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1) The warning
Author
Language
English
Description
"Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. There's no place to run in a community that's been taken--and is being intentionally kept--off the grid. A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap approaches, some residents are allowed to return past the national guard roadblocks. Mount Hope natives Maggie and Jordan quickly discover that their hometown is not as it was before. Downed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcturus Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Explains the basics of nuclear power, how accidents can occur, and the impact they can have both on the environment and humans. Demonstrates the effects of a nuclear accident using a chronological selection of historical and recent accidents including Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Includes primary sources and eyewitness accounts.
Series
IAEA nuclear energy volume Number NG-T-6.8
Publisher
International Atomic Energy Agency
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Series
IAEA nuclear energy volume Number NP-T-3.16
Publisher
International Atomic Energy Agency
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Series
IAEA-TECDOC volume 1762
Publisher
International Atomic Energy Agency
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This thesis focuses on how nuclear energy systems are impacted in Japan and in the United States by the Fukushima nuclear accident. Based on Yin's methodological approach for case studies (2003), the results of this research and analysis of political, industrial and citizen responses suggest that the Fukushima accident was a catalyst for ongoing change in Japan. With 160,000 citizens still displaced, 300,000 children in radioactive zones, and a decades-long...
10) Atomic America: how a deadly explosion and a feared admiral changed the course of nuclear history
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
An expose of the 1961 nuclear reactor explosion in Idaho challenges official records that blame the accident on a dramatic love triangle involving two victims, in an account that presents evidence citing poor safety regulations.
Author
Publisher
Rock the Boat
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Chernobyl, 1986. Without humans, how will dogs survive? As humans fled the nuclear disaster, they were forced to leave their pets behind. Without people, nature began to return to the woods surrounding the power plant--lynx, bear, and wolves. But the overgrown forest is no place for dogs. Can Zoya, and her pups Misha and Luka, learn to survive in the deadlands? And will Zoya ever find her way home to her beloved owner? --