Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Harvey Wasserman, Democracy Now
Thirty years ago this Saturday, the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania malfunctioned, sparking a meltdown that resulted in the release...Advertisement
24 March 2009
People died---and are still dying---at Three Mile Island.
As the thirtieth anniversary of America's most infamous industrial accident approaches, we mourn the deaths that accompanied the biggest string of lies ever told in US...
As the thirtieth anniversary of America's most infamous industrial accident approaches, we mourn the deaths that accompanied the biggest string of lies ever told in US...
19 March 2009
The myth of a successful nuclear power industry in France has
melted into financial chaos.
With it dies the corporate-hyped poster child for a "nuclear renaissance" of new reactor construction that is drowning in red ink...
With it dies the corporate-hyped poster child for a "nuclear renaissance" of new reactor construction that is drowning in red ink...
09 March 2009
As a dominant form of transportation, the automobile is dead. So is GM, which now stands for Gone Mad.
But the larger picture says that the financial crisis now enveloping the world is grounded in the transition from the...
But the larger picture says that the financial crisis now enveloping the world is grounded in the transition from the...
26 February 2009
Two lethal words went thankfully unspoken in President Obama's address to the nation this week---atomic energy.
Unfortunately, two others---"clean coal"---were included.
An increasingly desperate reactor industry...
Unfortunately, two others---"clean coal"---were included.
An increasingly desperate reactor industry...
20 February 2009
The ever-vigilant Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued milestone regulations requiring the builders of new nuke reactors to explain how their plants might withstand the crash of large commercial jetliners.
But the NRC has...
But the NRC has...