This morning, a French Greenpeace activist flew over a nuclear power station on a motorised parachute without being caught by security services. Makes me feel really safe. (video)
Straight out of a cyberpunk novel: Russia is to build floating nuclear power stations. That seems like a bad idea in so many ways.
Straight out of a cyberpunk novel: Russia is to build floating nuclear power stations. That seems like a bad idea in so many ways.
The world has gone insane on a nuclear level.
Interesting short film by Greenpeace on decentralised energy, a better solution that going all-out on nuclear and keeping bad habits.
Madonna proposes mystical water solution for ridding the world of nuclear waste. I feel safer already.
Eco-fatalism is for wimps (but I still wouldn’t call nuclear power one of the solutions).
Today, the doomsday clock will be moved forward, depicting the increased nuclear threat we all face.
Nuclear power plants requires massive amounts of cool water and, in the face of global warming, they could be vulnerable.
Stanislav Petrov, the man who could have started a nuclear war, but didn’t.
Stanislav Petrov, the man who could have started a nuclear war, but didn't.
Is Armenia's Nuclear Plant the World's Most Dangerous?
Nuclear waste: Keep out - for 100,000 years.
This quote says it all:
In a way, the Chernobyl disaster reveals the true extent of our environmental impact on the planet. Harmful as it was, the nuclear accident was far less destructive to the local ecosystem than we were.
Another excerpt from the Underland book. This one tells the story of a tomb for radioactive waste being built in Finland. There's something really ominous about the whole concept of burying our radioactive slop and hoping a future civilisation doesn't get curious and dig it up.
It's always been incredibly difficult for me to get a fair view of nuclear energy. Mostly due to the absurdly obvious amount of lobbying from the industry. This article on the consequences of Chernobyl and other incidents shows that lobbying to be even more insidious than I thought.
The Russian troops had expected their “special operation” to be brief. Soldiers had brought scant supplies: one admitted that he’d packed only a single uniform, because he thought he was on a training exercise. Some asked Semenov where they could buy cigarettes. “They said, ‘Why are there no shops near here?’ I said, ‘This is a restricted zone!’ They didn’t understand where they were.”
Great read about Chernobyl under Russian occupation during the recent invasion. Where senior staff had to keep up quite a balancing act in order to save lives and avoid disaster.
