Monday, December 29, 2025
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#ClimateChange May Unearth #ColdWar-Era #NuclearWaste Stored by the U.S. in Other Countries
A new report finds that melting ice and rising sea levels could disturb #RadioactiveContamination left over from American nuclear tests after World War II
Tara Wu - Reporter
March 6, 2024
"Rising global temperatures could unearth Cold War-era nuclear waste created by the United States and stored in other countries, posing potential issues for the environment and local inhabitants, according to a new report.
"An assessment conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released earlier this year examined nuclear waste in the #MarshallIslands, #Greenland and #Spain, three locations with radioactive contamination resulting from American nuclear activity in the decades following World War II. Climate change could cause this nuclear waste to enter the environment, as warming temperatures melt ice sheets that contain radioactive liquid and raise sea levels that could pollute food and water sources with toxic waste, per the study.
"This lingering contamination came from nuclear weapon detonations, including #HydrogenBombs, and accidents at numerous sites around the world. Often, the U.S. government stored this waste near the sites of detonation, Robert Hayes, a nuclear engineer at North Carolina State University, says to Julia Jacobo of ABC News. In Greenland, officials disposed of nuclear waste in the ice sheet, and in the Marshall Islands, they placed it in a container with a concrete cap.
" 'The military was in the rush of the Cold War,' Hayes tells the publication. 'In hindsight, they could have done a better job.' "
#NuclearWaste #NuclearAccidents #AtomicBombTesting #NuclearPollution #ClimateChange #RisingSeaLevels #NuclearTesting #Contamination #WaterIsLife #NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWeapons
Not sure if I trust the company responsible for #BrownsFerry to be building #NuclearFusion power plants...
"Type One Energy, a nuclear fusion developer based in Knoxville, has announced contracts with the #TennesseeValleyAuthority [#TVA] to build nuclear fusion components.
"According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the mission of Type One Energy is to build the world's first commercial nuclear fusion power plant."
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/nuclear-fusion-power-plant-contracts/
No one hurt in fire at TVA’s #BrownsFerryNuclearPlant
Published 4:58 PM EDT, April 4, 2022
#TVA's "Browns Ferry has a troubled history that includes at least two much more serious blazes. A worker using a candle set off a fire that crippled the plant’s safety system in 1975 in what was considered the nation’s worst nuclear accidents at the time, and flames destroyed a cooling tower outside the main plant building in 1986."
https://apnews.com/article/business-athens-alabama-fires-02a8c261c98676e2012b712bd9fa2796
#NoNukes #Safety #NuclearAccidents #NuclearIndustry #PriceAndersonAct
Chernobyl Utopia in Flames (2023)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27721467/
Comprehensive background of events leading to the 1986 accident.
Best explanation of the RBMK reactors.
#NuclearReactors
#NuclearAccidents
#Chernobyl
#Pripyat
#documentaries
Children’s gas masks in an abandoned canteen. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian
"As nuclear engineers, as well as former government and industry officials, we foresee that this proposed regulatory capture by the Executive Office of the President—where decisions are made for political reasons and not for the benefit of people served—will severely increase the risk of expensive, unexpected nuclear accidents in the U.S."
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy, 2018
In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy recreates these events in all of their drama, telling the stories of the firefighters, scientists, engineers, workers, soldiers, and policemen who found themselves caught in a nuclear Armageddon and succeeded in doing the seemingly impossible: extinguishing the nuclear inferno and putting the reactor to sleep.
Chernobyl: Utopia in Flames, 2023
(Tschernobyl - Die Katastrophe)
The best documentary series on the Chernobyl 1986 nuclear disaster, based on archival footage and interviews with leading participants.
https://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Chernobyl:_Utopia_in_Flames
#documentaries
#NuclearAccidents
#Chernobyl
#RBMK
#PositiveVoidCoefficient
#Pripyat
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham, 2019
The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters.
Kyiv Independent Daily Headlines
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