The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb Monday, 07 May 2012 14:20By Brad Jacobson, AlterNet | Report Experts say acknowledging the threat would call into question the safety of dozens of identically designed nuclear power plants in the U.S. More than a year after the triple [...]
Ukrainians hold candles commemorating the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Kiev, Ukraine,Thursday, April 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov) Despite Fukushima and Chernobyl Has World Learned Nothing? On Anniversary of Chernobyl Ukrainians, Greenpeace Decry Nuclear Energy – Common Dreams staff link http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/26-1 “The Chernobyl disaster underscored that mankind [...]
The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami} by Image courtesy of Digital Globe |Author =Digital Globe |Date =2011-03-16 Worldwide, safety regulators still see role as implementing nuclear industry plans opednews.com The ‘freeze’ on new nuclear has rapidly thawed. China, France and the UK have all announced the ‘all clear’. Even in [...]
Cancer Fears and Depression Plague Japanese Refugees By Cinthia Briseño and Heike Sonnberger link to article http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,820314,00.html REUTERS Ever since the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power plant, many Japanese people have been living with the fear of cancer. Experts find it difficult to estimate how many people will actually fall ill, but they’re more concerned about the psychological [...]
Not waiting for government help, locals make their own Geiger counters and decontaminate soil [D. Parvaz] Nine months after the worst earthquake and tsunami to ever hit Japan, the rubble is still being cleared, but the issue of nuclear contamination will take decades to deal with. Japan’s government on Wednesday announced that decommissioning the damaged and leaking Fukushima [...]
The power station at Kuraymat uses both natural gas and solar panels to produce electricity. Photograph: Solar Millennium Leo Hickman guardian.co.uk, Sunday 11 December 2011 20.30 GMT Article history During the summer of 1913, in a field just south of Cairo on the eastern bank of the Nile, an American engineer called Frank Shuman stood before [...]
Why This Matters Posted: 13 Apr 2011 02:47 PM PDT We have to be sure our facts about nuclear power are right, as the latest exchange with Helen Caldicott shows. By George Monbiot. Published on the Guardian’s website, 13th April 2011 My request to Helen Caldicott was a simple one: I asked her to give me [...]
AMY GOODMAN: Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan tried Tuesday to calm fears about radiation levels and food safety in the region around the heavily damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. His comments came after Japan raised the severity rating of its nuclear crisis to the highest possible level, heightening concerns about the magnitude of the disaster. [...]
There is a tendency to rate disasters so that people seem uninterested unless the latest one is the biggest the worst and the like. Any nuclear event is a major problem even if it only shows up the need for better organisation etc or the need not to use that form of power at all. [...]
If you thought that the Japanese nuclear problem was some sort of beatup like the stupid panellist on a recent TV program try asking the Japanese. They have lifted the danger rating to 7 and now there is the start of real concerns about where in the so called safety zone you live. If we [...]
Japan has upgraded their nuclear problem to: LEVEL SEVEN: Major accident Major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects, requiring implementation of planned and extended countermeasures. INES – The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale What is INES? INES – is a tool for promptly communicating to the public in [...]
When I think back to the idiot on a TV news program who claimed all the nuclear talk from Japan was just a beat up or words to that effect it makes you laugh to read something as serious as this. George Ikners ikners.com Japan upgrades nuclear crisis to same level as Chernobyl Nuclear and [...]
Fukushima: A ‘nuclear sacrifice zone’ Some experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster could become worse than Chernobyl. Dahr Jamail Last Modified: 08 Apr 2011 15:37 Email Article Print Article Share Article Send Feedback Experts warn that the situation will take months to stabalise and a large area could remain uninhabitable [REUTERS] Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that [...]
