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NUCLEAR WASTE LEAKING AT ‘AMERICAN FUKUSHIMA’ IN NORTHWEST　via Newsweek

Posted on 2016/05/03 by norma field

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation sits on the plains of eastern Washington, where the state meets Oregon and Idaho. This is open country through which cars pass quickly on the way to the Pacific coast or, conversely, deeper into the heartland. … Continue reading →

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Make Love Not Bombs via Knoxville Mercury

Posted on 2016/04/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

About a dozen peace seekers carried homemade signs and even broke out an acoustic guitar in front of the John J. Duncan Federal Building in downtown Knoxville today to protest the federal funding of a uranium processing plant being built … Continue reading →

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Ghosts Of Hiroshima Haunt Fuming Landfill Near Ferguson, Missouri via The Seattle Medium

Posted on 2016/04/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BRIDGETON, Mo. – Outside Ferguson, Missouri, another issue burns. This time, it’s environmental. An underground fire smolders toward radioactive waste tied to the atomic bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This subterranean inferno threatens to sicken area residents, just 10 … Continue reading →

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EPA to clean radioactive contamination found on private property next to West Lake Landfill via St. Louis Public Radio

Posted on 2016/04/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] Ed Smith of the Missouri Coalition for the Environment calls Friday’s findings “fairly significant.” “The EPA has said previously that the radioactivity is not off-site and it appears the Missouri Department of Natural Resources has found radioactivity off-site,” he said. … Continue reading →

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Los Alamos team visits Japan to gain perspective on atomic bombings via Santa Fe/New Mexican

Posted on 2016/03/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] Despite the shared history between Los Alamos and the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where another bomb was dropped on Aug. 9, 1945, New Mexico residents “don’t hear a lot about the Japanese perspective,” said Judith Stauber, director … Continue reading →

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An underground fire is burning near radioactive waste. Don’t worry, EPA says via The Washington Post

Posted on 2016/02/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Her first clue that something was wrong came as she ran her hands through her baby boy’s hair. “My child was losing his hair in clumps,” Meagan Beckermann recalls. A doctor traced the problem to alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that can … Continue reading →

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Pritikin: Hanford park history must include Downwinders via The Spokesman Review

Posted on 2016/02/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The suffering of Hanford Downwinders exposed to airborne radiation must not be omitted from the stories told in the new Manhattan Project Historic National Park. Admittedly, the stories of cancers, other serious disease, and death in those of us who … Continue reading →

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Indian Point reactors contaminate New York groundwater via The Ecologist

Posted on 2016/02/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Highly radioactive tritium has leaked into groundwater at the Indian Point nuclear site 40 miles north of Manhattan, New York, write Sam Thielman & Alan Yuhas. Governor Cuomo has ordered a review of safety at the site, where two reactors … Continue reading →

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Senate bill to shift oversight of nuclear waste in landfill via The Washington Times

Posted on 2016/02/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

ST. LOUIS (AP) – The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could transfer oversight of a St. Louis County landfill containing nuclear waste to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and away from the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection … Continue reading →

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EPA Orders Barrier for Nuclear Waste at Missouri Landfill via ABC News

Posted on 2016/01/01 by norma field

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday ordered installation of an isolation barrier to make sure that an underground fire does not reach buried nuclear waste at a suburban St. Louis landfill. Mark Hague, EPA regional administrator, said the plan … Continue reading →

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