Tag Archives: East Japan Earthquake + Fukushima

Meet The Only Man Who Stayed In His Town After Evacuation For The Fukushima Disaster via Business Insider

Posted on 2012/05/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Naota Matsumara is the only resident left in his town after the government evacuated the other 16,000 residents because an earthquake caused a nuclear meltdown at a nearby plant. He refuses to leave Fukishima. Continue reading at Meet The Only … Continue reading →

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World is ignoring most important lesson from Fukushima nuclear disaster via Christian Science Monitor

Posted on 2012/04/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Fukushima’s most important lesson is this: Probability theory (that disaster is unlikely) failed us. If you have made assumptions, you are not prepared. Nuclear power plants should have multiple, reliable ways to cool reactors. Any nuclear plant that doesn’t heed this lesson is … Continue reading →

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Fukushima radiation found in California kelp via SFGate

Posted on 2012/04/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Kelp off California was contaminated with short-lived radioisotopes a month after Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant accident, a sign that the spilled radiation reached the state’s coastline, according to a new scientific study. Scientists from CSU Long Beach tested giant … Continue reading →

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Why Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer to Global Warming via Alter-Net

Posted on 2012/04/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

There is no “nuclear renaissance” and there won’t be: it just doesn’t make sense economically. Despite the triple meltdown at Fukushima—which has driven tens of thousands of Japanese from their homes, cast radioactive fallout across the U.S., and will likely … Continue reading →

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Japan faces nuclear-free summer, power shortage risks via Reuters

Posted on 2012/03/25 by yukimiyamotodepaul

(Reuters) – The possibility of a nuclear power-free summer in Japan draws closer when one of two remaining reactors shuts down for on Monday for maintenance, raising concerns about a power crunch if none of those taken off-line after the … Continue reading →

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Ogata casts doubt on widsom of exporting nuclear plant technology via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2012/03/24 by yukimiyamotodepaul

CAIRO–Veteran diplomat Sadako Ogata, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), has taken issue with the government’s drive to export nuclear plant technology. While prefacing her comment as her own personal opinion, Ogata, 84, said, “I wonder if it … Continue reading →

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Japanese firms considering geothermal plants in Fukushima via Reuters

Posted on 2012/03/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

(Reuters) – Japanese firms are looking at building several geothermal plants in a volcanic zone in the area worst hit by last year’s nuclear disaster, a project that could gain momentum after the government eased restrictions on drilling this week. … Continue reading →

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AP Interview: Japan woefully unprepared for nuclear disaster, ex-prime minister says via The Washington Post

Posted on 2012/02/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO — Japan was woefully unprepared for last year’s nuclear disaster, the country’s former prime minister said Friday, and suggested that the crippled Fukushima plant should not have been built so close to the ocean on a tsunami-prone coast. In … Continue reading →

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Fukushima nuclear plant worker in coma after collapsing at site via The Mainichi Daily News

Posted on 2012/01/10 by snasser

A worker in his 60s at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant is in a coma after collapsing at the site, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has announced. The man, an employee of a company cooperating with … Continue reading →

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Thousands rally for Fukushima compensation via The Sydney Morning Herald

Posted on 2011/10/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

AFP Thousands of people angered by Japan’s nuclear power plant accident have rallied in Fukushima to demand full compensation for victims of the crisis, and swift decontamination of their neighbourhoods. Sunday’s rally was attended by about 10,000 people, organisers estimated. … Continue reading →

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