nuclear power plants

Explores the events surrounding Japan's 2011 natural disasters and nuclear meltdown, providing background information on the events, examining related controversies, and offering personal narratives from those who witnessed the disasters. .

Uranium is a source of vast energy for our world. Learning how this metal is mined, milled, enriched, and finally put to use is essential to understanding both the appealing and controversial nature of uranium. Science terms such as fission, atom, and radiation are introduced to readers in an easy-to-understand way in this book.

Presents an account of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster that followed a massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and that soon became the worst nuclear disaster in history.

Argues against the "nuclear renaissance" that U.S. corporations claim is underway, exposing the critiques of nuclear power and near daily system failures that plague the industry, and proposes potential energy solutions.

Provides information about the disaster that occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in April 1986, discusses Soviet efforts to conceal the accident from the world; and looks at the deaths and illnesses that have resulted from the exposure to radiation.

Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse.

Discusses the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster, which occurred in the Ukraine in 1986.