IN March 1986 The Economist celebrated The Charm of Nuclear Power on its cover. The timing wasn't great. The following month, an accident at a reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine spread radioactivity over Europe and despair in the western world's nuclear industry. Geopolitics, technology, economics and the environment are all changing in nuclear power's favour. Western governments are concerned that most of the world's oil and gas is in the hands of hostile or shaky governments. Much of the nuclear industry's raw material, uranium, by contrast, is conveniently located in friendly places such as Australia and Canada. Technology has thus improved nuclear's economics. So has the squeeze on fossil fuels. Nuclear power stations are hugely expensive to build but very cheap to run. Gas-fired power...
Lester B. Pearson, the one-time semi-professional baseball player who won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize, demonstrated last night that he will pull no punches against the Progressive Conservative government.
...The Soviet Politburo said the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear-power station cost the eq...
..., the chemical spill at Bhopal, the Chernobyl nuclear accident, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill, ...
Jocelyn House, a hospice for people living the end of their lives, is selling 2008 Day Planners to raise money for their services. The Day Planners, which include nostalgic photographs from the Winnipeg Tribune archives at the University of Manitoba, as well as tips and reminders for making each day count, cost $15. They can be purchased at the Safeway stores at Alpine Road and Fermor Boulevard; Marion Street;Vermillion Road and Fermor Boulevard; and at St. Vital Centre.
... to help children left orphans by the accident at the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. Ca...
...Accidents ( including spills) will happen. What should envir...; Three Mile Island, not to mention Chernobyl and Bhopal. Isn't there more that we lawyers can d...For example, we build nuclear plants, with nowhere to put the waste. If BP had c...
... will be released in the Japanese nuclear crisis. That and the weather are the biggest facto... radioactive particles released in the accident end up?. Radioactive particles travel like dust in...After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, some villages in Belarus...
This study examined whether people adhered to the recognition heuristic (i.e., inferred that a recognized hockey player had more total career points than an unrecognized player) and whether using this heuristic could yield accurate decisions. On paired comparisons, having participants report whether they recognized each player plus any knowledge they had about each player permitted players to be classified as either unrecognized (UR), merely recognized (MR), or recognized with additional knowledge (RK), thus producing six possible trial types. Participants adhered to the recognition heuristic on 95% of MR-UR trials and were accurate on 81% of those trials. They chose the recognized player on 98% of RK-UR trials, yielding 94% accuracy. Women had less knowledge and recognized fewer player...
... participants would recognize (e.g., Chernobyl because of the nuclear disaster) but which they wo... of a highly publicized brutality or accident, physical enforcers, relatively older, play an imp...
I was amazed to read the letter Nuclear power clean, safe (Jan. 9), penned by Patrick Moore, chief scientist with Greenspirit Strategies Ltd. One does not have to dig very deep in the Internet to realize nuclear power is neither clean nor safe. The most obvious examples are Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. These events are etched in my memory but are conveniently forgotten by Moore. I'm not sure those who have died and are yet to die as a result of Chernobyl would agree that nuclear power is clean and safe. I would like to resond to Cal Paul's suggestion that non-residents of Winnipeg pay a tax for driving into the city daily. First, Winnipeg is a municipality of the Province of Manitoba and it does receive a portion of the taxes that we non-Winnipeggers pay each year. Second, I have ab...
... evacuating Long Island in the case of an accident. But isn't nuclear power clean and safe? . Decommi...
... radioactive clouds blowing west from Chernobyl. . The locus of effective decision shifts to the s.... No accident and no surprise. The major news and entertainment ... and the proliferation of sewer rats and nuclear weapons. . The numbers that appear as a triumph at...
That's certainly what I found recently in Ontario, where nuclear reactors have been producing electricity since 1968 and where more than 50 per cent of the province's electricity is generated by turbines driven by heat from nuclear reactors. I can't say it bothered me at all,'' she said, of the proximity of the reactors to her home and her children's school. "It's not an issue, I think, because I've never heard of anything going wrong or of it being a major concern.
...Of course the spectre of nuclear accidents raised by the 1986 explosion at Chernobyl in Ukrai...
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