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Fukushima Pref. to end maternal health survey as no effects of radiation found via Japan News

Posted on 2019/08/22 by nfield

The Fukushima prefectural government decided to end in fiscal 2020 its health survey of expectant and nursing mothers, which began in the wake of the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. At … Continue reading →

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When tritium is your beverage of choice via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2019/08/14 by nfield

Welcome to France By Linda Pentz Gunter The headline — Police probe opened into rumours of unsafe tap water in Paris — raised hopes that nuclear operators might finally be held accountable for what appears to be routine radioactive contamination of drinking … Continue reading →

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Lives well lived: The Legacy of anti-nuclear campaigning in Tahiti via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2019/08/14 by nfield

Three men campaigned for decades to raise awareness of the health and environmental consequences of France’s nuclear testing program in the Pacific By Nic Mclellan But the deaths of John Doom, Bruno Barrillot and Roland Oldham mean others must pick … Continue reading →

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Perinatal mortality after the Fukushima accident: a spatiotemporal analysis via Journal of Radiological Protection

Posted on 2019/07/31 by nfield

Alfred Korblein and Helmut Küchenhoff Abstract Objective: This study investigates the trend of perinatal mortality rates in Fukushima Prefecture and four neighboring prefectures (Miyagi, Gunma, Tochigi, and Ibaraki) after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March … Continue reading →

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Chernobyl Busting the Myths #1 via Nuclear Energy Information Service

Posted on 2019/07/31 by nfield
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The false promise of nuclear power via Boston Globe

Posted on 2019/07/30 by nfield

By Robert Jay Lifton and Naomi Oreskes Commentators from Greenpeace to the World Bank agree that climate change is an emergency, threatening civilization and life on our planet. Any solution must involve the control of greenhouse gas emissions by phasing … Continue reading →

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Is Fukushima Safe for the Olympics? via The Nation

Posted on 2019/07/25 by nfield

By David Zirin and Jules Boykoff The 2020 Olympic torch relay will commence in Fukushima: a place more often associated with a 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster than international sports. That’s no accident: the location is meant to convey … Continue reading →

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Fans demand cancelation of EXO’s gigs near Japan’s Fukushima via The Korea Times

Posted on 2019/07/24 by nfield

By Dong Sun-hwa Fans of K-pop boy band EXO are demanding the cancelation of the group’s December gigs near Fukushima in Japan ― the site of a nuclear disaster in 2011 ― reports said Tuesday.  According to a schedule unveiled … Continue reading →

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Trinity: “The most significant hazard of the entire Manhattan Project” via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2019/07/15 by nfield

By Kathleen M. Tucker, Robert Alvarez For the past several years, the controversy over radioactive fallout from the world’s first atomic bomb explosion in Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945—code-named Trinity—has intensified. Evidence collected by the New Mexico health … Continue reading →

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Government publications play down radiation risks　via Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center

Posted on 2019/06/05 by nfield

By Kataoka Ryohei The Reconstruction Agency’s ‘Truth about Radiation’ The Reconstruction Agency compiled a 30-page, A5-sized booklet titled Hoshasen no Honto (Truth about Radiation), which it published and began distributing in March 2018. As of November 2018, 22,000 copies had been distributed … Continue reading →

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