Tag Archives: East Japan Earthquake + Fukushima

Japan’s nuclear mishap underlines industry malaise via DW

Posted on 2017/06/12 by nfield

Japan’s nuclear energy sector is riven by poor management, is overly bureaucratic and staffed by people who no longer have any pride in their jobs. So accidents are inevitable, say critics. Julian Ryall reports. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) … Continue reading →

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How a Tsunami in Japan Endangered Children in Cambodia via The New York Times

Posted on 2017/05/25 by nfield

The tsunami and nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, now threatens the developing brains of children in Cambodia — but not for reasons that were ever expected. Cambodia has long struggled with iodine deficiency. The element is crucial to early brain … Continue reading →

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Community Power Offers Fukushima a Brighter, Cleaner Future via Truthout

Posted on 2017/02/25 by nfield

In 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami ravaged the Fukushima prefecture, in the Tohoku region of Japan’s main island of Honshu. The natural disaster was catastrophic 15,894 dead, an estimated 470,000 displaced, and more than 2,500 are still missing. In Fukushima, the scale of … Continue reading →

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When 10,000 square miles of contamination is an acceptable risk: The NRC’s faulty concept via The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2017/01/30 by nfield

By Victor Gilinsky In making safety decisions, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission uses accident probability calculations that are much more optimistic than anything that nuclear manufacturers like General Electric and Westinghouse actually believe. The result is weak public protection. A good … Continue reading →

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Experts suspect extension of active faults off Fukushima caused November quake　via The Japan Times

Posted on 2016/12/06 by nfield

The powerful earthquake that struck northeastern Japan and caused tsunami in late November may have been caused by a slip in a zone that may be an extension of two known active faults under the seabed off the crippled Fukushima … Continue reading →

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Typhoon rain raises tainted Fukushima plant groundwater to surface via The Japan Times

Posted on 2016/09/21 by norma field

Heavy rain brought by Typhoon Malakas caused contaminated groundwater to rise to ground level at the radiation-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant Tuesday night, raising fears of tainted water flooding out to the plant’s port area, its operator said. Tokyo … Continue reading →

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In Fukushima, a Determination to Move Past Nuclear Power via Nuclear News

Posted on 2016/09/14 by norma field

IITATE, Japan—Many residents of Fukushima prefecture are still angry about the nuclear disaster five years ago that contaminated towns, farm fields and forests. But as the cleanup continues, local governments and some business owners here are channeling their frustration into … Continue reading →

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Is solar power in nuclear disaster exclusion zones advisable? via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2016/09/09 by norma field

By Arnold Gundersen A July 2016 article in The Guardian said that the country of Ukraine has been soliciting funds for a proposed project to turn extensive swathes of ground adjacent to Chernobyl into a gigantic solar collector full of … Continue reading →

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Fukushima could host 2020 events via The Japan Times

Posted on 2016/09/04 by norma field

Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are working toward staging a baseball and softball game in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Fukushima Prefecture, a source close to the matter said Friday. Baseball and softball were among the five sports … Continue reading →

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Citizen science takes on Japan’s nuclear establishment via the Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2016/07/27 by norma field

As other Tokyo office workers poured into restaurants and bars at quitting time one recent evening, Kohei Matsushita went to the eighth floor of a high-rise for an unusual after-hours activity: learning how to assemble his own Geiger counter from … Continue reading →

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