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The United Nations and Chernobyl
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This website "is part of an overall UNDP efforts to raise awareness about the many challenges facing the region affected" by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986. Features "UN official documents on Chernobyl nuclear accident as ...
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http://chernobyl.undp.org/english/ |
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The American Experience: Meltdown at Three Mile Island
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Contains information about the meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, including a timeline and facts on key people and events, plus a teacher's guide. Also outlines the episode of the PBS series "The American Experience" re ...
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/three/ |
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Chernobyl Accident
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An overview of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, "the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel and without proper regard for safety." Explores the environmental and health effect ...
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http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.html |
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National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
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"NNSA is responsible for the management and security of the nation's nuclear weapons, nuclear nonproliferation, and naval reactor programs. It also responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the United States and abroad." Its websi ...
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http://nnsa.energy.gov/ |
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Fact Sheet on Uranium Enrichment
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This U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) fact sheet provides an overview of the process of enriching uranium for use as nuclear fuel. Discusses two uranium enrichment processes (gaseous diffusion and gas centrifuge), uranium enrichment facilitie ...
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http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/enrichment.html |
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: The Bulletin Online
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The "magazine of global security news and analysis." Contains articles (including searchable archive of bibliographic records dating back to 1945), data on nuclear weapons worldwide, and links to related websites. Also shows the Doomsday C ...
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http://www.thebulletin.org/ |
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Inquiring Minds
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An easily understood explanation of "elementary particles and forces in our universe." Included are Questions About Physics with answers from Fermilab's scientists; links to physics laboratories from around the world; a glossary and other related res ...
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http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/ |
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Virtual Nuclear Tourist: Nuclear Power Plants Around the World
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This site describes nuclear energy safety systems, locations of power plants around the world, terrorism and security, types of nuclear plants and an overview of their workings, the environmental effects of producing nuclear power, how nuclear energy ...
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http://www.nucleartourist.com/ |
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International Linear Collider (ILC) Communication
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Updates on the progress of "a proposed future international particle accelerator ... [that] would create high-energy particle collisions between electrons and positrons, their antimatter counterparts. The ILC would provide a tool for scientists ...
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http://www.interactions.org/linearcollider/ |
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
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ORNL is the Department of Energy's "largest science and energy laboratory." It was "established in 1943 as part of the secret Manhattan Project." The site includes a history of the lab, a database of ORNL publications back to 1985 ...
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http://www.ornl.gov/ |
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