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How Small Reactor Fires Could Result in U.S. Nuclear Disasters Worse Than Fukushima
2014-02-18 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: No matter the size, a nuclear reactor pool fire is dangerous enough to change millions of lives forever. The Nuclear Information Resource and Service and dozens of other organizations on Tuesday uncovered an unpublished study by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that suggests that even a small nuclear reactor pool fire could render up to 9,400 square miles uninhabitable, displacing more than 4 million Americans. The study examined spent fuel storage at the Peach Bottom reactor in Pennsylvania...
Flooding crisis likely to get worse, warns David Cameron
2014-02-16 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: David Cameron has warned that the flooding crisis is likely to get worse even though Britain is set for a respite from the devastating winter storms. The prime minister said while the weather was due to improve, the sheer volume of rain over recent weeks meant groundwater levels would keep rising in many places. The comments came as power firms struggled to reconnect tens of thousands of homes after the latest downpours and high winds. Despite weather forecasters predicting an "improving...
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Parks Canada's heritage gems in worse shape than claimed
2014-02-11 12:47:56| Railroads - Topix.net
Mt. Assiniboine Provincial Park in B.C. houses a lodge built in 1928 by the Canadian Pacific Railway as the first ski lodge in the Canadian Rockies.
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Britain battered by 90mph storms - and there's worse to come
2014-02-05 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: David Cameron took personal charge of the flooding crisis on Wednesday as the south coast was battered by 90mph storms and forecasters warned worse weather is on its way. He chaired a meeting of the emergency committee Cobra to discuss a response to the flooding shortly after promising to do whatever is required and announcing an extra 100?million to help with the clear-up operation. The Environment Agencys embattled chairman Lord Smith, who has been heavily criticised for failing to visit...
'Worse than useless': Flood-affected locals on the Somerset Levels blame plight on Environmental Agency
2014-02-04 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Like most of the residents of Muchelney, farmer Graham Walker has had enough of the floods that have left his fields underwater and his sheep scattered for six weeks. The village in the middle of the Somerset Levels has been cut off from the mainland since the New Year and, like most of his fellow residents, Mr Walker puts the blame squarely with the Environment Agency (EA) for its failure to dredge... local rivers. [It] has been worse than useless, he said. Weve told them for years...
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