Los Alamos, N.M. is feeling the heat this week as it battles the Las Conchas wildfire that has been raging since Sunday.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has released a preliminary report of its review of Japan’s handling of its nuclear crisis, concluding that regulators and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) underestimated the risk a severe tsunami posed to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (via Ecocentric)
Tens of thousands of anti-nuclear protesters formed a chain in Stuttgart, Germany on Saturday, which marked the biggest anti-nuclear demonstration since the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago.
Homer Simpson, or one of the boobs in sector 7-G, must have fallen asleep again. Yesterday two power plants in New England underwent emergency shut down.
The German government nixed plans to phase out nuclear power in the country by 2021, extending the plants’ lives by an average of 12 years.
