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11 years later, fate of Fukushima reactor cleanup uncertain
11 years later, fate of Fukushima reactor cleanup uncertain Tanks storing treated radioactive water after it was used to cool the melted fuel are seen at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), in Okuma town, northeastern Japan, Thursday, March 3, 2022. The government has announced plans to […]
Poland Begins Handing Out Iodine Pills On Fears Of Ukraine Nuclear Plant Meltdown
Poland Begins Handing Out Iodine Pills On Fears Of Ukraine Nuclear Plant Meltdown Poland has begun a program of distributing iodine tablets to emergency workers and first responders, starting with regional fire departments – who can in turn hand them out to the general population – in the event of a possible radioactive disaster at Europe’s […]
Fukushima Takes a Turn for the Worse
Fukushima Takes a Turn for the Worse Photograph Source: IAEA Imagebank – CC BY 2.0 Tokyo Electric Power Company-TEPCO- has been attempting to decommission three nuclear meltdowns in reactors No. 1 No. 2, and No. 3 for 11 years now. Over time, impossible issues grow and glow, putting one assertion after another into the anti-nuke coffers. […]
When climate breakdown goes nuclear
When climate breakdown goes nuclear Wikipedia Nuclear is on the front-line of climate change – and not in a good way. Climate models have run hot in the last year. As knowledge of climate sensitivity and polar ice melt-rate evolves, it’s become clear that sea-level rise is significantly faster than previously thought – which means more frequent and destructive storm, […]
America’s Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Set To Finally Close Its Doors
America’s Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Set To Finally Close Its Doors Few people know that sitting across from the reactor that suffered a partial meltdown on Three Mile Island in 1979 – is another unit that still remains one of the region’s largest power sources. In fact, the second unit has provided power for 45 years without incident. […]
Fukushima: A Human-Made Disaster Brought on by Bad Faith
Fukushima: A Human-Made Disaster Brought on by Bad Faith “Nearly seven years after the triple reactor meltdowns, this unique nuclear crisis is still underway,” Greenpeace International’s Shaun Burnie wrote in a blogpost last December. The word “unique” is an understatement but true. The March 11, 2011meltdowns are the world’s first combined earthquake-tsunami-reactor catastrophe. Moreover, while […]
Fukushima Darkness
Fukushima Darkness Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 The radiation effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant triple meltdowns are felt worldwide, whether lodged in sea life or in humans, it cumulates over time. The impact is now slowly grinding away only to show its true colors at some unpredictable date in […]
Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties
Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties Last month made five years since the nuclear plant at Fukushima, Japan suffered meltdowns. The release of highly toxic radiation from the reactors was enormous, on the level of the Chernobyl disaster a generation earlier. But Fukushima is arguably worse than Chernobyl. There were […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
