Category: Radiation

Taking the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Offline Proving To Be A Huge Opportunity To Replace It With Renewables

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Taking the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Offline Proving To Be A Huge Opportunity To Replace It With Renewables
Dealing With The Devil No Longer: Northern California To Shut Down Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Go Completely Zero-Carbon As consumers grow more and more restless at the notion of powering their homes through wasteful and even dangerous means, the ripples are starting to spread even to utility companies. Especially in the wake of the Fukushima Nuclear power plant disaster five years ago, more and more people are seeking to power their homes by truly sustainable means.… Read the rest

Number of U.S. Sailors Sickened By Nuclear Plume Following Fukushima Disaster Continues To Grow

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Number of U.S. Sailors Sickened By Nuclear Plume Following Fukushima Disaster Continues To Grow
Fallout From Fukushima: While U.S. Officials Twiddle Their Thumbs, Former Prime Minister Of Japan Weeps For Sickened U.S. Sailors There is something so heartbreaking and infuriating about the way we treat veterans in the U.S. We trot out patriotic performances of songs on veteran-focused holidays, we see baseball and football players in specially made uniforms with camouflage hats or red, white and blue socks.… Read the rest

In The Wake Of All The Reflection Five Years After The Fukushima Disaster, No One Has Paid For Their Mistakes. One Man’s Idea For Rectifying That.

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In The Wake Of All The Reflection Five Years After The Fukushima Disaster, No One Has Paid For Their Mistakes. One Man’s Idea For Rectifying That.
They Got Away With It: One Man’s Idea For How Those Responsible For Mishandling The Fukushima Disaster Can Pay For Their Mistakes It’s just over five years down the road from the massive, horrific meltdown at power company TEPCO’s Fukushima Daaichi nuclear power plant, releasing radiation into the atmosphere and the ocean, unleashing god knows what long-term effects on the planet, the people and the animals who happen to live here.… Read the rest

Five Years After Fukushima, Lessons Still Not Learned: Two US Nuke Facilities On The Brink Of Disaster

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Five Years After Fukushima, Lessons Still Not Learned: Two US Nuke Facilities On The Brink Of Disaster
Two US Nuke Facilities In Heavily Populated Areas Leaking–Worse Than Fukushima, Some Say The old saying goes: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. But what about three times? Four? A dozen? Where does the shame lie then? That’s the situation facing Americans today, and the corporate media blithely ignores the danger while the leadership fiddles and everyone is on the verge of burning along with Rome.… Read the rest

Washington State Nuclear Waste Storage Site Found To Be Leaking–Whistleblower: I Told You So

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Washington State Nuclear Waste Storage Site Found To Be Leaking–Whistleblower: I Told You So
Hanford Nuclear Storage Facility In Washington State Is Leaking; No Idea How To Fix It There are few threats to humanity so terrifying as our own hubris, especially in the form of the nuclear genie the US let out of the bottle back in 1945. That sickly, poisonous legacy continues: five years after the Fukushima meltdown we are still assessing the toll that disaster had on Japan and the sea surrounding it; 30 years after Chernobyl, we have seen animals and birds returning to a region that has been forever altered.… Read the rest

Unprecedented: Germany Asks Belgium To Shut Down Nuclear Reactors, Citing Safety Concerns

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Unprecedented: Germany Asks Belgium To Shut Down Nuclear Reactors, Citing Safety Concerns
German Nuclear Inspectors Caution Belgium Over Two Reactors, Ask Them To Shut Down In Unprecedented Move The government of Germany has made an unprecedented request of neighboring Belgium and asked that two nuclear reactors be shut down, citing safety concerns. Belgium received a request from Germany to take its Engie SA’s Tihange-2 and Doel-3 atomic plants offline in order to address safety concerns, Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said Wednesday in an emailed statement.… Read the rest

Alarming News Out Of Fukushima As Severe Birth Defects Skyrocket–Government Silent About Babies With Extra Limbs

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Alarming News Out Of Fukushima As Severe Birth Defects Skyrocket–Government Silent About Babies With Extra Limbs
Five Years After The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, A Cluster Of Babies Born With Extra Limbs, Other Severe Side Effects It’s only been five years after the Fukushima nuclear accident, but that is a lifetime in terms of the genetic damage nuclear radiation can do. For some babies and new parents among the local residents, those lifetimes may be very short, painful and tragic indeed.… Read the rest

What The World Might Look Like After A Nuclear Disaster: Chernobyl 30 Years On

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What The World Might Look Like After A Nuclear Disaster: Chernobyl 30 Years On
A Snapshot Of A Post-Disaster Renaissance: 30 Years After Chernobyl It’s obviously a scenario anyone but a madman would dread: dealing with the aftermath of a nuclear accident. Five years after the Fukushima disaster, scientists are still grappling with the long-term consequences. But as horrific as that catastrophe was–and will likely continue to be for generations to come–we do have one other extant example of what the world or at least a small part of it might look like in the wake of a nuclear disaster.… Read the rest

FUKUSHIMA BIRTH DEFECTS

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FUKUSHIMA BIRTH DEFECTS
Babies Born With Extra Limbs In Area Surrounding Fukushima–Covered Up By Government? Five Years After The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, A Cluster Of Babies Born With Extra Limbs, Other Severe Side Effects Alarming News Out Of Fukushima As Severe Birth Defects Skyrocket–Government Silent About Babies With Extra Limbs It’s only been five years after the Fukushima nuclear accident, but that is a lifetime in terms of the genetic damage nuclear radiation can do.… Read the rest