Mar 18 Nuclear Plant Control Room Simulator: Learning to Avoid Future Disasters EmbedVideo(142, 482, 304); The massive earthquake in Japan knocked out the power grid around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, then its backup generators failed amid the ensuing tsunami. Then came the explosions, radiation emissions and dangerously hot nuclear… Continue reading
Mar 18 Watch Beyond Japan: Nuclear Energy’s Future Hari interviews NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien on nuclear safety. Continue watching
Mar 18 Rating Nuclear Accidents and Incidents: Which Were the Worst? By Talea Miller With three reactors having at least partial meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan, the country raised the alert level from four to five on a seven-point international scale for atomic incidents Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency… Continue reading
Mar 17 Watch Satellites Offer New Window Into Documenting, Preventing Genocide Tom Bearden reports on the push to use private satellites to document genocide from space. Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch Stories from SXSW: 60 Second Elevator Pitches Six elevator pitches in sixty seconds or less. Continue watching
Mar 17 China Health Minister on Japan Crisis: ‘Uncertainties’ Loom on Radiation Risk The PBS NewsHour has a reporting team in China this week, working on health, economy and other stories for a series you'll see in coming weeks. But given the events in Japan, they are also monitoring the Chinese reaction to… Continue reading
Mar 17 Watch Stories from SXSW: Music and Interaction Design Discussion on the intersection of music and User Experience Design. Continue watching
Mar 16 Watch First Rock From the Sun: NASA Set to Explore Mercury’s Extreme Atmosphere Imagine traveling to a planet where the sun is 11 times stronger than on Earth, the temperature can swing 1,100 degrees and you have to maintain contact with headquarters back on Earth. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on NASA's tricky… Continue watching
Mar 16 Watch News Wrap: Tokyo Stock Market Rebounds Amid Japan’s Recovery Efforts In other news Wednesday, the Tokyo stock market rebounded, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced new national limits on mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants. Continue watching
Mar 16 Miles O’Brien on Mercury, Microscopic Martians and Hi-Tech Oven Mitts After its nearly seven-year voyage, NASA's Messenger space capsule is expected to pull into orbit around our smaller, denser sister planet, Mercury, at 8:54 pm EST on Thursday. Once there, it will spend a year collecting data on the… Continue reading