‘The Earth Is Humming’: How to Prepare a Society for Natural Disaster
A conversation with Garrett Bradley about her new documentary, and what America can learn from Japan.
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Dispatches: Obama’s Science Adviser on Responding to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.
The Lede, Issue #20: Responding to the Fukushima Accident, Bringing Back the Grizzly, FIFA Corruption, and More
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Miso and the Art of Nuclear Trauma
The Ukrainian artist Miso captures the Chernobyl tragedy in millions of pinholes—creating maps of trauma that feel at once fragile and powerful, ephemeral and enduring.
For Some, Fukushima Evacuations Were Worse Than Radiation
A study of nursing homes near the nuclear site suggest the physical and mental stress of evacuation took more years off people's lives than radiation will.
The Nuclear Mess at Fukushima
The Tokyo Electric Power company is apologizing to nearby residents once again as tons of radioactive water leak from its busted tanks.
Germany Unplugs Nuclear Power, Doesn’t Plug in Anything Else
Two years after deciding to phase out nuclear power, Germany's government just reported that it is still producing more energy than it needs.
Should India Build a Beachfront Nuclear Power Plant?
The Debate: How to calculate, and engineer, for risks like this Last week, somewhere between two and eight…
Fukushima Fallout Still Doing Damage
It’s more than a year since a titanic earthquake sparked a meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant,…