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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Probably the most heinous crime, other than the avoidable accident itself and its immediate coverup, is the way that the Chornobyl nuclear power disaster in Ukraine, 40 years old this week, has been used to downplay and normalize the long-lasting health impacts caused by that April 26, 1986 explosion.
Fifteen years after the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the disaster has not yet been brought under control. The three melted reactors remain so radioactive that they destroy the robots sent to explore the damage. No one knows exactly where the melted fuel is located or how deep it has burrowed below the reactors’ concrete pedestals, possibly into the ground.
‘“85 Seconds to Midnight”: Doomsday Clock Ticks Down as Trump Drags World Toward New Low’: A “failure of leadership” by the world’s most powerful governments and leaders has pushed the annually updated Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever, said the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Also: ‘The Doomsday Clock and Nuclear Reality: Our World in Peril’
As we enter the 70th year of the Nuclear War Era, we should be contemplating with wonder that we have survived. We can only guess how many years remain.
Climate change has a new partner in its quest to alter life as we know it: Nuclear, the power buzzword for the AI Holy Grail of human submission to digital electrons mimicking human brainpower.
‘Fukushima Recovery Plagued with Setbacks’; ‘Fukushima Radioactive Waste Problems Metastasize’; and: Book Review: Thomas A. Bass’s “Return to Fukushima”.
‘Remember Hiroshima–Nagasaki, Resist Nuclear Colonialism: Say No to India’s Corporate Nuclear Agenda’; ‘What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?’; ‘U.S. Atomic Bombings Didn’t Save Lives or End the War’.
For years, the BJP championed non-alignment and strategic autonomy as core to its ‘cultural nationalism’. Now, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have quietly abandoned that legacy, enforcing sweeping policy shifts that will harm the interest of ordinary Indians.
The United States currently plans to bury about one third of its plutonium stockpile in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a geologic repository mined 650 meters below the surface. Preparation to dispose of this material is well underway, but key questions about this approach remain unresolved.
‘Trinity Bomb Test — Risking Doomsday They Lit the Match Anyway’: The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying all life on Earth. Also: ‘A Challenge’.
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