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power
energy
"Energy Utopia or Dystopia? A Historical Perspective on Nuclear Energy"
Horace Herring explores the history of nuclear energy and its reception shortly after a Tsunami hit the North East coast of Japan in March 2011, causing a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima One nuclear power plant.
The Brookhaven Report (WASH-740)
This report by the US Atomic Energy Commission estimates the possible damage from a meltdown at a large nuclear reactor.
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Price-Anderson Nuclear Indemnity Act
The US Price-Anderson Act limits the liability of the nuclear industry in the event of an nuclear accident.
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Jevons’s The Coal Question Published
Economist William Stanley Jevons explores the implications of Britain’s dependency on coal.
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Nuclear Power, No Thanks! The Aftermath of Chernobyl in Italy and the Nuclear Power Referendum of 1987
First Oil Price Crisis
Construction of the Kainji Dam and Lake
This dam project alters the Niger delta’s previously dynamic and self-regulating ecosystem.
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Invention of the Light Bulb
Thomas Edison produces his first long-lasting light bulb.
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Savery's Steam Engine Patented
English engineer Thomas Savery patents a steam engine for removing water from mine shafts; with subsequent improvements, the device would later drive the Industrial Revolution.
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