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	Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The release of the radioisotopes from the nuclear fuel was largely controlled by their boiling points, and the majority of the radioactivity present in the core was retained in the reactor.
		A monument to the victims of the Chernobyl disaster at Moscow's Mitino cemetery, where some of the firefighters who battled the flames and later died of radiation exposure are buried.
		A monument to victims of Chernobyl disaster in Luhansk, Ukraine
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chernobyl_accident (9037 words)

	Nuclear and radiation accidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An example of nuclear accident might be one in which a reactor core is damaged such as Three Mile Island, while an example of a radiation accident might be some event such as a radiography accident where a worker drops the source into a river.
		In a large nuclear reactor, a loss of coolant accident can damage the core: for example, at Three Mile Island a recently shutdown (SCRAMed) PWR reactor was left for a length of time without cooling water.
		As a result the nuclear fuel was damaged, and the core partly melted.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nuclear_disaster (1998 words)

	Arms Control Association: ACA Events: Preventing Nuclear Disaster
		Nuclear disarmament is crucial to diminishing nuclear risks, preventing nuclear disaster, and achieving international peace and security.
		Nuclear weapons are the ultimate equalizer so it is hard to imagine a situation in which the United States would open the door to the only weapon that would moot U.S. conventional superiority.
		The reaction to a country's nuclear weapons policies and practices should not be determined by whether the state is a friend or not or the relative size of its arsenal.
	www.armscontrol.org /events/20060325_Boese_NuclearDisaster.asp (3586 words)

	Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Page
		The cause of the disaster was a malfunction within the plant that caused the radioactive core to become exposed.
		The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was one of the worst disasters of all time.
		Effects of the disaster are continuing to show as time passes and the amount of people still suffering is tremendous.
	members.tripod.com /~Chernobyl486/index.html (802 words)

	Socialism Today - Japan's nuclear disaster
		Certainly, the response of the nuclear authorities and government to the accident was complacent and slow.
		Indeed, the whole nuclear industry is built on statistical calculations that chances of equipment failure are often one in millions and the appalling consequences of an accident are justified on this basis.
		All the main nuclear disasters of the past 50 years have been caused mainly, or in large part, by human error, not technical failure.
	www.socialismtoday.org /43/nucleardisaster.html (666 words)

	World Nuclear Association \| Information and Issue Briefs \| Chernobyl Accident (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine was the product of a flawed Soviet reactor design coupled with serious mistakes made by the plant operators in the context of a system where training was minimal.
		The Chernobyl disaster was a unique event and the only accident in the history of commercial nuclear power where radiation-related fatalities occurred.* However, its relevance to the rest of the nuclear industry outside the then Eastern Bloc is minimal.
		In these, originally the nuclear chain reaction and power output would increase if cooling water were lost or turned to steam, in contrast to most Western designs.
	www.world-nuclear.org /info/chernobyl/inf07.htm (2876 words)

	Nuclear Disaster at Chernobyl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A Soviet nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant– in the Ukraine, not far from Kiev– exploded, releasing fatal radiation to the surrounding areas.
		The disaster at Chernobyl was important, not just to the over 100,000 that would eventually be effected by the radiation, but for its overall impact on Soviet citizens.
		The disaster and the belated reaction of the government further undermined the already diminished confidence the people of the Soviet Union had in their government.
	www.multied.com /Europe/NuclearDisaster.html (112 words)

	FRONTLINE: nuclear reaction: chernobyl
		To compensate, the operators withdrew a majority of the reactor's control rods, but even with the rods withdrawn, they were unable to increase the power level to more than 30 megawatts, a low level of operation at which the reactor's instability potential is at its worst and that the Chernobyl plant's own safety rules forbade.
		Some 50 tons of nuclear fuel and 800 tons of reactor graphite...remained in the reactor vault, where it formed a pit reminiscent of a volcanic crater.
		Nuclear power came to terrible disaster in the former Soviet Union because authority dominated there to the exclusion of informed technical discussion and judgment.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/chernobyl.html (1643 words)

	Natural Disasters in Georgia -- NUCLEAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the event of a nuclear power reactor accident that releases fission products into the atmosphere, precuations should be known and action taken at the appropriate time.
		The radioactive material from a nuclear power accident may not be particulate but in a gaseous form, although accidents at a nuclear power plant could produce particulate fallout under the proper conditions.
		Nuclear reactors are designed so that it is impossible for them to explode like an atomic bomb.
	interests.caes.uga.edu /disaster/nuclear/articles/nuclear25.htm (1749 words)

	Nuclear Disaster or Nuclear Disarmament?
		The United States, with the complicit support of the other members of the ‘nuclear club’, is determined to break, once and for all, the reciprocal bond, the basic bargain, holding the NPT together: non-proliferation in exchange for disarmament.
		Nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament are two sides of the same coin and both must be energetically pursued.
		The war, in their view, was the vital declaration of US independence in post-Cold War foreign policy: its inalienable right to cut off the hands of the ‘outlaws’ before they grasp, or share with other rogues, the Bomb, the great atomic prize that America, for one, has no intention of ever relinquishing.
	faculty.uccb.ns.ca /cis/cis5.htm (794 words)

