Word: chernobyl
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...years after the disastrous uncontained meltdown at Chernobyl, 17 years after the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, most Americans probably give only passing thought to the issue of nuclear safety. But the story of George Galatis and Millstone suggests that the NRC itself may be giving only passing thought to the issue--that it may be more concerned with propping up an embattled, economically straitened industry than with ensuring public safety. When a nuclear plant violates safety standards and the federal watchdog turns a blind eye, the question arises, How safe are America's nuclear plants...
...should allocate the greatest number of goods to the largest number of people. Capitalism and socialism merely have different theories on how best to achieve that goal, but they never question the goal. The only alternative to the ideology of technology that has given us Siberia and Bhopal, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island is ecology. JORDI ROS Beverly Hills, California...
...only transmit information of all kinds at lightning speed, but also convey integrated models of social, political and economic behavior...The life of the human race is completely interconnected not only in the informational sense, but in the causal sense as well....We are familiar with CNN and Chernobyl, and we know who the Rolling stones, or Nelson Mandela or Salman Rushdie...
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma promised today that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant would be closed by 2000. Representatives from the 15-nation European Union and G-7 countries visiting Kiev called the decision "a radical change in Ukrainian policy" given the former Soviet country's grave economic difficulties. Previously, Kiev had refused to consider closing the plant, most of which has been enclosed in an unstable, radioactive sarcophagus since the 1986 disaster...
...Streisand Foundation, set up in the wake ofthe 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, has donatedover $8 million to a variety of liberal causes,including AIDS research, environmental protectionand gay rights activism...