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Zaporizhzhia: World narrowly avoided radiation accident – Zelensky
Europe faced the prospect of a radiation disaster on Thursday when a Russian-occupied nuclear plant was disconnected from Ukraine’s power grid, President Volodomyr Zelensky has said. As reported by the BBC. The image above appears in the article. It is entitled “Fire near Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.”
Read MoreUkraine war: Allies seek more security at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
As reported by BBC News.
Read MorePutin supports nuclear plant inspection
As reported by the Washington Post: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said he supports allowing U.N. experts to inspect the Zaporizhzhia plant “as soon as possible” and agreed to provide the “necessary assistance,” during a call with French President Emmanuel Macron. However, Moscow has rejected broader requests to withdraw its military from the site, and has…
Read MoreCecile Pineda, wide-ranging Latina author, dies at 89
Obituary published in the Washington Post on August 15, 2022. Cecile Pineda passed on on August 11, 2022. As the obituary reports: Ms. Pineda wrote 10 books in all, many of them reflecting her engagement with the anti-nuclear movement, environmentalism and activism on behalf of immigrants and other marginalized groups. Her nonfiction work “Devil’s Tango,”…
Read MoreThe risks to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant, explained
Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant is also its most vulnerable. As reported by VOX. (The record needs to be set straight on an error reported in the article. The article reports that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was designed to withstand shelling or other military attack. This is not true. See, for example, this New…
Read MoreInside Ukraine’s captured nuclear plant, explosions and constant fear
Workers from the Zaporizhzhia facility describe disappearances at the hands of Russian soldiers and fear of nuclear catastrophe As reported by the Washington Post.
Read MoreAnxiety surrounds Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant amid unrelieved fears of an attack
As reported by the Washington Post.
Read MoreUkraine and Russia Accuse Each Other of Plotting Attack on Nuclear Plant
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe, has already been hit by shelling, and the United Nations chief, warning of disaster, called for a demilitarized zone around it. As reported by the New York Times.
Read MoreThe Diablo Canyon nuclear plant: assessing the seismic risks of extended operation
By Edwin Lyman, Director of Nuclear Power Safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Read MoreKeeping the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open is a dangerous waste of effort and money
A business column by Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times.
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