Past nuclear disasters can give us a clue about what may happen to the area around the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown in Japan. One of these is Chernobyl, where the same thing happened 25 years ago. Another is in Japan, where the US dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 66 years ago.
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The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March damaged several of their power plants, releasing large amounts of radioactive material into the water and into the soil around the Fukushima reactor. Now a group of citizens have started a campaign to plant sunflowers in order to clean contaminants from the fallout zone.
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Five Russian scientists who were advising Iranian nuclear experts on the design of an Iranian atomic facility were among the 44 killed in a recent air crash in Russia. Iranian nuclear experts have been involved in similar accidents in the past. Are these really "accidents?" A number of Iranian nuclear scientists involved in the same project have been assassinated in Iran. The five were employed at the Hydropress factory in Russia, one of the main companies to contract for the Bushehr construction in Iran.read more
The recent Japanese nuclear power plant meltdown has spurred scientists on to find better ways to detect radiation. They could also use these methods to search for countries (like Iran) that are secretly making nuclear weapons–as well as terrorists who want to use "dirty bombs." The International Atomic Energy Agency mandates nuclear safeguard systems to on these reactors, but one thing they DON’T show is how much plutonium or uranium is present in the fuel rods of these reactors, some of which could be diverted to use for manufacturing weapons. With nuclear reactors supplying large amounts of the power used on this planet–especially in Europe–this is not a small problem. read more