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Slovenian Nuclear Plant Shuts Down Automatically After Power Cut
By not in system - AOL NewsZAGREB, Croatia -- Slovenia's only nuclear power plant shut down automatically Wednesday due to what plant officials said was a minor incident that triggered no radiation fallout. Ida Novak Jerela, a spokeswoman for the Nuclear Plant Krsko, 18 miles (30 kilometers) west of Zagreb, said the system switched off Wednesday morning after power lines from the plant to the Croatian capital stopped transmitting. "There is zero risk" of radiation, she said, adding that the plant will resume operations "when the cause of the cut in the power line is established." The director of the plant praised the ...
A Glossary of Terms From a Nuclear Accident
By Andrew Schneider - AOL NewsFollowing is a glossary of terms related to nuclear power: Alpha particles: Emitted from naturally occurring materials (such as uranium, thorium and radium) and man-made elements (such as plutonium and americium). They have a very limited ability to penetrate other materials. These particles of ionizing radiation can be blocked by a sheet of paper, skin or even a few inches of air, but are potentially dangerous if they are inhaled or swallowed. Background radiation: The radiation in the natural environment, including cosmic rays and radiation from the naturally radioactive elements, both ...
Three Mile Island: A Day Like No Other -- Until Now
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News"The world has never known a day quite like today," the somber network news anchor said. "It faced the considerable uncertainties and dangers of the worst nuclear power plant accident of the atomic age." This was not Japan. It was not Chernobyl. It was Walter Cronkite in March 1979 telling the nation about Three Mile Island. The most trusted newsman in America sounded alarmed about what he knew and wary about what he was being told. This pretty much summed up the feelings many us had about what was happening on a long, narrow island in the middle of the Susquehanna River near Middletown, ...
Officials: No Quick Fix for Japan's Nuclear Plant
By not in system - AOL NewsFUKUSHIMA, Japan -- Officials raced Monday to restore electricity to Japan's leaking nuclear plant, but getting the power flowing will hardly be the end of their battle: With its mangled machinery and partly melted reactor cores, bringing the complex under control is a monstrous job that is anything but a quick-fix. Restoring the power to all six units at the tsunami-damaged complex is key, because it will, in theory, power up the maze of motors, valves and switches that help deliver cooling water to the overheated reactor cores and spent fuel pools that are leaking radiation. Ideally, ...
Would Fund Protect US Taxpayers From Nuke Disaster Here?
By Andrew Schneider - AOL NewsThe U.S. nuclear industry says it would pick up the total tab should a catastrophic wipe-out of multiple reactors, such as the one creating havoc in Japan, occur on American soil. But insurance and risk assessment experts say that's not even close to the truth, and that taxpayers will get stuck funding billions of dollars to cover claims for loss of life, property and business, as well as decontamination. The rapidly escalating estimates on the economic cost of the Japanese nuclear debacle is anticipated to be at least $500 billion, and the Japanese people are far, far less litigious than ...
Obama Reassures: Japan's Radiation Won't Reach US
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama, trying to reassure a worried nation, declared Thursday that "harmful levels" of radiation from the Japanese nuclear disaster are not expected to reach the U.S., even as other officials conceded it could take weeks to bring the crippled nuclear complex under control. The situation remains dangerous and complicated at the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors in northeastern Japan, U.S. officials said. "We've seen an earthquake and tsunami render an unimaginable toll of death and destruction on one of our closest friends and allies in the world," Obama said ...
Is There a Nuke Plant in a Quake Zone Near You?
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsA staggering one-fifth of the world's nuclear power stations sit on potentially shaky ground in earthquake zones, raising the specter that what's happening in Japan could come to a community near you. Two of the world's biggest nuclear plants located in seismically active areas are in California: the San Onofre plant near San Diego and Diablo Canyon near San Luis Obispo. They're among 88 of the world's 442 nuclear power stations built in earthquake zones, according to the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency. Corbis The San Onofre nuclear power plant near San Diego is in an ...
No Reason to Panic in US Over a Nuclear Meltdown in Japan
By Andrew Schneider - AOL NewsRadiation is terrifying to most people. And the less you actually know about it, the more frightening it can be. Watching what looked like an endless Hollywood production of carnage in the coastal communities of northeastern Japan as they were inundated by earthquakes and 30-foot-tall, tsunami-driven waves was bad enough. But then the fires of disbelief were stoked anew as panting cable news crews ticked off details of six separate nuclear reactors that had completely or partially melted down or were soon expected to. Older TV viewers might recall being terrified, along with the rest of the ...
Terrorism Suspect Worked at U.S. Nuclear Plants
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA New Jersey man arrested in a roundup of al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen this month worked at nuclear plants in the United States, officials said. Authorities are investigating whether Sharif Mobley, 26, might have had access to sensitive information that would have been useful to terrorists, The Associated Press reported. Between 2002 and 2008, when he moved to Yemen, Mobley performed routine maintenance at plants in Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. NRC officials said a laborer of Mobley's status typically would not have access to ...
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