{"id":213,"date":"2007-10-05T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2007-11-05T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T15:11:10","slug":"new-data-underpins-need-for-pragmatic-precaution-on-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/new-data-underpins-need-for-pragmatic-precaution-on-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"New data underpins need for pragmatic precaution on nuclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the 50th anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7030281.stm\">Windscale nuclear disaster<\/a> occurs (the worst in the world at that time) <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7030536.stm\">new research<\/a> published in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/wps\/find\/journaldescription.cws_home\/246\/description#description\">Atmospheric Environment<\/a> shows the incident generated twice as much radioactive material and could have caused more cancers than was previously thought.\u00a0 Although the scale of that disaster was modest by modern standards, the research underlies the need for a much more precautionary approach to nuclear than is current.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 50th anniversary of the Windscale nuclear disaster occurs (the worst in the world at that time) new research published in the journal Atmospheric Environment shows the incident generated twice as much radioactive material and could have caused more cancers than was previously thought.\u00a0 Although the scale of that disaster was modest by modern &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/new-data-underpins-need-for-pragmatic-precaution-on-nuclear\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New data underpins need for pragmatic precaution on nuclear<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-3r","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}