US computer security research firm NSS Labs warned that it uncovered new ways that hackers could sabotage power plants, oil refineries or manufacturing operations. “This is a global problem,” NSS chief executive Rick Moy told AFP. “There are no fixes to this right now,” he continued. “Bad guys would be able to cause real environmental and physical problems and possibly loss of life.” // NSS said that it shared its findings with the US...
Indian Point nuclear power plant has more than 100 fire code violations making it difficult to shut down the nearly 40-year facility in an emergency. The Indian Point nuclear power plant has sought more than 100 exemptions from the fire code that could make it difficult to shut down the nearly 40-year facility in an emergency, New York’s attorney general said on Monday. The plant, which supplies as much as 30 percent of New...
To mitigate the effects of radiation on astronauts, doctors advise a simple measure: Take a vitamin pill. Along with the anti-radiation drug potassium iodide, scientists recommend a vitamin pill to plug any nutritional deficiencies in the Recommended Dietary Allowance, a standard established by the U.S. National Academy Sciences in 1941. “There are ways to greatly modify the radiation response,” says Ann Kennedy, head of the NASA-backed National Space Biomedical Research Institute’s Radiation Effects Team....
by Ralph Nader The unfolding multiple nuclear reactor catastrophe in Japan is prompting overdue attention to the 104 nuclear plants in the United States—many of them aging, many of them near earthquake faults, some on the west coast exposed to potential tsunamis. Nuclear power plants boil water to produce steam to turn turbines that generate electricity. Nuclear power’s overly complex fuel cycle begins with uranium mines and ends with deadly radioactive wastes for which...
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