Environment

Panicked Reaction to Japanese Radiation Emergency May Trigger Additional Thyroid Problems in People Needlessly Taking Potassium Iodide

The March 11, 2011 earthquake, followed by a destructive tsunami, and resulting in severe damage to a number of nuclear reactors in Japan, has caused a serious and ongoing radiation emergency in Japan. As the radiation emergency continues, fear grows...

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Living In The Atomic Age: Remember These Images?

For young people today, the Fukushima disaster in Japan could be their Nuclear Moment.

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Japan’s nuclear power plant crisis: Some context

Harvard Kennedy School Associate Professor Matthew Bunn, whose research topics includes nuclear proliferation risks, the future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle, and policies to promote innovation in energy technologies, offered these observations...

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Quake unleased 1,000 times energy of all n-weapons

The total energy released by the megaquake in Japan was about a thousand times the combined energy of all the world's nuclear weapons or 6.7 trillion tons of TNT.

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