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'Chernobyl Diaries': Horror movie and travel book depict extreme tourism

2012-05-25 16:38:07

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List of films and release dates in summer 2012

2012-04-29 00:00:00

May 4 The Avengers A team of superheroes including Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk and Thor unite to save the world. With Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo and Chris Hemsworth. Written and directed by Joss Whedon. In Imax 3-D. Walt Disney...

'Chernobyl Diaries' mines nuclear disaster for horror thrills

2012-03-21 16:38:24

'Raid: Redemption': Director Gareth Evans kicks up action [Video]

2012-03-22 16:38:17

Lack of data from Japan distresses nuclear experts

2011-03-24 17:24:00

How did Japanese workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant jury-rig fire hoses to cool damaged reactors? Is contaminated water from waste pools overflowing into the Pacific Ocean? Exactly who is the national incident commander? The answers to these...

New progress, worries in Japan nuclear crisis

2011-03-19 22:38:00

Japan took a step toward possibly getting its nuclear disaster under control Sunday as electricity to power some reactor cooling systems was restored and previous efforts to lower reactor temperatures with seawater at the battered Fukushima atomic...

Japanese engineers work to contain nuclear reactor damage

2011-03-14 00:00:00

Engineers are now pumping seawater laced with boron into two nuclear reactors at Japan's Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) power plant 150 miles north of Tokyo and are considering doing it at a third reactor in a last-ditch effort to stave off a meltdown that...

A look at Japan's damaged nuclear plants

2011-03-12 20:56:00

The situation at one of Japan's crippled nuclear power plants seemed to go from bad to worse as an explosion Saturday destroyed a building that houses one reactor and on Sunday another reactor began experiencing problems with its cooling system. An...

How safe is nuclear power?

2011-03-16 11:00:00

Elmer E. Lewis, professor emeritus at Northwestern University and author of two textbooks on nuclear power, took questions about the effort to contain reactors damaged by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Lewis' research has focused on the broad...

Radiation exposure and the effects on human health

2011-03-15 19:47:00

As engineers have fought to avert a meltdown at the earthquake- and tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) power plant, nuclear authorities have reported that spikes of radiation have escaped from the facility at levels that can be dangerous to...

Japan Q&A: What caused the blast at nuclear plant, and what are officials doing to avert a meltdown?

2011-03-13 00:00:00

An explosion overnight destroyed the building housing one of the nuclear reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 facility about 160 miles north of Tokyo, where authorities have been struggling to bring the reactor under control following...

Options are few to prevent Japan nuclear catastrophe

2011-03-18 18:50:00

Workers struggling to contain radioactive releases from the Fukushima power plant face two critical tasks to avoid turning a nuclear disaster into a catastrophe: preventing a runaway chain reaction into the nuclear fuel and maintaining a massive flow of...

De izq. a der., Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Devin Kelley, Jessde McCartney y Ingrid Bolso Berdal en’ “Chernobyl Diaries".

2012-05-28 13:18:00

R; 1:28 running time A group of unlikable 20-somethings (including Chicago native Jonathan Sadowski, singer Jesse McCartney and Devin Kelley of "The Chicago Code") move from outcome A to B when they can't resist the chance to tour, wait, what's Chernobyl again?

2012-05-25 12:27:00

Common sense would suggest that no one would use a real-life nuclear disaster as a setting for a horror flick. In a brainless movie like "Chernobyl Diaries," common sense does not exist.

2012-05-25 00:00:00