Published in The Times on 17 Mar 2011
110317tt - Japan's latest disaster starts world-wide debate about nuclear energy
Description & Background
The earthquake disaster in Japan rattles international markets and prompts debate over nuclear power as a major energy source. This event is the worst catastrophe the nuclear industry has faced since a reactor explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine in 1986 spewed radioactive material across the northern hemisphere.
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Japan •Earhquake •Nuclear powerstaion disaster
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Nuclear re-think
Links
- Lessons for SA in Japan’s nuclear crisis
- Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe
- Thousands flee northern Japan to escape nuclear crisis
- Japan's Nuclear Crisis Stokes Fear in Europe
- Japan crisis forces world to examine nuclear position
- Meltdown fears spark nuclear debate
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