Tag Archives: Capitalism

The harvests of Chernobyl via Aeon

Posted on 2019/09/03 by nfield

By Kate Brown You can’t miss the berry-pickers in the remote forests of northern Ukraine, a region known as Polesia. They ride along on bicycles or pile out of cargo vans. They are young, mostly women and children, lean and … Continue reading →

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Nuclear safety costs in Japan surge to staggering heights via Nikkei Asian Review

Posted on 2019/07/11 by nfield

TOKYO — Japan’s nuclear plant operators face ballooning costs for meeting safety requirements imposed six years ago, potentially throwing a wrench into the government’s policy of promoting the atom as a low-cost, reliable energy source. The estimated total cost of bringing … Continue reading →

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What Will Be Left When We’re Gone? Bones, Plastic, and Radioactive Waste via Grist

Posted on 2019/07/08 by nfield

By Kate Yoder Millions of years from now, what will be left of us? At the rate we’re going, nature might well have taken over. Moscow and Mumbai will be sand and gravel cast across the desert expanse; New York … Continue reading →

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Russia Is About to Tow Its “Floating Chernobyl” Through the Arctic Circle via Vice

Posted on 2019/07/02 by nfield

By Alex Lubben […] In a world’s first, Russia will ship a nuclear power plant on a barge from a point north of Moscow across the Arctic, thousands of miles, to an extremely remote area where it’ll power offshore oil … Continue reading →

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Tokyo 2020 Olympic domestic sponsorship tops $3 bil as companies pile in via Japan Today

Posted on 2019/06/29 by nfield

By Karolos Grohmann The Tokyo 2020 Olympics have generated record domestic sponsorship revenues of more than $3 billion, the International Olympic Committee said on Tuesday – three times more than any previous summer Games. There is huge enthusiasm among the … Continue reading →

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Nuclear waste: A hot business? via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2019/06/03 by nfield

By Thomas Gaulkin It usually takes decades for defunct nuclear plants in the United States to be taken apart and cleaned up so the land can be developed for other purposes. Long after the main facilities are dismantled and their sites remediated, … Continue reading →

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Uranium Miner Coaxed Government to Water Down Extinction Safeguards via Guardian UK

Posted on 2019/04/28 by nfield

By Adam Morton […Cameco did not have to show if WA mine would lead to extinction of tiny fauna before its approval on 10 April  multinational uranium miner persuaded the federal government to drop a requirement forcing it to show … Continue reading →

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Enter Chernobyl Again in Survival Horror Game ‘Chernobylite’ via Bloody Disgusting

Posted on 2019/02/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Mike Wilson Ever wanted a modern exploration of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, but S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is no longer doing it for you? Developers The Farm 51 (the makers of Get Even) look to have the answer, as their new survival horror … Continue reading →

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Ill Nuclear Workers’ Benefits Petitions Have to Be Reviewed in 6 Months. Some have been kept languishing for about a decade via ProPublica

Posted on 2018/12/01 by nfield

Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican Ten years ago, a security guard at Los Alamos National Laboratory submitted a petition to the federal government seeking compensation and benefits for his fellow lab workers who were sick with cancer and believed that radiation … Continue reading →

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Apocalyptic Climate Reporting Completely Misses the Point via The Nation

Posted on 2018/11/06 by nfield

By Daniel Aldana Cohen Are we doomed? It’s the most common thing people ask me when they learn that I study climate politics. Fair enough. The science is grim, as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just … Continue reading →

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