On AlterNet: chernobyl

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Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology from the Manhattan Project to Fukushima

Richard C. Bell, Stephen Hilgartner, Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. January 26, 2012.

In the end, the answer to the mystery of why nuclear power in the United States is still afloat comes down to money.

Death Hangs Over Homecoming at Chernobyl

Zoltán Dujisin, IPS News. April 27, 2011.

Despite the suffering of the Rudya family they still believe in nuclear energy, as do most of Ukraine’s population and its government, which plans to build 22 new reactors.

No Nukes Is Good Nukes: The Intrinsic Problems With Nuclear Power

Robert Scheer, Truthdig. March 17, 2011.

After the Japanese nuclear disaster, cavalier dismissals of the problems with nuclear power are no longer acceptable.

Book's Astounding Allegation: Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly One Million People

Environment News ServiceApril 26, 2010.

Emissions from this one reactor exceeded a hundred-fold the radioactive contamination of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki according to a new book.