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Entries by Rory O'Connor from 03/2011

No Word for Meltdown: Nukespeak Returns

| Posted 03.15.2011
Read More: Japanese Nuclear Crisis, Barack Obama, Meltdown, Nuclear Warnings, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Dangers, Nuclear Plants, Nuclear Power, News

Some things never change: the Orwellian impulse to hide the truth about nuclear dangers remains one of them.

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No Word for Tsunami: Imagining the Unimaginable

| Posted 03.28.2011
Read More: Chernobyl, Japan Nuclear Meltdown, Japan Tsunami, Three Mile Island, News

George Orwell argued that controlling language was the ultimate tool for getting people to accept the unacceptable -- like the catastrophic risks of operating nuclear power plants.

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