When it comes to nuclear disaster, everyone knows Three Mile Island, but few have heard the name of Santa Susana and what ...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - The Texas A&M Engineering Extension, also known as TEEX, demonstrated how to identify and locate a radiation source in the middle of a disaster on Friday. 18 students ...
The World’s First ‘Reactor’ Disaster” dives into the unprecedented challenges faced during the world’s first nuclear reactor accident. A nuclear engineer breaks down the technical, environmental, and ...
Accidents like Chornobyl and Fukushima have damaged the public perception of nuclear power, leading to decreased investment and development. Nuclear power is a low-carbon energy source with a proven ...
Mahaffey (Atomic Awakening), a former senior research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, employs his extensive knowledge of nuclear engineering to produce a volume that is by turns ...
Engineering disasters serve as tragic but crucial learning opportunities for the advancement of safety standards and design principles. This collection of 15 catastrophic failures spans nearly 150 ...
Japan’s Niigata region approved restarting the world’s largest nuclear plant, nearly 15 years after the Fukushima disaster.
We’ve all seen those movies where something goes wrong with technology and suddenly, it’s chaos. Well, sometimes ...
An independent parliamentary committee issued a report on Thursday on last year’s crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, concluding that the disaster was “man-made” and the result of ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned the United Nations on Wednesday that Moscow was making plans to attack his nation’s nuclear power plants – as Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested ...
Floods, wildfires, heatwaves and storms are becoming more frequent and more intense as a result of climate change. Emergency systems around the world are being tested not only by the scale of these ...
Cannon inspecting a passing-out parade for recruits of the Prince of Wales’s Division (in which his son was an officer) Commander Tim Cannon, who has died aged 81, helped to put out a fire in a ...