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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 Large type books Nuclear energy Nuclear power plants Accidents Nuclear power plants Accidents Drama Nuclear power plants Accidents Fiction Nuclear power plants Accidents Japan Fukushima-ken Nuclear power plants Accidents Ukraine Chornobylʹ Nuclear power plants Accidents Ukraine Chornobylʹ Juvenile literature Small cities FictionSummary: "Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant looms just 35 miles from Times Square. With over 50 million people living in close proximity to the aging facility, its continued operation has the support of the plant's operators and the NRC--Nuclear Regulatory Commission--yet has stoked a great deal of controversy in the surrounding community, including a vocal anti-nuclear contingent concerned that what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INDSummary: An earthquake in rural Australia causes a dangerous leak at WALDO, a nuclear waste storage facility. Heinrich Schmidt, an engineer badly exposed to radiation, knows that the leak will poison the groundwater for hundreds of miles around, and wants to warn the public. His boss, however, is only interested in protecting himself, and plots a cover up. Heinrich escapes from the facility, but is too...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gemstone Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE CHAHigginbotham, Adam
Summary: Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.17 HIGCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ HigginbothamSummary: Examines the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima Japan. Looks at the lives of some of the refugees from the town of Futaba. Raises questions regarding the future of nuclear power in Japan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NUCSummary: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHECopies Available at East Bay
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHELüsted, Marcia Amidon.
Summary: Describes the events of what scientists accept as the worst nuclear disaster in history, with emphasis on the environmental effects on the immediate area and the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this thrilling feminist documentary, indomitable women fight back against the nuclear industry to expose one of the worst cover-ups in U.S. history. RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island is an award-winning film about the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history and its aftermath. It uncovers the never-before-told stories of four intrepid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Arnold, Guy.
Summary: Examines how nuclear energy is produced and used, as well as its possible dangers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1990
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 621.48 ARNWoods, Michael
Summary: Describes environmental disasters, including oil spills, chemical leaks, toxic pollution, and nuclear accidents, and discusses how they impact people, wildlife, and the environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.702 WOOWalker, J. Samuel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Vollmann, William T.
Summary: William T.Vollmann begins No Immediate Danger, the first volume of Carbon Ideologies, by examining and quantifying the many causes of climate change, from industrial manufacturing and agricultural practices to fossil fuel extraction, economic demand for electric power, and the justifiable yearning of people all over the world to live in comfort. Turning to nuclear power first, Vollmann recounts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.79 VOLHall, James W.
Summary: "The New York Times Book Review calls Edgar Award-winner James W. Hall a "master of suspense" and this new high-stakes thriller shows why as Thorn embarks on a mission to save his newfound son Earth Liberation Front, known as ELF, is a loosely knit organization comprised of environmental activists scattered around the country. These extremists take a "by any means necessary" approach to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALPatterson, James
Summary: Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. There's no place to run in a community that's been taken--and is being intentionally kept--off the grid. A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap approaches, some residents are allowed to return past the national guard roadblocks. Mount Hope natives Maggie and Jordan quickly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2019Summary: First atomic power station/nuclear power plant for electricity in homes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1955
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Deutermann, Peter T.
Summary: When the murdered body of a private detective is found to be contaminated with radioactive matter, ex-cop Cam Richter conducts a personal investigation that reveals dangerous security problems at a nuclear power plant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY DeuPatterson, James
Summary: Returning home after a power-plant accident, Maggie and Jordan discover something is very wrong and as friends and family morph into terrifying strangers, their search for the truth puts them in the crosshairs of a sinister presence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2019Murray, Julie
Summary: "This title will help readers understand the causes, timeline, and aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster. The title is complete with glossary, index, and additional facts"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dash! Leveled Readers, an imprint of Abdo Zoom 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J363.17 MURBortz, Alfred B.
Summary: Recounts the Tohoku earthquake, subsequent tsunami, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.1799 BORPlokhy, Serhii
Summary: An in depth look at the stories of firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who worked to extinguish the nuclear inferno of Chernobyl identifies the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Press ; distributed by Crowell 1975
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Summary: Relocating to Leningrad in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, neighbors Valentina and Oksana, who have been taught to hate each other because of religious differences, uncover painful family secrets while learning what it means to trust another person.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLALochbaum, David A.
Summary: "In the first definitive account of the Fukushima disaster, two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists ... team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan ... to tell this harrowing story, [which] combines [an] ... account of the tsunami and the nuclear emergency it created with an explanation of the science and technology behind the meltdown as it unfolded in real time"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After a nuclear power plant worker in Russia is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation, officials initiate a cover-up, refusing to help him, so he steals some plutonium to sell on the black market to support his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2008
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER PUSummary: A television news reporter and a cameraman uncover a startling incident while investigating a nuclear power plant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999