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We’re Getting GhostGirled
We’re Getting GhostGirled A lesson from history. They glowed in the dark. In 1917, the U.S. Radium Corporation began hiring women and girls as young as 14 to paint the dials on their watches. They used a special radium paint called Undark. The corporation sold the watches to the U.S. military for a huge profit. […]
Leak Reported At Chinese Nuclear Power Plant
Leak Reported At Chinese Nuclear Power Plant A nuclear power plant in southeastern China could turn into an “imminent radiological threat,” the part owner of the facility, a French company, has told the United States, CNN reported on Monday, citing U.S. officials and a letter of the French firm it had obtained. The U.S. has been assessing […]
New Harvard Study Finds “Elevated Radiation” Levels Near Fracking Sites
New Harvard Study Finds “Elevated Radiation” Levels Near Fracking Sites Fracking has been one of the keys to helping the U.S. achieve its energy independence and become the world’s largest oil and gas producer over the last ten years. But now, it looks like it may be coming with some unintended consequences, according to Reuters. Researchers […]
Japan Set To Release 1.2 Million Tons Of Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Ocean, Causing “Immeasurable Damage”
Japan Set To Release 1.2 Million Tons Of Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Ocean, Causing “Immeasurable Damage” Just in case a global viral pandemic, whose sources are still unclear and apparently now include human feces, wasn’t enough, the global outrage meter is about to go “up to eleven” with Japan now set to flood the world’s oceans […]
The Oil Industry’s Radioactive Secret
The Oil Industry’s Radioactive Secret “All oil-field workers are radiation workers.” That quote comes from a blockbuster investigation by Justin Nobel writing in Rolling Stone, who has spent more than a year and a half researching and reporting on radioactivity in fracking waste. When a well is drilled, it produces a ton of brine, a salty substance that […]
Norway Detects Radiation Near Russian Border Days After Nuclear-Powered Missile Explodes
Norway Detects Radiation Near Russian Border Days After Nuclear-Powered Missile Explodes Days after the Kremlin’s nuclear-powered missile exploded, killing seven and leading to evacuations, Norway detected tiny amounts of radioactive iodine in the air near the northern part of the country bordering Russia. According to Norway’s nuclear safety authority (DSA), the radioactive iodine was detected between […]
Chernobyl-Style Cover Up? Run On Iodine Pills After “Isotope Powered” Rocket Explosion In Russia
Chernobyl-Style Cover Up? Run On Iodine Pills After “Isotope Powered” Rocket Explosion In Russia Is Russia in the process of covering up a nuclear accident after a confirmed spike in radiation levels in the aftermath of a reported rocket engine explosion at a northern testing facility Thursday? Authorities confirmed the accident involved an “isotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine”. Russia’s state nuclear […]
River Of Radiation: Life Near The World’s 3rd-Worst Nuclear Disaster
River Of Radiation: Life Near The World’s 3rd-Worst Nuclear Disaster Before Fukushima and Chernobyl, the worst-ever nuclear disaster was a massive leak from a plant in the eastern Urals. RT went to see how people live in areas affected by the fallout from the USSR’s risky rush to the nuclear bomb. Chernobyl and Fukushima are the two […]
Chernobyl’s Deadly Effects Estimates Vary
Chernobyl’s Deadly Effects Estimates Vary April 26 marks the 33rd anniversary of the 1986 radiation disaster at Chernobyl reactor Number 4 in Ukraine, just north of Kiev the capital. It is still nearly impossible to get scientific consensus on the vast extent of the impacts. The explosions and two-week long fire at Chernobyl spewed around […]
Woolsey Fire Started at Santa Susana Field Lab — Site of “[fourth] largest release of iodine-131 in the history of nuclear power”
Woolsey Fire Started at Santa Susana Field Lab — Site of “[fourth] largest release of iodine-131 in the history of nuclear power” In my Nov. 16 column, I reported on potential radiation risks posed by California’s Woolsey wildfire having burned over parts or all of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory—south of Simi Valley, Calif., 30 […]
“Nuclear Blast to your Front! React!” – How the Army Trains to Survive an ‘Atomic Battlefield’
“Nuclear Blast to your Front! React!” – How the Army Trains to Survive an ‘Atomic Battlefield’ The title of this article is the exact preparatory command (situation), and the command of execution given to us in the Army to drill a nuclear attack. Readers, we all hope every day that our “society does not come […]
“Chernobyl in a Can” – 71 Vulnerable-To-Cracking Radioactive Waste Canisters Set for CA Ocean-Front Burial at San Onofre: Donna Gilmore, NH #335
“Chernobyl in a Can” – 71 Vulnerable-To-Cracking Radioactive Waste Canisters Set for CA Ocean-Front Burial at San Onofre: Donna Gilmore, NH #335 This Week’s Featured Interview: Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org reports on Southern California Edison’s plans to bury 1,800 tons – that’s 3,600,000 pounds <!> of high-level radioactive waste a mere 36 yards from high […]
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 […]
Concerns Grow About A Nuclear “Incident” In Europe After Spike In Radioactive Iodine Levels
Concerns Grow About A Nuclear “Incident” In Europe Concerns about a potential, and so far unsubstantiated, nuclear “incident”, reportedly in the vicinity of the Arctic circle, spread in the past week after trace amounts of radioactive Iodine-131 of unknown origin were detected in January over large areas in Europe according to a report by the Institute for […]
Fukushima Aborts Latest Robot Mission Inside Reactor; Radiation At “Unimaginable” Levels
Fukushima Aborts Latest Robot Mission Inside Reactor; Radiation At “Unimaginable” Levels Two years after sacrificing one robot, TEPCO officials have aborted their latest robot mission inside the Fukushima reactor after the ‘scorpion’ became unresponsive as it investigated the previously discovered hole where the core is believed to have melted. A “scorpion” robot sent into a Japanese nuclear reactor […]
