NRDC has long opposed relicensing its two reactors because of Indian Point's history of operational, safety and environmental problems, as well as the grave risk
of a nuclear accident so close to the nation's largest city,» said Kit Kennedy, director of the energy and transportation program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Not exact matches
Chernobyl is still considered the worst
nuclear accident in history — but it could have been much, much worse, if not for a
so - called «suicide squad»
of three brave volunteers.
Prices for the metal have been depressed in the aftermath
of the 2011 Fukushima
nuclear accident in Japan, but the situation got
so bad this year that Cameco, the world's largest publicly traded uranium miner, had to suspend production at multiple mines.
This raised the original rating from level 5 and puts the Fukushima Daiichi disaster technically in the same category as Chernobyl, although the quantity
of discharged radioactive materials in Japan
so far is about 10 percent
of what was released by the Chernobyl reactor explosion, considered history's worst
nuclear accident.
And
so it is with
nuclear, which remains amongst the safest means
of producing energy, according to the attempts to model the human
of accidents.
As to the effects
of nuclear accidents in general, consider that Chernobyl was a «worse than worst case»
accident, yet the Earth kept on ticking just fine: no temperature increase, no Arctic ice melt, no ocean acidification... Indeed, it seems that for most creatures life in the
so - called «dead zone» is a distinct improvement on previous condidtions.