"Good evening comrades. All of you know that there has been an incredible misfortune - that accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. It has painfully affected the soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real force of nuclear energy, out of c...

On April 26th, 1986, the world's worst nuclear power accident occurred at Chernobyl in Russia. At 1:23 am, Reactor Number 4 became out of control creating a fireball explosion that blew off the reactor's heavy steel and concrete lid. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located 80 miles north of Kie...

In Middletown, PA, a quiet rural community, sits the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island, better known as TMI. It was at this station that the worst commercial nuclear accident in the country's history occurred. Early in the morning of March 28, 1979, during routine operations a false readin...

Nuclear energy used to be a dream energy source because it did not emit air pollutants as long as it were operating properly. The US government and Utility Companies invested billions of dollars in building and developing nuclear power plants. However, its "magic" was collapsed on April 26, 1986....

Causes of Chernobyl Lack Of A 'Safety Culture' The organisations responsible for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant lacked a 'safety culture' resulting in an inability to remedy design weaknesses despite being known about before the accident. Design Fault In The RBMK Reactor The RBMK reactor (...

1979 Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor Incident Three Mile Island is a nuclear power station located in Middletown, Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River, just ten miles south of the Pennsylvania state capital Harrisburg, and is also the site of the worst commercial nuclear disaster in United...

Can Society Handle Knowledge? Society and individuals can definitely be dangerous when given information. It is what we choose to do with that knowledge that can make it dangerous. We have the potential to make great things in our discoveries, but we usually don't always...

Resist the Atomic Menace There are currently 110 working nuclear power plants in the United States today. The government claims that out of twenty-two years of operation, there has only been one mishap in the United States involving nuclear reactors, Three Mile Island located on an island 10 miles...

Ukraine As the second largest country in Europe and a history of political power, the nation state of the Ukraine formed, along with Russia, the heart of the Soviet Union. The nation's independence in 1991 brought with it an uncertainty over a future that had once been dominated by the spec...