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PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer
Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...
Tags: Technology, China, Writers Guild of America, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975), Manufacturing and Engineering
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In wake of Fukushima disaster, Japan to end nuclear power by 2030s
World NowThe Japanese government announced a dramatic turn in its energy policy Friday, vowing to make the densely populated island nation nuclear-free by the 2030s. Last year's tsunami-triggered disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power complex forced evacuation of... -
Japan leaders, utility slammed for 'man-made' nuclear disaster
World NowAn independent parliamentary commission accused the Japanese government and the nation's leading utility of "collusion" in avoiding vital nuclear safety improvements that would have prevented the reactor meltdowns last year at the tsunami-damaged... -
'Chernobyl Diaries': Horror movie and travel book depict extreme tourism
24 Frames"Chernobyl Diaries," a horror movie following a group of tourists on an excursion to the abandoned Ukrainian site of the meltdown, hits theaters just as a pollution travelogue by journalist Andrew Blackwell, "Visit Sunny Chernobyl," is arriving in book... -
Rushworth M. Kidder dies at 67; ethics expert
Rushworth M. Kidder, a former Christian Science Monitor columnist who taught and wrote books about ethics, died March 5 of natural causes in Naples, Fla. He was 67.
His death was announced by the Institute for Global Ethics, the Rockport, Maine-based...Tags: Health, England, NPR, Literature, Ethics
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Report: Japan, utility at fault for response to nuclear disaster
World NowJapan's response to the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was flawed by poor communication and delays in releasing data on dangerous radiation leaks, a government-appointed investigative panel has found.... -
Berlin Film Festival: 3 documentaries on Japan nuclear disaster
24 FramesLess than a year after the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan devastated whole towns and crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, causing radioactive disaster, filmic portraits at the Berlin International Film Festival are presenting the human... -
'Chernobyl Diaries' mines nuclear disaster for horror thrills
24 FramesAudiences will get a history lesson of sorts from "Chernobyl Diaries," a movie due in theaters May 25 which follows a group of young American tourists in Europe on a jaunt to the abandoned Ukrainian site of the 1986 nuclear meltdown.... -
Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Nature' on KOCE
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Lack of data from Japan distresses nuclear experts
How did Japanese workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant jury-rig fire hoses to cool damaged reactors? Is contaminated water from waste pools overflowing into the Pacific Ocean? Exactly who is the national incident commander?
The answers to these...Tags: United Nations, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Politics, Photography, International Atomic Energy Agency
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Anger and abandonment in a Japanese nuclear ghost town
Hoshi Jyunichu lives in a nuclear ghost town.
On a recent afternoon, he calmly swept the entrance to his downtown coffeehouse, even though only one solitary soul had crossed the threshold the entire day. His customers, his neighbors, even his family,...Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Television, Health, Politics, Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan)
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Japan's crisis may have already derailed 'nuclear renaissance'
The nuclear crisis in Japan, even if authorities are able to bring damaged reactors under control, has cast doubts on the future of nuclear power as a clean-energy solution in the United States and around the globe.
Before the recent events in Japan, the...Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Politics, University of Southern California, Health, Don Lee
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