	Safety Issues: Are Nuclear Plants Safe ?
		While the nuclear industry would like you to feel safe, recent events indicate that you could be the victim of a nuclear disaster without even getting a moment's warning.
		Add to those conditions of being warned about a nuclear disaster that the disaster may move too fast for any warning to be effective or that nuclear power plant personnel may not even be aware that anything is wrong until disaster strikes.
		Just one cause of near incidents that nuclear industry critics claim are punching huge holes in the safety net that the public thinks protects it from nuclear disaster.
	www.safetyissues.com /magazine/2004/2/NuclPlant/NuclPlant.htm (986 words)

	The Nuclear Axis - StarIQ.com
		When the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurred, in a makeshift laboratory on a squash court in Chicago (December 2, 1942, at 3:25 pm CWT), a rare conjunction of Saturn and Uranus in Gemini was rising.
		Repeated nuclear events over the past 58 years have led some astrologers to describe these degrees across early Gemini-Sagittarius as "the nuclear axis," which is highly sensitive to transits.
		For example, when the first memorable nuclear disaster occurred on March 27, 1979 (at 3:57 am, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), transiting Saturn was within 20 minutes of an exact square to natal Saturn in the first chain reaction chart, at 8 degrees Virgo and 36 minutes.
	www.stariq.com /pagetemplate/article.asp?PageID=1116 (872 words)

	Asia Times: Environmentalists attack recipe for floating nuclear disaster
		Given the checkered past of the region's nuclear power industry, Tuesday's statement by Russia's Nuclear Power Minister Yevgeny Adamov that plans were afoot to build a floating nuclear power plant in the northwestern Russian town of Severodvinsk, has understandably caused grave concern.
		A spokesman for Russia's Nuclear Power Ministry was unrepentant, claiming that the Severodvinsk "may become a prototype for a series of this type of station", and brushed aside envirmonental concerns about a floating nuclear facility when he added "there are nuclear submarines and icebreakers.
		Indeed, a Greenpeace report on floating nuclear plants has already decried their feasability, the organization concluding that such facilities "are dangerous and unacceptable from the environmental point of view as well as not profitable".
	www.atimes.com /c-asia/CC16Ag01.html (1453 words)

	Yorkshire CND - Russia Faces Major Nuclear Disaster - 9/5/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The safety of the country's nuclear arsenal, the pride of the military built up by the Soviet Union, is increasingly in doubt amid the collapse of the scientific élite.
		The survey of nuclear specialists living in 10 cities where nuclear weapons and missiles are made shows they are in despair at their prospects.
		The report says the reason for the fall in the quality of the 120,000 nuclear technicians working in the 10 cities is the collapse in their living standards.
	www.cndyorks.gn.apc.org /news/articles/russiandisaster.htm (546 words)

	The Chornobyl Nuclear Disaster
		The nuclear disaster at Chornobyl has exposed the Soviet system once as a terrible combination of rigidity and fragility, incompetence and inhumanity, mendacity and cruelty managed and dominated by a means which is both irresponsible and unreformable.
		A team of 28 Soviet nuclear scientists literally "descended", according to The Economist, "on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on August 25 with a lorry-load of technical papers," which described in considerable detail the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, its main causes and its consequences.
		The top Soviet nuclear planners, Soviet plant and reactor designers, engineers, operators, regulators, technicians and party watchdogs are pushed, and push themselves, much harder than their Western counterparts to get quick results and cheap electricity from their plants at the expense of safety and of public health, and in order to achieve politically-motivated results.
	www.infoukes.com /history/chornobyl/elg (7409 words)

	Courting Nuclear Disaster
		retrospect, [nuclearization] might well be seen as the final act that precipitated a decisive historical transformation of the Pakistan polity, dramatically reversing for a long time to come the difficult process of democratic consolidation.
		Wreaking nuclear devastation upon the adversary after he has used a nuclear weapon against you can only be an act of mindless revenge, not of regaining your security.
		As for Pakistan, nuclear weapons figure in Musharraf's January 12 address as a constraint, as something to be guarded and protected, not as a means with which to negotiate Washington's demand to "cooperate" with its Afghan operation.
	www.afsc.org /pwork/0206/020609.htm (1274 words)

	CNN.com - N. Korea warns U.S. of 'nuclear disaster' - March 13, 2002
		For their part, officials in the Bush administration have sought to play down the implication of the review saying that the United States reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in the event it or its allies are attacked.
		The document outlined the possible use of nuclear weapons against countries that possess or are developing weapons of mass destruction.
		North Korea is among those countries the U.S. suspects of seeking to develop nuclear weapons -- a prospect that brought the two countries to the brink of conflict in 1994.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/03/13/nkorea.nuclear17.37 (918 words)

	On the Verge of Nuclear Disaster : AZ IMC
		On the Verge of Nuclear Disaster : AZ IMC
		The government is planning a nuclear renaissance, and they're footing the bill with your tax dollars.
		I've been campaigning against nuclear power for almost 20 years now, and I can tell you that no matter what the nuclear industry says about safety, there are fundamental problems with nuclear energy that will never go away.
	arizona.indymedia.org /news/2006/04/41430.php (425 words)

