Chernobyl, Fukushima, Deepwater Horizon, Exxon Valdez—these names live in the collective global consciousness as warnings about what can happen when we are careless stewards of our environment and ...

Scientists study the world as it is, politicians debate the world they want, but engineers create the world that has never been. Industrialisation, water distribution, electrification, automation and ...

Early in my coverage of the ongoing nuclear crisis I succumbed to peer pressure and a basic understanding of the science to reassure readers that Fukushima Daiichi could never become another Chernobyl ...

A sign warns of radiation contamination near former apartment buildings. Chernobyl, Fukushima, Deepwater Horizon, Exxon Valdez—these names live in the collective global consciousness as warnings about ...