Tag Archives: health effects

To Hiroko Aihara, who spoke of Three Mile Island as a 40-year vision … via Nuclear Hotseat

Posted on 2019/06/01 by nfield

Nuclear Hotseat 407 (53:27-57:30) To Hiroko Aihara, who spoke of Three Mile Island as a 40-year vision of what’s to come for the people of Japan whose lives were so devastated by Fukushima, here’s what I would like to say: … Continue reading →

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Regulators to retain radiation monitoring posts via NHK World

Posted on 2019/05/29 by nfield

Japan’s nuclear regulators have decided to retain for the time being radiation monitoring posts in Fukushima Prefecture to ease residents’ concerns. About 3,000 monitoring posts were set up at schools and other locations across the prefecture after the March 2011 … Continue reading →

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Contamination events force project shut down at Hanford nuclear site via King 5 News

Posted on 2019/05/18 by nfield

By Susannah Frame Two contamination events have happened at the Hanford nuclear site in eastern Washington while employees of government contractor CH2M Hill were working on the most radioactive building on the reservation. Building 324, located near the Columbia River … Continue reading →

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Prolonged exposure to low-dose radiation may increase the risk of hypertension, a known cause of heart disease and stroke　via Hypertension Journal Report

Posted on 2019/05/05 by nfield

May 03, 2019 Categories: Heart News, Stroke News Study Highlights: A long-term study of Russian nuclear plant workers suggests that prolonged low-dose radiation exposure increases the risk of hypertension. This study is the first to associate an increased risk of hypertension to low … Continue reading →

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The Fukushima nuclear disaster: 8 years on via International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

Posted on 2019/04/27 by nfield

By Tilman Ruff Japanese translation […] Professor Kiyoshi Kurokawa, who chaired the Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission, Japan’s first ever independent parliamentary investigation commission, has written recently that since the Commission submitted its recommendations to the national Diet in 2012, … Continue reading →

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Tepco says foreign workers on new visas can work at crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant via Japan Times

Posted on 2019/04/18 by nfield

[…] Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. has told dozens of its subcontractors that foreign workers coming under the recently adopted program, which is intended to address Japan’s acute labor shortage, may engage in the work of decommissioning the plant. … Continue reading →

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The nuclear sins of the Soviet Union live on in Kazakhstan via Nature

Posted on 2019/04/07 by nfield

Decades after weapons testing stopped, researchers are still struggling to decipher the health impacts of radiation exposure around Semipalatinsk. […] Other traces of the past are harder to see. Folded into the city’s history — into the very DNA of … Continue reading →

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Residents around TMI exposed to far more radiation than officials claimed via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2019/04/01 by nfield

By Cindy Folkers […] After the Three Mile Island reactor core melted and radioactivity was released to the surrounding population, researchers were not allowed to investigate health impacts of higher doses because the TMI Public Health Fund, established to pay … Continue reading →

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Three Mile Island 40th Anniversary Special Part 1 via Nuclear Hotseat

Posted on 2019/03/26 by nfield

NOTE:  I am currently in Harrisburg, PA, for events surrounding the 40th anniversary of the 1979 nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island.  Today’s program, Nuclear Hotseat’s Annual TMI Anniversary SPECIAL, will be followed in two weeks by another SPECIAL, this one … Continue reading →

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Along the Susquehanna, Three Mile Island’s towers remain a constant reminder of the 1979 disaster via the Morning Call

Posted on 2019/03/26 by nfield

Three Mile Island’s cooling towers stood like ivory rooks, silhouetted against the drab gray of February on a recent afternoon in Dauphin County. The towers were airbrushed on the doors of Londonderry Township’s firetrucks, a hopeful image, with all four … Continue reading →

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