A sample of copepods taken during a June 2011 cruise aboard the R/V Ka’imikai-O-Kanaloa off the northeast coast of Japan. (Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Fukushima Radiation Moving Steadily Across Pacific Concentrated levels found as scientists sample the Pacific for signs of Fukushima – Common Dreams staff Teams of scientists have already found debris [...]
Mystery of lost Fukushima radiation emails ‘a major cover-up’ Published: 23 March, 2012, 17:19 Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) workers stand before stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan (AFP Photo / Yoshikazu Tsuno) (35.5Mb)embed video TRENDS:Earthquake in Japan TAGS: Health, Natural disasters, Nuclear,Accident, Japan link http://www.rt.com/news/japan-fukushima-email-deleted-285/ The Fukushima Prefecture government apparently deleted [...]
It will not take long before the elites behind nuclear power are doing everything to get up and going again at full speed. After all profit is the only game to them. You may have noticed that there seems to be a call for more debate on nuclear power safety. What that means [...]
A year on, frustration dominates in Fukushima Those living closest to damaged nuclear plant deal with daily uncertainty, a year on from the earthquake and tsunami. D. Parvaz Last Modified: 11 Mar 2012 14:36 Email Print Share Send Feedback Fukushima City, Japan - In Fukushima Prefecture, home to the nuclear plant damaged in the March [...]
Muneo Kano has gone from fretting over his organic crops to studying patterns of radiation [D. Parvaz/ Al Jazeera] Iitate Village, Japan - Second-generation farmer Muneo Kano has not been able to tend to his cattle or grow crops since the Daiichi nuclear power plant contaminated land, air and sea after being damaged by last year’s [...]
Fukushima City, Japan - In Fukushima Prefecture, home to the nuclear plant damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, spirits are low a year after the disasters struck. “People aren’t genki,” said Jun Kitsunai, a community volunteer, using a Japanese term for being happy or upbeat. The 30-year-old who owns [...]
On the anniversary of Fukushima there has been quite a deal written about Fukushima and nuclear energy in particular. There is little doubt that there is a very vocal group in Japan and around the world who see the ‘nuclear industry‘ against a background of danger and uncontrollability. Quite recently there is a growing move [...]
SPIEGEL ONLINE A Lonely Missionary in the Radiation Zone By Heike Sonnberger in Tamura, Japan After the Fukushima disaster, residents fled from the village of Katsurao, located just outside the 20-kilometer exclusion zone. Now living in temporary emergency housing, many exist in an overwhelming state of doubt. But one man hopes to help them return to more [...]
Japanese Govt Kept Secret Worst-Case Scenario Post-Fukushima Information “was so shocking,” would frighten the public Kyodo reports: – Common Dreams staff After the Japanese government was presented with a worst-case scenario by Japan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Shunsuke Kondo in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, they kept the report secret because “it was so [...]
Fukushima Fallout: Thousands Protest Against Nuclear Power in Japan – Common Dreams staff Thousands of demonstrators hit the streets of Yokohama, Japan on Saturday afternoon calling for an end to nuclear energy in Japan after the Fukushima March 11, 2011 disaster that sparked the planet’s worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl. The protest began a [...]
“Fukushima,” writes Wasserman, “has taught us that as long as reactors operate, the apocalyptic clock is ticking.” 2012 Is the Year to Finally Bury Nuke Power by Harvey Wasserman The year 2012 has opened with news that Fukushima’s radioactive cloud may already have killed some 14,000 Americans, according to a major study just published [...]
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Far from Resolved Japan Times Editorial Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Dec. 16 declared that the stricken reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have entered the state of “cold shutdown” and that it has been confirmed that the nuclear crisis has “been resolved”(Shusoku [...]
Japan nuclear operator scraps plan to dump contaminated water in sea Tepco, operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, forced to back down after fierce protests from fishing groups A Fukushima water purification building: the company had wanted to release water treated for radioactive contamination into the sea. Photograph: AP http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/09/japan-nuclear-operator-scraps-plans Tepco, the operator of Japan‘s Fukushima nuclear [...]
Fukushima protesters urge Japan to abandon nuclear power Protesters gathered in Tokyo to call on the government to abandon nuclear energy following the Fukushima disaster. Photograph: Koji Sasahara/AP Tens of thousands join Fukushima protest march in Tokyo amid continuing fears over radiation reddit this Comments (0) Justin McCurry in Tokyo guardian.co.uk, Monday 19 September [...]
