Abstract
The explosion of the BP Deepwater Horizon rig in April 2010 killed eleven men, injured seventeen others, and spilled five million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Three reactors went into full meltdown, releasing iodine-131 and cesium-137 isotopes into the atmosphere at levels that exceeded the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. And the bad news kept coming, prompting some governments to put nuclear power expansion on hold, though without halting the construction of new nuclear power plants that were already in the process of being built. Three reactors went into full meltdown, releasing iodine-131 and cesium-137 isotopes into the atmosphere at levels that exceeded the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. And the bad news kept coming, prompting some governments to put nuclear power expansion on hold, though without halting the construction of new nuclear power plants that were already in the process of being built.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 6-8 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Capitalism, Nature, Socialism |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2013 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Political Science and International Relations
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law