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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 […]
Does China’s Nuclear Boom Threaten a Global Catastrophe?
Does China’s Nuclear Boom Threaten a Global Catastrophe? “China shows the way to build nuclear reactors fast and cheap.” That was the bullish headline in a Forbes magazine article last week. It went on to praise the scale of the planned nuclear investment in China’s new Five-Year Plan that runs from 2016 to 2020. Under the plan the government is […]
5.5 earthquake shakes Japan’s Fukushima & Miyagi regions
5.5 earthquake shakes Japan’s Fukushima & Miyagi regions © www.jma.go.jp A 5.5-magnitude earthquake has hit near the Fukushima prefecture in Japan, with residents of some 10 other prefectures feeling the tremor. The quake occurred off the northeast coast of Japan. No tsunami warning has been issued. The epicenter was near the Fukushima coastline, at a […]
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 […]
The World’s Never Seen Anything Like This
The World’s Never Seen Anything Like This The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant No. 2 nuclear reactor fuel is missing from the core containment vessel. (Source: Up to 100% of No. 2 Reactor Fuel May Have Melted, NHK World News, Sept. 25, 2015.) Where did it go? Nobody knows. Not only that but the “learning […]
Fukushima Reactor No.2 May Have Suffered Total Meltdown
Fukushima Reactor No.2 May Have Suffered Total Meltdown To the extent the memory of Fukushima had faded over the last several years, the “fallout” (no pun intended) from the nuclear-like blast that tore through an industrial complex at the Chinese port of Tianjin last month served to remind the world of how far-reaching and unpredictable […]
Fukushima disaster was preventable, new study claims
Fukushima disaster was preventable, new study claims © Kimimasa Mayama / Pool / Reuters Fukushima, the worst nuclear disaster in Japan’s history was preventable, a new USC study claims. Design problems, negligence and inadequate pre-tsunami surveys all contributed to the failure that led to the nuclear catastrophe, the study claims. According to the research carried […]
The Fukushima Fix
The Fukushima Fix Japan’s Abe government claims portions of Fukushima Prefecture (original population 2 million) are safe for habitation, radioactivity is acceptable; whereas scientific data by third-party NGOs indicates otherwise, stay away! PM Abe’s specific maneuvers towards rehabilitation give the appearance that the Fukushima full-blown nuclear meltdown is relatively minimal in comparison to Chernobyl’s disastrous […]
850 tons of ‘decontaminated’ Fukushima water dumped into ocean
850 tons of ‘decontaminated’ Fukushima water dumped into ocean © Shizuo Kambayashi / Reuters The first batch of radioactive groundwater filtered below “measurable limits” at Japan’s tsumani-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant has been dumped into the ocean, as TEPCO seeks to ease toxic water building-up at the site. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) that operates […]
Fukushima leaks radioactive water after Typhoon Etau busts drainage system
Fukushima leaks radioactive water after Typhoon Etau busts drainage system Tokyo Electric Power CO. (TEPCO) informed the public today that hundreds of tons of radioactive water had leaked from the facility, but maintained that the incident posed no risk to the environment. Large quantities of contaminated water need to be stored in special reservoirs that […]
