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A Grim Animation of All the Nuclear Explosions in History via Citylab

Posted on 2015/08/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Watch the Atomic Age evolve from 1945 to 2013. Detonations from the early days of the Atomic Age through present times are all represented in this grim visualization of the planet’s nuclear activity. Orbital Mechanics, a Montreal-based “electronic music and … Continue reading →

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BBC Four Goes Nuclear via BBC

Posted on 2015/08/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The BBC has today announced BBC Four Goes Nuclear – a season of programmes around the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima. The season leads with the one-off documentary, Britain’s Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield, giving audiences unprecedented access to one of Britain’s … Continue reading →

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Karl Grossman: There is no “peaceful nuclear power” via Politics.com

Posted on 2015/07/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] Although enriched uranium was the fuel used in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, plutonium was the fuel in the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki—and virtually all atomic bombs ever since have used plutonium, not enriched uranium. Gathering plutonium … Continue reading →

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West Lake Landfill may be more contaminated than previously thought, company says via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Posted on 2015/07/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

In a revelation that could shake up oversight and liability at the contaminated West Lake Landfill, one of the companies involved says some of the radioactive waste may have come from sources officials have yet to acknowledge. “There’s some evidence … Continue reading →

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In a small town in Washington state, pride and shame over atomic legacy via AlJazeera

Posted on 2015/07/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Richland High School’s controversial mascot honors the community’s role in producing the plutonium dropped on Nagasaki RICHLAND, Wash. — The workers inside Hanford’s nuclear reactors in the early 1940s knew their jobs were important, even if many of them didn’t … Continue reading →

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Heaven Can’t Wait It’s time to panic about the poisons of Coldwater Creek via St. Louis

Posted on 2015/07/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Your federal government has become positively jovial in addressing radioactive waste contamination in North County’s Coldwater Creek. Upon revealing in June that radioactive waste had been newly discovered along the creek above two municipal parks and some property owned by … Continue reading →

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70 Years Later, Health Impacts of First US Nuclear Detonation Still Being Felt via Reuters

Posted on 2015/07/17 by norma field

People who lived near the site of the first atomic bomb test in the New Mexico desert and later developed cancer and other health problems need to be compensated, a U.S. senator said Thursday. The federal government neglected residents of … Continue reading →

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　‘Los Alamos will never be clean’ via The Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2015/07/14 by norma field

ID CANYON — A dirt trail shaded by ponderosa pines drops down the slope of this small canyon below the Los Alamos Nature Center and a recreation center. The canyon became a dumping ground during the Manhattan Project. Old pipes, … Continue reading →

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Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout via The Guardian

Posted on 2015/06/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The US turned swathes of desert radioactive during the cold war and denied it, bequeathing a medical mystery that still haunts Hollywood and rural Mormon communities and raises the question: how much do you trust the government? The photograph shows … Continue reading →

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Radioactive site continues to plague St. Louis residents and region via examiner.com

Posted on 2015/05/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

In North Saint Louis County, Missouri, in the City of Bridgeton, there is a ticking time bomb in the form of several contiguous landfills which contain radioactive waste and all the “daughter products” associated with weapons-grade uranium processing. Most notably, … Continue reading →

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