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Plan To Discharge Fukushima Water Into Pacific Gets OK From Regulators

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Plan To Discharge Fukushima Water Into Pacific Gets OK From Regulators
  By Julia Conley MAY 18, 2022 Despite outcry from local leaders and the Japanese public and warnings from environmental campaigners, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday gave its approval for a plan to discharge contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, a move critics say will pose a major threat to marine life. After spending several months reviewing the plan announced by then-Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s administration last spring, the NRA said discharging more than 1.2 million tons of treated wastewater will help the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) secure space needed to decommission the plant, where three reactors melted down in March 2011 after a tsunami.… Read the rest

30 YEARS AFTER CHERNOBYL

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30 YEARS AFTER CHERNOBYL
What The World Might Look Like After A Nuclear Disaster: Chernobyl 30 Years On Chernobyl Plus 30: What A Nuclear Disaster Looks Like Three Decades After The Fact 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