The Chernobyl Diaries

Source: Moviehole

Blame “The Blair Witch Project.” Since that film came out in 1999, a plethora of “found footage” films has invaded the multiplex. Some of them (“Cloverfield,” the “Paranormal Activity” series) have been downright scary. Othe ...
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Living on the Mighty USS Mississippi

Source: Biloxi Sun Herald

ONBOARD THE USS MISSISSIPPI -- Two things power the Navy's newest submarine: its nuclear reactor and its mess decks. Late in the evening, Seaman Devin Williams works in the Gator Pit, the food-services complex that inc ...
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Worries grow about fuel rods at damaged nuclear facility

Source: Austin American-Statesman

TOKYO — Fourteen months after an earthquake and tsunami set off a disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a pool brimming with used fuel rods and filled with vast quantities of radioactive cesium still sits ...
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Japan says Fukushima spent-fuel risk contained

Source: EcoEarth News

1 of 6. Members of the media and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) employees, wearing protective suits and masks, look at the No. 4 reactor building (C) at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefect ...
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Tepco: No. 2 reactor key radiation source

Source: iStockAnalyst

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, May 26 (UPI) -- The Tokyo Electric Power Co. says reactor No. 2 released the most radioactive materials following the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. In its release, Tepco said 900 quadril ...
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Movie Review: Chernobyl Diaries

Source: California Literary Review

How long is ? 90 minutes. What is rated? R for violence, some bloody images and pervasive language. is not great art. is not important cinema. It will probably win neither awards nor memorable acclaim. Wha ...
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Concerns Grow About Spent Fuel Rods at Damaged Nuclear Plant in Japan - New York Times

Source: PBS: Blueprint America

Fourteen months after the accident, a pool brimming with used fuel rods and filled with vast quantities of radioactive cesium still sits on the top floor of a heavily damaged building, covered only with plastic. The public’s fears about the ...
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Iran defends uranium discovery

Source: WETM 18 - NY

This handout image supplied by the IIPA (Iran International Photo Agency) shows a view of the reactor building at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant as the first fuel is loaded, on August 21, 2010 in Bus ...
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Japanese politician goes inside damaged nuclear reactor

Source: The Telegraph

The reactor was under maintenance when last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami struck. But its spent fuel pool, containing some 1,500 radioactive fuel rods, caught fire and caused an explosion. Now activists worry the poo ...
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