	Gilligan's Island (nuclear disaster) - Uncyclopedia
		Although the subsequent disaster resulted in no fatalities, it did cause a servere public-relations backlash against US atomic testing proceedures, to say nothing of causing the destruction of Tokyo.
		The US Air Force selected Gillagan's Island as a test site on the basis of it's distance from major sea-lanes, the fact that it was aparantly uninhabited and that it was as "primitive as can be", though the rationale behind this last critereon remains unclear.
		After the disaster, a Congressional hearing heard evidence that some eight USAF officers had visited the island before the blast and each had interacted with the castaways, spending up to half an hour with them.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Gillgan's_Island_(nuclear_disaster) (792 words)

	Countering the Threat of Nuclear Disaster Army - Find Articles
		He discusses the consequences of nuclear and radiological (dirty bomb) threats, the proliferation of technologies, prospects for smuggling weapons and materials and the means for delivering bombs to their target.
		While the commission, chaired by former Virginia Governor James Gilmore, acknowledged the challenges of nuclear proliferation, they concluded that terrorists would choose simpler and more available means to achieve their ends.
		The yeses are: making prevention of nuclear terrorism a priority; focusing the war on terrorism just on al Qaeda; conducting a humble foreign policy; building a global alliance against terrorism; increasing intelligence capabilities; developing means to deal with dirty bombs; and constructing multilayered defenses.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3723/is_200506/ai_n13642252 (794 words)

	CNN.com - N. Korea warns against aggression - Feb. 7, 2003
		North Korea has warned the peninsula risks a nuclear disaster and would be reduced to ashes in the event of U.S. aggression.
		Pyongyang insists its nuclear program is designed for peaceful purposes and says it reactivated its main nuclear complex to generate much needed electricity.
		But analysts say the impoverished North is likely using the nuclear deadlock as a way of getting some international attention, especially aid for its impoverished people.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/02/07/nkorea.nuclear/index.html (580 words)

	Natural World/The Environment/Nuclear Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The world's worst nuclear reactor disaster occurred at the Chernobyl Power Station in the USSR (now Ukraine) on April 26, 1986.
		A sudden surge of power resulted in two explosions, which wrecked the reactor core and blasted a hole in the roof of the power station.
		It's not known how many of the estimated 200,000 people involved in the clean-up operation died in the following the disaster, as no systematic records were kept.
	www.guinnessworldrecords.com /content_pages/record.asp?recordid=49229&R... (123 words)

	Surviving a Nuclear Disaster
		While we may not have to fear thousands of nuclear warheads raining down on our centers of population and industry, the threat of a "suitcase" nuclear bomb carried into place by suicidal terrorists is more real than ever.
		Even "friendly" countries like Pakistan have nuclear arsenals that may, through a coup or even an election, one day fall into control of hands that are not friendly to the U.S. The threat of a a suicide attack on a nuclear power plant is causing folks to question their geographical location.
		For general information on the effects of nuclear ware and on building emergency fallout or blast shelters, make sure you read Cresson Kearny's Nuclear War Survival Skills.
	www.captaindaves.com /nuclear/index.html (1387 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Washington / Bush Flirts with Nuclear Disaster, Kennedy Says
		President Bush has turned back years of U.S. efforts to stem the spread of nuclear weapons and has made the world a more dangerous place, one of the Senate's leading liberals said on Tuesday.
		Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, called the last four years of nuclear policy under Bush "a constant flirtation with nuclear disaster" that has rejected a "half century of success" in nuclear deterrence and steps toward disarmament.
		The administration did little to stop Pakistani scientists from selling nuclear secrets, Kennedy said, sending a message to the world that "if you're a friend, you will not be punished for trading in nuclear arms.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2004/06/22/bush_flirts_with_nuclear_disaster_kennedy_says (318 words)

	USATODAY.com - Some say pills poor remedy in nuclear disaster By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY Fewer than half the (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Fewer than half the states eligible for free pills that can protect people from thyroid cancer after a nuclear disaster have taken the federal government up on its offer.
		More than six months after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced the program, only 15 of the 33 states that qualify have asked for the pills.
		The pills have to be taken daily for 10 to 14 days after exposure to radioactive iodine, which is prevalent in nuclear fallout.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002/07/08/usat-nuclear-pills.htm (408 words)

	Chornobyl Nuclear Catastrophe
		The world's worst accident, the Chornobyl disaster a decade later seems to have disappeared from the awareness of the world as it has faded from the pages of the newspapers.
		The incredible spread of radioactive particles from the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant throughout Europe in serious amounts and in lesser amounts across the entire northern hemisphere, including Canada and the United States, and the entire world is astonishing.
		Some heroes have emerged from the disaster and among them are six firemen including Victor Kibenok and Volodymyr Pravyk who sacrificed their lives in fighting the 100-foot-high fire.
	www.infoukes.com /history/chornobyl/gregorovich (4164 words)

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