Never mind the radiation: British contingency planners worried there would be a dramatic shortage of tea in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, recently declassified documents showed Monday.
The shortfall of the staple British beverage would be “very serious” if the country were to come under attack with atomic and hydrogen bombs, said according to a [...]
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British planners feared tea shortage after nuclear attack
Posted by Matt in May 4th, 2008 | no comment
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Doomed Chernobyl reactor to be buried in giant steel coffin
Posted by Matt in April 27th, 2008 | no comment
Published in Nuclear, April 26 1986, Chernobyl, Chernobyl Disaster, Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Chernobyl Reactor, Coffin, Disaster Work, Explosion, Former Soviet Union, Hundreds Of Thousands, Italy, Northern Europe, Nuclear Accident, Power Plant, Pripyat, Radiation, Radioactive Contents, Soviet Union, Swath, Ukraine
Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, work is under way on a colossal new shelter to cover the ruins and deadly radioactive contents of the exploded Soviet-era power plant.
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The explosion at reactor No. 4 on April 26, 1986 was the world’s worst nuclear accident, spewing radiation over a large swath of the former Soviet [...]
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