Ridding Fukushima of radiation contamination By D. Parvaz in Asia on Mon, 2011-09-12 15:11. Iwamura oversees a simulation experiment for his soil-decontamination system [D.Parvaz/Al Jazeera] FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE – Nestled among the rice paddies and country roads is a workshop where engineers work with a singular focus on a vital project: A process to decontaminate soil from [...]
Takashige Kowata thought he was prepared for the worst when he opened the door to his house for the first time in six months. But the trauma of seeing his family home abandoned amid the panic of a nuclear meltdown was compounded when he noticed a broken bathroom window. “It looks like we [...]
Residents from a village near the Fukushima nuclear plant are checked for radiation exposure after returning briefly to their homes to collect belongings. Photograph: Koichi Kamoshida/EPA Residents who lived close to the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant are to be told their homes may be uninhabitable for decades, according to Japanese media reports. The Japanese prime [...]
Residents of Ohkuma-cho attend a memorial service for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami on 24 July 2011 in Ohkuma-cho, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 20 km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant [EPA] Fukushima radiation alarms doctors Japanese doctors warn of public health problems caused by Fukushima [...]
The clean-up process after the nuclear crisis has contributed directly to the losses incurred by TEPCO [EPA] Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of Fukushima nuclear plant, has announced a $7.4bn quarterly loss mostly due to a massive provision to compensate victims of this year’s meltdown. The March disaster at the Fukushima complex in northeast Japan spawned the [...]
The video can be seen at http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia-pacific/2011/08/20118693514112266.html Anti-nuclear campaigners in Japan are using the 66th anniversary of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima to push the government to abandon nuclear power. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city in August, 1945, near the end of the Second World War. By the end of the year, [...]
If you have been watching the endless debate about nuclear power you may be interested in this video report about the possibility of contaminated beef after Fukushima in Japan. It is interesting because the numbers are, as far as disasters are concerned quite small. So why beat up this type of matter. Whether or not nuclear power [...]
Government officials launched a PR campaign to ensure the accident at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan did not derail plans for new nuclear power stations in the UK. Photograph: AP British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two [...]
Japan‘s desperate ‘nuclear gypsies’ Rights groups say country’s poorest people are being exploited to repair Fukushima plant. Last Modified: 30 Jun 2011 20 Economic downturn has forced many of Japan’s poorest people to work at the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, risking exposure to dangerous levels of radiation. The growing number of so-called nuclear gypsies, who come [...]
UK government‘s Fukushima crisis plan based on bigger leak than Chernobyl As Japan’s nuclear emergency unfolded, scientists devised a worst case scenario involving issuing iodine pills to Britons The earthquake and tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant from the air on 14 March 2011, following a second explosion. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images The British government made [...]
JUAN GONZALEZ: Almost three months after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster in Japan, government officials say they may evacuate more towns affected by radiation. New monitoring data shows “hot spots” of elevated contamination farther away from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The new hot spots were announced after authorities [...]
Risky advice and immeasurable uncertainties Scientific policy is often based on a single interpretation of risk, and the dominant paradigm is not always accurate. Andy Stirling and Alister Scott Last Modified: 06 Jun 2011 11:35 Email Print Share Send Feedback Ignoring the difference between ‘uncertainty‘ and ‘risk’ can lead to an assumption that all possible consequences [...]
Fukushima effect: Japan schools take health precautions in radiation zone Schools located near the nuclear plant have removed and buried the topsoil from playgrounds amid concern over the risk to pupils Share10 Justin McCurry in Otama guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 1 June 2011 18.48 BST Article history Children walk across the playground at Oyama primary school, which [...]
There is a video Euronews piece on the latest leaks at Fukushima power plant in Japan You can go to the video presentation which is quite short at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6769 Related articles Fukushima reactor water leak risks delaying crisis plan – Reuters (news.google.com) REMEMBER FUKUSHIMA? Workers Discover Exposed Rods, And Damage Worse Than Thought (businessinsider.com) TEPCO now [...]
Fukushima parents dish the dirt in protest over radiation levels Furious Fukushima parents dump school playground earth that may have radiation levels well above the old safety level Share592 Jonathan Watts in Tokyo guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 May 2011 16.43 BST Article history Parents in Fukushima are angry over rule changes which mean that school [...]
Poisoning Mother Earth: Fukushima and America’s Gulf Submitted by Stephen Lendman on Fri, 2011-04-22 08:55 Environment Poisoning Mother Earth: America’s Gulf and Fukushima – by Stephen Lendman As best we know it, the shocking truth is that preventable disasters keep proliferating life destroying contamination globally. Yet news about them is suppressed, so few people [...]
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 [...]
