Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Catastrophe Japan
The Fukushima nuclear power plant catastrophe and some of its implications concerning the dangers of nuclear power
Energy Challenges
Energy
Challenges (Annenberg Media)
Energy demands and new technologies that can produce ample supplies of energy without some of the environmental costs linked to current energy resources. Including an online textbook, video, interactive lab, visuals and more to understand better the complex relationship between increasing populations, energy use, and economics.
Energy Lab
Energy
Lab (Annenberg Media)
In this lab, your challenge is to try to meet the world's projected energy demand by choosing from the available energy sources, while keeping atmospheric CO2 under control and avoiding the particular limits and pitfalls associated with each energy source.
Nuclear energy
Nuclear
energy (Annenberg Media)
Nuclear energy, which generates about 17 percent of world electricity supplies (roughly 6 percent of total energy consumption), is produced by enhancing the radioactive decay of naturally fissile materials—elements whose atoms can be split by thermal (slow) neutrons, releasing energy. This section shows how electric power is produced with the help of nuclear power.
