Tag Archives: U.S.

Embattled Trump Nominee Inadvertently Draws Attention to Radiation in Drinking Water via Truthout

Posted on 2018/01/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Kathleen Hartnett White, President Trump’s pick to run the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is probably best known for her idealistic view of fossil fuels. In 2014, she suggested that energy from fossil fuels “dissolved the economic justification for slavery” in … Continue reading →

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The Fallout of CP-1: The Culture of Competence Surrounding Nuclear Technologies (Bo Jacobs at the University of Chicago) via Vimeo

Posted on 2018/01/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

My lecture as part of the 75th anniversary of the first sustained nuclear chain-reaction experiment, CP-1, held as part of the Physics Colloquium of the University of Chicago on 26 October 2017. This experiment, conducted at Stagg Field at UC … Continue reading →

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Millennials need new movies about nuclear war, a ninth-grader says via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2018/01/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Movies hold the power to teach and to persuade. Today, there is one subject that appears to be largely absent from popular movies: nuclear war. Nuclear war movies were huge in Hollywood from the 1960s to the 1980s. Today, however, … Continue reading →

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LOST: US nuclear codes MISSING for MONTHS in ‘comedy of errors’, security official reveals via Express

Posted on 2018/01/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

LOST: US nuclear codes MISSING for MONTHS in ‘comedy of errors’, security official reveals THE NUCLEAR launch codes went missing for up to four months in a “comedy of errors”, a former Pentagon official has confirmed. Strict security protocol insists … Continue reading →

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Pope Calls for Dialogue in Korea, Ban on Nuclear Weapons via Reuters

Posted on 2018/01/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis called on Monday for all nations to support dialogue to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula and to work for a legally binding ban on nuclear weapons. […] The pope addressed diplomats a day … Continue reading →

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634: Human Error in Volatile Situations via This American Life

Posted on 2018/01/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Even the best laid plans can go catastrophically wrong when humans get involved. This week, people bungle simple operations on some of the most dangerous weapons in the world. ACT 1 In 1980, deep in a nuclear missile silo in … Continue reading →

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SRS tours offer look at history of nuclear site via T and D

Posted on 2018/01/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

AIKEN – Registration is open for the Savannah River Site 2018 public tour program. More than 1,000 seats are available during 22 tours to be held throughout the year. The program is managed by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) for … Continue reading →

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Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program via Telesur

Posted on 2018/01/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The fact that Israel possesses nuclear weapons is not in dispute, but how did it procure them and with whose help? Val Reynoso investigates. Israel’s nuclear-weapons program was initiated by the founding prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, who stated that … Continue reading →

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Sailors Fight to Keep Fukushima Radiation Case in US via CNS

Posted on 2018/01/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

SAN DIEGO (CN) – Former Senator John Edwards and his co-counsel on Thursday asked a federal judge not to transfer to Japan a class action by hundreds of U.S. sailors exposed to radiation in the Fukushima nuclear disaster. An initial … Continue reading →

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NRC: Forked River muck near Oyster Creek is not dangerously radioactive via app

Posted on 2018/01/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

LACEY – To the east of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant, the muck from the bottom of the Forked River lies drying out. It is the result of a project long desired by Forked River residents, one that reopens dangerously shallow … Continue reading →

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