Untitled. NPR Choice page. 88,000 tons of radioactive waste – and nowhere to put it. Westinghouse Bankruptcy: The End of Nuclear Power? Future - A vast new tomb for the most dangerous waste in the world. World leaders jostle with global executives and anonymous men dressed in full camouflage as platters of shrimp, foie gras and cheesecake are passed around by white-gloved staff.
It would all seem quite normal were it not for the fact that we’re just 100m (330ft) away from the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Chernobyl's renewal Check out a photo gallery of life inside the exclusion zone With the damaged reactor now newly confined, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history faces a better future. High Levels of Radium Found in PA Stream Near Drinking Water Supply. Written by Stefanie Spear and reposted with permission from EcoWatch.
Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 reported last week that high levels of radiation—up to 60 times higher than the maximum allowed in drinking water—were found in Ten Mile Creek, which flows into the Monongahela River in Greene County, Pennsylvania. Ken Dufalla of the Izaak Walton League conservation group has been taking samples from 10 Mile Creek for years, frequently finding high levels of total dissolved solids, according to Action News 4. “I wouldn’t touch it. What's Going to Kill You? Scientists Rank Most Likely Causes -click 2x.
The apocalypse is nigh!
From zombies to bird flu, there is no shortage of ways the human race can go extinct in the near future. But before you run off to a bunker and start stockpiling ammunition, take a look at the Swedish Global Challenges Foundation’s (GCF) Global Catastrophic Risk Report. We have bigger problems than The Walking Dead and Birdemic. For the past four years, GCF has worked with the University of Oxford’s Global Priorities Project and the Foundation for the Future of Humanity Institute to quantify real apocalyptic risks. Toxic Time Bomb: Abandoned US Military Nuclear Dome Threatens Pacific Ocean. "People should know there's a giant concrete dome filled with plutonium in the Pacific Ocean, and at some point in the near future, it will be underwater.
" On the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between Australia and Hawaii, the US military hides a dirty secret. These islands (specifically Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll) were used for nuclear weapons testing throughout the Cold War, and a terrible legacy still survives. A staggering 67 atomic bombs were detonated on Enewetak and Bikini between 1946 and 1958. This equates to 1.6 Hiroshima bombs exploding every single day during this 12-year period.
How The Oil And Gas Industry Awakened Oklahoma’s Sleeping Fault Lines. It was either February or March of 1952 when an Oklahoma City petroleum geologist named William Atkinson took the unusual step of getting an earthquake insurance policy for his house.
Today, that seems a bit eerie in its prescience — in 2014, the state had more big earthquakes than California, and on Saturday it was rattled by its largest earthquake in the modern record, a magnitude 5.8. But consider this: The only reason anyone knows about Atkinson’s insurance policy is because his weird choice became newsworthy on April 9, 1952, when Oklahoma City rocked and swayed its way through an earthquake that might have been almost as powerful as the one last week. Eerie doesn’t cut it.
In his predictive accuracy, Atkinson was downright unnatural. More Science & Health. Radiation Dose Chart. Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - Bloomberg. New images show what is likely to be melted nuclear fuel hanging from inside one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima reactors, a potential milestone in the cleanup of one of the worst atomic disasters in history.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc., Japan’s biggest utility, released images on Friday showing a hardened black, grey and orange substance that dripped from the bottom of the No. 3 reactor pressure vessel at Fukushima, which is likely to contain melted fuel, according to Takahiro Kimoto, an official at the company. The company sent a Toshiba-designed robot, which can swim and resembles a submarine, to explore the inside of the reactor for the first time on July 19.
“Never before have we taken such clear pictures of what could be melted fuel,” Kimoto said at a press briefing that began at 9 p.m. Friday in Tokyo, noting that it would take time to analyze and confirm whether it is actually fuel. Early Signs Removal Plans. 31 years after Chernobyl, animals are still radioactive. Earthquakes. Warning Bells about Fracking and Earthquakes Growing Louder. Recent studies on hydraulic fracturing suggest the technology is causing more earthquakes than expected and that it doesn’t take the injection of much fluid to trigger a tremor.
In addition, researchers warn that the industry’s increasing reliance on “supersized” fracking using massive volumes of fluid and sand in longer wells could increase seismic hazards across North America. A recent analysis of 300 hydraulically fractured wells near Fox Creek, Alberta, found that a modest injection of 10,000 cubic metres (2.6 million gallons) can cause an earthquake in geological formations containing faults.