Tag Archives: Fukushima

Fukushima Prefecture struggles to contain coronavirus clusters via Japan Times

Posted on 2020/05/15 by nfield

Fukushima Prefecture has been struggling with the spread of the new coronavirus, having identified in April at least four cases of clusters with five or more infected people in one place, with locations ranging from a post office to a … Continue reading →

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Fukushima Mieruka Project: Hasegawa Kenichi, former dairy farmer/Ex-productor de lacteos/Ancien producteur laitier/Ein ehemaliger Mol­ke­rei­fach­mann via Friends of Earth Japan

Posted on 2020/04/26 by nfield
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#461 – Chernobyl Fire, Chernobyl Anniversary, Covid19/Nuclear: Author Kate Brown, Timothy Mousseau via Nuclear Hotseat

Posted on 2020/04/22 by nfield

Podcast: Download This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kate Brown is the author of Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. She is an historian of environmental and nuclear history at MIT and the author of Plutopia, which won seven major awards. Her research … Continue reading →

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Fukushima: How the ocean became a dumping ground for radioactive waste via DW

Posted on 2020/04/10 by nfield

The nuclear disaster at Fukushima sent an unprecedented amount of radiation into the Pacific. But, before then, atomic bomb tests and radioactive waste were contaminating the sea — the effects are still being felt today. Almost 1.2 million liters (320,000 … Continue reading →

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IAEA chief vows support for Japan on Fukushima plant decommission via Japan Today

Posted on 2020/02/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYOThe head of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday promised Prime Minister Shinzo Abe its continued support for Japan’s efforts to safely decommission the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi and Abe also agreed to … Continue reading →

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Japan is rattled by 5.2-magnitude earthquake near Fukushima via Daily Mail

Posted on 2020/02/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The earthquake struck around 20 miles off the coast of Fukushima province Witnesses said they had felt a 10-second long shake during the tremor today No tsunami warning has been put in place by Japan’s meteorological agency  By TIM STICKINGS Japan was … Continue reading →

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DOES CHERNOBYL STILL MATTER?　via Public Books

Posted on 2019/12/02 by nfield

11.22.2019 Gabrielle Hecht Since it first announced electricity “too cheap to meter,” in the 1950s, the nuclear industry has promised bountiful futures powered by a peaceful—and safe—atom. Design principles, the industry claims, limit the chances of core damage to one … Continue reading →

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Dangerous radioactive hot particles span the globe via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2019/11/20 by nfield

By Cindy Folkers When reactors exploded and melted down at the Fukushima nuclear power complex in March 2011, they launched radioactivity from their ruined cores into the unprotected environment.  Some of this toxic radioactivity was in the form of hot … Continue reading →

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Association between the detection rate of thyroid cancer and the external radiation dose-rate after the nuclear power plant accidents in Fukushima, Japan via Medicine

Posted on 2019/09/16 by nfield

Yamamoto, Hidehiko MDa; Hayashi, Keiji MDb; Scherb, Hagen Dr rer nat Dipl-Mathc,* A thyroid cancer ultrasonography screening for all residents 18 years old or younger living in the Fukushima prefecture started in October 2011 to investigate the possible effect of … Continue reading →

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Fukushima governor accepts Tepco plan to scrap No. 2 nuclear plant and store spent fuel on site via Japan Times

Posted on 2019/07/31 by nfield

[…] The decision means that all 10 nuclear reactors in the northeastern prefecture, including the six at the Fukushima No. 1 complex 12 kilometers from the No. 2 plant, will be scrapped, though the decommissioning work will take decades. Tepco’s … Continue reading →

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