Chernobyl’s trees are not decaying normally, increasing the risk of a nuclear wildfire – Wildfire Today
— Read on wildfiretoday.com/2014/03/16/chernobyls-trees-are-not-decaying-normally-increasing-the-risk-of-a-nuclear-wildfire/
Tag: nuclear
Charles Loeb: The Black Reporter Who Exposed an Atomic Bomb Lie – The New York Times
Charles H. Loeb defied the American military’s denials and propaganda to show how deadly radiation from the strike on Hiroshima sickened and killed.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/science/charles-loeb-atomic-bomb.html
BBC World Service – The Inquiry, Do we need more nuclear power to help deal with climate change?
Tanya Beckett asks if nuclear energy can helps us transition away from fossil fuel power.
— Read on www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1z20
A Century After His Birth, Dissident Sakharov Divides Opinion – The Moscow Times
The father of the Soviet bomb is sometimes publicly lauded, but his pro-democratic convictions are increasingly glossed over and opposed by the authorities.
— Read on www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/06/02/a-century-after-his-birth-dissident-sakharov-divides-opinion-a74086
China’s Hollow Military
Article by Bates Gill and Michael E. O’Hanlon, The National Interest (Summer 1999)
— Read on www.brookings.edu/articles/chinas-hollow-military/
Japan to start releasing Fukushima water into sea in 2 years
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government decided Tuesday to start releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years — an option fiercely opposed by human beings who care about the future, rather than saving a dollar.
— Read on apnews.com/article/japan-tsunamis-tokyo-d35637331403c59bbdf61e5ee1f09dbc
Russia Has a Massive Amount of Tactical Nuclear Weapons. Why? | The National Interest
Russia’s non-strategic nukes are premised on U.S. conventional military superiority.
— Read on nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russia-has-massive-amount-tactical-nuclear-weapons-why-182433
Nature’s Nuclear Reactors: The 2-Billion-Year-Old Natural Fission Reactors in Gabon, Western Africa – Scientific American Blog Network
Nature’s Nuclear Reactors: The 2-Billion-Year-Old Natural Fission Reactors in Gabon, Western Africa – Scientific American Blog Network
— Read on blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/natures-nuclear-reactors-the-2-billion-year-old-natural-fission-reactors-in-gabon-western-africa/