Hazards - Infrastructure Failure: Nuclear Power Plants
This list is under construction. Date of last update is 2 March 2000.
Nuclear Power Plant Links
- The Virtual Nuclear Tourist
- extensive site on nuclear power industry world-wide
- The Uranium Institute Online
- web site of the Uranium Institute of the United Kingdom
- National Radiological Protection Board
- web site of the National Radiological Protection Board of the United Kingdom
- International Nuclear Safety Program
- U. S. Department of Energy web site on nuclear safety in the former Soviet Union
- Chernobyl: The Accident and Progress Since 1986
- site offers access to a number of Chornobyl related papers
- Radiological Consequences of the 1957 Windscale Fire
- (B) short paper on consequences of a major British nuclear reactor accident in October 1957 which released iodine 131 and polonium 210 and resulted in slightly increased cancer risks
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- includes technical material on nuclear power generation programs, nuclear materials inspection, international safeguards against proliferation, and nuclear safety, with information on the Agency
- Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company: Paradigm of the Twilight of the Nuclear Era
- (A) a RADNET environmentalist view of Maine Yankee as an unsafe, and lawbreaking site with a narrative and discussion of the economics and options of the decommissioning process
- Chernobyl Fallout Data: Annotated Bibliography
- (A) extensive annotated bibliography on Chornobyl fallout with general articles and country by country reports from around the world - clear environmentalist bias - a RADNET site
- Major Nuclear Accidents in Progress
- (A) provides information on long term US and international releases of radiation, including site specific coverage in the United States, England, and Japan - includes useful scale of accident severity
- Tokai Reports
- (B) summary of IAEA and Japanese task force reports on a September 1999 criticality event which exposed 69 people at an enriched uranium conversion plant in Tokai
- Russian Military Source Points
- (A) overview of Russian nuclear waste issues with information on the Kyshtym explosion, wind transers, and river and area contamination - includes extensive bibliography - RADNET site
- return to BENCHMARK Front Page
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Updates
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