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Fukushima’s 5th Year of Full-Blown Crisis
Fukushima’s 5th Year of Full-Blown Crisis March 11th is the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Japan’s NHK broadcaster recently conducted a poll of how citizens feel about nuclear power. According to NHK’s poll results, over 70% are in favor of completely or partially abandoning nuclear power plants. Nothing too surprising about that, but […]
Fukushima – Deep Trouble
Fukushima – Deep Trouble The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster may go down as one of history’s boundless tragedies and not just because of a nuclear meltdown, but rather the tragic loss of a nation’s soul. Imagine the following scenario: 207 million cardboard book boxes, end-to-end, circumnavigating Earth, like railroad tracks, going all the […]
Would A Long-Duration Blackout Cause Nuclear Armageddon?
Would A Long-Duration Blackout Cause Nuclear Armageddon? According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, there are sixty-one active commercial nuclear plants spread across the United States. A question on the minds of many is what would happen to those plants if the nation experienced a widespread, long-lasting power outage? Let me start by saying that there […]
Fukushima Mon Amour
Fukushima Mon Amour Is the crisis in Fukushima over or just beginning? You might be forgiven for scratching your head at that one. Nearly five years after the nuclear meltdown triggered by the Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami, one of the planet’s worst radioactive catastrophes has almost completely faded from both the media and public […]
Nuclear Radiation, Kierkegaard, and the Philosophy of Denial
Nuclear Radiation, Kierkegaard, and the Philosophy of Denial It used to be, and indeed children are still taught in schools, that the advances that have been made in the last five hundred years (antibiotics, electricity, computers etc) resulted from the application of Science and its overthrow of dogmatic belief. All ideas are put to the […]
Huge Fukushima Cover-Up Exposed, Government Scientists In Meltdown
Huge Fukushima Cover-Up Exposed, Government Scientists In Meltdown Fukushima radiation just off the North American coast is higher now than it has ever been, and government scientists and mainstream press are scrambling to cover-up and downplay the ever-increasing deadly threat that looms for millions of Americans. Following the March 2011 meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi […]
Fukushima Amplifies Murphy’s Law
Fukushima Amplifies Murphy’s Law Murphy’s Law has found a permanent home in Fukushima: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” For instance, only recently, radioactive cesium in tunnels at Fukushima suddenly spiked by more than 4,000 times similar measurements from one year ago. This spooky/huge spike in radiation levels hit 482,000 Becquerels per liter. […]
Fukushima Radiation Increasing In North American Waters … Detected Along a Stretch of More Than 1,000 Miles
Fukushima Radiation Increasing In North American Waters … Detected Along a Stretch of More Than 1,000 Miles Painting by Jonathan RaddatzKen Buesseler – head scientist at Woods Hole in Massachusetts, one of the world’s top ocean science institutions – has been measuring Fukushima radiation off of the coasts of Japan and North America. Because governments ditched their radiation testing programs after […]
Fukushima protective groundwater wall ‘slightly leaning’
Fukushima protective groundwater wall ‘slightly leaning’ © The Japan Times / YouTube Completed only last month and designed to prevent contaminated groundwater from seeping into the sea, a 780-meter protective wall built alongside the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power station is already “slightly leaning,” plant operator TEPCO has announced. TrendsFukushima nuclear disaster Tokyo Electric Power Company […]
Fukushima Gets A Lot Uglier
Fukushima Gets A Lot Uglier As time passes, a bona fide message emerges from within the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster scenario, and that message is that once a nuclear power plant loses it, the unraveling only gets worse and worse until it’s at its worst, and still, there’s no stopping it. Similar to […]
Disaster waiting to happen’: ‘Dustbin ship’ with 25 tons of nuclear waste heading to Australia
Disaster waiting to happen’: ‘Dustbin ship’ with 25 tons of nuclear waste heading to Australia The general cargo ship BBC Shanghai © Tvabutzku1234 / Wikipedia A ship carrying 25 tons of nuclear waste has departed from France bound for Australia, despite environmentalists sounding the alarm. The critics say the ‘dustbin ship’ is not fit to […]
Fukushima Radiation in Pacific Reaches West Coast
Fukushima Radiation in Pacific Reaches West Coast “[W]e should be carefully monitoring the oceans after what is certainly the largest accidental release of radioactive contaminants to the oceans in history,” marine chemist Ken Buesseler said last spring. Instead, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency halted its emergency radiation monitoring of Fukushima’s radioactive plume in May 2011, three months […]
Inspired By Game Of Thrones, TEPCO Resumes Building “Ice Wall” Around Fukushima
Inspired By Game Of Thrones, TEPCO Resumes Building “Ice Wall” Around Fukushima 14 Months after abandoning the “Game of Thrones”-esque frozen-water-wall containment plan for Fukushima, Bloomberg reports that TEPCO expects to begin freezing a soil barrier by the end of the year to stop a torrent of water entering the wrecked Fukushima nuclear facility, moving a step closer to […]
Fukushima Kids Suffer Thyroid Cancer Up To 50x Normal Rate, New Study Finds
Fukushima Kids Suffer Thyroid Cancer Up To 50x Normal Rate, New Study Finds Children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50 times that of children elsewhere, according to a new study. As AP reports, most of the 370,000 children in Fukushima prefecture have been given ultrasound […]
Fukushima police sends nuclear contamination case against TEPCO execs to prosecutors
Fukushima police sends nuclear contamination case against TEPCO execs to prosecutors Water tanks storing radiation contaminated water are seen at Tokyo Electric Power Co’s (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture. © Shizuo Kambayashi / Reuters Fukushima police have finally reacted to a criminal complaint filed against TEPCO and 32 of its […]
