Readings for next week

There's no written assignment, but please read these documents and be prepared to talk about them. In particular, I want everyone to be pretty familiar with what happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. If you do some additional research to understand these events, please post any interesting links! One of the readings is also just a basic review of nuclear power, for context (and to reinforce some of what we discussed today).

How Stuff Works page giving the basic details of nuclear power (think you know it all already? Try their little quiz and see!)
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission backgrounder on Three Mile Island (this is the basic, bare-bones factual information given from the perspective of the main nuclear power regulatory agency. You may want to do a little snooping to find out information from other points of view.)
World Nuclear Association backgrounder on Chernobyl. (This is coming from the perspective of a nuclear industry organization, so it definitely has a propaganda aspect. You should have no trouble at all finding contrasting viewpoints if you do a little research).