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Adhish Khanna

Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The accident raised concerns about the safety of the Soviet nuclear power industry, as well as nuclear power in general
Adhish Khanna

Russia's view on the safety of nuclear power « The Mendeleyev Journal - 0 views

  • ussian rescue teams were involved in clearing the debris after the earthquake. They are returning home now. We have increased supplies of fuel and have delivered humanitarian supplies. Many ordinary Russians are ready to help the Japanese people: they are collecting humanitarian aid and have offered to host the individuals who have lost their homes. I think that is a normal human response.
  • Additional requirements should probably be introduced, as well as restrictions for the construction of nuclear power plants in high-risk seismic zones.
  • It is probably more expedient to build new nuclear power plants, with cutting edge safety mechanisms, than to extend the lifetime of old ones.
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  • The Fukushima disaster makes us think about expanding the mandate of international organisations responsible for nuclear power safety. Moreover, it should have different powers, appropriate to every given situation that would make it possible for each such organisation to address the problems within its scope of responsibility. It is also necessary to observe the principles of openness and absolute transparency.
  • The level of radiation, now and in the future, must be measured automatically and constantly communicated to various information websites, including www.russianatom.ru, a special website dedicated to this issue. In my opinion, this practice should be officially recommended by the IAEA as an international authority for all NPP operators.
  • Most importantly, we must work to increase public confidence in the development of the nuclear industry worldwide. It has great potential. 
  • Many countries have given essential assistance to Japan in the immediate aftermath of devastating earthquakes earlier this month. Russian personnel from the Centre for High-Risk Rescue Operations and the Emergency Situation Ministry’s Far East Regional Centre, along with rescuers from the Central Airborne Rescue Detachment and the Emergency Situations Ministry Department for Aviation and Air Rescue Technology have served in Japan following the crisis.
  • Many countries have given essential assistance to Japan in the immediate aftermath of devastating earthquakes earlier this month. Russian personnel from the Centre for High-Risk Rescue Operations and the Emergency Situation Ministry’s Far East Regional Centre, along with rescuers from the Central Airborne Rescue Detachment and the Emergency Situations Ministry Department for Aviation and Air Rescue Technology have served in Japan following the cri
Miah Murphy

World Food Crisis, Global Food Crisis website - 0 views

  • Systemic causes for the worldwide increases in food prices continue to be the subject of debate.
  • Systemic causes for the worldwide increases in food prices continue to be the subject of debate. Initial causes of the late 2006 price rises included unseasonable droughts in grain producing nations and rising oil prices. Oil prices further heightened the costs of fertilizers, food transport, and industrial agriculture. Other causes of the food crisis may be the increasing use of biofuels in developed countries, and an increasing demand for a more varied diet, meat in particular, across the expanding middle-class populations of Asia. These factors, coupled with falling world food stockpiles have all contributed to the dramatic worldwide rise in food prices. Long-term causes of the food crisis remain a topic of debate. These may include structural changes in trade and agricultural production, agricultural price supports and subsidies in developed nations, diversions of food commodities to high input foods and fuel, commodity market speculation, and climate change.
  • 136%, maize by 125% and soybeans by 107%. In late April 2008, rice prices hit 24
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  • Effects of food for fuel
  • Biofuel subsidies in the US and the EU
  • Agricultural subsidies
  • Uncontrolled world population growth
  • Increased demand for resource intensive food
  • Distorted global rice market
  • Decreased crops from natural disasters
  • Soil and productivity losses
  • Rising levels of ozone
  • Effects of oil price increases
  • Impact of trade liberalization
  • Financial speculation
  • Reduction in world food stockpiles
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