In 2010 Russia and Turkey signed an agreement for the construction of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant which would consist of four nuclear reactors with an total capacity of forty eight hundred megawatts. The plant was to be operational by 2023. The Akkuyu plant is located in the Turkish province of Mersin.
Yesterday, I blogged about the Nuclear Weapons Convention being considered by the UN. One hundred and seven member states are supporting a proposal to eliminate all nuclear weapons on Earth. Twenty nations voted against the proposal. Today I am going to go into more detail about the politics surrounding of the proposal.
There are calls by over one hundred countries for new UN talks about global nuclear disarmament. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) announced that these countries support L41, a draft UN resolution which seeks a total global ban on nuclear weapons.
Yesterday I blogged about the best place in the world to ride out World War III. Today, I thought that I would offer some tips for surviving a nearby nuclear detonation.
