nuclear power

Nuclear abolition: Protesters confront Livermore Lab on Hiroshima anniversary

August 10, 2018 By Marilyn Bechtel

Nobuaki Hanaoka was an infant in Nagasaki in August 1945 when the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb. He recalled how, when he was a child, "death came down with the rain.”

Trump puts nuclear war advocate Bolton in charge of national security

March 23, 2018 By John Wojcik

The Republican leadership, who stand by and do nothing in the face of Trump's actions, are a profile in cowardice.

Fukushima-type reactor in Vermont gets the axe, concerns remain

January 13, 2015 By Blake Skylar

A nuclear power plant near the town of Brattleboro is being shut down thanks to local environmental activism.

Harvey “No Nukes” Wasserman warns about nuclear nightmares

September 12, 2014 By Ed Rampell

"The thyroid cancer death rate for children in the Fukushima area is 40 times higher than normal; tuna caught near California have signs of cesium traceable to Fukushima."

Today in women’s history: Three Mile Island nuclear reactor overheats

March 28, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Since the 1979 accident, there has been an ongoing controversy over whether the radiation released at Three Mile Island led to an increase of cancer and infant mortality in the surrounding areas.