19/04/2011 | Medio Ambiente
Fukushima, Chernobyl and UN-Sponsored Nuclear Safety Reforms
With the recent increase of its accident rating to level 7—the highest on the International Nuclear Radiological Event Scale (INES)—the Fukushima nuclear accident has taken on another attribute of Chernobyl, the world’s worst nuclear disaster and the only other one in history to receive a level 7 “major disaster” rating.
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19/04/2011 | Medio Ambiente
Fukushima, Chernobyl and UN-Sponsored Nuclear Safety Reforms
With the recent increase of its accident rating to level 7—the highest on the International Nuclear Radiological Event Scale (INES)—the Fukushima nuclear accident has taken on another attribute of Chernobyl, the world’s worst nuclear disaster and the only other one in history to receive a level 7 “major disaster” rating.
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05/04/2011 | Frente Externo
Africa - Is Côte d’Ivoire UN’s Next Libya?
Eight years after the bloody civil war that split Côte d’Ivoire in two, hard fought efforts to unify the government-controlled south and rebel-held north have once again crumbled.
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07/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
UN Security Council Reform: A Long-term Trudge
Mandated by the United Nations Charter to maintain international peace and security, an exclusive fifteen-member Security Council conducts business frequently at UN Headquarters in New York.
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