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【audio】“Continually, radioactive elements are being flushed into the Pacific” — “The Fukushima accident will never end, they have no idea how to clean it up” -Caldicott via KPFA　

Posted on 2013/01/20 by norma field

Dr. Helen Caldicott: The Fukushima accident will never end. They have no idea how to clean it up because there’s never been three nuclear meltdowns in history. Continually, radioactive elements are being flushed into the Pacific Ocean. […] the accident … Continue reading →

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Sacrifice and luck help Japan survive without nuclear power, Stanford visiting scholar says via Stanford News

Posted on 2013/01/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, nuclear-dependent Japan began shutting down its other reactors. Toshiya Okamura, a Tokyo Gas executive and visiting scholar at Stanford University, explains how the country survived the summer, and expresses deep concerns about this … Continue reading →

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Analysis of WHO report on Fukushima catastrophe via IPPNW

Posted on 2012/11/26 by kojimaaiko

Analysis of WHO report on Fukushima catastrophe Dr. med. Alex Rosen* University Childrens Clinic Düsseldorf August 3rd, 2012 On May 23rd, 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) published what it called a “Preliminary dose estimation from the nuclear accident after … Continue reading →

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Fukushima radiation in fish ‘100 times’ above normal via Hindustan Times

Posted on 2012/11/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Radiation levels in fish caught near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant are 100 times above normal, media reports said. Japan’s environment ministry carried out the tests in June-July this year in the Niida river to the north of the Fukushima … Continue reading →

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Worries over highly radioactive fish prompt study via The Asahi

Posted on 2012/11/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] However, in August, two greenlings caught 20 kilometers north of the Fukushima plant were found to have cesium levels of 25,800 becquerels per kilogram, the highest level ever measured in fish since the nuclear accident. The government standard for … Continue reading →

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Apples from Fukushima to be exported to Thailand-EXSKF via Nuclear-News

Posted on 2012/11/12 by norma field

(UPDATE) I think I know why Fukushima has targeted Thailand. While China, Hong Kong, Korea, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Brunai still ban the import of Fukushima produce, Thailand only requires certificates of radiation testing. In the same category as Thailand are … Continue reading →

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Lingering radiation means continued chill for some tourist hotspots via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2012/10/29 by norma field

MAEBASHI–Visitor numbers remain low at some once-popular autumn tourist sites in Japan, amid lingering concerns about radiation in food more than a year after the Fukushima nuclear crisis. Akagi Onuma, a caldera lake atop Mount Akagiyama in northern Maebashi, usually … Continue reading →

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Fish Off Fukushima, Japan, Show Elevated Levels of Cesium via the New York Times

Posted on 2012/10/25 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO — Elevated levels of cesium still detected in fish off the Fukushima coast of Japan suggest that radioactive particles from last year’s nuclear disaster have accumulated on the seafloor and could contaminate sea life for decades, according to new … Continue reading →

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Farmer plows own antiradiation furrow via The Japan Times

Posted on 2012/10/19 by norma field

At the end of March 2011, a few weeks after the Great East Japan Earthquake, 20 rice farmers affiliated to J-Rap, an agricultural distribution company in Sukagawa, central Fukushima Prefecture, got together to assess the situation. […] Ito argued otherwise, … Continue reading →

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Rural Civil Defense Film (1965) [on protecting livestock in the event of a nuclear attack]

Posted on 2012/10/12 by norma field
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