For an event that fascinated the world and sent a frisson of fear scorching through the USA, the nuclear accident…
The small chemical plant owned by Hoffmann-La Roche subsidiary ICMESA near Meda, 15 km (10 mi) north of Milan, was…
People characterized as NIMBYs (‘Not In My Back Yarders’) are the curse of would-be developers everywhere. They are often dismissed…
Don’t always trust a US Federal Mine Inspector - that was the painful lesson learned by unsuspecting residents of Buffalo…
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Just one year after Nova Scotia’s Springhill community went into mourning for miners lost in its infamous ‘bump’, another bizarre…
Canada’s Springhill coalfield in Nova Scotia opened in the 19th century, and was the scene of more than one serious…
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Nuclear fission was a sensitive subject in the Soviet Union during the Cold War years - to the point where…
Sometimes painful history lessons aren’t learned. Sometimes they are simply ignored. Either way, the disastrous explosion that devastated Texas City…