Dangers of nuclear energy

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Articles general

• High-level radioactive waste management - "High-level radioactive waste management concerns management and disposal of highly radioactive materials created during production of nuclear power and nuclear warheads... Governments around the world are considering a range of waste management and disposal options, usually involving deep-geologic placement, although there has been limited progress toward implementing long-term waste management solutions. This is partly because the timeframes in question when dealing with radioactive waste range from 10,000 to millions of years, according to studies based on the effect of estimated radiation doses." - Wikipedia
• Radioactive waste - "Radioactive waste is a waste product containing radioactive material... The main approaches to managing radioactive waste to date have been segregation and storage for short-lived wastes, near-surface disposal for low and some intermediate level wastes, and deep burial or transmutation for the long-lived, high-level wastes." - Wikipedia
  

Articles analysis & background

• Chernobyl accident still haunts UK - "Nearly seventeen years after the world's worst nuclear power accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, some 400 British farms are still being monitored for radioactive contamination." - Bellona - March 5, 2003 (Note that this article is 8 years old!)
  
• What Is Japan's Nuclear Worst Case Scenario? - "Bob Alvarez: Many factors could still cause a "worst case" nuclear event in Japan" - The Real News Network video - April 2, 2011
  
• The Dangers of Radiation: Deconstructing Nuclear Experts ... What these people have in common is ignorance - "...more than a million people have died between 1986 and 2004 as a direct result of Chernobyl." - by Chris Busby - Global Research - March 31, 2011
  
• Nuclear Radiation and the Thyroid - brochure of thyroid.org
  
• Radiation Effects on Humans - atomicarchive.com
  
• Walkom: Forget meltdowns. The real nuclear problem is waste - "No one knows what to do with nuclear fuel rods that remain highly radioactive for thousands of years." - thestar.com - March 21, 2011
• High radiation exposure linked to heart disease - "A link between high doses of nuclear radiation and heart disease and stroke has been suggested by a study of tens of thousands of workers from the nuclear industry." - The Telegraph - March 4, 2008
  

See also

• Research topics: The Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan

Videos

• "Prescription for Survival": A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott - Democracy Now! - March 30, 2011
  
• Research topics - Dangers of nuclear energy - Playlist

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