April 2014

Nulcear Reactors 114 - Restarting Idle Japanse Nuclear Power Reactors

          Before the Fukushima disaster in 2011, the Japanese fleet of fifty four nuclear reactors supplied about thirty percent of Japan's electricity. Japan has the third largest number of nuclear power reactors behind France and the United States. After the Fukushima disaster, the entire reactor fleet was shut down and none of the reactors has been put back into full-time operation. This has resulted in a rise in the importation of fossil fuels that has caused a negative trade imbalance.

Nulcear Reactors 113 - Impact of Living Near Nuclear Reactors on Public Health

          The safety of nuclear power plants has been hotly debated. Adverse health effects of nuclear accidents have been documented where large amounts of radioactive materials have been emitted into the environment. One big question that remains is whether there are dangers to the health of people living near a normally operating nuclear power plant.

Nuclear Weapons 70 - Scottish Independence Referendum and U.K. Nuclear Submarines

          The Kingdom of Scotland became independent in the early Middle Ages and continued as a sovereign nation until 1707 when it joined the Kingdom of England in the Kingdom of Great Britain. In 1801 the Kingdom of Great Britain formed a political union to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, better known today as the United Kingdom (U.K.).

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