Nuclear Weapons 68 - Obama has Been Inconsistent with Respect to Nuclear Disarmament

              Activists have been fighting against nuclear weapons for decades. With the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, it seemed that nuclear disarmament had a real chance. A number of international treaties had been signed over the decades to encourage nuclear armed nations to get rid of their nuclear weapons and to try to prevent non-nuclear nations from getting nuclear weapons. The U.S. and the Soviet Union/Russians had the biggest nuclear arsenals.

Nuclear Weapons 68 - Obama has Been Incosistent with Respect to Nuclear Disarmament

              Activists have been fighting against nuclear weapons for decades. With the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, it seemed that nuclear disarmament had a real chance. A number of international treaties had been signed over the decades to encourage nuclear armed nations to get rid of their nuclear weapons and to try to prevent non-nuclear nations from getting nuclear weapons. The U.S. and the Soviet Union/Russians had the biggest nuclear arsenals.

Nuclear Reactors 109 - The Union of Concerned Scientists Criticize the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

              I have remarked in previous blog posts that nuclear regulation is often inconsistent and insufficient. Many national regulatory agencies have been "captured" by the industry that they are suppose to regulate. In the last four years, there has been a decline in the number of events that caused the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to stage "special inspections" at U.S. nuclear power plants. In 2010, there were nineteen such events but in 2013, there were only fourteen.

Nuclear Accidents 27 - The Dead Forest around Chernobyl

              Many fairy tales and legends feature a haunted forest. The trees are twisted into grotesque shapes and  strange creatures roam there. It appears as if we are on the way to having a real haunted forest in the area around Chernobyl where the environment was heavily contaminated with radiation from the accident that happened there in 1986. A sudden power surge during testing destroyed a reactor causing a huge explosion.

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