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Pictures tell the story

Posted on March 16th by Tom Yulsman. 2
A picture is worth a thousand words — never more true than with these disturbing images. This satellite image, courtesy of DigitalGlobe, was captured Wednesday morning. It ...
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Nuclear power and the decarbonization challenge

Posted on March 14th by Tom Yulsman. 14
Damned if we do, and damned if we don't? Severe damage caused by hydrogen explosions at two containment buildings housing nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear station in ...
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Are the risks from nuclear power worth the rewards?

Posted on September 22nd by Tom Yulsman.
Len Ackland, the CEJ's co-director and my colleague here at the School of Journalism & Mass Communication, has written a piece for the Natural Hazards Observer on nuclear power. ...
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Can Germany survive without nuclear power?

Posted on July 6th by Tom Yulsman. 4
Germany's Biblis B nuclear reactor with its two cooling towers. (Photo: Len Ackland)  By Len Ackland This article has been updated since it was first posted to include links to sources of ...

Gore: The Guardian transcript

Posted on March 16th by Tom Yulsman. 15
He said many sensible things, some things people will excoriate him for, and one really dumb thing Editor's note: Please see the correction in the text below. I goofed! The Guardian published ...
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Weapons proliferation a big risk with nuclear power

Posted on February 10th by Tom Yulsman.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This posting is by Len Ackland, co-director of the Center for Environmental Journalism. It is a follow up to a post on this subject from Feb. ...
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Trading greenhouse gas emissions for plutonium production

Posted on February 5th by Tom Yulsman. %
  The atomic bomb blast that killed at least 39,000 people in Nagasaki contained about 14 pounds of plutonium. Each year, the world's nuclear power plants produce 42,000 pounds of ...