Section: US & Canada
A look at the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in numbers
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Telling the story of Chernobyl in numbers 30 years later involves dauntingly large figures and others that are even more vexing because they're still unknown. A look at numbers that hint at the scope of the world's worst nuclear accident, the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on...
US flies F-22s to Romania as show of strength to Russia
The U.S. Air Force has flown in two F-22 Raptor fighter jets to Romania as a show of strength to deter Russian intervention in Ukraine. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
US flies F-22s to Romania as show of strength to Russia
The U.S. Air Force has flown in two F-22 Raptor fighter jets to Romania as a show of strength to deter Russian intervention in Ukraine. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
US Flies F-22s to Romania as Show of Strength to Russia
The U.S. Air Force has flown in two F-22 Raptor fighter jets to Romania as a show of strength to deter Russian intervention in Ukraine …read more Source: ABC...
Why Chernobyl will take 3,000 years to recover (+video)
Three decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, is still thousands of years away from resettlement. …read more Source: Christian Science...
30 Years After the Chernobyl Meltdown, Why Is the Ukrainian Government Pushing Nuclear Energy?
Dusty ChristensenOr, how Ukraine learned to stop worrying and love its nuclear power plants. …read more Source: The...
Flight MH17 Update: Ukrainian Fighter Jet Downed Malaysia Airlines Plane, BBC Documentary Suggests
A new BBC documentary on the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine in July 2014 sheds light on new evidence that suggests the Boeing plane was downed by a Ukrainian fighter jet. A senior Russian lawmaker praised the documentary, which will be broadcast on BBC Two on May 3. …read more Source: International Business...
Obama Calls For European Unity, NATO Defense, Continued Sanctions On Russia
U.S. President Barack Obama has made an impassioned plea for European unity while visiting the German city of Hanover on April 25. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Nuclear Energy’s Half-life Crisis in Changed Climate
Thirty years after the meltdown of a flawed Soviet reactor in Ukraine and five years since the disaster at Japan’s tsunami-swamped Fukushima-1 plant, the global nuclear power industry remains in flux. The heavily charged debate about whether it is safe, effective and economical to split atoms to generate electricity shows no sign of decay....
Obama Says Russia Sanctions To Remain
U.S. President Barack Obama said sanctions on Russia would remain in place until the Kremlin fully implemented the Minsk agreements on bringing peace to eastern Ukraine. Ukraine and Western governments accuse Russia of intervening military in eastern Ukraine and supporting armed separatists there, which Russia denies. (Reuters) …read more...
