knew they had insufficient evidence to prove it. By Daniel Ford, former executive director of Union of Concerned Scientists, published in The New Yorker. (The photo above shows the corrosion hole in the…

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