1. Is Thomas Friedman worried about his manhood?
(Opinions/Politic)

...ten filtered down into Curies, for instance.  A Curie is 37 billion atomic disintegrations per second. Chernobyl released about 15 billion Curies of radiation, in mixed isotopes.  Chernobyl ...

2. Old Piranha Pants
(Opinions/Humor)

...im in the evidence room behind a file cabinet wrapped in a pile of piano blankets. Responding to the recent Chernobyl sized melt down on Wall Street, the Bush Successor Wannabe insisted that, "Th...

3. Flirting With Disaster
(Opinions/Review)

... those who might judge differently. In most of the cases in this book—Challenger, Katrina, Vioxx, Columbia, Chernobyl, Andersen—the leaders chose, in the face of serious warnings, to consciously take ...

4. 24 reasons to shut San Onofre Nuclear St.
(Opinions/Bulletin)

...uot;don't understand the laws of physics." 3)  San Onofre is an accident-waiting-to-happen.  Chernobyl is a symbol the world over of the worst possible industrial accident.  More t...

5. Nuclear power is undemocratic
(Opinions/Politic)

...f the RPVH.  A rupture would certainly have caused a meltdown, the effects of which would have rivaled Chernobyl in their actual damage and certainly exceeded it in financial cost to the communit...

6. The Green Revolution: Why it can't wait
(Opinions/Society)

...of pounds of spent nuclear fuel are handled throughout the world. Some releases are much worse than others: Chernobyl probably vaporized more than a hundred million Curies of uranium and fission produ...

7. My Brother’s Keeper
(Opinions/Review)

...e chemical horror of an ecological disaster) [1984] and Igor Kostin (The importance of bearing witness. The Chernobyl disaster) []1986-1990]. However the most moving images are those from Africa invol...

8. World's largest nuke facility
(Opinions/Politic)

...ke a vitamin or nutrient!  (Similarly, the DNA damage in plants, animals, or humans in the area around Chernobyl is seldom carefully investigated.) Japan dodged a bullet THIS TIME, but disaster a...

9. Welcome to the Nuclear Club
(Opinions/op-ed)

...clear waste; and that the 1979 disaster at Three Mile Island would be followed by the continuing horrors of Chernobyl. In recent decades, the denial has also spread nuclear weapons across the planet....

10. Former Labour MP Tony Benn
(Opinions/Daily)

...rience, it wasn't cheap, with the cost of storage of nuclear waste and the research; it isn't safe, because Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and Windscale and so on; and it wasn't peaceful. But all the...