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Three Mile Island nuclear plant would be brought back online to power Microsoft’s data centers in the age of artificial intelligence under the terms of a proposed deal.
FIRING UP

Three Mile Island Set to Restart to Power Microsoft’s AI

What could possibly go wrong?

Dan Ladden-Hall

articles/2016/04/07/when-will-nuclear-terror-hit-japan/160406-Adelstein-japan-nuclear-towers-tease_co9amf
MELTDOWN

Japan Nuke Plants Vulnerable to Terror

Poor nuclear security is endemic at Japanese power stations. It’s a ludicrous risk, not only for the Japanese, but for the world.

Jake Adelstein

articles/2016/03/11/the-real-fukushima-fallout-isn-t-radiation/160310-whittaker-fukushima-tease_nssptw
5 YEARS LATER

The Real Fukushima Fallout

Five years after Fukushima, a different set of problems plagues the population.

G. Clay Whittaker

State Secrets

What is Japan Trying to Hide?

An ominous new bill in Japan, on its way to becoming law, would give the government expanded powers to classify nearly anything as a secret and intimidate the press into silence.

Jake Adelstein

articles/2013/09/26/the-fukushima-generation-new-data-on-birth-defects-in-post-meltdown-japan/130925-fukushima-birth-defects-tease_blntak

The Fukushima Generation

New unpublished data reveals a slight rise in birth defects in post-nuclear-meltdown Japan. Jake Adelstein and Nathalie Stucky report on this exclusive data—and what Japan needs to do next to understand the health impact.

Jake Adelstein

articles/2013/03/11/fukushima-nuclear-cleanup-bogged-down-in-bureaucracy-could-take-decades/130310-fukushima-samuels-tease_qvuw7s
Tangled Up in Red

The Fukushima Nightmare

Lennox Samuels on the struggles residents and plant workers are still facing two years after the nuclear disaster.

Lennox Samuels

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Lessons From Three Mile Island

There's no doubt Japan's disaster is already worse than Three Mile Island. Eve Conant talks to Tom Kauffman about working through the chaos and the problems facing U.S. nuclear plants.

Eve Conant

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Must-Read Longform Journalism on Nuclear Power

In the wake of Japan’s nuclear crisis, The Daily Beast combs the archives for the most essential long-form pieces on the promise and tragedy of atomic energy, in this special edition of our weekly Longreads column.

The Daily Beast

articles/2011/03/17/three-mile-island-worker-on-how-he-survived-nuclear-catastrophe/dokoupil-three-mile-island_167282_uzaalr

A Nuclear Meltdown Survivor Story

Ron Fountain knows what the Japanese nuke plant workers are going through. He’s been there. Fountain talks to Tony Dokoupil about how he escaped the Three Mile Island disaster alive.

Tony Doukopil

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Japan Nuclear Crisis: What Is a Full Meltdown?

As Japan races to prevent a nuclear catastrophe, Josh Dzieza asks MIT professor Ron Ballinger and Columbia's David Brenner about partial and full meltdowns, hydrogen blasts, and windblown radiation. Plus, full coverage of Japan's crisis.

Josh Dzieza

articles/2011/03/14/rory-kennedy-and-the-campaign-to-get-rid-of-nuclear-plants/kennedy-nuclear_166422_m4ckzp

Rory Kennedy and the Campaign to Get Rid of Nuclear Plants

As the world watches a possible nuclear disaster unfold in Japan, Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester remind us that America’s plants are even more vulnerable than the ones in Japan.

Rory Kennedy

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