A time of catastrophe, a time for education

Mindy Kay Bricker — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:19:23 -0400

On March 11 -- just days after the Bulletin's special issue on the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl tragedy was published -- I sat in my home office in Washington, DC, listening to NPR, my stomach knotting with each passing hour.

"… At least two nuclear power plants are in trouble, thousands of people have been evacuated from the area near those plants on the coast in Fukushima Prefecture. The situation seems especially bad at one nuclear plant in particular. …"

Mindy Kay Bricker | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

A time of catastrophe, a time for education