This is the grave of Karen Silkwood. Born in 1946 in Longview, Texas, Silkwood grew up in the conservative Protestant world of postwar east Texas. She was a good student and a member of the National Honor Society but even that didn't mean an easy...
Nuclear Energy
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, 1979
Stamp promoting the Atoms for Peace program, 1955
It was ten years ago that the earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused the greatest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. There's been any number of stories to remember the anniversary and discuss the many unsolved problems. Here's one on the impact upon water and what to...
I ran across this favorite image of mine earlier today and I figured it was well worth a late Friday blog post. I know I'm convinced.
No. But of course that's not going to stop a contrarian article from arguing that liberals also have anti-science views that stop action against climate change. And yet even as.
Five years today since the Fukushima earthquake and subsequent nuclear power plant disaster. Some links for this anniversary. The power plant is still leaking radioactive substances into the ocean, although obviously at far lower rates than immediately after the quake. The mixed international impact of...
U.S. President Barack Obama, left and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake their hands after they jointly addressed the media after their talks, in New Delhi,.
It ain't great. India’s nuclear chiefs have long maintained that ill health in the region is caused by endemic poverty and and the unsanitary conditions of its tribal people, known.
On October 15, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, finally providing a path forward for some of the Cold War's most exploited workers, Navajo uranium miners, as well as other Americans, primarily Native Americans and Mormon farmers, who had been...
The Tennessee Valley Authority is about to finally bring Watts Bar Unit 2 online, making it the first new nuclear power plant to open in the United States since 1996..
Found this in the archives today. It's faint, but readable. And it shows that Homer Simpson is real and evidently worked in the Fermi reactor in Michigan during the 1960s..