Tag Archives: East Japan Earthquake + Fukushima

Video Release: “Fukushima Prefecture, Premier Supplier of Safe Agriculture Products” via Business Wire

Posted on 2016/03/31 by norma field

‘Future from Fukushima’ An information-sharing platform that invites anyone in or outside the prefecture to participate and interact http://www.facebook.com/FutureFromFukushima

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Fukushima Special Report: Where mountains and forests cannot be decontaminated via The Straits Times

Posted on 2016/03/28 by norma field

FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN – Up to 20,000 workers have been toiling to decontaminate towns and villages to clear the way for evacuated residents to return following the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. In head-to-toe protective gear, their primary task is removing by … Continue reading →

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The children of Fukushima: When medical tests mislead via The Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2016/03/25 by norma field

Editorial […] Japanese public health officials were aware of an increased incidence of thyroid cancer in Russian children after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. So researchers screened more than 300,000 Fukushima-area children 18 and under for thyroid irregularities that could … Continue reading →

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Mumbai: Fukushima survivor warns against nuclear power plants via The Indian Express

Posted on 2016/03/21 by norma field

Days after a nuclear power plant in neighbouring Gujarat was shut down after a major heavy water leak, 62-year-old Masami Yoshizawa, a survivor of the Fukushima nuclear disaster five years ago, made an emotional appeal in Mumbai asking Indians to … Continue reading →

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JAPANESE PEOPLE SHUN FUKUSHIMA SURVIVORS WHILE DOCTORS REFUSE THEM CARE via www.jeffereyjaxen.com

Posted on 2016/03/08 by norma field

[…]The world is rapidly approaching the five year anniversary of the worst nuclear disaster in human history. The triple meltdown at the Fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant has seen shameful omissions by global leaders and officials at every level. To … Continue reading →

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ESSAY: The Death of Economic Globalism, Part Four via Pagosa Daily Post.com

Posted on 2016/02/27 by norma field

everal of the most stark ironies of the pushers and boosters of economic globalism is that often these are the same people who also like to grandstand and lecture the rest of us about their concern for protecting the environment … Continue reading →

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US academic shares work on effects of nuclear disasters　via The Taipei Times

Posted on 2016/01/26 by norma field

[…] University of South Carolina professor of biology Timothy Mousseau, who has conducted long-term studies on the influence of radioactive contamination on animals and plants around the sites of accidents in Chernobyl, Ukraine and Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, told a meeting … Continue reading →

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Fukushima: Leak likely from Reactor #3

Posted on 2015/12/19 by norma field
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Only 16% of Fukushima residents knew of emergency declaration via Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2015/12/19 by norma field

The government’s declaration of a nuclear emergency on March 11, 2011, reached only 16.5 percent of residents in Fukushima Prefecture by the following day, according to a Cabinet Office survey. A key reason for this seems to have been that … Continue reading →

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Japan to allow removal of ‘designated waste’ label from Fukushima crisis via The Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2015/12/18 by norma field

[…] As nearly five years have passed since the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, radiation levels of the designated waste are believed to have declined. According to an estimate, the amount of designated … Continue reading →

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