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Why the Fukushima disaster is worse than Chernobyl via The Independent

Japan has been slow to admit the scale of the meltdown. But now the truth is coming out. David McNeill reports from Soma City Monday, 29 August 2011 Yoshio Ichida is recalling the worst day of his 53 years: 11 … Continue reading

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Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster, Is Still Poisoning Navajo Lands 40 Years Later via Vice

Residents say they’ve been ignored even as the struggle with contaminated water and worry about having children. By Samuel Gilbert; photos by Ramsay de Give Early in the summer of 1979, Larry King, an underground surveyor at the United Nuclear Corporation’s Church … Continue reading

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Fukushima Radiation Has Contaminated The Entire Pacific Ocean – And It’s Going To Get Worse via True Activist

The nuclear disaster has contaminated the world’s largest ocean in only five years and it’s still leaking 300 tons of radioactive waste every day. What was the most dangerous nuclear disaster in world history? Most people would say the Chernobyl … Continue reading

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Woman breaks silence among Fukushima thyroid cancer patients via AP

KORIYAMA, Japan (AP) — She’s 21, has thyroid cancer, and wants people in her prefecture in northeastern Japan to get screened for it. That statement might not seem provocative, but her prefecture is Fukushima, and of the 173 young people … Continue reading

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Fukushima disaster: Tokyo hides truth as children die, become ill from radiation – ex-mayor via RT

The tragedy of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster took place almost three years ago. Since then, radiation has forced thousands out of their homes and led to the deaths of many. It took great effort to prevent the ultimate meltdown … Continue reading

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Concerns Over Measurement of Fukushima Fallout via The New York Times

David McNeill/The Chronicle of Higher Education TOKYO — In the chaotic, fearful weeks after the Fukushima nuclear crisis began, in March 2011, researchers struggled to measure the radioactive fallout unleashed on the public. Michio Aoyama’s initial findings were more startling … Continue reading

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Fukushima, a Global Conspiracy of Denial via Reader Supported News

By William Boardman Just because no one seems to know what to do about Fukushima is no excuse to go on lying about and/or denying the dimensions of reality, whatever they might be. There are hundreds, probably thousands of people … Continue reading

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Fukushima Ho Hum via Reader Supported News

By William Boardwell […]On October 16, the Fukushima Daiichi’s three melted-down reactors escaped a new crisis from Typhoon Wipha, as the Pacific hurricane managed to kill 17 people on off-shore islands but passed far enough from the mainland that Fukushima … Continue reading

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Can We Contain Nuclear Crises? Interview with Environmental Historian Kate Brown via Science for the People

By Ansar Fayyazuddin and Erik Wallenberg Ansar Fayyazuddin is a physicist active in Science for the People and Solidarity.  Erik Wallenberg is a PhD candidate in history at City University of New York Graduate Center and Acquisitions Editor at Science for the People. … Continue reading

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The wrong crisis stopped the Olympics via Beyond Nuclear International

By Linda Pentz Gunter On Saturday, March 21, 50,000 people queued up at Sendai station to see the Olympic flame displayed in a cauldron there. Packed together, not all of them wearing masks, the eager spectators waited as long as three hours … Continue reading

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