Mother Nature Mugs California's Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant
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11 March 2011 TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear power plant was rattled by an
offshore 9.0 on the Richter scale earthquake. The tremor subsequently
generated a tsunami that effectively destroyed the complex, sending
shock waves worldwide through the nuclear power industry, hoping that 24
years after Chernobyl, public amnesia and governmental commitments to
curbing greenhouse gas emissions, nuclear power was moving back into the
mainstream.Instead of a nuclear renaissance, Fukushima refocused a most
unwelcome spotlight on existing nuclear power…Read more...
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