Daily Archives: 2019/07/31

U.S. nurses may not be ready for nuclear emergencies via Physician’s Weekly

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By Carolyn Crist […] More than three-fourths of nursing school administrators and faculty who participated said their curriculum included no training or less than one hour of training on nuclear emergency preparedness, researchers report in the journal Disaster Medicine and … Continue reading →

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Nuclear power ‘seven decades of economic ruin’, 　via Pressenza

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New research has found that almost all nuclear power plants built since the nuclear industry’s inception have generated large financial losses. The report by the German Institute for Economic Research examines 674 nuclear power plants built since 1951. Its authors found that … Continue reading →

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Perinatal mortality after the Fukushima accident: a spatiotemporal analysis via Journal of Radiological Protection

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Alfred Korblein and Helmut Küchenhoff Abstract Objective: This study investigates the trend of perinatal mortality rates in Fukushima Prefecture and four neighboring prefectures (Miyagi, Gunma, Tochigi, and Ibaraki) after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March … Continue reading →

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TEPCO bears responsibility for decommissioning over generations via Asahi Shimbun

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. has announced that it will decommission all four reactors at its Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant. The decision indicates the landscape of nuclear energy in Japan is entering an age of mass decommissioning. TEPCO plans … Continue reading →

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Toxic water level at Fukushima plant still not under control via The Asahi Shimbun

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Almost six years after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe famously declared the contaminated water problem at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant “under control,” today it remains anything but. […] About 18,000 tons of highly contaminated water remain accumulated in reactor … Continue reading →

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Fukushima governor accepts Tepco plan to scrap No. 2 nuclear plant and store spent fuel on site via Japan Times

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[…] The decision means that all 10 nuclear reactors in the northeastern prefecture, including the six at the Fukushima No. 1 complex 12 kilometers from the No. 2 plant, will be scrapped, though the decommissioning work will take decades. Tepco’s … Continue reading →

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Chernobyl Busting the Myths #1 via Nuclear Energy Information Service

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