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lessons of Chernobyl and Fukushima

Abandoned Chernobyl village. Credit: Clay Gilliland via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0

Chernobyl: A nuclear accident that changed the course of history. Then came Fukushima.

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Leningrad nuclear power plant: a pond for storing spent fuel rods at the Leningrad nuclear power plant in Sosnovy Bor. Photo credit: RIA Novosti archive, image #305008/ Alexey Danichev/CC-BY-SA 3.0

Nuclear safety and security lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima

By William Tobey | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk