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Polluted Nuclear Weapons Site to Become Tourist Destination via ABC News

Posted on 2015/12/20 by norma field

Nicholas K. Geranios, Associated Press The nation’s most polluted nuclear weapons production site is now its newest national park. Thousands of people are expected next year to tour the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, home of the world’s first full-sized nuclear reactor, … Continue reading →

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Opponents of U.S. nuclear bomb ‘glorification’ park seek Japanese support　via Asahi World

Posted on 2015/12/17 by norma field

By Masato Tainaka Residents who fell sick living near the facility that produced plutonium for the Nagasaki atomic bomb are seeking Japanese support for a campaign against an attraction in the United States that they say “glorifies” nuclear weapons. The … Continue reading →

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Movies of Cold War Bomb Tests Hold Nuclear Secrets via Wired

Posted on 2015/12/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

When Greg Spriggs was 11 years old, his father, a Navy man stationed on Midway Island, took him out one night to watch a nuclear bomb explode in space. The year was 1962 and the nuclear test was Starfish Prime, … Continue reading →

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Control rod failures force shutdown of nuclear power plant via Wisconsin Gazette

Posted on 2015/12/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

One of the Indian Point nuclear power plant’s reactors was shut down over the weekend after several control rods lost power, the plant owner said, marking the latest in a series of mishaps at the suburban New York plant this … Continue reading →

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U.S. government proposes 17-year delay in start of Hanford nuclear tank cleanup — until 2039 via The Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2015/11/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Energy Department has proposed a 17-year delay in building a complex waste treatment plant at its radioactively contaminated Hanford site in Washington state, pushing back the full start-up for processing nuclear bomb waste to 2039. The department submitted the … Continue reading →

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The First Nuclear Reactor Lived Under Some Bleachers by a Football Field via Motherboard

Posted on 2015/11/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

On Nov. 16, 1942, engineers began work on the world’s first nuclear reactor, which was then known as an “atomic pile.” Chicago Pile-1 was a relatively simple affair devised at the University of Chicago under the supervision of the great … Continue reading →

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Residents in St Louis dying in record numbers from World War II radioactive waste via news.com.au

Posted on 2015/10/27 by norma field

N 2011, residents across an American community in St Louis began to notice a chain of inexplicably high incidents of cancer and disease across its population. For decades, both former and current residents from approximately 90 municipalities in the Missouri … Continue reading →

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Is radiation good for you? The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission could decide it is via Ecologist

Posted on 2015/09/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The well-founded idea that nuclear radiation is dangerous even at the lowest levels is under attack, writes Karl Grossman. Three determined nuclear enthusiasts have filed petitions to the NRC calling on it to apply the doctrine of ‘radiation hormesis’ – … Continue reading →

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Nuclear War Theme Parks: Mass Destruction for the Whole Family via Counterpunch

Posted on 2015/09/07 by norma field

By John Laforge […]Hoping perhaps to show that the bomb from hell can be transformed from a vengeful, self-destructive, nightmare demon, into a benign, peace-loving, fairy-tale prince, nuclear propagandists and their friends in Congress are establishing nuclear war theme parks … Continue reading →

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Army Corps confirms radioactive contamination in yards by Coldwater Creek via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Posted on 2015/08/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

HAZELWOOD • Officials in charge of cleaning up pollution left over from the country’s early nuclear weapons program say there’s radioactive contamination in several residential yards that back up to Coldwater Creek. The Army Corps of Engineers confirmed Wednesday that … Continue reading →

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