A Swiss science artist’s beautiful but disturbing paintings of mutated insects reveal a different side to the ‘official’ story about nuclear power.
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Movie Review | ‘Under Control’: ‘Under Control,’ Documentary on German Nuclear Power Plants — Review“Under Control” is a documentary tour of German nuclear power plants and the policies that sustain them. “Lads & Jockeys,” a documentary by Benjamin Marquet, conveys the terrors and humiliations of jockey apprentices at an elite horse-racing academy outside Paris. In “Kinyarwanda,” Alrick Brown depicts a range of events and people during the months of the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda. In “Under Fire: Journalists in Combat,” Martyn Burke intersperses a series of interviews with correspondents and photographers with footage from combat zones. Analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows that coal and nuclear power plants are using “vast amounts of local water for cooling”, stressing watersheds. Belgian politicians are the latest to consider a phase out of nuclear power. Is this a good thing? Photo: Topato , Flickr / CC BY Siemens, Europe’s largest engineering conglomerate, is severing its ties to nuclear power. View this infographic bigger at EnergySavvy.com With all the talk among the Republican hopefuls for President about opening up more of the US for energy exploration in the name of job creation, here’s an infographic laying out in stark terms how many more jobs can be created, and more energy saved, through energy efficiency Image via screengrab. The disaster at Fukushima may have faded from the news cycle, but the radioactive waste it left behind isn’t going anywhere. |
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